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

The ROI Guy

For the IT buyer, business benefit assessments (34%) and financial assessments (26%) were both highly important to making a purchase decision, greatly exceeding, by more than 2x, the vendor relationship (14%) as a decision driver. Content may indeed be king. We call this the “Internet fueled buying cycle.&#

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

The ROI Guy

During the B2C Internet revolution many a vendor’s world was turned upside down by failing to recognize and invest in the fundamental shift towards empowering consumers with content and buying tools. The influence of vendors as a trusted source of information lags dramatically, at only 8.1% this year, an increase from 3.1%

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Sales Pipeline Radio, Episode 234: Q & A with Jon Miller @jonmiller

Heinz Marketing

Even just a year or two ago, I mean, the analysts just were completely perplexed about how to categorize this market, because there’s many different flavors of ABM vendors. Well, I mean, Demandbase is the original ABM vendor, and it’s certainly the largest by revenue and customer count. Jon: Yeah.