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B2B Salespeople Can Survive If They Reimagine Their Roles

Harvard Business Review

Fortunately, B2B executives can draw upon sound guidance when reformulating their sales and marketing efforts. High on any executive’s reading list should be two Harvard Business Review articles from the 1990s: “Staple Yourself to an Order” and “Discovering New Points of Differentiation.” They evolved.

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Can We Finally Eradicate Bad Products?

Harvard Business Review

An executive there took me on a walk around to see the wonders of this fancy LEED gold-certified tower. And outsourced technology providers, such as Bazaarvoice, made it relatively straightforward to add consumer product reviews to retail sites. Today, consumers, not marketers, rule the roost.