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Have Digital Marketing and Social Media Killed the Industrial.

Industrial Marketing Today

Digital marketing has also changed how industrial and technical buyers behave, search and consume information that they need at different stages of the buy cycle. Here’s how I see the impact of the changes: Industrial buyers are using more and more online resources for initiating and going deeper into the industrial buy cycle.

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

The ROI Guy

As a result, sales is being invited later into the decision making process, sales cycles are extending and deals are stalling. When we look at marketing budgets however, we find that marketing spending is not aligned in most cases with this financial decision making criteria. Content is King?

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Predictions for 2011: The End of B2B.

The ROI Guy

At the same time, B2B buyers are taking advantage of the wealth of information available via the Internet and social media to become more empowered, taking charge of the buying cycle. Value Selling Tools and the Buying Lifecycle Is there an ROI from Social Media? The Death of a Salesman? Latest Research. Let the Good Times Roll?