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B2B vs. B2C Influencer Marketing: Platforms, Practices, and Packaging

Webbiquity

YouTube famously used “Broadcast Yourself” as its tagline: taking television, putting it on the internet, disintermediating the barriers so that anyone could create their own programming, build an audience, and monetize it. We can quantify the ROI. public broadcast models. That’s all well and good.

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Forrester: The Accelerating Death of the B2B Sales Rep

The ROI Guy

Now, two years on, the forecast from Forrester is even gloomier, with faster than anticipated disintermediation. In particular, you should be spending more on interactive, prescriptive content such as diagnostic assessments, benchmarking tools, product advisors and ROI / TCO calculators.

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Three Value Perspectives: Business, Functional and Personal

The ROI Guy

When it comes to value, many think its all about financially quantifying the ROI impact of proposed solutions. For example, helping gain awards or accolades from executives and peers, going home early to be with family and kids, getting a promotion, and reducing risk of job disintermediation or disruptive job loss.

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

Outgrow

The first one is, that before joining the SaaS startup scene, you led thinking on how disintermediation fueled brand storytelling. Kate Fairhurst: I think there’s further disintermediation still to come. I think disintermediation of media storytelling has happened quite extensively. And you don’t mean anything.

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Gartner Names Versium a “Cool Vendor” in Retail 2016

Versium

.” The report also predicts that “the rise of automated, self-service machine learning applications will provide retailers new and scalable ways to leverage their massive amounts of information, thus disintermediating traditional data brokerage services.”

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

The ROI Guy

Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy This blog is dedicated to the strategies and tools used by solution providers to better prove and improve the value of B2B solutions to frugal buyers - using diagnostic assessments, interactive white papers, ROI calculators and TCO comparisons.

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

The ROI Guy

The top four reasons Gartner found for “No Decision” were: Lack of satisfaction with potential solutions or providers (35%), Project or solution costs exceeding the budget (34%), Business and/or technical risks deemed too high (31%), and Concerns over ROI (30%).

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