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Accelerate Slow Sales Cycles with More Sales Enablement Investments?

The ROI Guy

The result of Frugalnomics has been a marked slowdown in the pipeline, and longer than ever sales cycles. According to Andrew Gaffney in his article Marketers Shifting Focus To Sales Enablement To Accelerate Slow Pipelines , “Deals expected to close in the current quarter are often getting clogged and pushed out later in the year.

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Being Seen in an Inside Sales Job

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Is Marketing Too Busy? The Forgotten Sales Professional

The ROI Guy

A recent Content Marketing Institute article by Jennifer Watson, The Audience Content Marketers Can’t Afford To Ignore – But Almost Always Do got me thinking. With so much to work on, its easy for marketers to forget a very important audience, sales professionals, and where marketing meets sales, sales enablement.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: How TCO is a common sense sales and.

The ROI Guy

Wednesday, February 04, 2009 How TCO is a common sense sales and marketing Tool for Today’s Chaotic Economy My friend and board member Bill Kirwin, original father of TCO analysis with Gartner, put it best when he wrote this article for us on the power of using TCO as a sales and marketing advantage to win deals in these tough economic times.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Updated Alinean Social Media ROI.

The ROI Guy

The Social Media ROI Calculator and related ROI research / articles and best practices can be found at: [link] Posted by Tom Pisello at 10:30 AM Email This BlogThis! The Big O – Outcome Selling The Demand Spectrum and Value-Based Sales & Market. ▼ February (8) Boost Sales 10% with an Investment in Sales Enable.

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End of Year Software Discounts: Savvy Cost Saving or Short-Sighted Business Move?

Sales Hacker

On the other hand, Chad Dyar , Director of Sales Enablement of OnDeck , recommends saving on new technology so you can splurge on upgrading your current tech stack. “ Our team is lucky enough to manage both the sales and marketing stack,” said Dyar. It happened in 2009. I’ve never felt so helpless in my life”.

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In Conversation with Nutanix on Partner Sales Enablement

Mindtickle

The business has been expanding rapidly since its inception in 2009. With their heavy reliance on channel partners for sales breadth and reach, the key challenge for Nutanix was identifying what they needed to be successful in their sales enablement strategy , and how to deliver it to their reps in a way that was easy to access and digest.