The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Fueled by a wealth of on-line resources and social networks, buyers have seized control of the buying cycle, engaging with sales representatives later and later, and further elongating sales cycles. Having the right content and tools to help fuel buyer’s decision making process is essential. Death of a Salesman?

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The ROI Guy

MARCH 15, 2011

Empowered Buyers: Fueled by the Internet, with access to a wealth of resources, research, discussions, product and pricing information, buyers are self-empowered to drive the buying cycle, inviting sales later and later into the decision making process, if at all. Commodity sales professionals are being disinter-mediated.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 3, 2010

However, it is not so simple to measure customer engagement in situations with long sales cycles that’s commonplace with manufacturers, sellers of technical products and B2B consultative solution providers. I have written about this problem in my previous post, “The Disconnect Between B2B Content Marketing and Customer Engagement.”

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 17, 2011

Alinean calls this new age-of-austerity Frugalnomics, and it forever changes the way B2B sales and marketing needs to connect with, engage and sell to buyers. The tool suite results in over 1,000 leads per month, with estimated 4 to 5% conversion rate of leads to sales. But up-front purchase price isn’t everything.

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The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Monday, December 06, 2010 Predictions for 2011: The End of B2B Sales & Marketing as We Know It? At the same time, B2B buyers are taking advantage of the wealth of information available via the Internet and social media to become more empowered, taking charge of the buying cycle.

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The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

What we did do is model the licensing and implementation cost advantage claims independently, comparing typical environments and using list price for all competitive licenses and Open pricing for Microsoft (available to most organizations). Do these features yield cost savings that make the purchase price savings moot?

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Sword and the Script | B2B

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Communicators found their influence grew with executives, even as the functions they performed evolved in 2022; PR and marketing alike battled to win trust amid clutter, noise and skepticism. Every year I read and write about dozens of reports on B2B marketing and PR. B2B prospects want published pricing. He wrote, “So 9.5

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Sword and the Script | B2B

JULY 19, 2022

Buyers of B2B software want published pricing: according to a study by McKinsey, 68% want prices published online without negotiation (and other useful B2B marketing statistics). Regular readers know I frequently dive into surveys and studies about B2B marketing, sales and PR. B2B prospects want published pricing.

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The ROI Guy

MAY 4, 2006

Technology Sales & Marketing - Party Like its 1999? A Q&A with me on latest IT sales and marketing metrics, trends and best practices Is 2006 shaping up to be a good year for IT spending growth? in 2006, with annual growth in software sales leading the way at 7.0%. percent of revenue on marketing.

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

JANUARY 11, 2024

About $3 trillion — that’s Forrester’s estimate for B2B sales by 2027, almost double what it was in 2021. Common traits of B2B sales High-cost and/or recurring contract pricing. B2B sales transactions can run into the millions of dollars. Sales teams assess the product fit of potential customers.

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The ROI Guy

AUGUST 27, 2014

While at the same time, sales and marketing hasn’t evolved quickly enough to keep pace with a changed buyer. Look at the typical PowerPoint deck or sit in on most sales calls and it’s all about the company, products, features and price and little about the prospect’s unique challenges and value potential.

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SnapApp

OCTOBER 3, 2017

The B2B sales funnel has changed a lot. . Until recent years, the traditional selling process looked something like this: Marketing would hand leads off to the sales team. The sales team would attempt to close those leads. . Marketing did their thing. Sales did their thing. Here are the responses. . .

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SnapApp

JUNE 6, 2017

It's been a dramatic last 10 years for B2B sales teams. B2B sales cycles have changed. Salespeople and buyers have a new relationship with one another, and it has directly impacted the sales process. . What is a sales process? . Because of this, the sale actually hinged on the salesperson’s ability to sell.

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The ROI Guy

AUGUST 4, 2010

Wednesday, August 04, 2010 Can a Value Selling / Marketing Program Improve Your Business? Leading B2B vendors are implementing value selling / marketing programs, and have received dramatic benefits as a result. With buyers suffering from information overload, how can a marketer break through the clutter and connect?

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

For those selling services, the road is tougher, and will require sensitivity to price, extreme value, and benefits of the services to far exceed the costs, as organizations will be looking to reduce services contracts overall for needed infrastructure investments. ► February (8) Boost Sales 10% with an Investment in Sales Enable.

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TrustRadius Marketing

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Recognizing the best software products based on their customer satisfaction, performance via reviews, and market size fit. Through harnessing the power of carefully crafted sales, marketing, customer service, content management, and operations tools, the software aims to make it easy to unify team strategy and drive conversion.

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TrustRadius Marketing

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Recognizing the best software products based on their customer satisfaction, performance via reviews, and mid-sized market fit. We took that list and broke it down to winners For Mid-sized Market by the reviewer’s business size. We took that list and broke it down to winners For Mid-sized Market by the reviewer’s business size.

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