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84% of B2B Sales Start with a Referral — Not a Salesperson

Harvard Business Review

Sales reps, according to Forrester , tend to prioritize a sales agenda over solving a customer’s problem. If organizations don’t change their outdated thinking and create effective sales models for today’s digital era, Forrester warns that 1 million B2B salespeople will lose their jobs to self-service e-commerce by 2020.

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Is Social Media Actually Helping Your Company’s Bottom Line?

Harvard Business Review

But few have measures or even have accountable managers in place for their social media investments, and only 7% say their organizations “understand the exact value at stake from digital.” How convenient: to be evaluated with a metric without tangible marketplace outcomes.

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