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Five Reasons You May Not Be Spending Enough on Content Marketing

The ROI Guy

The lack of preparation has been directly shown to drive inefficient conversion, longer sales cycles, more discounting, and higher competitive losses. Is it an issue of acceptance, where the methodology, presentations, collateral and tools are not being accepted by customers as valuable?

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PODCAST 100: Succeeding as the First Marketing Hire w/ Nicole Wojno Smith

Sales Hacker

There was a big shift of people moving to cloud marketplaces for these purchases and seeing organizations consolidate a lot of their IT spend to cloud providers because the more they purchase over time through something like AWS for example, the better their discount is and they’ll have less burden on the vendor management side of things.

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