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Have Digital Marketing and Social Media Killed the Industrial.

Industrial Marketing Today

They help bridge the gap that marketing content and social media can never do According to Dave, social media is not disintermediating the great sales people, it provides them the vehicle to be a more important contributor to their customers’ success. If nothing else, it makes the mobile sales force much much more productive.

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

The ROI Guy

In the early days of IT, product selling was prevalent, pitching products to innovators who were shown a product’s features and functions and then figured out on their own how to apply it to a pain / opportunity. Forrester: Understand and Drive Outcomes for Sales.

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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. Forrester: Understand and Drive Outcomes for Sales.

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Sales Pipeline Radio, Episode 234: Q & A with Jon Miller @jonmiller

Heinz Marketing

We may run out of time before we got to take a quick break, is the fact that you are Chief Marketing and Product Officer at Demandbase. That is a interconnected thing between your thought leadership, your go-to content, your go-to-market, and what the product ultimately delivers. Matt: Yep. We’ll be right back.