The ROI Guy

AUGUST 5, 2010

CIO insight published a recent planning guide for IT spending in 2011, and although they didn’t highlight in the summary, the study revealed from some startling findings about dramatic overspending in virtualization software. In digging through the full report it is not clear from the research what the overspending driver was.

Enterprise 40

Enterprise Enterprise Software Software 40

The Pipeline

APRIL 15, 2011

December 2011. November 2011. October 2011. September 2011. August 2011. April 2011. March 2011. February 2011. January 2011. Marketing automation software generates the data marketers need to provide new levels of support to sales. April 15th, 2011. April 15th, 2011.

Manticore 217

Manticore Pipeline Marketing Lead Rank 217

Partners in Excellence

JUNE 20, 2022

Predictable Revenue, a concept popularized by Aaron Ross in the first edition of Predictable Revenue (2011), is important. Some research is now showing fewer than 40% of sales people making their quotas (one report shows about 29%). But it seems that revenue is, increasingly, becoming more difficult.

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Revenue Forecasting Resources Face-to-face 98

Velocify

JUNE 13, 2017

As of January 2017, there were 450 sales technologies available —100 of which surfaced in the previous year, according to research from Nicolas de Kouchkovsky, principal of CaCube Consulting. To see how your organization’s sales technology stacks up, read the full report.

Study 49

Study Sales Technology Lead Rank Lead Scoring 49

Velocify

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Download the full Leads360 report, Text Messaging for Better Sales Conversion , and learn more about how to use text messaging effectively in the selling process. [1] 1] Portio Research, Mobile Messaging Futures 2012-2016, 2012. [2] 3] Unica Trends Survey, 11 Key Marketing Trends for 2011, 2011.

Leads360 109

Leads360 Unica Lead Rank Lead Scoring 109

HeavyHitter Sales

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

IT Sales Strategy: Software, SaaS & Hardware Sales. Best New Sales Book of 2011. Martin: The Real Story of Informix Software and Phil White: Lessons in Business and Leadership for the Executive Team. December 2011. November 2011. October 2011. September 2011. August 2011. Categories.

Marketing 113

Marketing Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Cycle 113

Customer Centric Selling

AUGUST 30, 2013

By Drew Zarges, Sales Benchmark Index The software company''s VP of Sales boasted about his win rate. The software company VP of Sales missed the shift in buyer power. The frontline of the buying cycle is research and information gathering. Our research indicates this trend is increasing. Each year we''ve improved."

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Training Buying Cycle Collateral Software 45

The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Hopes for the much anticipated economic recovery in 2011 were recently dashed as the European debt crisis proved worse than anticipated, and the US credit downgrade added additional uncertainty. As a result, several analyst firms have dropped their spending outlooks, and are predicting tight IT budgets for the New Year.

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Case Study Marketing Proposal Hiring 69

The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 20, 2010

In the latest research from Gartner and Forrester, both IT research firms revised their annual spending projections over the next few years, predicting lower budgets and slower growth. in 2011 , and continue this "timid" growth over the next five years. trillion in 2011 and climb to $2.8

ROI 40

ROI Forecasting Vendor Comparison 40

The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Friday, October 22, 2010 Tech Marketers May Need to Rethink Budgets for 2011 according to new Harte-Hanks research Technology marketers are challenged today with handling proliferating marketing channels to reach and engage more overloaded, skeptical and frugal buyers than ever before.

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Harte Hanks ROI Marketing Social Media 45

The ROI Guy

JANUARY 10, 2011

Monday, January 10, 2011 Let the Good Times Roll? The 2011 Trends Looking forward, TechTargets recent 2011 IT Priorities Survey (2,300 respondents) points to a continued increase in IT spending to 2.8% over 2010 levels, anemic growth rates compared to the 5-7% annual growth that could be expected in a good year.

ROI 40

ROI Social Media Decision Maker Survey 40

HeavyHitter Sales

NOVEMBER 24, 2008

IT Sales Strategy: Software, SaaS & Hardware Sales. Best New Sales Book of 2011. Martin: The Real Story of Informix Software and Phil White: Lessons in Business and Leadership for the Executive Team. December 2011. November 2011. October 2011. September 2011. August 2011. Categories.

