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

The ROI Guy

These buyers need a reason to engage – and delivering personalized, proprietary and consultative benchmarks, insight and advice is essential. content to back it up and help provide decision support materials through the buying lifecycle / relationship steps. Tom then served Gartner as a Managing VP.

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

The ROI Guy

Thursday, November 04, 2010 IDC: Economic Buyers, Digital Overload and Sales Enablement Define Marketing for 2011 I just had the pleasure of presenting a webinar with Randy Perry, VP Business Value at IDC. Value Selling is a Requirement The IDC buyer survey indicates that the way IT solutions are currently marketed and sold needs to change.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Do White Papers Still Engage? They do if.

The ROI Guy

The good news is that todays buyer wants to be engaged, with 9 out of 10 actively relying on vendor provided information on their way to making a purchase decision. Let us examine one of the most important tools to engage buyers, white papers, and new best practices to help evolve this traditional medium into an effective selling machine.