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Marketers as Social Evangelists

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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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What’s Changed, What Hasn’t in Media Relations

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The news media, it was believed, would be one of the first industries to be “disintermediated,” a multisyllabic word for “cutting out the middleman.”. If newsmakers could now reach their audiences directly via the Internet, what use would there be for intermediaries to carry the news? As you know, the news media is not dead.

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