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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Diametrically Opposed Forces: Selling.

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In order to succeed, sales needs to provide unique diagnostics, insight and advice to earn the right to engage with these empowered executives during critical early decision cycles. Therefore, sales must engage early to quantify the “cost of doing nothing&# and to “make the case for change&# in order to loosen the status quo.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Alinean Powers Eight More B2B Assessment.

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Several of these new Alinean -powered tools will also be used later in the sales cycle, once a customer has a specific solution in mind, in order to justify the solution to executives and assure value versus competitive offerings, positive ROI and quick payback. Updated Alinean Social Media ROI Calculator - New. Latest Research.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: VMware launches Realized ROI toolkit.

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As IT professionals complete their first wave of data center server virtualization, in order to progress further, it is vital that return on investment proof points be provided to justify further consolidation to frugal executives. Updated Alinean Social Media ROI Calculator - New. Frugalnomics in Full Effect: Forrester and Gartner.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: How TCO is a common sense sales and.

The ROI Guy

Never has cost-analysis been so critical for technology users to justify spending and for technology providers to prove the business case in order to assure that the proposed solutions are a priority and make the budget cut. Updated Alinean Social Media ROI Calculator - New. Posted by Tom Pisello at 1:36 PM Email This BlogThis!

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: VMware launches new version of ROI / TCO.

The ROI Guy

Wednesday, February 04, 2009 VMware launches new version of ROI / TCO Calculator Virtualization is one of the key cost savings initiatives that IT executives are implementing in order to tighten their belts in these uncertain economic conditions. Updated Alinean Social Media ROI Calculator - New. Latest Research.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Tech Marketers May Need to Rethink.

The ROI Guy

Generating Awareness In order to start the engagement process with prospects, awareness needs to be created. Surprisingly least effective, considering the growing budgets and efforts put forth in new channels, awareness is less often generated via social media, blogs and banner advertising.

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

The ROI Guy

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. Soft benefits are often referred to as indirect, because they rely on a number of steps in order for the benefit to be realized.

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