The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Wednesday, February 04, 2009 VMware launches new version of ROI / TCO Calculator Virtualization is one of the key cost savings initiatives that IT executives are implementing in order to tighten their belts in these uncertain economic conditions. The Big O – Outcome Selling The Demand Spectrum and Value-Based Sales & Market.

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ROI Social Media Microsoft Media 40

The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Thursday, November 04, 2010 IDC: Economic Buyers, Digital Overload and Sales Enablement Define Marketing for 2011 I just had the pleasure of presenting a webinar with Randy Perry, VP Business Value at IDC. Declining from 2009 is budget allocations and spending for search ads and search engine optimization, as well as display ads.

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ROI Buyer Buying Cycle Social Media 45

The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

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.

ROI 40

ROI Social Media Analysis Microsoft 40

The ROI Guy

JANUARY 20, 2011

About Me Thomas Pisello Orlando, Florida, United States Tom Pisello is a serial entrepreneur, focused on building ventures to help companies get more business value from their IT and business investments. The Big O – Outcome Selling The Demand Spectrum and Value-Based Sales & Market. Tom then served Gartner as a Managing VP.

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 25, 2011

Heres our three key takeaway opportunities: 1) Buyer Facilitation versus Selling, 2) Buyers, Fueled by the Internet, Firmly in Control, 3) Most Prominent Inhibitors to Sales Achieving Quota is “Inability to Communicate Value Messages&#. The Big O – Outcome Selling The Demand Spectrum and Value-Based Sales & Market.

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ROI Buying Cycle Social Media Webinar Metrics 49

The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 23, 2010

About Me Thomas Pisello Orlando, Florida, United States Tom Pisello is a serial entrepreneur, focused on building ventures to help companies get more business value from their IT and business investments. The Big O – Outcome Selling The Demand Spectrum and Value-Based Sales & Market. Tom then served Gartner as a Managing VP.

ROI 40

ROI Social Media Face-to-face Survey 40

The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 9, 2010

About Me Thomas Pisello Orlando, Florida, United States Tom Pisello is a serial entrepreneur, focused on building ventures to help companies get more business value from their IT and business investments. The Big O – Outcome Selling The Demand Spectrum and Value-Based Sales & Market. Tom then served Gartner as a Managing VP.

ROI 40

ROI Social Media Media B2B 40

The ROI Guy

JANUARY 10, 2011

Although Forrester was predicting 8-9% IT budget growth earlier in the year, its latest survey of 2,800 global CIOs and other IT decision-makers, revealed that their predictions, as were others, were overly optimistic, with the vast majority of respondents indicating that their budgets remained the same in 2010 as they were in 2009.

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The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Wednesday, February 04, 2009 Microsoft Virtualization with Hyper-V - better value? About Me Thomas Pisello Orlando, Florida, United States Tom Pisello is a serial entrepreneur, focused on building ventures to help companies get more business value from their IT and business investments. Tom then served Gartner as a Managing VP.

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Microsoft ROI Licensing Social Media 40

The ROI Guy

MAY 6, 2010

. “Leading B2B solution providers recognize that old sales and marketing techniques must evolve to meet these new economic buyer demands, and as a result, they are recognizing the need to connect and sell to economic buyers with Alinean -developed assessment, ROI and TCO demand-generation and sales enablement tools.&#

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 17, 2011

Alinean calls this new age-of-austerity Frugalnomics, and it forever changes the way B2B sales and marketing needs to connect with, engage and sell to buyers. Partners and enterprise sales professionals have adopted the tool significantly more than prior in-house developed programs, driving significant multi-million dollar customer deals.

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ROI Lead Rank Lead Scoring Tools 45

The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 6, 2010

These two market drivers will have important implications into 2011 and beyond for B2B sales enablement and marketing strategies and budgets. From our research and best practices work with leading B2B sales and marketing groups, Alinean provides its top 5 predictions for 2011: 1. Tom then served Gartner as a Managing VP.

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ROI B2B Social Media Buying Cycle 40

The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 22, 2010

According to Harte-Hanks, “The key for marketers and sales people, of course, is to stake out a strong position early in the process, maximize influence through effective targeting and message delivery, and make an impact on the decision-makers before it is too late.&# Tom then served Gartner as a Managing VP. Latest Research.

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Harte Hanks ROI Marketing Social Media 45

Mindtickle

DECEMBER 5, 2016

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.

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Sales Enablement Conversion Scale Channels 52

Mindtickle

DECEMBER 5, 2016

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.

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Sales Enablement Conversion Scale Channels 52

The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

About Me Thomas Pisello Orlando, Florida, United States Tom Pisello is a serial entrepreneur, focused on building ventures to help companies get more business value from their IT and business investments. The Big O – Outcome Selling The Demand Spectrum and Value-Based Sales & Market. Tom then served Gartner as a Managing VP.

ROI 40

ROI Social Media Benefit Oracle 40

Sales Hacker

APRIL 22, 2019

He discusses how to scale a multi-billion dollar SaaS company, as well as the key elements to navigating a successful career. If you missed episode 53, check it out here : PODCAST 53: The Secrets to Moving Your Company Upmarket w/David Katz, Intercom. The importance of due diligence in company selection. What You’ll Learn.

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Company Hiring Scale How To 54

The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

As well, the costs for hardware platforms, software licensing, management utilities and business resilience should be tallied, since these typically consume 40% or more of any database project’s cost. The Big O – Outcome Selling The Demand Spectrum and Value-Based Sales & Market. Latest Research.

