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Your Sales Cycle Dilemma in 2013

The ROI Guy

The reasons provided most often for the sales cycle lengthening: more financial scrutiny on each proposal and more stakeholders involved in each decision. The good news is that your customers are likely just as frustrated with increases in purchase decision delays. - justifying proposed gain Why You? You Decide.

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Alinean Challenges Frugalnomics to Drive Record 2012 Q1 Performance

The ROI Guy

In this environment, traditional sales and marketing won’t work, as you now have to challenge the buyer’s statusquo in order to get to yes.” and “Why the Proposed Solution?” in a more quantified and compelling way than traditional marketing collateral and sales pitches.

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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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PowerViews with James Obermayer: Lead Management & Integrated Direct Marketing

ViewPoint

Jim's career has been equally divided between marketing and sales. He has written over 95 articles around sales and marketing management and is the author of four books. He is a speaker on sales lead management, sales enablement, and marketing ROI. But many are going for cold, hard, qualified leads.

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28 Tweetable Moments from Sirius Decisions Summit #SDS12

Marketing Insider Group

Last week I attended the 2012 Sirius Decisions Summit for the first time. The event gathered together more than 1,000 sales and marketing professionals from companies of every shape, size and location. RT @ HeinzMarketing : attention is marketings currency. And as usual, I used Twitter as my preferred note-taking device.

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More Stakeholders = More Sales & Marketing Complexity in 2013

The ROI Guy

One of the key factors for the recent increase in your sales complexity is the significant rise in the number of stakeholders for each purchase decision – growing 40% compared to just three years ago according to IDC. Can your sales professionals credibly quantify your buyer’s pain, justify proposed gains and prove you are not the same?

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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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