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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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Death of the B2B Sales Rep? An Interview with the Sales Enablement Lab

The ROI Guy

The study highlights that today’s more empowered buyer is engaging digitally versus personally through most of the cycle. Forrester reports that this shift to digital buying is real, and as a result, there will be a 22% decline in the number of B2B sales reps over the next 5 years.

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

The ROI Guy

To prevent complete disintermediation of sales from the prospect’s decision making process, sales professionals must be made relevant and important again to buyers. Frugalnomics in Full Effect: Forrester and Gartner. Forrester: Understand and Drive Outcomes for Sales. Provocation-Based Selling: Loosening the Status-Qu. .

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

The ROI Guy

To help cut through the constant information overload, and help guide decisions more effectively, the most valuable content is that which is tuned to be relevant and engaging to the buyer - one-to-one personalized for example by industry, location, size, stage in buying cycle, role, pain points and opportunities.

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Three Big Myths Debunked at SiriusDecisions Sales and Marketing Summit

The ROI Guy

Forrester concurred , reporting that digital experiences are replacing sales reps at a rapid pace, foretelling a 22% decline in the number of B2B sales reps over the next 5 years = a total of 1 million sales reps expected to lose their jobs. 3 - More Activity = More Effectiveness?

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B2B Category Creators Episode 6 Transcript

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A good person who establishes a good culture. I’m very excited to learn how a company can succeed and grow so fast and still institute a good culture and a good people person. That’s what I would try to tell myself to not feel like a crazy person. But yeah, that person that is passionate. I think yes.

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