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How customer experience supports brand loyalty through relationships

Biznology

We’ve all heard and read a lot about customer experience recently and how the study of and practice of CE Marketing has become an area of specialization and innovation. Another viewpoint stems from that of disintermediation where facilitators (in this case retailers) are being replaced by a direct connection of manufacturer to consumer.

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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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Team behind Microsoft’s marketing stack visualization tackle blockchain martech

chiefmartech

In current state, the Uber driver’s profile, driving history, customer rating data, etc., Blockchain has the potential to disintermediate the ad servers and put the consumer in control of what they experience and see. An often used example is an Uber driver. is all retained by Uber and subject to its proprietary model.

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Have Digital Marketing and Social Media Killed the Industrial.

Industrial Marketing Today

The salesperson may have to spend a lot of time re-educating the customer and correcting misunderstandings Customers are prisoners of their own experiences (we all are). Today’s B2B salesperson must bridge the gap from the experience of others to the specific and unique needs and priorities of the customer.

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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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Is martech headed for its “dot-com moment” in 2020?

chiefmartech

The remark was a reference to the bursting of the dot-com bubble in 2000, when hundreds of first-generation Internet companies went out of business — including high-profile disasters like Pets.com, (in)famous for their sock-puppet Superbowl commercial before the whole company imploded. “Disintermediation” became a punchline.

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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.