{"id":90,"date":"2014-07-12T00:27:14","date_gmt":"2014-07-12T00:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gatiresearch.com\/?page_id=90"},"modified":"2014-07-12T00:39:34","modified_gmt":"2014-07-12T00:39:34","slug":"budget-activities","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/gatiresearch.com\/?page_id=90","title":{"rendered":"Budget Activities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over 40% of the organizations in the Enterprise Market do not operate on a January-December fiscal calendar. In addition, these mega organizations have <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>clearly defined budget procedures and very specific times when they negotiate, set and spend their annual budgets<\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000080;\">This Means:<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>To be included in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Microsoft&#8217;s annual budget<\/strong> <\/span>&#8211; you should <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>meet with them in or before March<\/strong><\/span>.<\/li>\n<li>To be included in <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Costco\u2019s annual <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">budget meet with them by May<\/span><\/strong>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Hewlett-Packard by July<\/strong> <\/span>and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Fed-Ex by February<\/strong><\/span>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Solution:<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>To insure <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>salespeople do not miss any of these important dates<\/strong><\/span>, every month we send an update on the internal budgeting activities for each of your major accounts.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Missing just one of these deadlines or activities can be the difference between <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>having millions pre-allocated to your company\u2019s products<\/strong><\/span> for the next 12 months or having to fight other groups and other competing products for access to the \u201climited\u201d money that companies put into their general budgets.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 40% of the organizations in the Enterprise Market do not operate on a January-December fiscal calendar. In addition, these mega organizations have clearly defined budget procedures and very specific times when they negotiate, set and spend their annual budgets. This Means: To be included in Microsoft&#8217;s annual budget &#8211; you should meet with them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":23,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-90","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatiresearch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/90","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatiresearch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatiresearch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatiresearch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatiresearch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/gatiresearch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/90\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98,"href":"https:\/\/gatiresearch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/90\/revisions\/98"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatiresearch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatiresearch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}