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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Diametrically Opposed Forces: Selling.

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Understanding how to facilitate this buying lifecycle, especially how to connect and engage todays economic-focused executive, is a key to sales success, and establishes a roadmap for sales enablement. The Bottom Line Buyers are clearly in control of the buying cycle and are more frugal than ever before.

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

The ROI Guy

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. These two market drivers will have important implications into 2011 and beyond for B2B sales enablement and marketing strategies and budgets.

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

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As a result, sales is being invited later into the decision making process, sales cycles are extending and deals are stalling. When we look at marketing budgets however, we find that marketing spending is not aligned in most cases with this financial decision making criteria. The End of Sales as we Know It?

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

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It is best to look at what tools are needed to address each stage in the buying lifecycle, and have tools specifically designed to help move the decision making from initial engagement to delivery. I agree, that both are needed, and this is what makes marketing in this new decade such a challenge. Is Marketing Too Busy?

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Measure to Manage - Driving Sales.

The ROI Guy

Transferring knowledge to sales representatives, and then helping these reps more effectively share this knowledge with customers and prospects is the mission of sales enablement, and it has become a vital best practice to overcome Information Overload, fight Frugalnomics and take control of Internet driven Buying Cycles.

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

The ROI Guy

New digital marketing channels have made it more efficient than ever to broadcast marketing messages to prospects, but are the current strategies effective at connecting with and educating ever more skeptical and frugal buyers ? Worse, the information is often not customized for the buyer, and is viewed as irrelevant "noise".

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Leaders indicate Growing Investment in.

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Friday, September 17, 2010 Leaders indicate Growing Investment in Smart Digital Content The migration of B2B marketing budgets from traditional marketing vehicles toward digital channels continues according to a study by Booz & Co. Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. Is Marketing Too Busy?