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Responding to the Digital Sales Shift

Sales and Marketing Management

A Sales Benchmark Index survey from 2017 reported that in nearly 75% of sales situations, customers prefer not to meet in person. Scott McCartney, who covers air travel for The Wall Street Journal, worked with three airline industry analysts to determine the long-term impact of COVID-19 on business travel.

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Insights on Outbound Conference in Atlanta

Pointclear

On April 13, 2017, I attended the #OutBound conference in Atlanta, GA. I travel a ton, and the Southwest Airlines 737 feels like my personal Sales Force One.” Remarkably, despite the road destruction in downtown Atlanta, everyone got there on time – about 400 attendees. The coffee was hot and the lunch was great. Simplified. ”

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Responding to the Dig?tal Sales Shift

Sales and Marketing Management

A Sales Benchmark Index survey from 2017 reported that in nearly 75% of sales situations, customers prefer not to meet in person. Scott McCartney, who covers air travel for The Wall Street Journal, worked with three airline industry analysts to determine the long-term impact of COVID-19 on business travel.

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AI is Digital. Humans are Analog.

Altify

In 2017, VC investment in AI doubled to US$12 billion. The size of the aircraft becomes a problem when airline overbooks the flight. The airline had overbooked the flight and the attendant at the check in desk had to ask for volunteers to take a later flight. The essence of being human matters. Tech giants are spending big.

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PODCAST 123: How to Go From a Transactional Model to a Subscription Model with Brandon Meyers

Sales Hacker

One, we’ve got first party relationships with a number of enterprises like Marriott, United, American Airlines. Saw myself entering into the buy side, so was on the marketing side working for Southwest Airlines Vacations at the time. So what do we do, right? And so I moved down there, I had an interview lined up.

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PODCAST 54: How to Pick Your Next Company to Build a Great Career w/Nick Worswick from WeWork

Sales Hacker

billion run rate, which was 100% growth year over year from 2017. Priceline at the time was very well known for its airline ticket business, and we were trying to extend that platform into other verticals, so I was part of a very small group of people. Sam Jacobs : Tell us a little bit about the company. We exited last year on a $2.5

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PODCAST 93: The Journey from 2x Founder to VC with Angus Davis

Sales Hacker

We started working with airlines, banks, Fortune 500 type companies that get a huge number of telephone calls, to help them replace their traditional and pretty annoying touch-tone systems with ones that used speech recognition instead. We were going to offer a free toll-free number where you could call up like Yahoo but for the phone.

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