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Penetration Ideal Customer Profile Real Estate Distribution 60

The ROI Guy

JANUARY 17, 2011

Monday, January 17, 2011 Value Selling Tools and the Buying Lifecycle With two economic downturns in the past ten years, buyers are more frugal than ever, demanding that each investment help them do-more-with-less, provide a bottom-line impact, and deliver superior value. Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To.

ROI 45

ROI Lead Rank Lead Scoring Tools 45

SugarCRM

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Customers have gotten used to this type of AI-driven technology , and have become used to high-convenience service technology – regardless of whether you’re selling books, enterprise software, or farm equipment. Nucleus Research found that companies investing in CRM increased average returns by 1.5 What does that mean for businesses?

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CRM Lead Rank Lead Scoring ROI 38

The ROI Guy

JULY 9, 2013

Enterprise software remains a bright spot as organizations strive to use software to automate business processes and improve productivity, Emerging investments in mobility, cloud and big data ramping up, but not yet “crossing the chasm” and as such, failing to make up for the growth shortfall. Click here to learn more.

Forecasting 67

Forecasting ROI Decision Maker Proposal 67

Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

recession between 2008 and 2011, it has rebounded and is now back to pre-recession growth rates. In 2018, 75% of CFOs of mid-sized organizations reported that their job was becoming more strategic. Based on 35 years of research, “Influence” breaks down the psychology of persuasion into six key principles. 19% work 60+.

Outsourcing Services 110

Outsourcing Services Licensing Hubspot Small Business 110

Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

recession between 2008 and 2011, it has rebounded and is now back to pre-recession growth rates. In 2018, 75% of CFOs of mid-sized organizations reported that their job was becoming more strategic. Based on 35 years of research, “Influence” breaks down the psychology of persuasion into six key principles. 19% work 60+.

Outsourcing Services 109

Outsourcing Services Licensing Hubspot Small Business 109

The ROI Guy

JULY 15, 2009

Assessing the savings quarter by quarter, in minutes a VMware sales professional or channel partner can develop a report card on the value VMware has delivered. Estimate the Benefits of Windows 7 Professional Social Media ROI a Requirement for 2011 Alinean Research Reveals Best Practices to Fight F. Latest Research.

ROI 40

ROI Social Media Media B2B 40

The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

d=593411470991915416 For more information from VMware (registration is not required unless you want a Word / PPT report - takes less than 10 minutes to fill in questions and see results): [link] [link] Posted by Tom Pisello at 5:52 AM Email This BlogThis! Latest Research. CIO Priorities for 2011 Indicate Continued Frugaln.

ROI 40

ROI Social Media Microsoft Media 40

The ROI Guy

JANUARY 8, 2013

Most of the true spending increases are focused on select strategic initiatives, especially in Enterprise Software, the Cloud, Mobile Computing and Big Data. IT purchase processes are ever more complex, with IDC reporting 40% more stakeholders involved in the average purchase decision compared to just 3 years ago.

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Proposal Decision Maker ROI Lead Rank 71

The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

According to the Wall Street Journal report on the study, Finance Chiefs Expand Role, several CFOs confirm the trend, and highlight how proving the ROI on proposals is more important than ever, for example: Terry Lillis, chief financial officer at Principal Financial Group Inc. now finds herself at marketing meetings.

Buying Cycle 45

Buying Cycle ROI Journal Case Study 45

The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

Study participants reported that on average a database administrator could manage over 30 Microsoft SQL Server 2005 databases, while Oracle 10g implementations required one DBA per 10 databases. Estimate the Benefits of Windows 7 Professional Social Media ROI a Requirement for 2011 Alinean Research Reveals Best Practices to Fight F.

Oracle 40

Oracle Microsoft ROI Outsourcing Services 40

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Loopio’s response software automatically fills in your RFPs based on answers from past proposals. But doing the research to find the company that was here and talking with that services business and convincing them that they had a product. Please, please don’t do that to yourself anymore. So that was also a big piece of it.

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Company Scale Hiring Revenue 102

Zoominfo

MARCH 15, 2021

Marc Andressen co-founded Ning and Glam Media purchased the company in 2011.). Explore the annual report for more. Diane Greene co-founded VMware , a public cloud computing and virtualization software company. In 2004, she co-founded Ning, another custom content creation platform. February 3, 2021 | 2 minute read.

