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Accelerate Slow Sales Cycles with More Sales Enablement Investments?

The ROI Guy

Two successive downturns over the past decade have resulted in buyers more skeptical of sales pitches than ever, and a condition called Frugalnomics – where buyers demand quantifiable proof of bottom-line impact for each purchase decision. So how is the sales enablement role evolving within b2b vendors?

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Frugalnomics Forces Changes in Sales Enablement

The ROI Guy

As defined by Forrester, "Sales enablement is a strategic, ongoing process that equips all client-facing employees with the ability to consistently and systematically have a valuable conversation with the right set of customer stakeholders at each stage of the customer's problem-solving life cycle to optimize the ROI of the selling system.”

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Highspot Raises $60M Series D Round Led by ICONIQ Capital

Highspot

Technology Leader in Burgeoning Sales Enablement Category Is More Than Doubling Across Key Business Metrics. SEATTLE, June 4, 2019 – Highspot , the highest customer-rated sales enablement platform , today announced it has secured $60 million in Series D funding. This is Highspot.

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Sales Enablement and The Economic-Buyer

The ROI Guy

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. How Do You Fight Frugalnomics?

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SMB a New Year Bright Spot for IT Sales and Marketing?

The ROI Guy

IT solution providers are quickly reacting to the pessimistic forecasts with a sales and marketing strategy rethink – trying to appeal to today’s more stressed and frugal buyer. There is more pressure than ever to improving customer relationships and competitive advantage via social, marketing, sales and service technology.

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

The ROI Guy

IT budgets for 2009 are contracting even further from the modest forecasts for 2008, which are being trimmed even as this is being written. For IT budget holders, triage is a critical component of determining how funding is going to be allocated for infrastructure, productivity and enterprise applications.

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HP legacy upgrade campaign features Alinean TCO sales tools

The ROI Guy

The market for enterprise servers is fierce, and with IT savings goals top of mind and the recent purchase of SUN by Oracle, many organizations are proactively developing strategies to modernization / consolidate legacy solutions. November 2009.

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