The ROI Guy

MARCH 11, 2014

As a result of today’s more empowered buyer: SiriusDecisions reports that up to 67% of decision-makers already have a “clear picture” of the solution they want before Sales Reps are engaged. By a large margin, Financial Justification / ROI content was perceived as the most valuable in driving decisions.

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The ROI Guy

MARCH 1, 2016

If you’re marketing or selling technology, this decline could have a significant impact, with buyers becoming even more cautious and economic focused. You need to factor Frugalnomics prominently into your sales and marketing strategies and investments. 2) Central IT is Irrelevant? 2) Central IT is Irrelevant?

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Televerde

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

You’re here because you want to build your sales pipeline. You’re also not alone, as 75% of companies say closing more deals is their top sales priority. I think you’ll agree with me when I say: Building sales pipeline can be EXTREMELY hard! That’s great! As Coach Bill Walton said, “Success begins from the ground up!”.

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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.

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The ROI Guy

APRIL 14, 2015

We think there is a more systemic issue in the predictions: a major "sea change" in technology spending and purchase decision-making – one that could put a significant chill in your organizations‘ sales and marketing strategy. Gartner has revised worldwide IT spending down for 2015, predicting a 1.3% YoY decline from 2014.

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Hinge Marketing

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

For AEC firms with government contracts, is your AEC marketing—strategy and implementation—up to the challenge? Good marketing and business development professionals will tell you that it’s about being relevant and demonstrating how an agency’s problems can be solved by firm expertise. But it can be done.

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Moreover, a major "sea change" has occurred in technology spending and purchase decision-making - with significant implications for your organizations sales and marketing strategy. More importantly, you need to take Frugalnomics into account as you evolve your sales and marketing strategies and investments to meet the challenge.

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The ROI Guy

JULY 15, 2015

If you’re marketing or selling technology, this decline could have a significant impact, stiffer competition, and even more headwinds to meeting your ambitious revenue growth goals. Gartner recently published their latest worldwide IT spending forecasts with a sharp downward revision, now projecting a 5.5% YoY decline from 2014 levels.

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The ROI Guy

APRIL 8, 2014

Most importantly, you need to take Frugalnomics into account as you evolve your sales and marketing strategies and investments to meet the challenge. According to Gartner, worldwide IT spending is on pace to reach $3.8 trillion in 2014, a 3.2% increase from 2013 spending levels (and a 0.1% for the year.

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 18, 2013

According to a recent study by IDC’s Sales Advisory, the majority of sales reps are not able to effectively engage with today’s more empowered, skeptical and frugal buyer. The Bad News: Most companies are not getting Sales Enablement right, and this is costly. This is a good news / bad news story from IDC.

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 16, 2014

Most importantly, you need to take Frugalnomics into account as you evolve your sales and marketing strategies and investments to meet the challenge. According to Gartner, the annual release of their New Year’s spending forecast predicts global IT spending growth of 3.1% for the year.

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The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

This includes more CFO involvement in key decision making, including helping to set business strategy, deciding where to invest capital and even looking at product mix and go-to-market strategies. now finds herself at marketing meetings. now finds herself at marketing meetings.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

What your marketing and sales enablement teams might not fully realize is that: Product / service differentiators are fleeting, especially today where new product launches are faster than ever before and solutions are quickly commoditized. and “Why do so now?” , way before “Why your solution?”.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 31, 2012

The event gathered together more than 1,000 sales and marketing professionals from companies of every shape, size and location. RT @ HeinzMarketing : attention is marketings currency. ” @ aquarry @ wittlake sales and marketing alignment: just get it done! Cheesy line? Ok, I’ll stop.). Key question!

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 8, 2013

As a result, IT Sales and Marketing will again be tasked to deliver incremental revenue regardless of challenging market conditions and despite the historically low spending growth. This represents a significant uptick in spending growth from the anemic 2012 rate of only 1.2%.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

The past decade has seen an exciting and dramatic increase in new digital marketing channels including Twitter, Facebook, e-mail, search engines, webinars, virtual trade shows and more. email pitches per week, up 32 percent from 2006 according to sales and marketing research firm SiriusDecisions.

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The ROI Guy

JULY 9, 2013

As such, it is important to recognize that growth will in the near term remain historically low, below the 6% average annual IT spending increases of the last decade, but that your sales and marketing strategy can be adjusted to drive competitive success. Sometimes you don’t want to be right, and this is one of those times.