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Company Networking Google Video 162

The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 7, 2010

With revenue growth demands returning but budgets still being managed at tightly as ever, even more pressure will be applied in 2011 to do-more-with-less. The good news is that most analysts are predicting 4-5% growth for 2011. Didn’t we see this in the research in year over year declines in IT spending as a percentage of revenue?

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Competition Software Software Networking 40

The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

Tom’s latest entrepreneurial endeavor, Alinean, was founded in 2001 to develop SaaS software for changing the way B2B sellers reach frugal buyers with interactive white papers, assessment, ROI and TCO tools. Latest Research. CIO Priorities for 2011 Indicate Continued Frugaln. by 2010 [2]. Let the Good Times Roll?

ROI 40

ROI Social Media Comparison Networking 40

SBI Growth

JANUARY 1, 2013

In his December sales benchmarking report, Drapeau delivers the most optimistic commentary we have ever seen. More recently, he pegged the failure rate of marketing automation software at 50%. In 2011, Gerhard Gschwandtner, publisher of Selling Power Magazine, made the last great prediction in B2B sales. He is usually right.

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B2B Hiring Quota Social Selling 308

The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 5, 2011

A Demand-Gen Report interview with Thomas Pisello, The ROI Guy, Chairman & Founder of diagnostic / ROI sales tool provider Alinean Inc. Buyers are in control, with almost 70% indicating they don’t think sales is adding enough value-add to their engagements (Forrester 2011). Customers bought "products." Customers bought "solutions."

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Sales Enablement Report Tools ROI 45

The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 14, 2005

. • Level 3: Information Optimization – these strategic investments seek to empower the organization’s decision making with actionable information empowering employees to track key performance indicators, create their own reports and queries, find key information faster and collaborate more effectively. Latest Research.

ROI 40

ROI Outsourcing Services Lead Rank Social Media 40

OnePageCRM

MAY 25, 2017

You need to do your research, define your goals, prepare your notes, and prepare yourself mentally. Sean Burke, CEO of prospecting software Kitedesk offers this example email: Hi Jill. Research your prospects. It all changed when I started talking about topics I really cared about, subjects I’d researched.

Top of Funnel 20

Top of Funnel Cold Calling How To Sales Qualified Lead 20

InsideSales.com

OCTOBER 14, 2019

SaaS sales, or “Software as a Service” sales, is the process of offering cloud-based services through a system monitored and updated by an external provider to customers. In most cases, they’ve already done their research and want to hear how your solutions fit their individual needs. What is SaaS Sales?

SalesForce 40

SalesForce Hiring Top of Funnel RightNow 40

The ROI Guy

JULY 22, 2010

This easy-to-use tool is accessible through ShoreTel’s public Web site and is based on the TCO industry standards that Alinean has established, incorporating independent third party research from leading firms. The ShoreTel TCO validates how TCO can be more than four times the upfront cost over a multi-year period.

ROI 40

ROI Lead Rank Social Media Lead Scoring 40

SBI

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Founded in 2011, Percolate has grown into one of the leaders in the enterprise content marketing space, with customers that span both business and consumer brands including DHL, Electronic Arts, VMWare, and DocuSign. Gartner, the world’s leading research and advisory company, named Modus to its Market Guide for Sales Engagement Platforms.

Top of Funnel 52

Top of Funnel Ideal Customer Profile Webinar Metrics Customer 52

The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

Friday, September 10, 2010 IT Budgets into 2011 - Robbing Peter to Pay Paul? The good news is that the second half of 2010, projections are in line with Gartner’s survey in the fourth quarter of 2009 when CIOs reported IT budgets would increase, on average, by only 1.3%, and spending outlooks are more positive than earlier surveys.

ROI 40

ROI Social Media Demand Generation Agencies Survey 40

LeadFuze

AUGUST 5, 2021

The Gist: G2 Crowd is a massive name in the software space. Now he’s turned his attention to building the software platform that will power the next wave of Cold Calling 2.0 Blogger Blurb: The team at InsightSquared deliver quality, research backed posts which are ideal for sales team leaders that need to improve sales velocity.

Top of Funnel 98

Top of Funnel Hiring Lead Rank Retail 98

The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

According to sales and marketing effectiveness researcher SiriusDecisions, the basic white paper is still one of the most important pieces of marketing content - used and trusted as the key buying decision tool by over 64% of early stage buyers, and 61% of middle stage buyers.

ROI 49

ROI Social Media Vendor Buyer 49