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Three Value Perspectives: Business, Functional and Personal

The ROI Guy

Personal Value - Simply put, “What’s in it for me”, how your solution makes the champion and other key stakeholders lives better on a personal rather than business basis. In the session, Nancy and I discussed the importance of value storytelling and quantification and its correlation to sales effectiveness.

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

The ROI Guy

More stakeholders than ever are engaged in enterprise buying decisions. According to Gartner, the average enterprise technology buying team now includes more than 13 people ! And to make it even more of a challenge, these active participants can shift depending on the stage in the buying journey. Who’s in Charge: The Business or IT?

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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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What Salespeople Need to Know About the New B2B Landscape

xiQ

Evaluate: Buyers take a closer look at options uncovered while exploring, again leaning heavily on self-directed search and peer interactions as well as vendor sales representatives. So any effective sales model must adapt to changing buying protocols, not ignore or resist them. The sales force is more important than ever.

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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). Dave Pollards environmental philosophy, creative works, business papers and essays. In search of a better way to live and make a living, and a better understanding of how the world really works. September 2006.

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What Is Web 3.0? The Future of the Internet

Single Grain

also known as web3) is the third iteration or version of the Internet that interconnects data in a decentralized way to deliver a faster and more personalized user experience. is the latest Internet technology that leverages machine learning, artificial intelligence and blockchain to achieve real-world human communication. and Web 3.0.