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Value-Based Marketing Research

As B2B companies adopt value-based approaches to sales and marketing, they struggle with a range of implementation issues:

  • How do we integrate value-based selling into our sales process?
  • How do we staff the value-based selling initiative?
  • What types of training are most effective?
  • What types of collateral are most effective?

To help clients address such issues Kotler Marketing regularly conducts large-scale studies of best-practices among B2B vendors. Examples of our research in this area include:

The ROI Dilemma
This ground-breaking study explored how information-technology customers and vendors view and use ROI. It is based on surveys with more than 500 enterprise decision-makers,  and more than 200 IT vendors. Study findings identify common challenges and approaches by industry and by type of technology being sold. This provides both customer and vendor perspectives on the characteristics of effective tools, collateral, and sales practices.

     

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"The report was a tremendous aide. ... The industry cuts of the information and benchmark on other vendor practices were very helpful. "
                      - Randy Villeneuve,
                        Senior Director, Oracle Corporation

“It's never been more important to communicate ROI. But too often vendors forget to listen as well. This report provides a healthy antidote -- a chance to hear the voice of the customer on this important topic."
                      - Traver Gruen-Kennedy, 
                        VP & Chief Evangelist, Citrix Systems

 
 
 

Defending Technology Maintenance, Service and Support Prices
Enterprise technology customers have become increasingly aggressive in negotiating down support and maintenance
prices. To help technology vendors meet this challenge, the Service & Support Professionals Association (SSPA)
partnered with Kotler on this research with over 100 participating vendors. The primary finding is that while discounting
cannot be eliminated it can be controlled. Levers exist to bring this issue under management’s control. This report
identifies these levers and details what practices companies should implement to better protect the important margin
and EPS contribution of their maintenance, service and support business. A related Defending Price™ sales training
program
is now available.

 

 

 
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