The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Solution Alinean worked with Akamai to develop the KONA Security Solutions interactive white paper, determining the prospects top priority issues with security, and then recommending specific thought leadership insights, solution overview, value messaging and justification for each priority. Click here to see the tool in action.

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ROI Fashion Guarantee Lead Rank 45

The ROI Guy

MAY 15, 2012

To fuel the demand generation program, Alinean developed the Better Way to Go Mobile Interactive White Paper , which unlike traditional static white papers, leveraged the prospect’s profile to completely personalize the white paper content, creating a customized analysis as to the prospect’s return from mobile strategy.

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Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets Sales Qualified Lead Ideal Customer Profile 70

Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Author: Jeff Kalter If you’re implementing account-based marketing, you’re likely well aware that your success in attracting and converting your target accounts hinges on customizing your communications. You might already have a generic white paper, for instance, entitled “How to Increase Efficiency with Enterprise Content Management.”

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SocialSellinator

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Have you ever wondered what inbound marketing is? In this article, we’ll look at what inbound marketing is, why it’s important, and what 6 key elements you need to include in your inbound marketing plan. Inbound Marketing Plan - What Is It? Now that we’ve answered the question, “what is inbound marketing?”

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Tools Buyer Persona Social Media Lead Nurturing 124

Zoominfo

AUGUST 26, 2018

A little bit of humor can go a long way– even in the marketing world. Today’s marketing professionals must juggle a number of high-priority tasks throughout the day, and often, they find themselves under a significant amount of stress. In these cases, a few lighthearted jokes can ease the tension of the day-to-day marketing job.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Interactive White Papers can be used at various stages to help facilitate the buyer’s decisions, depending on the content of the white paper itself. Interactive White Papers with intelligent solution recommendations and configurations, quantified personalized benefits and ROI estimates help best during this middle stage.

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Comparison Case Study ROI Sales Cycle 66

The ROI Guy

APRIL 18, 2012

Leveraging a Total Economic Impact (TEI) study and white paper by Forrester, Alinean created an interactive white paper for Concur, so that prospects not only received the TEI study results showing average opportunities and savings, but a customized analysis of their own unique business case for Concur.

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Case Study Travel Study System 63

Membrain

OCTOBER 12, 2022

We might also have additional qualifying information, such as marketing data, like digital footprints from websites, and white papers they downloaded. We discover whether potential prospects are the right size, in the right industry, and are located in the right geographical location.

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Ideal Customer Profile Sales Qualified Lead Leads Marketing Qualified Lead 125

Sales 2.0

OCTOBER 13, 2018

We don’t always pitch our product or service, sometimes we’re helpful enough to send over a white paper or blog post that may be of interest. I mean how many blog posts or white papers can a buyer read in a week? White paper reading time…not large. White paper reading time…not large.

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Webinar Metrics Face-to-face Call-back Buyer 170

Pointclear

MARCH 19, 2018

The director of marketing, 20 years into her career, was confronted with a bewildering cornucopia of reports, making her heretofore creative life difficult. She needs a bigger picture of the marketing return on investment, which is only available by looking deeply into the digital analytics. It wasn’t an easy conversation.

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Analytics Marketing Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Lead 164

The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Alinean worked with Iron Mountain subject matter experts to create the Cost Savings Advisor Interactive White Paper. A few questions answered by the prospect produces a completely relevant, personalized and compelling 6-page white paper. You can try the Interactive White Paper for yourself by clicking here.

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Sales Qualified Lead Campaigns Sales Cycle Lead Rank 53

Sales 2.0

OCTOBER 13, 2018

We don’t always pitch our product or service, sometimes we’re helpful enough to send over a white paper or blog post that may be of interest. I mean how many blog posts or white papers can a buyer read in a week? White paper reading time…not large. White paper reading time…not large.

Webinar Metrics 150

Webinar Metrics Face-to-face Call-back Buyer 150

The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Overcomes Marketing Information Overload, Transforming Traditional White Papers into Dynamic, Personalized Engagement Tools Alinean, the leading creator of value-based interactive sales and marketing tools for B2B vendors, today launched a new demand generation tool for B2B marketers – Alinean Interactive White Papers.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Eloqua Ideal Customer Profile 40

The ROI Guy

JUNE 8, 2012

To achieve better engagement, and fuel lead generation campaigns, the ShoreTel Sophisticated Simplicity Interactive White Paper was created. Authored by IDG and powered by Alinean, the white paper effectively communicates the business value of a properly executed Unified Communications solution, one relying on ShoreTel’s simplicity.

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The ROI Guy

JUNE 19, 2013

IBM turned to Alinean to create an Interactive White Paper, delivering a provocative, customized analysis report to prove the superior value of IBM’s Cloud environment. Click here to get your own customized white paper.

Demand Generation 40

Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets Enterprise Enterprise 40

Sales Lead Management Association

JUNE 14, 2019

In few words, but loaded with meaning, Workbooks created a document that reminds senior management that CRM systems aren’t just for sales or marketing people. CRM systems inform and affect shareholder value.

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Workbooks CRM System Marketing 48

Sales 2.0

AUGUST 22, 2022

I’ve been reviewing some key books in sales and marketing to refresh my knowledge of some of the fundamentals to building world-class “revenue engines”. Latané’s book covers an area of marketing that I have long wondered about: Should you “gate” or should you not “gate” your content? I’m sharing my summaries here.

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Cold Calling Lead Rank Intent Data Marketing Qualified Lead 195

Zoominfo

MARCH 10, 2021

market share in the CRM industry, according to prior analysis from Gartner. However, that dissatisfaction may be unfairly aimed at the CRM itself, according to a new ZoomInfo white paper, “Transforming the CRM From a System of Record to a System of Insight.”. trillion in new business revenues to their local economies.”.

