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

The ROI Guy

From our research and best practices work with leading B2B sales and marketing groups, Alinean provides its top 5 predictions for 2011: 1. To prevent complete disintermediation of sales from the prospect’s decision making process, sales professionals must be made relevant and important again to buyers.

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

The ROI Guy

However, the importance of content and lack of priority towards direct engagements points to a troubling trend in that today’s Internet fueled, buyer controlled purchase process is disintermediating sales from the purchase process. However, many vendors would say that sales opportunities are not moving forward the way many would like.

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Sales Pipeline Radio, Episode 234: Q & A with Jon Miller @jonmiller

Heinz Marketing

Spotify , iTunes , Blubrry , Google Play , iHeartRADIO , Stitcher and now on Amazon music. So from Epiphany, to Marketo, to being the first person I heard anywhere utter, “This is no longer going to be a lead based effort. We cover a wide range of topics, with a focus on sales development and inside sales priorities.