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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. It doesn’t happen with an initial point of purchase. public broadcast models.

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How customer experience supports brand loyalty through relationships

Biznology

In fact, it’s the nature of nearly every industry where major purchases are driven by emotion and fashion over utility and price. Another viewpoint stems from that of disintermediation where facilitators (in this case retailers) are being replaced by a direct connection of manufacturer to consumer.

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Death of the B2B Sales Rep? An Interview with the Sales Enablement Lab

The ROI Guy

Their research indicates that when B2B buyers are making a purchase decision, they go 57% of the way through the buyer’s journey BEFORE engaging with a sales rep. For more complex purchases, sales rep engagement starts at the beginning of the journey even more - two-thirds of the time. B2B is quite different than B2C.

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Tailwinds for Marketing Automation Software - Insight from CRM Analyst Lauren Carlson

The ROI Guy

With more information available, and growing skepticism in vendors, buyers have taken control of the purchasing cycle. Frugalnomics - in the face of two successive significant economic downturns over the past decade, buyers now demand proof of bottom-line impact and highest value from each and every purchase. What does that mean?

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

The ROI Guy

The consumer is now in charge: researching specifications, configuring and customizing solutions, getting peer reviews and advice, comparing prices, and “buying now&#. 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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Mitigate B2B Advertising Risks — While Maximizing Reach — with These Brand Safety Best Practices

6sense

This method of media buying — in which advertisers use automated technologies to purchase ad space rather than manual methods — eliminates effort, reduces costs, and increases reach for advertisers. Digital advertising has transformed dramatically as programmatic advertising has become increasingly ubiquitous. Let’s unpack that.

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Three Big Myths Debunked at SiriusDecisions Sales and Marketing Summit

The ROI Guy

Popular metrics indicate that buyers are 57% percent of the way through their purchase process before they engage a sales rep (CEB). For more complex purchases, sales rep engagement starts at the beginning of the journey two-thirds of the time. Create a sales support function that provides reps what they need to keep selling.