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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. Our partner IDC's CMO Advisory Practice projects that the global marketing budgets of IT vendors will increase by 7% on average in 2006. [1] for 2005 – this according to Forrester latest research.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Tech Marketers May Need to Rethink.

The ROI Guy

Generating Awareness In order to start the engagement process with prospects, awareness needs to be created. Survey participants indicated that although prevalent, promotional e-mails, direct mail, sales representatives and general advertising were less effective at raising awareness of new solutions.

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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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170+ Women in Sales Share Their Career-Defining Aha Moment

Sales Hacker

B2B is H2H – human to human – and most women can leverage these powerful skills to create lasting connections with prospects, personalize value, and create customers for life. Your sales process and making it easy for prospects to buy makes a huge difference and can beat out a “better” product on paper.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Can a Value Selling / Marketing Program.

The ROI Guy

This permanent shift towards frugal buyers has forced B2B vendors to fundamentally change the way they reach prospects and convert them to customers. Leading B2B vendors are implementing value selling / marketing programs, and have received dramatic benefits as a result. Here are the top six benefits: 1.

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