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Goal : Use this research on goals and opportunities to develop and prioritize your proposals to help address strategic goals. Are the customer’s market opportunities increasing, or challenged? Enhanced case studies with video / audio can be more effective, providing evidence of success in the customers own voice / image.

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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: Diametrically Opposed Forces: Selling.

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By not engaging early, sales is left responding to proposal requests versus helping to set strategy and recommend solutions – a sure recipe for smaller deal size and less competitive advantage. The Big O – Outcome Selling The Demand Spectrum and Value-Based Sales & Market. How Do You Get Started in Content Marketing?

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

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Alinean calls this new age-of-austerity Frugalnomics, and it forever changes the way B2B sales and marketing needs to connect with, engage and sell to buyers. Even with a continued recovery and more financial optimism, the shift to frugality is fundamental and permanent. But up-front purchase price isn’t everything.

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

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Monday, December 06, 2010 Predictions for 2011: The End of B2B Sales & Marketing as We Know It? These two market drivers will have important implications into 2011 and beyond for B2B sales enablement and marketing strategies and budgets. of respondents), and peers (28.7%), especially early in the lifecycle.

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How To Create A Know-It-All Company - CIO.com - Business Technology Leadership

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Marketing IT. To drive KM at Russell Reynolds, the company circulates a document every afternoon throughout its 32 offices worldwide that shows all outstanding proposals and projects. To combat this, Brad DeLong, CIO for Orix Capital Markets (a division of Orix USA), seeks out the people he calls the groups "emotional leaders.".

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

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As TCO studies have taught us however from the time Bill Kirwin first developed these models for Gartner, it is important to look not only at purchase cost of the solution, but the ongoing costs over the entire ownership lifecycle. The Big O – Outcome Selling The Demand Spectrum and Value-Based Sales & Market.