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Sales 2.0

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

She’s been doing studies on B2B data providers for the last several years and has written up each study in a white paper. You can grab these white papers here. Sample data from one of Ruth Stevens' white papers. Marketers don’t. Marketers deal with large lists of names and email addresses.

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Shari Levitin

AUGUST 23, 2023

We litter them with ideas, metrics, and white papers; we pile on more information and clutter our slide decks. Sales conversations get cluttered as well: we add a little of Tom, a bit of Sally, whitepapers, articles, and statistics from the marketing department. We assume if one taco sauce is good, fifty must be better.

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Workbooks Decision Maker Case Study Sales 118

The ROI Guy

APRIL 18, 2012

In a study of UK CIOs, IDG Research Services determined that CIOs desired to spend more time leading change efforts, over the next 3-5 years, driving business innovation and developing new go-to-market strategies. Click here to see the New UK CIO Interactive White Paper in action.

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Case Study Study Lead Generation Research 55

Pipeliner

MARCH 7, 2021

Marketing a healthcare facility can be difficult. You need to attract patients to come to your hospital to do justice to your investment and properly marketing your brand is the key. Today, everyone relies on the internet for information and there is a need for healthcare organizations to improve their internet marketing.

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Strategy Marketing Social Media Case Study 97

SBI Growth

OCTOBER 23, 2013

Marketing leaders must prove their contribution to Sales Revenue. Marketing must produce leads that generate new business. In this environment, many of your peers have turned to marketing automation as the solution. Here’s the problem: 3 out of 5 marketing automation implementations fail. INTERNAL CONTENT MARKETING TEAM.

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Outsourcing Services Lead Gen Marketing Webinar Metrics 316

SBI Growth

APRIL 8, 2013

We engage with a lot of marketing leaders. In this post I want to focus on the marketing department’s org chart. In this post I want to focus on the marketing department’s org chart. What should the org chart for your marketing department look like? Not all marketing departments are created equal.

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

You download that white paper, and because it’s gated, you’re required to fill out a lead capture form – your name, email address, Company, title, location, phone number, name of first born…Worse, you know you’re immediately going to get that lame phone call or email follow-up: “I see you downloaded our white paper, want to talk?”.

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The ROI Guy

AUGUST 12, 2015

Most organizations spend a significant portion of their marketing budget on creating content to fuel demand generation programs, and to arm sales reps to have better conversations and engagements. This means that a typical company is wasting $1 out of every $7 spent on marketing each year. But this is only addressing ½ of the waste.

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Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets Survey 88

The ROI Guy

JULY 5, 2011

Did you know that: White papers are still the content of choice for today's B2B decision maker, used most and viewed as most influential compared to all other content However, campaign overload is making white papers less effective / relevant Research indicates that specific personalization is needed to help restore relevance and influence Click here (..)

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Influencer Decision Maker Campaigns B2B 56

Zoominfo

MARCH 6, 2017

Email marketing is one of the most effective and efficient forms of marketing. Though not commonly used in logistics, email marketing has the potential to increase engagement and brand awareness amongst shippers, and can help your organization grow. Is it to get new customers? More business from existing customers?

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Email Marketing Webinar Metrics Marketing Strategy 100

Pointclear

JUNE 6, 2013

Online content in the sales and marketing industries is dynamic and constantly changing. The Marketing Sphere represents recent good reads from our digital circles about B2B marketing selected by PointClear colleagues. B2B Trade Show Marketing Circa 2013: Everything is the Same, Everything is Different.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

It is very easy for us to maintain and continue to evolve the content within the Interactive White Paper , and the personalization rules. No custom software application development / programming is needed to specify the content or rules.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 5, 2013

As a marketing leader, the CEO is going to measure your 2014 success in three ways: Leads – Number of Sales Qualified Leads delivered to Sales. Opportunities – Percent contribution by Marketing to the Sales Funnel. Wins – Percent contribution by Marketing to Sales Revenue. Those that miss critical spend categories altogether.

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Outsourcing Services Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Lead Trade Show 293

The ROI Guy

JANUARY 25, 2011

When surveyed as to the most influential content in decision making, white papers remain the stand-out content of choice. Although white papers remain influential, technology media firms such as Ziff Davis Enterprise (ZDE) and others report that white paper downloads are DOWN year over year.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Yes, we have several customers and partners who are authoring their own Interactive White Papers. Anyone with basic spreadsheet / Word skills can be taught how to create and publish Interactive White Papers on the Alinean platform, with no custom application development skills required / needed.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

The Interactive White Paper is hosted on the Alinean XcelLive™ platform , which has a number of lead capture options and connectors to several of the most popular marketing automation / CRM solutions. Each tool has its own registration form, which can be customized.

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Leads Marketing Qualified Lead Ideal Customer Profile Lead Nurturing 40

Janek Performance Group

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Our new white paper, The Ultimate Guide to Developing a High-Performance Sales Organization , outlines these principles. And we have distilled this knowledge into six pillars: Strategy and Go-to-Market : Establishes the goals, objectives, target markets, and delivery methods for your sales reps.

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Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 18, 2017

Walton’s comments were written for the foreword of “Marketing Lessons from the Grateful Dead,” by David Meerman Scott and Brian Halligan. Fellow Deadheads, Meerman is the author of “The New Rules of Marketing and PR” and Halligan is CEO and cofounder of marketing software behemoth HubSpot. Build a diverse team.

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