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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Value Selling Tools and the Buying Lifecycle

The ROI Guy

These buyers need a reason to engage – and delivering personalized, proprietary and consultative benchmarks, insight and advice is essential. Tom’s ROI and TCO experience began in 1993 with his first entrepreneurial venture, Interpose (acquired by Gartner in 1998). Tom then served Gartner as a Managing VP.

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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. Is this digital spending allocation aligning with buyer needs? Can sales be made relevant and valuable again in these key stages of the buying cycle? Content is King?

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

The ROI Guy

Using this content, buyers are taking control of the buying cycle from direct / channel sales, making the content that marketing delivers more important than ever in driving shorter sales cycles and increasing the number and value of transactions. Tom then served Gartner as a Managing VP.