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Have Digital Marketing and Social Media Killed the Industrial.

Industrial Marketing Today

The first type uses a self-serve model and is typically completed in the very first sales interaction, be it in person or online. Much of the time spent in those traditional face to face sales calls is about getting to know the other person and deciding whether or not you like him or her enough to do business with them.

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

The ROI Guy

From survey results of IDC’s Technology Marketing Barometer, comparing 2009 to 2010 marketing allocations, technology marketers indicated that digital would experience the most growth year-over-year, greatly exceeding traditional advertising, public relations and events in year-over-year growth. The End of Sales as we Know It?

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

The ROI Guy

To prevent complete disintermediation of sales from the prospect’s decision making process, sales professionals must be made relevant and important again to buyers. And this is but one of several traditional and on-line channels that are proactively providing information on a daily basis to prospects.