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Oracle Microsoft ROI Outsourcing Services 40

The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

As companies worldwide become more environmentally conscious, carbon emissions costs supersede the annual power costs as a growing data center issue. Post Gartner, Tom was responsible for launching and maturing several innovative companies including FullArmor, Connotate Technologies, DigitalOwl, OurBeginning.com and PuertaBella.com.

ROI 40

ROI Social Media Comparison Networking 40

The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 14, 2005

As computing infrastructure has moved towards commoditization it still needs to provide a solid infrastructure of service and performance in order for the company to achieve higher goals. The Big O – Outcome Selling The Demand Spectrum and Value-Based Sales & Market. Accelerate Slow Sales Cycles with More Sales Enabl.

ROI 40

ROI Outsourcing Services Lead Rank Social Media 40

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Let’s flip the script: Your intellect, emotion, instinct, and empathy as a woman are what make you both a valuable human and invaluable company asset. Lori speaks, writes, coaches and trains company leaders on ways to find, recruit, retain, and promote more women in sales and helps women become part of the best profession – B2B sales.

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Hiring Ideal Customer Profile Top of Funnel Lead Rank 130

The ROI Guy

JULY 22, 2010

SHORETEL TCO TOOL: SUMMARY OF KEY FEATURES Many companies have realized that complexity is now one of the most significant drivers of cost in their business. Post Gartner, Tom was responsible for launching and maturing several innovative companies including FullArmor, Connotate Technologies, DigitalOwl, OurBeginning.com and PuertaBella.com.

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ROI Lead Rank Social Media Lead Scoring 40

The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

Thursday, September 09, 2010 Forrester announces Sales Enablement Conference focused on Selling into the New Economy We were excited to hear that Forresters first Sales Enablement Conference will be focused on Selling into the New Economy. • Where is sales enablement heading, and how do you get started?

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ROI Sales Enablement Lead Rank Social Media 40

LeadFuze

AUGUST 5, 2021

The second post was written by guest, John Barrows, sales trainer to the world’s leading tech companies. John was a keynote speaker at this year’s Rainmaker Conference , and is known for his dynamic sales training strategies, as well as his 12 Guiding Principles to Success in Sales, Business and Life. Sales Wars Blog.

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Top of Funnel Hiring Lead Rank Retail 98

The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

The good news is that the second half of 2010, projections are in line with Gartner’s survey in the fourth quarter of 2009 when CIOs reported IT budgets would increase, on average, by only 1.3%, and spending outlooks are more positive than earlier surveys. for 2009, showing that a spending recovery is in place, but marginally.

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ROI Social Media Demand Generation Agencies Survey 40

The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Transferring knowledge to sales representatives, and then helping these reps more effectively share this knowledge with customers and prospects is the mission of sales enablement, and it has become a vital best practice to overcome Information Overload, fight Frugalnomics and take control of Internet driven Buying Cycles.

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ROI Social Media Buying Cycle Sales Enablement 40

The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

About Me Thomas Pisello Orlando, Florida, United States Tom Pisello is a serial entrepreneur, focused on building ventures to help companies get more business value from their IT and business investments. The Big O – Outcome Selling The Demand Spectrum and Value-Based Sales & Market. Tom then served Gartner as a Managing VP.

ROI 40

ROI Social Media Ideal Customer Profile B2B 40

The ROI Guy

AUGUST 5, 2010

About Me Thomas Pisello Orlando, Florida, United States Tom Pisello is a serial entrepreneur, focused on building ventures to help companies get more business value from their IT and business investments. The Big O – Outcome Selling The Demand Spectrum and Value-Based Sales & Market. Tom then served Gartner as a Managing VP.

ROI 40

ROI Social Media Media B2B 40

The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

Research from MarketingSherpa and KnowledgeStorm, shows that targeted content is more effective, viewed by buyers as more valuable in the decision making process when customized for Industry (82% more effective), Role/job function (67%), Company size (49%), and Geography (29%). Accelerate Slow Sales Cycles with More Sales Enabl.

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ROI Social Media Vendor Buyer 49

The ROI Guy

AUGUST 4, 2010

About Me Thomas Pisello Orlando, Florida, United States Tom Pisello is a serial entrepreneur, focused on building ventures to help companies get more business value from their IT and business investments. The Big O – Outcome Selling The Demand Spectrum and Value-Based Sales & Market. Tom then served Gartner as a Managing VP.

ROI 40

ROI Lead Rank Lead Scoring Social Media 40

The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

Return on Customer (ROC) is a Pepper’s and Rogers twist on normal return on investment (ROI) analysis to help companies quantify the returns from various marketing and CRM initiatives. Customer equity is the net present value of all the cash flows a company expects its customers to generate over their lifetimes.

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ROI Ideal Customer Profile Social Media Customer 40

The ROI Guy

AUGUST 5, 2010

Using an IT project as an example, let’s say that a company invests $100,000 in a new application and that the application requires $25,000 annually thereafter in maintenance and support costs. From this investment, the company expects to save $200,000 each year. Tom then served Gartner as a Managing VP. Latest Research.

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ROI Social Media Discount Analysis 45

The ROI Guy

AUGUST 5, 2010

For example, a project that costs $10 million and has a projected net benefit of $100M, yields an ROI% of 1000%, but the risk of applying $10 million to a single project might be too high for a cash strapped company. The Big O – Outcome Selling The Demand Spectrum and Value-Based Sales & Market. Latest Research.

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ROI Social Media Analysis Comparison 40