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

The ROI Guy

According to Gartner, the average enterprise technology buying team now includes more than 13 people ! 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.

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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. In this blog post, I present a few of the key research metrics and advice. Content is King? Content may indeed be king.

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

The ROI Guy

At the same time, as buyers are becoming more empowered, sales professionals are seen by these buyers as less valuable in the decision making process, and as a result are being invited later and later in the buying cycle. Tom then served Gartner as a Managing VP. Gartner CIO Study Highlights Need for Outcome-Base.

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What Salespeople Need to Know About the New B2B Landscape

xiQ

This is a big transition for firms whose marketing, sales-training and enablement tools, and wider organizational processes reflect outdated assumptions about purchasing in their markets. But Gartner research (see here and here ) indicates a very different contemporary buying reality. Buying is a continuous and dynamic process.

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What Salespeople Need to Know About the New B2B Landscape

xiQ

This is a big transition for firms whose marketing, sales-training and enablement tools, and wider organizational processes reflect outdated assumptions about purchasing in their markets. But Gartner research (see here and here ) indicates a very different contemporary buying reality. Buying is a continuous and dynamic process.