The ROI Guy

JANUARY 16, 2014

According to Gartner, the annual release of their New Year’s spending forecast predicts global IT spending growth of 3.1% Examining their 2013 predictions, Gartner indicated IT spending would rise 4.2% We don’t buy it, and believe that Gartner has missed a major sea change in IT spending and decision-making in their forecasts.

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 8, 2013

Gartner highlights that “business uncertainty is nearing resolution”, and that this is one of the key reasons for increasing their spending outlook. But is Gartner being overly optimistic? First, Gartner’s latest outlook mirrors similar rosy predictions from analysts at the beginning of the past three years.

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The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 6, 2010

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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The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Gartner says CIOs are spending too much time with vendors - laying down gauntlet to vendor sales to add more value, or get lost. Gartner thinks CIOs are spending too much of their precious time with vendors, and advises to significantly curtail this activity. of total IT time is spent on vendor management and procurement.

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The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 22, 2010

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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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

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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ANNUITAS

JANUARY 25, 2022

Research shows that the buying process involves many more people than it did just 10 years ago. Buying committees are anywhere from two to four times larger than they were in 2011. Gartner reports that the average complex B2B purchase involves 11 individual stakeholders—and that sometimes flexes up to nearly 20 people.

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Having the right content and tools to help fuel buyer’s decision making process is essential. Matter of Trust - although the research indicates that buyers truly rely on vendor content to help drive purchase decisions, with so much noise, buyers have become skeptical of vendor claims.

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The ROI Guy

JULY 8, 2014

According to Gartner, worldwide IT spending was expected to reach $3.8 Although the forecast at the beginning of the year predicted healthy growth for 2014, these same Gartner forecasts have been overly optimistic the past two years. And sure enough, Gartner had to once again lower their forecasts substantially. for the year.

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Bannerflow

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

How can having a strategy for digital transformation help my business? How can in-housing and tech tools help? For example, Microsoft took five years to go through the digital transformation process because they could explain why a change was required. How can having a strategy for digital transformation help my business?

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The ROI Guy

AUGUST 4, 2010

Using value marketing tools, users can be presented with tools that help them to analyze their opportunities, and obtain more personalized and intelligent advice. These tools can include interactive white papers, executive self-assessments, benchmarking comparisons, ROI calculators and TCO comparisons.

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