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

The ROI Guy

Not surprisingly, spending on company websites will increase the most, growing 43% over 2009 levels, and social network marketing is expected to increase as well, with an increase of 45% over 2009. Sales is being invited later into the decision making process and even worse, potentially disintermediated from the cycle altogether.

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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 recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. Provocation-Based Selling: Loosening the Status-Qu.

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

Heinz Marketing

And I think, Jon, what’s fascinating to me is you’re not quite disintermediating yourself because you’re no longer running Marketo, but where we went from a lead-based world to an account-based world, it changes not just the pivot of who we care about as an object in Salesforce, it changes the very tool set required to execute.