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Welcome, Gen A: The Age of Automation for Sales and Marketing is Here

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A Lack of Training. On the face of it, it does seem that the [B2B] industry doesn’t move at the pace that it should in adopting technology,” says Aditya Gupta, assistant professor of marketing at Texas State University and a former product development leader at IT and telecommunications firms.

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How Sales Reps Are Hitting Quotas Without Hitting the Streets

Sales and Marketing Management

One major telecommunications provider in Scandinavia, for example, has migrated B2B sales to virtual channels, using marketing automation to create leads and installing an online self-service portal. Virtual channels can raise productivity and lower selling costs, due to less time and expense for travel.

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Value-Added Services Can Provide a Pricing Advantage

Distribution Pricing Journal

The examples of value-added services in this article are from a variety of industries. Some common examples of product bundling in distribution might include: Hardware Tools : Hardware distributors might bundle power tools together. For example, a DeWalt power drill could be bundled with a set of DeWalt drill bits.

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The Age of Automation for Sales and Marketing is Here

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Training wasn’t as immersive as it needed to be, either, says Gupta, who recently co-authored a research paper on this topic for the Journal of Business Research. For example, technical operations such as automation function within sales and marketing instead of being segregated to IT or engineering departments.

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Thanks For Training Me Not To Answer My Phone!

Partners in Excellence

While it is an unintended consequence (in fact quite the opposite of what people are trying to achieve), what this kind of marketing is doing is training customers not to answer their phones. Sloppy marketing and sales “trains” customers to respond in exactly the opposite way they intend for customers to respond.

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All Sectors Are at Risk as Cyber Threats Expand Targeting

Pipeliner

However, the situation is changing, and researchers have found that security service providers, the automotive industry, various manufacturing industries, telecommunications companies, and governments are now suffering from ransomware. This way, for example, communications cannot be intercepted. Training employees is very important.

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What We’ve Learned Supporting Telecom Sales Teams

Janek Performance Group

In the 1990s, I started my sales career selling telecom for one of the largest privately held telecommunications companies in North America. They provide examples of how it is happening now and what the risk is of doing nothing. To be effective, they had to train their sales reps to sell multiple services, deepening the relationship.