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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&#. To prevent complete disintermediation of sales from the prospect’s decision making process, sales professionals must be made relevant and important again to buyers.

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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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B2B Category Creators Episode 6 Transcript

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I’ve spent my life building software for big companies. Usermind, I’ve been at building my company now. It’s my first company about seven years. Michel Feaster: Yeah, I helped acquire his and Mark’s last company Opsware. My name is Gil Allouche. I’m the founder and CEO of Metadata.

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