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How Do You Market Something That’s Worthless?

Chris Koch

are immune to this kind of disintermediation? The missing piece of the puzzle that fell in place for me as I listened to him talk was that since the World Wide Web came along we have been continuously training generations of people to do things themselves and in collaboration with others. Not so, says Rifkin.

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Marketer of The Month Podcast- Episode 079- Achieving Growth With Product Market Fit and Getting Your Brand Storytelling Right

Outgrow

The first one is, that before joining the SaaS startup scene, you led thinking on how disintermediation fueled brand storytelling. Kate Fairhurst: I think there’s further disintermediation still to come. I think disintermediation of media storytelling has happened quite extensively. And you don’t mean anything.

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Marketers as Social Evangelists

Biznology

IBM, although a leader in e-business, struggled with this decision and initially decided not to sell their computers online over concerns about disintermediating existing suppliers. There was substantial concern among businesses about the impact on their retail outlets and channel partners.

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Who is teaching the CMO how to sell?

ViewPoint

Debbie Qaqish is Principal Partner and Chief Revenue Marketing Officer for demand generation agency, The Pedowitz Group. A nationally recognized thought leader and innovator in revenue generation, Qaqish has over 30 years of experience helping organizations connect marketing to revenue. But all is not lost.

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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. In a recent blog article, you point to several B2C examples that could perhaps point the way to what lies ahead for B2B sales reps?

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4 ways to address B2B disconnects and drive customer relationships and revenue

Martech

Mastering the elusive buyer + account journey is the key to effective revenue and customer generation. How we can better partner and co-create with our customers and partner ecosystem to generate more value for all parties? Acknowledge and address the disintermediation of B2B sellers in today’s buyer’s journey.

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Have Digital Marketing and Social Media Killed the Industrial.

Industrial Marketing Today

They help bridge the gap that marketing content and social media can never do According to Dave, social media is not disintermediating the great sales people, it provides them the vehicle to be a more important contributor to their customers’ success. I appreciate you sharing your personal experiences.