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

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To prevent complete disintermediation of sales from the prospect’s decision making process, sales professionals must be made relevant and important again to buyers. Tailwinds for Marketing Automation Software - Insi. IDC: Economic Buyers, Digital Overload and Sales E. Accelerate Slow Sales Cycles with More Sales Enabl.

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

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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. Tailwinds for Marketing Automation Software - Insi.

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PKM and the Organization - Pollard

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We allowed the bold vision of knowledge-sharing to be diminished and appropriated by those who saw it is merely an exercise in automating the acquisition, storage and dissemination of documents. One of the initial goals of KM was disintermediation -- getting rid of the layers between front-line people and useful information.

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Top 56 B2B Marketing Posts for September 2010

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Hard Data to Justify Your Marketing Automation Investment - Customer Experience Matrix , September 1, 2010 Summary: So you want some hard numbers to prove the value of marketing automation? client asked yesterday if I had some benchmark information to justify the cost of her marketing automation project. Disintermediation (3).