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CMO’s ProForma – The Silver Bullet for Marketing Return on Investment

SBI Growth

The ability to demonstrate marketing's return on investment is at the top of every CMO's plan for 2013. The ROI picture has been elusive as marketers struggle to capture the full impact of marketing’s contribution. Simple ROI calculations based on lead source have muddied the waters.

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How Top CMOs Determine Where to Spend

SBI Growth

As a leading CMO, you’ve integrated digital channels into your marketing channel spend to align with how your personas or buyers want to get information. You’ve started measuring the effectiveness of these now institutionalized channels through ROI (Return on Investment).

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How to Measure and Maximize Trade Show Return on Investment

Nutshell

To make the most of these events, you’ll need to measure the return on investment, or ROI, of the trade shows you attend. What is return on investment (ROI)? Return on investment, or ROI, measures how much a business earned from a particular activity compared to the expenses related to that activity.

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The Biggest 2013 HR Challenge for Sales is 2014

SBI Growth

The tool shown below shows a quick assessment of Return on Investment. It compares the new revenue contribution for 3 different sales channels: Direct Field Sales. In this example, Telesales clearly offered the best return on the dollars invested. Download the Sales Channel ROI Calculator here.

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How B2B Marketing Leaders Can Transform Click Data into ROI Insights

SBI Growth

This visibility is a cornerstone of proving a return on investment. Multi-Channel Tracking: Definition: The ability to track multiple sources and campaigns attributed to converting a lead. The ability to see how every marketing ‘touch’ attributed to help convert a lead helps prove the effectiveness of channel mix.

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How an Iconic Sales Leader is Building His ’14 Plan

SBI Growth

Return — Jim has a basic way of evaluating return on investment. It is targeted on the channel. Not as big a return and high probability of success. He and his team wanted the latest ideas. They knew they could find them if they tried. However, success had a higher probability if they outsourced.

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How to Maximize CRM Return on Investment

Pipeline

Scott Edinger also claims a similar result in Harvard Business Review : “In my work with clients, when I ask executives if the CRM system is helping their business to grow, the failure rate is closer to 90%. ” If the failure rate is that high, how can businesses achieve any return on investment (ROI) of their CRM?