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

The ROI Guy

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. Declining from 2009 is budget allocations and spending for search ads and search engine optimization, as well as display ads.

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What Salespeople Need to Know About the New B2B Landscape

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Specious talk about disintermediation of salespeople obscures the real issues facing firms. As a leader, understanding how buying really works is the place to start in order to spur effective selling, profitable growth, and better resource allocations in your firm. Buying is a continuous and dynamic process.

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What Salespeople Need to Know About the New B2B Landscape

xiQ

Specious talk about disintermediation of salespeople obscures the real issues facing firms. As a leader, understanding how buying really works is the place to start in order to spur effective selling, profitable growth, and better resource allocations in your firm. Buying is a continuous and dynamic process.

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Top 56 B2B Marketing Posts for September 2010

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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).