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Three Value Perspectives: Business, Functional and Personal

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This can include customer experience and performance improvements, process optimization, time savings and risk / error reductions. For example, helping gain awards or accolades from executives and peers, going home early to be with family and kids, getting a promotion, and reducing risk of job disintermediation or disruptive job loss.

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Gartner: Are Your Ready for More Buyers and the IT to Business Shift?

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More stakeholders than ever are engaged in enterprise buying decisions. According to Gartner, the average enterprise technology buying team now includes more than 13 people ! And to make it even more of a challenge, these active participants can shift depending on the stage in the buying journey. Who’s in Charge: The Business or IT?

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

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The consumer is now in charge: researching specifications, configuring and customizing solutions, getting peer reviews and advice, comparing prices, and “buying now&#. Monday, December 06, 2010 Predictions for 2011: The End of B2B Sales & Marketing as We Know It?

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

The ROI Guy

IDC’s most resent customer experience survey of over 200 key IT decision makers reveals that Frugalnomics is indeed in full effect. In this blog post, I present a few of the key research metrics and advice. As a result, sales is being invited later into the decision making process, sales cycles are extending and deals are stalling.

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What Salespeople Need to Know About the New B2B Landscape

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The typical funnel starts with a marketing-generated lead for a “suspect” that, after qualification, becomes a “prospect,” and then a customer through steps that are measured and managed. So any effective sales model must adapt to changing buying protocols, not ignore or resist them. The sales force is more important than ever.

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What Is Web 3.0? The Future of the Internet

Single Grain

is the latest Internet technology that leverages machine learning, artificial intelligence and blockchain to achieve real-world human communication. The icing on the cake is that web 3.0 not only allows individuals to own their data, but they will be compensated for their time spent on the web. Sound too good to be true? Ubiquitous – Web 3.0

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What Salespeople Need to Know About the New B2B Landscape

xiQ

The typical funnel starts with a marketing-generated lead for a “suspect” that, after qualification, becomes a “prospect,” and then a customer through steps that are measured and managed. So any effective sales model must adapt to changing buying protocols, not ignore or resist them. The sales force is more important than ever.