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

The ROI Guy

In a recent blog post from Software Advice's Lauren Carlson , this emerging CRM analyst indicates how hot the market for marketing automation software has become, and although the niche was timid several years ago, marketers are now adopting these systems aggressively. B2B sales processes are becoming “consumerized.“

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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).

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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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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. For instance, most companies don’t want their ads published on adult websites, or software piracy sites. This problem has probably pervaded since the beginning of digital advertising.

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B2B Category Creators Episode 6 Transcript

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This is the fourth category I’ve created in my software career. I’ve spent my life building software for big companies. He joined HP Software and became my boss and he’s why we’re talking. The internet is about disintermediation. More and more software innovation. I’m Michel Feaster.

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