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Bulls, Bears, Bernanke and BtoB Lead Generation

Pointclear

In February of 2010, Ben Bernanke began his second term as Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Overall lead rates trended down in 2002 and from 2008 – Q3 2009—yep, just as the economy did. Lead rates trail the GDP by about a quarter. Lead rates never dropped to zero.

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Technology Sales & Marketing - Party Like its 1999?

The ROI Guy

Compared to 2002 where growth was a dismal -31% for system vendors and -18% for service providers, these are happy days. Worldwide annual growth in global IT spending is expected to be 6.3% in 2006, with annual growth in software sales leading the way at 7.0%.