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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: IDC: Economic Buyers, Digital Overload.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy This blog is dedicated to the strategies and tools used by solution providers to better prove and improve the value of B2B solutions to frugal buyers - using diagnostic assessments, interactive white papers, ROI calculators and TCO comparisons.

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Gartner highlights importance of business cases to address budget woes at its annual IT Symposium in Orlando

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According to Gartner’s latest research, the IT industry is exiting its worst year ever in 2009, as worldwide IT spending is on pace to decline 5.2 According to Peter, “2010 is about balancing the focus on cost, risk, and growth. CIOs must benchmark IT according to business impact.”

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IDC: Tech Marketing Budgets Up, But Lag Revenue Growth

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IDC has just completed their annual Tech Marketing Benchmarks Survey, and the news is good for tech marketing teams. in 2010 compared to 2009 levels. This is quite a change from 2009 budgets, which declined 8.3% A summary and insight by IDC on the Tech Marketing Benchmarks Survey can be found at: [link].

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Predictions for 2011: The End of B2B.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy This blog is dedicated to the strategies and tools used by solution providers to better prove and improve the value of B2B solutions to frugal buyers - using diagnostic assessments, interactive white papers, ROI calculators and TCO comparisons. Tom then served Gartner as a Managing VP.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Value Selling Tools and the Buying Lifecycle

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy This blog is dedicated to the strategies and tools used by solution providers to better prove and improve the value of B2B solutions to frugal buyers - using diagnostic assessments, interactive white papers, ROI calculators and TCO comparisons. Good argument that B2B marketing needs ROI.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Microsoft Virtualization with Hyper-V.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy This blog is dedicated to the strategies and tools used by solution providers to better prove and improve the value of B2B solutions to frugal buyers - using diagnostic assessments, interactive white papers, ROI calculators and TCO comparisons. Updated Alinean Social Media ROI Calculator - New.

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Sales Enablement and The Economic-Buyer

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The reign of the economic-buyer is called Frugalnomics, where buyers require significant ROI, fast payback and superior value from each purchase. Advice> Diagnostic tools such as assessments and benchmarks can provide the driver for more executive engagements earlier in the sales cycles, when key budget and solution decisions are made.