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Have Digital Marketing and Social Media Killed the Industrial.

Industrial Marketing Today

Digital marketing has also changed how industrial and technical buyers behave, search and consume information that they need at different stages of the buy cycle. Here’s how I see the impact of the changes: Industrial buyers are using more and more online resources for initiating and going deeper into the industrial buy cycle.

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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. IDC’s most resent customer experience survey of over 200 key IT decision makers reveals that Frugalnomics is indeed in full effect. We call this the “Internet fueled buying cycle.&#

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

The ROI Guy

At the same time, B2B buyers are taking advantage of the wealth of information available via the Internet and social media to become more empowered, taking charge of the buying cycle. These two market drivers will have important implications into 2011 and beyond for B2B sales enablement and marketing strategies and budgets.

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Top 56 B2B Marketing Posts for September 2010

B2B Marketing Zone Posts

Social CRM: social media and communities in customer relationship management and marketing - Conversionation , September 9, 2010 Let me start this post with a quote from “Using your customers’ desired actions to increase your sales”, a paper Gerry McGovern and Kristin Zhivago published earlier this year. You have a list. The Results.