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Change management and sales: influencing the buying decision path

Strategy Driven

Sales, marketing automation, and the new telemarketing field, ignore the change management aspect of what buyers must accomplish and instead focus on figuring out how and what and to whom to pitch their solution. A Buying Decision Is A Change Management Problem. Let me back track a bit.

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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. Today's business world reflects a near-perfect reversal of the era in which the Seal was created. Today, consumers, not marketers, rule the roost.