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

The ROI Guy

When we look at today’s sales and marketing, most content and conversations remain too focused on technology and IT decision makers, missing the mark on what matters most to executives and the business. This can include customer experience and performance improvements, process optimization, time savings and risk / error reductions.

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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.

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

The ROI Guy

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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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transition for firms whose marketing, sales-training and enablement tools, and wider organizational processes reflect outdated assumptions about purchasing in their markets. Engage: Buyers initiate further contact with providers (or accept proposals from providers) to get help in moving toward a purchase decision.

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Three Big Myths Debunked at SiriusDecisions Sales and Marketing Summit

The ROI Guy

Last week we had the pleasure of attending our 10 th SiriusDecisions Summit in Nashville, a gathering of over 2,300 sales and marketing professionals. These findings directly contradict the other analyst findings that b-to-b sales reps’ roles and importance are declining due to a disintermediation by B2B marketing and digital resources.

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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. Engage: Buyers initiate further contact with providers (or accept proposals from providers) to get help in moving toward a purchase decision.

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PKM and the Organization - Pollard

Buzz Marketing for Technology

This article is the concatenation and update of three previous articles on Personal Knowledge Management (PKM). This bottom-up approach to KM, directed at the needs of individual employees and their peer-to-peer interactions has come to be called Personal Knowledge Management (PKM). MADE IN CANADA. trust your instincts. <