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Forrester: The Accelerating Death of the B2B Sales Rep

The ROI Guy

Two years ago, I was sitting amongst a shocked audience, listening to analyst Andy Hoar pronounce the “Death of the B2B Sales Rep”. Now, two years on, the forecast from Forrester is even gloomier, with faster than anticipated disintermediation.

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

The ROI Guy

Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy This blog is dedicated to the strategies and tools used by solution providers to better prove and improve the value of B2B solutions to frugal buyers - using diagnostic assessments, interactive white papers, ROI calculators and TCO comparisons.

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

The ROI Guy

Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy This blog is dedicated to the strategies and tools used by solution providers to better prove and improve the value of B2B solutions to frugal buyers - using diagnostic assessments, interactive white papers, ROI calculators and TCO comparisons. In this blog post, I present a few of the key research metrics and advice.

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What Salespeople Need to Know About the New B2B Landscape

xiQ

This is a big transition for firms whose marketing, sales-training and enablement tools, and wider organizational processes reflect outdated assumptions about purchasing in their markets. The AIDA model and its variants are the basis for sales funnels at many B2B firms. Don’t believe the hype.

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What Salespeople Need to Know About the New B2B Landscape

xiQ

This is a big transition for firms whose marketing, sales-training and enablement tools, and wider organizational processes reflect outdated assumptions about purchasing in their markets. The AIDA model and its variants are the basis for sales funnels at many B2B firms. Don’t believe the hype.

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Three Big Myths Debunked at SiriusDecisions Sales and Marketing Summit

The ROI Guy

Last week we had the pleasure of attending our 10 th SiriusDecisions Summit in Nashville, a gathering of over 2,300 sales and marketing professionals. According to the research results, Marisa reported that B2B buyers interact with sales reps at every stage of the buyer's journey.

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What?s Digital Transformation? The Answer of 10 Experts

Exo B2B

In contrast, digital transformation is a fundamental rethinking of the business itself, its products and services, what market it addresses, and especially what its future business models will be. As a consultant, I had been helping organizations radically re-imagine the way they market and communicate since 2006. The challenge?