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

The ROI Guy

In this session we discussed some important value selling and content marketing research for technology marketers, much of which extends to other B2B segments, with trends and advice you need to excel in 2011. Let us examine each of these IDC trends in detail and what they mean to 2011 strategies and budgets.

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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. Alinean joins Content Marketing Institute (CMI) Trend Micro Risk and Compliance Assessment tool (p. Frugalnomics in Full Effect: Forrester and Gartner.

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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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