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Marketers as Social Evangelists

Biznology

IBM, although a leader in e-business, struggled with this decision and initially decided not to sell their computers online over concerns about disintermediating existing suppliers. Employees are often closest to both the products and customers you serve and might have an idea you have not of thought of. Use the outside inside.

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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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4 ways to address B2B disconnects and drive customer relationships and revenue

Martech

The growing impact of B2B internal disconnects is limiting our customer relationships, affecting our revenue results and hamstringing our go-to-market (GTM) teams’ productivity. Mastering the elusive buyer + account journey is the key to effective revenue and customer generation. Lost productivity is estimated to cost U.S.

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Prophets of Profit: 25 ABM Experts Give 2017 Predictions & Advice

Engagio

You can’t have shitty products, you can’t do false advertising, you can’t have salespeople closing bad deals, and you can’t ignore your customer once the ink is dry on the initial contract. Invest in digital and social selling training to upskill your teams!” Trish Bertuzzi. Jon Miller. Matt Amundson.

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What Salespeople Need to Know About the New B2B Landscape

xiQ

Selling has always been more about the buyer than the seller. So any effective sales model must adapt to changing buying protocols, not ignore or resist them. With these changes in mind, understanding where customers are, and how to interact with them appropriately in a given stream, are now central to effective selling.

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What Salespeople Need to Know About the New B2B Landscape

xiQ

Selling has always been more about the buyer than the seller. So any effective sales model must adapt to changing buying protocols, not ignore or resist them. With these changes in mind, understanding where customers are, and how to interact with them appropriately in a given stream, are now central to effective selling.

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B2B Category Creators Episode 6 Transcript

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I’m kind of a hybrid Product Manager, Product Marketing geek. Gainsight, we’re helping businesses in the subscription and cloud based models, optimized net dollar retention by doing everything from managing and scaling CSM teams to making your products easier to adopt, to driving higher renewals and cross sell upsell.

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