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Tailwinds for Marketing Automation Software - Insight from CRM Analyst Lauren Carlson

The ROI Guy

According to Peter Sondergaard, SVP at Gartner, consumerization is a significant trend that will affect enterprise IT purchasing this decade and beyond. They demand coherent pitches, simplified pricing, rapid implementation and ease of use. B2B sales processes are becoming “consumerized.“ What does that mean?

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

The ROI Guy

The consumer is now in charge: researching specifications, configuring and customizing solutions, getting peer reviews and advice, comparing prices, and “buying now&#. To prevent complete disintermediation of sales from the prospect’s decision making process, sales professionals must be made relevant and important again to buyers.

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Mitigate B2B Advertising Risks — While Maximizing Reach — with These Brand Safety Best Practices

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Eric is a former Gartner and TOPO analyst who has long specialized in demand generation, digital, content, and media. As inventory moves through programmatic channels, it disintermediates the relationship between the seller and the buyer — and it makes it a lot easier for someone with fraudulent intent to step into the middle of that.