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Ready for Continued Frugalnomics? Cutting Costs Remains Top Buyer Priority for 2012

The ROI Guy

For those who thought 2012 might offer some much needed relief, a new survey uncovers Executives’ pessimistic sentiment going into 2012, indicating significant economic concerns and a strong focus on cutting costs and improving efficiency versus driving growth.

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The Economic-Focused Buyer Drives Need for New B2B Sales and Marketing Strategies for 2012

The ROI Guy

Frugalnomics makes it harder to connect, engage and sell without the right content and tools Alinean, the leading creator of interactive content marketing and diagnostic sales tools for business to business (B2B) solutions, today announced its annual sales and marketing predictions for 2012 with serious implications.

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IT Spending on the Rise, But Frugalnomics Still Reigns

The ROI Guy

The latest IT spending metrics have been released by Gartner, and the news is good for the second half of this year and 2011 overall. in 2011, this despite headwinds from the Japan disaster, Greece debt crisis, high oil / gas prices, and doubts over US spending / debt. growth) and now again in 2011. Enterprise Software 244 8.4

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Financial Justification / ROI – The Most Valued Content for 2013

The ROI Guy

And one of the most important elements to providing the Best Buying Experience is for your marketing and sales professionals to provide the right content and consultative engagements to help your buyers overcome challenges, make the right purchase decisions, and drive competitive advantage. You Decide.

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

The ROI Guy

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. Let us examine each of these IDC trends in detail and what they mean to 2011 strategies and budgets.

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

The ROI Guy

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. But up-front purchase price isn’t everything.

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Personalize, Challenge & Engage

The ROI Guy

Understanding how the mind uses both, and the inherent biases involved, can help you create better marketing content and sales presentations, drive better engagement and win more favorable decisions, faster. In order to break the bias, you need to show how the costs of change are decisively outweighed by 2 times greater potential gains.