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Demand Gen vs. Lead Gen: Which is ‘Best’ for Startups?

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Demand creation Includes webinars, white papers, and product trials 3. Sales enablement Includes playbooks, ROI tools, and battle cards 4. When you’re starting out, you may need to spend fairly equally across demand creation and sales enablement. Because your needs will change as your company grows.

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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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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. However, many vendors would say that sales opportunities are not moving forward the way many would like.

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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&#. The full webinar session is available on-demand at: https://alinean.webex.com/alinean/lsr.php?AT=pb&SP=EC&rID=44097752&rKey=ca6aa9fbfc4ad092

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Value Selling Tools and the Buying Lifecycle

The ROI Guy

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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Five Reasons You May Not Be Spending Enough on Content Marketing

The ROI Guy

According to SiriusDecision buyer studies, the most favored sources of content during the early stages of b-to-b decision-making are: White papers (64.4%); Peer referrals (51.1%); Webinars (48.9%); Trials or demos (42.2%); Analyst reports (37.8%). In later stages of the sales cycle, analyst reports and peer referrals reign supreme.

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Marketing Hierarchy of Needs: Achieving Marketing Efficiency and Effectiveness

The ROI Guy

This represents substantial growth when compared to 2009 cut-backs; however, even with the 2010/2011 snap-back in spending, most marketing budgets will remain below pre-recession levels. For marketers, the news is good overall. navigation, placement of content, imagery, etc.)