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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 Effectiveness?

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IDC research shows that because of frugal buyer sentiment, 62% of B2B vendors need more leads in order to generate the same amount of sales, and 72% indicate an increase in sales cycle time over the past 6 months. Sales Enablement Ineffectiveness? So why are the sales enablement investments not paying off?

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Updated Alinean Social Media ROI.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy This blog is dedicated to the strategies and tools used by solution providers to better prove and improve the value of B2B solutions to frugal buyers - using diagnostic assessments, interactive white papers, ROI calculators and TCO comparisons. Your Sales & Marketing Ready to Do Business with F.

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

The ROI Guy

Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy This blog is dedicated to the strategies and tools used by solution providers to better prove and improve the value of B2B solutions to frugal buyers - using diagnostic assessments, interactive white papers, ROI calculators and TCO comparisons.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Social Media ROI a Requirement for 2011

The ROI Guy

Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy This blog is dedicated to the strategies and tools used by solution providers to better prove and improve the value of B2B solutions to frugal buyers - using diagnostic assessments, interactive white papers, ROI calculators and TCO comparisons. Your Sales & Marketing Ready to Do Business with F.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Seeing ROI in the Cloud?

The ROI Guy

Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy This blog is dedicated to the strategies and tools used by solution providers to better prove and improve the value of B2B solutions to frugal buyers - using diagnostic assessments, interactive white papers, ROI calculators and TCO comparisons. Your Sales & Marketing Ready to Do Business with F.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: VMware launches Realized ROI toolkit.

The ROI Guy

Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy This blog is dedicated to the strategies and tools used by solution providers to better prove and improve the value of B2B solutions to frugal buyers - using diagnostic assessments, interactive white papers, ROI calculators and TCO comparisons. Your Sales & Marketing Ready to Do Business with F.

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