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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Let the Good Times Roll? IT Spending on.

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IT Spending on the Rise, But Executives Remain Economic-Focused A recent IT spending survey from Forrester confirms that 2010 remained a tough year for IT. As could be expected, Forrester indicates that the majority of 2010 IT spending went to support existing operations – essentially “keeping the lights on&#.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Alinean Powers Eight More B2B Assessment.

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Assessment tools enable vendors to engage with customers to realize and prioritize issues they may not even know they have, and provide intelligent product/solution roadmaps and recommendations. 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: Predictions for 2011: The End of B2B.

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During the B2C Internet revolution many a vendor’s world was turned upside down by failing to recognize and invest in the fundamental shift towards empowering consumers with content and buying tools. The influence of vendors as a trusted source of information lags dramatically, at only 8.1% this year, an increase from 3.1%

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: How TCO is a common sense sales and.

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For IT budget holders, triage is a critical component of determining how funding is going to be allocated for infrastructure, productivity and enterprise applications. Vendors of technology are competing not only with each other for new spending, but with the entrenched operating costs of the status quo.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Tech Marketers May Need to Rethink.

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According to the Harte-Hanks survey results, technology buyers become aware of new technology solutions most often through peers/ colleague interactions, magazines and trade journals, product review websites, search engines and industry analyst reports.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Diametrically Opposed Forces: Selling.

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Buyers, Fueled by the Internet, Firmly in Control With a wealth of information from vendors, analysts and peers, buyers are doing more research on-line. Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. Frugalnomics in Full Effect: Forrester and Gartner. Forrester: Understand and Drive Outcomes for Sales.

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

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For the IT buyer, business benefit assessments (34%) and financial assessments (26%) were both highly important to making a purchase decision, greatly exceeding, by more than 2x, the vendor relationship (14%) as a decision driver. Content may indeed be king. We call this the “Internet fueled buying cycle.&#