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Gartner: Are Your Ready for More Buyers and the IT to Business Shift?

The ROI Guy

This means connecting, engaging and convincing different stakeholders during the earlier exploration phases, and then doing it all over again for others more heavily involved in the evaluation and selection process. It is most common for buying teams to spend between three and six months in each major area of the buying cycle.

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Who is teaching the CMO how to sell?

ViewPoint

” However, if you’re leading a marketing organization in a B2B company, this question is directly tied to marketing’s new revenue imperative and it can be a very scary question. This disintermediation with sales has effectively given control of the sales cycle to the buyer. But all is not lost.

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

The ROI Guy

Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy This blog is dedicated to the strategies and tools used by solution providers to better prove and improve the value of B2B solutions to frugal buyers - using diagnostic assessments, interactive white papers, ROI calculators and TCO comparisons. In this blog post, I present a few of the key research metrics and advice.

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Tailwinds for Marketing Automation Software - Insight from CRM Analyst Lauren Carlson

The ROI Guy

Internet fueled buying cycles - research by IDC and Sirius Decisions both indicate that sales professionals are being engaged later and later in the buying cycle, if at all. With more information available, and growing skepticism in vendors, buyers have taken control of the purchasing cycle. What does that mean?

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

The ROI Guy

Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy This blog is dedicated to the strategies and tools used by solution providers to better prove and improve the value of B2B solutions to frugal buyers - using diagnostic assessments, interactive white papers, ROI calculators and TCO comparisons. The Death of a Salesman?

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Top 56 B2B Marketing Posts for September 2010

B2B Marketing Zone Posts

B2B advertising spend on social media and lead generation sites is forecasted to grow at an annualized rate of 21% and 17% respectively to 2013. Perhaps that’s one crazy basketball game, but with your website, it’s one score after another; visits become leads, and leads become sales. Klout scores.