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B2B vs. B2C Influencer Marketing: Platforms, Practices, and Packaging

Webbiquity

YouTube famously used “Broadcast Yourself” as its tagline: taking television, putting it on the internet, disintermediating the barriers so that anyone could create their own programming, build an audience, and monetize it. public broadcast models. What do you think of that? James: You’re not wrong. And the B2B space is so broad.

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Forrester: The Accelerating Death of the B2B Sales Rep

The ROI Guy

I n this session, Forrester boldly predicted that 1 million B2B salespeople would be displaced by 2020, as B2B buyers by-pass reps who just take orders or pitch products, instead favoring digital self-service and more value-added interactions with a select group of more capable, consultative sales reps.

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How customer experience supports brand loyalty through relationships

Biznology

Another viewpoint stems from that of disintermediation where facilitators (in this case retailers) are being replaced by a direct connection of manufacturer to consumer. That value had historically come from the experience of buying, owning, and using a product facilitated by a retailer on a personal level.

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

Outgrow

She has been a content marketing champion since 2006, launching a variety of products and services to drive traffic and audience for brands. The first one is, that before joining the SaaS startup scene, you led thinking on how disintermediation fueled brand storytelling. So it has accelerated the thinking away from in person.

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I have seen the future of B2B marketing. It’s on Forbes.

Chris Koch

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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Gartner: Are Your Ready for More Buyers and the IT to Business Shift?

The ROI Guy

Nearly half (48%) don’t think Providers do a good job of communicating the business value (outcomes) that their technology and services provide. 2: From On-Size-Fits-All to Business, Functional and Personal What each buyer cares about most can differ wildly amongst the dozen plus committee members.

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How Instacart’s new ad products disrupt grocers while strengthening brand relationships

Martech

It’s a big word for “getting in the way and disrupting” – disintermediation. But Instacart is ultimately hurting these grocers by disintermediating the customer relationship and taking the digital advertising dollars that rightfully belong to the retailer in the process.”. But this is just what Instacart has been doing in recent years.