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

The ROI Guy

In this session we discussed some important value selling and content marketing research for technology marketers, much of which extends to other B2B segments, with trends and advice you need to excel in 2011. As a result, sales is being invited later into the decision making process, sales cycles are extending and deals are stalling.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Diametrically Opposed Forces: Selling.

The ROI Guy

Understanding how to facilitate this buying lifecycle, especially how to connect and engage todays economic-focused executive, is a key to sales success, and establishes a roadmap for sales enablement. The Bottom Line Buyers are clearly in control of the buying cycle and are more frugal than ever before.

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Accelerate Slow Sales Cycles with More Sales Enablement Investments?

The ROI Guy

According to IDC’s 2009 Tech Marketing Benchmarks, large enterprises have gotten the message that sales enablement is required to drive sales effectiveness, with more than 80% of enterprises with $5 billion plus in revenue now have a sales enablement role in their organization. So how is the sales enablement role evolving within b2b vendors?

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

The ROI Guy

At the same time, B2B buyers are taking advantage of the wealth of information available via the Internet and social media to become more empowered, taking charge of the buying cycle. Many vendors will also need to consider adding “buy it now&# options for solutions they would never have thought to have this for in years past.

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Five Reasons You May Not Be Spending Enough on Content Marketing

The ROI Guy

Fueled by a wealth of on-line resources and social networks, buyers have seized control of the buying cycle, engaging with sales representatives later and later, and further elongating sales cycles. Having the right content and tools to help fuel buyer’s decision making process is essential.

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

The ROI Guy

Providing the decision support early in the buying cycle is essential to engagement success- illuminating issues, identifying improvement opportunities and delivering strategic roadmap recommendations. content to back it up and help provide decision support materials through the buying lifecycle / relationship steps.

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ClickInsights: What ROI metric should B2B marketers use in this digital marketing era?

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Content Strategy: The Future of Marketing (via Joe Pulizzi with Christine Halvorson). Cashing in With Content (a classic by David Meerman Scott). Get Content. Kristina Halvorson's Content Strategy for the Web. Velocity's The B2B Content Marketing Workbook. B2B Lead Generation Benchmark Study 2009.

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