The shift in B2B buyer behaviours continues to drive change in vendor organisations. People are no longer researching online, reading marketing materials prior to being "handed over" to Sales where analogue interactions take over. Instead, people are continually researching online right up to and indeed, past the point of purchase. 

This means that vendors need to assist buyers with relevant helpful content to deal with interactions and questions that would historically have sat squarely within a sales conversation. 

Now everyone has a browser in-hand all the time, vendors seek to verify information received from a salesperson in the quest to establish them as a trusted advisers. Gartner uses the adage "trust but verify" (which by the way, was a favourite of Ronald Reagan). The go-to resource apparently being the vendor's website.

Clearly, if that salesperson's website does not have the information needed and a competitor does, that is a pretty poor situation.

This is why Garner says there is an "urgent need for marketers to move their content marketing portfolio... toward buyer enablement"