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

The ROI Guy

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. Latest Research.

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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. New TCO Calculator: EMC SMB Virtual Solutions Advi. Latest Research. Let the Good Times Roll?

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B2B Category Creators Episode 6 Transcript

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I think, especially if you’re selling into the SMB world, there’s rarely a lightning strike that just ignites everything. It doesn’t exist as much in the SMB. The SMB is much more about, climbing Kilimanjaro and it’s one step at a time. The internet is about disintermediation. Come on, at SaaS?

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