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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Let the Good Times Roll? IT Spending on.

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IT Spending on the Rise, But Executives Remain Economic-Focused A recent IT spending survey from Forrester confirms that 2010 remained a tough year for IT. As could be expected, Forrester indicates that the majority of 2010 IT spending went to support existing operations – essentially “keeping the lights on&#.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Value Selling Tools and the Buying Lifecycle

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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. But up-front purchase price isn’t everything. For most buyers it’s easier to do-nothing, than to change.

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

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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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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: IDC: Economic Buyers, Digital Overload.

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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. IDC’s most resent customer experience survey of over 200 key IT decision makers reveals that Frugalnomics is indeed in full effect.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Microsoft Virtualization with Hyper-V.

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As TCO studies have taught us however from the time Bill Kirwin first developed these models for Gartner, it is important to look not only at purchase cost of the solution, but the ongoing costs over the entire ownership lifecycle. Do these features yield cost savings that make the purchase price savings moot? Advantage Microsoft.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Hard and Soft ROI - The differences and.

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The hard benefits are also called direct benefits as they are typically directly tied to the impact of implementing the proposed solution – a first order, cause and effect. The Big O – Outcome Selling The Demand Spectrum and Value-Based Sales & Market. Your Sales & Marketing Ready to Do Business with F.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Can a Value Selling / Marketing Program.

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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?