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

The ROI Guy

As today’s buyers are empowered by the Internet to do their own research and drive their own purchasing due diligence – engaging sales later than ever, or not at all – easy to use versions of these diagnostic tools need to be on-line, readily available, interactive and personalized to empower self-service research.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Microsoft Virtualization with Hyper-V.

The ROI Guy

What we did do is model the licensing and implementation cost advantage claims independently, comparing typical environments and using list price for all competitive licenses and Open pricing for Microsoft (available to most organizations). Do these features yield cost savings that make the purchase price savings moot?

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

The ROI Guy

The consumer is now in charge: researching specifications, configuring and customizing solutions, getting peer reviews and advice, comparing prices, and “buying now&#. Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. Frugalnomics in Full Effect: Forrester and Gartner. They do if they are. Is Marketing Too Busy?

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: The Business Value of Server Virtualization

The ROI Guy

For a personal quantification as to the potential value of server virtualization, visit: [link] [1] Anthes, Gary, “Data Centers Get a Makeover&# , Computerworld news article, published November 1, 2005. Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. Frugalnomics in Full Effect: Forrester and Gartner.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: The IT Hierarchy of Needs: Categorizing.

The ROI Guy

Carr’s assertions are completely correct - that indeed most infrastructure solutions have become commodities with uniform products, standardization and little pricing power for the IT solution providers. As well, personal productivity applications such as word processing, e-mail and messaging could be considered commodities.

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Numeric Scoring: The Key To Lead Management Success

Online Marketing Institute

Home Forrester Research « We’re renaming the blog | Main | New networks in the news » April 16, 2008 Numeric Scoring: The Key To Lead Management Success [Posted by Laura Ramos ] Recently I saw a preview of Eloqua’s spring release and it got me thinking about the role lead scoring plays in determining campaign effectiveness.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: ShoreTel And Alinean Launch Online TCO.

The ROI Guy

Results from the ShoreTel TCO Tool are supported by ShoreTel’s Lowest TCO Guarantee program, so that if ShoreTel’s TCO Tool and/or additional independent data determine our TCO is higher than a competing solution, ShoreTel will lower its price to beat the competition. Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To.