Versium

JUNE 12, 2018

August 17, 2016 – Versium , a leading provider of automated predictive data technology solutions for marketing agencies and enterprises, today announced a number of significant corporate milestones and new leadership hires. Versium is a leading provider of automated data technology solutions for marketers. Redmond, Wash.

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Chris Koch

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

I agree (journalism’s future will be determined by its ability to create a business model that pays better than the current one: giving away content for free and charging way too little for ads), but I think he missed the more important disruptive power that platforms like BrandVoice really do have: to disintermediate traditional marketing.

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The ROI Guy

MAY 18, 2017

Back in the day, technology purchase decisions were more complex and as such, IT used to own the majority of the budget and lead almost all of the decision making process. Nearly 3 in 4 of today’s enterprise purchase decisions aren’t driven by IT, but from C-level executive management or the business unit taking the lead.

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The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Marketing automation tools supporting drip marketing campaigns and lead nurturing can build relationships with buyers during a longer sales process. The next decade will be defined by marketers in a fight against marketing fatigue, sales disintermediation and Frugalnomics. B2B sales processes are becoming “consumerized.“

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

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.

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Martech

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Acknowledge and address the disintermediation of B2B sellers in today’s buyer’s journey. Generating loads of content to serve as a honey trap to capture leads just to throw over the wall to sales is not the answer. How we can better partner and co-create with our customers and partner ecosystem to generate more value for all parties?

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

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. However, many vendors would say that sales opportunities are not moving forward the way many would like.

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The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 6, 2010

From our research and best practices work with leading B2B sales and marketing groups, Alinean provides its top 5 predictions for 2011: 1. 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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6sense

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

In addition to helping companies create and grow new service offerings, he’s led new mobile, search, and lead-gen initiatives. We work with the leading providers for brand safety, for fraud, invalid traffic identification, to actually bake those solutions into every single campaign that runs on the 6sense platform. .

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Engagio

JANUARY 9, 2017

“The term ‘Account-based’ is a leading contender for 2016’s phrase of the year. Some orgs are even ditching the MQL (Marketing Qualified Lead) and SQL (Sales Qualified Leads) acronyms and are going with a unified PQL (Product Qualified Lead). ” Wake Up People, It’s Account-Based! Matt Heinz.

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xiQ

AUGUST 8, 2015

The typical funnel starts with a marketing-generated lead for a “suspect” that, after qualification, becomes a “prospect,” and then a customer through steps that are measured and managed. Specious talk about disintermediation of salespeople obscures the real issues facing firms. Buying is a continuous and dynamic process.

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Heinz Marketing

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

So from Epiphany, to Marketo, to being the first person I heard anywhere utter, “This is no longer going to be a lead based effort. I think, Matt, I think I quoted you in my books saying, “Salespeople don’t close leads, they close accounts,” or something to that effect. ” To Engagio, to Demandbase.

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xiQ

AUGUST 8, 2015

The typical funnel starts with a marketing-generated lead for a “suspect” that, after qualification, becomes a “prospect,” and then a customer through steps that are measured and managed. Specious talk about disintermediation of salespeople obscures the real issues facing firms. Buying is a continuous and dynamic process.

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chiefmartech

JANUARY 23, 2017

Jeremy currently works with several of the leading companies in the blockchain and decentralization space including OB1 and OpenBazaar. They also want to know what leading start-ups such as OpenBazaar and Storj (disclosure: clients) are doing. The following is a guest post by Jeremy Epstein , CEO of Never Stop Marketing.

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Metadata

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

The internet is about disintermediation. I have found in my career, even back when I was at Mercury Interactive building testing tools during the Opsware deal, there’s that subset of customers that lead you in the right direction. I’m doing my best to lead the company but that we’re all human. Come on, at SaaS?

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

OCTOBER 5, 2010

B2B advertising spend on social media and lead generation sites is forecasted to grow at an annualized rate of 21% and 17% respectively to 2013. Perhaps that’s one crazy basketball game, but with your website, it’s one score after another; visits become leads, and leads become sales. Continue reading. What’s the point?

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

One of the initial goals of KM was disintermediation -- getting rid of the layers between front-line people and useful information. From these interviews and subsequent discussions with leading KM gurus, notably the UKs David Gurteen, emerged the concept of Personal Knowledge Management (PKM). This is the essence of PKM.

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Single Grain

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Reduced dependency on intermediaries : It will help disintermediate businesses, remove rent-seeking intermediaries, and give this value directly to the customers and providers in a network. It is one of the oldest and leading decentralized storage solutions, powered by blockchain technology that allows users to rent their free disk space.

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LiveRamp

MAY 30, 2019

Readership patterns, and degraded business models have disintermediated many publishers from their readers. Leading publishers are experimenting with the types of exchanges that work for different readers. The publishing business has changed tremendously in the last decade.

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Walker Sands

MARCH 25, 2020

As we continue following the campaign trail leading up to November’s presidential election, we’ve touched upon several tech-related issues and the role they’ve played, or not played, in this year’s multiple campaigns.

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