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

The ROI Guy

At the same time, as buyers are becoming more empowered, sales professionals are seen by these buyers as less valuable in the decision making process, and as a result are being invited later and later in the buying cycle. The Death of a Salesman? The invitation often coming after key decisions have already been made. Powered by Blogger.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: IDC: Economic Buyers, Digital Overload.

The ROI Guy

As a result, sales is being invited later into the decision making process, sales cycles are extending and deals are stalling. When asking over 200 IT buyers what they felt was most important part of the overall purchase process, over 1/3rd of the buyers indicated Vendor Content as key to the purchase decision. Content is King?

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What Is Web 3.0? The Future of the Internet

Single Grain

Tech giants such as Google, Facebook and Microsoft are some of the few companies currently making an enormous profit from user data. Companies such as Uber, Airbnb, Facebook, and other social media platforms arose during the web 2.0 And Facebook, over and over again, chose to optimize for its interests, like making more money.”