A Sales Guy

DECEMBER 3, 2013

The Dow, S&P 500 are at historic highs and the Nasdaq is at it’s highest since 2001. Content marketing is redefining lead generation, SEO and branding. Social selling and social media are disrupting traditional engagement channels. There is a massive influx of tools available to sales organizations.

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Anthony Iannarino

JANUARY 20, 2020

Not too long ago, people believed the most significant changes in business-to-business sales were the internet and the social channels. One of the results of globalization, cheap money, the glamorization of entrepreneurship , and low barriers of entry into markets is the increasing number of choices available to businesses and consumers.

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Nutshell

JUNE 22, 2020

Learn to leverage this underrated communication channel, and SMS sales just might become the secret weapon in your selling arsenal. Because of this, texting is viewed differently than other text-based communication channels like email. Both of these sales channels still have their place! Use an SMS Sales Tool.

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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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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

IDC has just completed their annual Tech Marketing Benchmarks Survey, and the news is good for tech marketing teams. The latest survey (completed 9/10) reveals that large technology vendors have increased their marketing budgets by 3.7% The bad news for marketing leaders is that although the 3.7% market spending growth.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 22, 2018

In order to build a successful company, you’ll need to create and fine-tune a business plan, assess your finances, complete all the legal paperwork, pick your partners, choose the best tools and systems to help you get your marketing and sales off the ground … and a whole lot more. Analyze your market's conditions. Keep it short.

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The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 11, 2010

For marketers, the news is good overall. According to research from IDC and Forrester, marketing spending is anticipated to increase between 3 to 5% for 2011. 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.

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The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

The majority of CMOs still don’t know what the ROI is of their social media efforts, with the majority of respondents indicating that they were not getting an ROI or did not know the ROI from various campaigns and channels. The Big O – Outcome Selling The Demand Spectrum and Value-Based Sales & Market.

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Openview

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

While sales processes, training, compensation plans, technology, marketing support, and product lines matter, sales reps who simply dislike – or hate – their jobs is one of the most understated and overlooked aspects impacting sales force performance today. The Compensation Plan is Below Market.

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The ROI Guy

MAY 4, 2006

Technology Sales & Marketing - Party Like its 1999? A Q&A with me on latest IT sales and marketing metrics, trends and best practices Is 2006 shaping up to be a good year for IT spending growth? 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.

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SalesLoft

JANUARY 31, 2019

Concur, one of the oldest SaaS companies , only moved from selling CD-ROMs and traditional on-premise software licenses to a SaaS model in 2001. It became both economically feasible and technically possible to set up an inside sales team to sell to mid-market and SMB customers.

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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. The Big O – Outcome Selling The Demand Spectrum and Value-Based Sales & Market. Your Sales & Marketing Ready to Do Business with F.

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The ROI Guy

MAY 6, 2010

New Customers in Q1 2010 Alinean has been selected to develop and power value-based sales and marketing campaigns for Wipro , PGI , CSC , CiRBA , MokaFive , Shoretel , Informatica and OfficeMax. Tom’s ROI and TCO experience began in 1993 with his first entrepreneurial venture, Interpose (acquired by Gartner in 1998).

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Thursday, November 04, 2010 IDC: Economic Buyers, Digital Overload and Sales Enablement Define Marketing for 2011 I just had the pleasure of presenting a webinar with Randy Perry, VP Business Value at IDC. Most organizations continue to spend much more on branding and relationship management versus value-based sales and marketing initiatives.

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The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Monday, December 06, 2010 Predictions for 2011: The End of B2B Sales & Marketing as We Know It? These two market drivers will have important implications into 2011 and beyond for B2B sales enablement and marketing strategies and budgets. of respondents), and peers (28.7%), especially early in the lifecycle.

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The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Wednesday, February 04, 2009 How TCO is a common sense sales and marketing Tool for Today’s Chaotic Economy My friend and board member Bill Kirwin, original father of TCO analysis with Gartner, put it best when he wrote this article for us on the power of using TCO as a sales and marketing advantage to win deals in these tough economic times.

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John Barrows

JUNE 20, 2018

Phone as a channel isn’t going anywhere. The validity of the phrase “cold calling is dead” may be debatable in terms of making 100 dials with no information per day versus calling 20-40 targetted accounts and having a first touch by email or social, but phone as a channel is not dead. Phone has become a novel channel.

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The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 14, 2005

Projects in this category include supply chain management, human capital management, ERP, sales force and marketing automation and other business process automation projects. The Big O – Outcome Selling The Demand Spectrum and Value-Based Sales & Market. Your Sales & Marketing Ready to Do Business with F.

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OnePageCRM

MARCH 8, 2017

Convertkit uses simple straightforward tiers based on subscriber volume for their email marketing automation platform. If you want to use charm pricing to lift your conversions, it’s important to understand the price elasticity for your product and your market. Sales, ads, marketing, distribution and support are all delivered online.

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The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 7, 2010

To no surprise, a substantial decline occurred following the bursting of the technology bubble and recession in 2001, with a second more severe decline into the Great Recession in 2009. This was not the case with many other groups like sales and marketing. The good news is that most analysts are predicting 4-5% growth for 2011.

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OnePageCRM

MARCH 8, 2017

Convertkit uses simple straightforward tiers based on subscriber volume for their email marketing automation platform. If you want to use charm pricing to lift your conversions, it’s important to understand the price elasticity for your product and your market. Sales, ads, marketing, distribution and support are all delivered online.

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Sales Hacker Training

DECEMBER 8, 2020

If you missed episode 137, check it out here: From Marketer to CEO: The Power of Brand as a Growth Amplifier with Jake Sorofman. It’s all about understanding when people are in market versus in funnel. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. We’re on iTunes. And on Stitcher. Show Agenda and Timestamps. Show Introduction [00:09].

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

New digital marketing channels have made it more efficient than ever to broadcast marketing messages to prospects, but are the current strategies effective at connecting with and educating ever more skeptical and frugal buyers ? Tuesday, September 28, 2010 Do White Papers Still Engage? They do if they are Interactive!

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

Friday, September 17, 2010 Leaders indicate Growing Investment in Smart Digital Content The migration of B2B marketing budgets from traditional marketing vehicles toward digital channels continues according to a study by Booz & Co. The Big O – Outcome Selling The Demand Spectrum and Value-Based Sales & Market.

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