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

The ROI Guy

Nearly 3 in 4 of today’s enterprise purchase decisions aren’t driven by IT, but from C-level executive management or the business unit taking the lead. Nearly half (48%) don’t think Providers do a good job of communicating the business value (outcomes) that their technology and services provide.

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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.

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

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.

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Will You Abandon Your Friends to Seek Real Relevance

Convince & Convert

which I believe to be his finest work to-date. Obviously the publishing business is disintermediated, and we understand that. I counted them up, and it was something like 47 different outposts that you were present in. Not just for me to promote what it is I’m working on, for me to learn. Jay: Hey everybody.

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Death of the B2B Sales Rep? An Interview with the Sales Enablement Lab

The ROI Guy

These findings directly contradict the findings of CEB and Forrester that b-to-b sales reps’ role and importance are declining due to a disintermediation by B2B marketing and digital resources. Unique insights – Agents today are much better at knowing the market, especially culling information that is not publicly or easily available.

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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transition for firms whose marketing, sales-training and enablement tools, and wider organizational processes reflect outdated assumptions about purchasing in their markets. Rather than moving sequentially through a funnel, buyers actually work through four parallel streams to make a purchase decision.

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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. Rather than moving sequentially through a funnel, buyers actually work through four parallel streams to make a purchase decision.