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The ROI Guy

MARCH 30, 2011

If you are in sales and marketing, there is another forecast that is just as promising, especially if you recognize the pending fertile business opportunity and prepare accordingly. Marketing luminary Seth Godin indicates that "No business buys a solution for a problem they don't have."

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The ROI Guy

JULY 19, 2012

Understanding how the mind uses both, and the inherent biases involved, can help you create better marketing content and sales presentations, drive better engagement and win more favorable decisions, faster. You have two options 1. Receive a sure $800 that I am offering you 2. So why do most select the sure bet?

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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

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Tech Media publishers have seen an exponential shift in buyer behaviour, recognizing that the B2B buying decisions these publications support are now Internet driven , and that buyers are in control of the buying cycle like never before - seeking trusted sources of diagnosis, advice and recommendations. and creating advertising networks.

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 25, 2011

Heres our three key takeaway opportunities: 1) Buyer Facilitation versus Selling, 2) Buyers, Fueled by the Internet, Firmly in Control, 3) Most Prominent Inhibitors to Sales Achieving Quota is “Inability to Communicate Value Messages&#.

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

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. As a result, sales is being invited later into the decision making process, sales cycles are extending and deals are stalling.

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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. But how can you best develop and deliver these tools effectively to fight Frugalnomics?

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The ROI Guy

MARCH 15, 2011

Today’s buyer is more empowered, skeptical and frugal than ever before, providing a greater than ever challenge to sales professionals, and shaking the very foundations of traditional selling models. At Alinean, we have coined this new B2B challenge as Frugalnomics, indicated by: 1. Fight Frugalnomics with Outcome Selling?

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Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

As a small business owner, you toggle between marketing, sales, operations, and customer service daily — and sometimes within the same hour. Improves Sales Processes Whether you work alone or have a team, a CRM can significantly enhance your sales process. What you need is customer relationship management (CRM) software.

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Pam Didner

JANUARY 20, 2021

As a marketing professional, successfully supporting sales takes tact, experience, perseverance, conviction and imagination. . I learned that lesson early in my corporate career at Intel during my first encounter with sales. . He said succinctly: “Enable sales to do their jobs, but don’t do their jobs for them.” .

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Online Marketing Institute

MAY 18, 2010

Longer sales cycles due to more complex products and services and business purchasing processes often require more information. When assessing B2B client resources for optimization, most marketers focus on web pages and increasingly, digital assets and social media content. How many off site? How many off site? Sub domain?

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Vidyard

MAY 10, 2021

Whether you call it “virtual selling”, “remote selling”, or “trying to close sales through a computer screen”, you already know that COVID-19 changed online selling from a novelty to a necessity. Customers’ sales expectations have changed. Are You Setting the Right Virtual Sales Goals? Make Sales Calls Interesting 2.5

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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. The cost of B2B marketing content.

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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. The top complaints B2B marekting and sales have about each other.

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Golden Spiral

APRIL 14, 2022

A fact-filled sales deck is no longer enough to close deals. Brand sense is also becoming more important in the sales and customer retention processes. If you want to be a front runner in your market, your brand look and feel must be compelling and consistent to compete. Originality. Simplicity. Consistency.

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Vidyard

MAY 10, 2021

Whether you call it “virtual selling”, “remote selling”, or “trying to close sales through a computer screen”, you already know that COVID-19 changed online selling from a novelty to a necessity. Customers’ sales expectations have changed. Part 1: Redesign Your Sales Process for Virtual Selling 1.1 But what happens afterward?

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The ROI Guy

JULY 8, 2014

For IT solution providers who may be using these forecasts and were expecting a turnaround in 2014 spending levels, another slower than expected year has significant implications for your organizations'' sales and marketing strategy. According to Gartner, worldwide IT spending was expected to reach $3.8 trillion in 2014, a 3.2%

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The ROI Guy

JUNE 22, 2010

Alinean Advice : When a salesperson or team meets with a prospect, they need to be prepared to speak to the opportunities of each stakeholder, and communicate the unique value of the proposed solution to each as well. However, according to the SiriusDecision analysts, if sales professionals call too early on Sr. Get to the single Sr.

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The ROI Guy

JUNE 29, 2011

A common debate in B2B marketing is how to create and deliver the right content at the right time to help improve the connection and engagement with prospects and their buying decisions. However, since buyers have been impacted by successive downturns and forced to “do more with less”, they are more pressed for time than ever before.

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Content Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Marketers seeking to learn through recent books suffer from an embarrassment of riches. A search of Amazon.com for “marketing books” returns 324,225 titles. Narrow the search to “content marketing books” and 2,736 options appear. Content marketing success requires making the right decisions over and over.

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