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Death of the B2B Sales Rep? An Interview with the Sales Enablement Lab

The ROI Guy

These findings directly contradict the findings of CEB and Forrester that b-to-b sales reps’ role and importance are declining due to a disintermediation by B2B marketing and digital resources. As well, you’ve written a book on this topic, to help improve sales / marketing effectiveness: Can you tell us a little about it?

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

The ROI Guy

Internet Fueled Buying Cycles on the Rise – In the B2C space, the Internet has fundamentally changed how books, apparel, electronics, music, cars and other goods are bought and sold. From our research and best practices work with leading B2B sales and marketing groups, Alinean provides its top 5 predictions for 2011: 1.

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Top 56 B2B Marketing Posts for September 2010

B2B Marketing Zone Posts

0160; Just think about this for a second: 70% of b-to-b marketers of all sizes do not feel their social media marketing is effective. Recently we discussed key issues for the B2B “C&# suite and some key points highlighted in his book. Disintermediation (3). Original Content and Industry Content. That’s important.