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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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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. April 2009.

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

The ROI Guy

According to the 962 respondents, SMB IT spending on hardware, software and services has increased from an average of $108K per organization in 2009, to a planned $143K in the second half of 2011. The Bottom-Line Even though good economic news is hard to come by, SMBs might represent the one bright spot for IT vendors in 2012.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: IDC: Economic Buyers, Digital Overload.

The ROI Guy

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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Welcome to The Decade of Sales

Factor 8

Consider the terms “Tech Stack” and “Sales Enablement” weren’t even terms in 2009. Sales leadership, marketing leadership, and our customers expect more from our sales departments. People don’t like the over-processed and over-scripted sales experience. Doubtful this was big? The outcome? Not customers.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Let the Good Times Roll? IT Spending on.

The ROI Guy

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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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Diametrically Opposed Forces: Selling.

The ROI Guy

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&#. As a result, sales is being invited later into the decision making process, if at all.

ROI 49