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

The ROI Guy

As a result, sales is being invited later into the decision making process, sales cycles are extending and deals are stalling. When asking over 200 IT buyers what they felt was most important part of the overall purchase process, over 1/3rd of the buyers indicated Vendor Content as key to the purchase decision. Content is King?

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

The ROI Guy

At the same time, as buyers are becoming more empowered, sales professionals are seen by these buyers as less valuable in the decision making process, and as a result are being invited later and later in the buying cycle. Tailwinds for Marketing Automation Software - Insi. The Death of a Salesman?

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Sales Pipeline Radio, Episode 234: Q & A with Jon Miller @jonmiller

Heinz Marketing

This week’s show is called “ He Predicted Marketing Automation and ABM. If you were involved in database marketing, B2B marketing, before marketing automation, you’re probably familiar with a little company called Epiphany, which was all about database marketing, which was all about precision marketing. What’s Next?!