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

The ROI Guy

An empowered buyer means that the role of sales will dramatically be impacted, requiring sales enablement and marketing to help redefine and drive a new breed of value selling professional. Tom’s ROI and TCO experience began in 1993 with his first entrepreneurial venture, Interpose (acquired by Gartner in 1998).

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

The ROI Guy

When we look at marketing budgets however, we find that marketing spending is not aligned in most cases with this financial decision making criteria. Most organizations continue to spend much more on branding and relationship management versus value-based sales and marketing initiatives.