SBI Growth

JANUARY 31, 2013

The CMO world of multiple channels, social media, content marketing, demand generation, and lead development extends the importance of messaging to a much broader scale. What was true when I first founded buyer persona development back in 2001 is still true today – buyer personas not grounded in buyer research and insights are useless.

Buyer Persona 330

Buyer Persona Demand Generation Agencies Customer Scale 330

Nutshell

JULY 22, 2020

The flywheel model was first introduced in 2001, but it’s recently experienced a rebirth in the business world and inspired professionals everywhere to re-evaluate the classic sales and marketing funnel. Well, here’s another important term for you to memorize: the marketing flywheel.

Top of Funnel 119

Top of Funnel Lead Rank Marketing Churn 119

The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Shift to Digital Marketers are still being asked to do-more-with-less, and this is driving a significant change in go-to-market channels. According to IDC, tech firm advertising spending using traditional (print and broadcast) media is declining by 43% , compared to spending growth of 53% in digital programs.

Revenue 40

Revenue Marketing Vendor Survey 40

The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 11, 2010

In the current environment, marketers are still being asked to do-more-with-less, driving a significant change in strategies, campaigns and go-to-market channels. navigation, placement of content, imagery, etc.) co-registration, email list purchases, etc.)

Marketing 40

Marketing Lead Rank Lead Scoring Advertising 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.

Harte Hanks 45

Harte Hanks ROI Marketing Social Media 45

The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

According to IDC, over 90% of IT buyers are economic buyers / economically focused; Technology marketers are focusing more investments on digital channels, and this is good because executives and economic buyers favor on-line research and content.

ROI 45

ROI Buyer Buying Cycle Social Media 45

The ROI Guy

MAY 4, 2006

But these growth figures are still a far cry from the pre-bubble burst years of 1999 through 2001, where double digit growth was the norm. Compared to 2002 where growth was a dismal -31% for system vendors and -18% for service providers, these are happy days. On average, how much do IT firms spend on marketing? On average, IT firms invest 3.6

Marketing 40

Marketing Vendor ROI Survey 40