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B2B Salespeople Can Survive If They Reimagine Their Roles

Harvard Business Review

” Both spell out how to map the buying process and customer experience and optimally redirect the firm’s sales, marketing, operations, and service efforts. And for small- to medium-size businesses, the required resources — technology, personnel, costs, and assets — are daunting if not out of reach.

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Can We Finally Eradicate Bad Products?

Harvard Business Review

And outsourced technology providers, such as Bazaarvoice, made it relatively straightforward to add consumer product reviews to retail sites. The price-quality inference, a time-honored marketing concept, will surely continue to operate. Today's business world reflects a near-perfect reversal of the era in which the Seal was created.