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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. Tom’s ROI and TCO experience began in 1993 with his first entrepreneurial venture, Interpose (acquired by Gartner in 1998). They do if they are.

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

The ROI Guy

However, the importance of content and lack of priority towards direct engagements points to a troubling trend in that today’s Internet fueled, buyer controlled purchase process is disintermediating sales from the purchase process. Tom then served Gartner as a Managing VP. Gartner CIO Study Highlights Need for Outcome-Base.

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B2B Category Creators Episode 6 Transcript

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You have to almost just get good at answering the question without really having a quantitative Gartner report or something to point to. I think our one big compelling point, we’ve been working [Forrester] for years. The internet is about disintermediation. You get the same question over and over again. Come on, at SaaS?

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