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

The ROI Guy

At the same time, as buyers are becoming more empowered, sales professionals are seen by these buyers as less valuable in the decision making process, and as a result are being invited later and later in the buying cycle. The Death of a Salesman? The invitation often coming after key decisions have already been made.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Do White Papers Still Engage? They do if.

The ROI Guy

This results in a slower buying process and the continual carpet bombing of buyer inboxes with the same static, mass-distributed whitepapers that every vendor sends out. So, how do you make whitepapers more effective, more relevant, more ONE-TO-ONE? Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To.

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

The ROI Guy

Better competitive advantage was gained by helping the customer set the strategy and agenda, versus involvement later in decision process, such as responding to RFPs. Moreover, the executive assessments continually led to multiple projects / product sales at decidedly higher deal sizes. Provocation-Based Selling: Loosening the Status-Qu. .