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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. Affiliate sales support independent publishing. So it’s more about guiding that customer journey.

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Marketer of The Month Podcast- Episode 079- Achieving Growth With Product Market Fit and Getting Your Brand Storytelling Right

Outgrow

The first one is, that before joining the SaaS startup scene, you led thinking on how disintermediation fueled brand storytelling. Kate Fairhurst: I think there’s further disintermediation still to come. I think disintermediation of media storytelling has happened quite extensively. And you don’t mean anything.

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Gartner Names Versium a “Cool Vendor” in Retail 2016

Versium

.” The report also predicts that “the rise of automated, self-service machine learning applications will provide retailers new and scalable ways to leverage their massive amounts of information, thus disintermediating traditional data brokerage services.”

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How Instacart’s new ad products disrupt grocers while strengthening brand relationships

Martech

Last week, Instacart, the platform that offers grocery delivery and pick-up from local stores, announced new Instacart Ads products that boost CPG brand exposure to customers. These new ad tools and brand pages presumably put CPG brands in the driver’s seat, allowing them to speak more directly to customers. Why we care.

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Will You Abandon Your Friends to Seek Real Relevance

Convince & Convert

Brian recently published his 5th book, The End of Business As Usual. ” Should we be publishing sequential chapters in eBook format or things of that nature? Obviously the publishing business is disintermediated, and we understand that. But is long form publishing counter-cyclical? Check em out! ). Brian: Wow.

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

The ROI Guy

IDC’s most resent customer experience survey of over 200 key IT decision makers reveals that Frugalnomics is indeed in full effect. To engage better with skeptical buyers, sales could use benefit calculators and ROI tools to help quantify the impact that various solutions and options could have to the customer’s bottom-line.

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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.