The ROI Guy

JANUARY 5, 2011

As a result of Frugalnomics and other market drivers: 62% of B2B vendors indicated they needed more leads in order to generate the same amount of sales, 72% indicated an increase in buying cycle time over the past 6 month, The buying cycle timeframe has increased over 10% in the past 12 months. April 2009.

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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

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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The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 22, 2010

A recent survey from Harte-Hanks reveals some vital metrics to marketers seeking insight on technology buyers and purchase decisions. Surveying 500 decision makers, the survey reveals that technology marketers may want to reconsider their investments and strategies for 2011. Provocation-Based Selling: Loosening the Status-Qu.

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The ROI Guy

MARCH 2, 2009

A recent newsletter from sales and marketing best practices analysts at SiriusDecisions ( www.siriusdecisions.com February 2009; Knowledge Inflection Points) highlights that today’s buyers are more savvy, and gather more information than ever from public sources before they engage sales professionals.

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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. Diagnose It is essential to engage executives and key decision makers as early as possible in the buying lifecycle, when strategies and budgets are set. Latest Research.

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