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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. Powered by Blogger.

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Three Big Myths Debunked at SiriusDecisions Sales and Marketing Summit

The ROI Guy

These findings directly contradict the other analyst findings that b-to-b sales reps’ roles and importance are declining due to a disintermediation by B2B marketing and digital resources. The bottom-line according to SiriusDecisions: B2B marketing is not replacing B2B sales, so more B2B marketing doesn’t equate to more effectiveness.

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PKM and the Organization - Pollard

Buzz Marketing for Technology

One of the initial goals of KM was disintermediation -- getting rid of the layers between front-line people and useful information. Templates and models for creating high-context stories and narratives. Templates, models and self-study modules for improving observation, listening and attention skills (e.g. Hans Henrik.