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How will the Economy Affect the Buyer’s Decision Process in 2012?

The ROI Guy

Frugalnomics is in full effect, leaving few resources to evaluate opportunities and the organization risk adverse to change, giving more control to finance and requiring more economic justification on each proposal. Solution providers that can help facilitate this ever more difficult process will have an advantage in 2012.

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CMOs: Wield Powers of Influence to Gain a Seat at the Executive Table

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Stephanie Tilton is a content-marketing consultant who helps B2B companies craft content that engages prospects and customers, nurtures leads and advances the buying cycle. She is a founding member of the Savvy B2B Marketing blog , and contributes regularly to the Content Marketing Institute blog.

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Frugalnomics in Full Effect: Forrester and Gartner Downgrade IT Spending Outlook

The ROI Guy

In the latest research from Gartner and Forrester, both IT research firms revised their annual spending projections over the next few years, predicting lower budgets and slower growth. Forrester Research: More Optimistic, But Less So Forrester Research has updated its U.S. IT spending predictions for 2010, estimating 8.1%

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Sales and Marketing Alignment in 2013? Not so Fast!

The ROI Guy

Executives continually point to the need for Sales and Marketing to align, with 90% of Senior Marketers indicating to Forrester that indeed alignment is a high or very high priority. However, the story is quite different when Marketing is asked about their own priorities. It’s not on Enablement.

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Gartner says 2013 will be a Better Year for IT Spending Growth?

The ROI Guy

This represents a significant uptick in spending growth from the anemic 2012 rate of only 1.2%. In fact, Gartner predicted that 2012 growth was going to be 3.7% Developing and deploying the right interactive Value Marketing Tools is the key, to provide Prospects the personalized, relevant and provocative answers to these key questions.

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Frugalnomics – Why the IT spending growth forecasts from Gartner are wrong again!

The ROI Guy

In 2012, initial rosy predictions of 3.7% Most importantly, you need to take Frugalnomics into account as you evolve your sales and marketing strategies and investments to meet the challenge. According to Forrester, prospects indicate that less than 12% of sales engagements are focused on customer value. for the year.

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How Can You Shine as Gartner Lowers IT Spending Forecasts for 2013?

The ROI Guy

Gartner blames the revision on exchange rate fluctuations, but I don’t buy this as the main reason for halving their IT spending growth, as similar reasons were given for lowered expectations in 2012 as well (where initial estimates of 3.7% growth were lowered to 1.2% by mid-year). Click here to learn more.

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