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

The ROI Guy

As a result, sales is being invited later into the decision making process, sales cycles are extending and deals are stalling. From these findings, to better align sales / marketing with buyer requirements, the advice from IDC is to allocate more budget to business benefit and financial assessment content, tools and sales support.

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Top 56 B2B Marketing Posts for September 2010

B2B Marketing Zone Posts

How are marketers planning to allocate budgets this year? Disintermediation (3). What percentage of Fortune 100 companies are on Twitter? Social Media Statistics. Outbound Calling Tips from Johnny Bench - Smashmouth Marketing , September 10, 2010 When I was in college, one of my roomates used to watch The Baseball Bunch. Media (258).