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

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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. The Death of a Salesman? The Death of a Salesman?

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

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However, solving this problem will be difficult for most teams, as sales remains inwardly focused on the traditional funnel based selling process, rather than having a keen understanding of how customers make decisions and actually buy - the buying lifecycle.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Tech Marketers May Need to Rethink.

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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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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Alinean Powers Eight More B2B Assessment.

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These new customer campaigns include tools to use early in the buying process – to help diagnose and assess customer issues, such as assessment tools for cloud computing, collaboration and virtualized desktops. Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. CIO Priorities for 2011 Indicate Continued Frugaln.

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

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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. 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: Hard and Soft ROI - The differences and.

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Automating a specific tasks and eliminating the manual effort 3. Productivity benefits where there is not a direct automation or elimination of a process step or task 3. Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. CIO Priorities for 2011 Indicate Continued Frugaln.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: The IT Hierarchy of Needs: Categorizing.

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As well, personal productivity applications such as word processing, e-mail and messaging could be considered commodities. IT solutions are indeed evolving from basic infrastructure, through business process optimization and information management. Network servers, storage and printers have moved towards commoditization as well.

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