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

Outgrow

Turning down clients to focus on productization. She has been a content marketing champion since 2006, launching a variety of products and services to drive traffic and audience for brands. Episode 079- Achieving Growth With Product Market Fit and Getting Your Brand Storytelling Right. About our host: . The Big Questions!

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Forrester: The Accelerating Death of the B2B Sales Rep

The ROI Guy

I n this session, Forrester boldly predicted that 1 million B2B salespeople would be displaced by 2020, as B2B buyers by-pass reps who just take orders or pitch products, instead favoring digital self-service and more value-added interactions with a select group of more capable, consultative sales reps.

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How customer experience supports brand loyalty through relationships

Biznology

As I have spent a good deal of time centered in an auto industry perspective, I’m watching other industries shift their focus from product to consumer intangibles and wonder why the trend sensitive auto industry just can’t get on with it. Think, for instance, Rental Cars.

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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. Gather internal feedback.

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Who is teaching the CMO how to sell?

ViewPoint

This disintermediation with sales has effectively given control of the sales cycle to the buyer. They cut their teeth on product-price-placement-promotion—the 4 Ps of marketing. This map becomes the foundation for building effective revenue marketing programs. But all is not lost.

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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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Gartner: Are Your Ready for More Buyers and the IT to Business Shift?

The ROI Guy

The Result: Long Delays and “No Decisions” More people involved in each decision and a shift in decision leadership from IT to the business has had a significant impact on Technology Solution Providers and selling effectiveness: First, deals are taking longer to close. Value truly is in the “eye of the beholder”.

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