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Moncrief, William C., Marshall, Greg W. and Rudd, John M. (2015) Social media and related technology : drivers of change in managing the contemporary sales force. Business Horizons, 58 (1). pp. 45-55. doi:10.1016/j.bushor.2014.09.009 ISSN 0007-6813.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bushor.2014.09.009
Abstract
The selling environment has undergone tremendous transformation over the past 2 decades. Perhaps the greatest change has centered on changes and advancements in technology. The latest dramatic change has been the rapidly increasing use of social media and other related technologies in the business-to-business realm. The sales world began the use of technology through the use of Web 1.0, which was primarily webpage oriented; now we see the world of social media as the paradigm of how firms should implement technology. Although there has been some recent emphasis on how marketing might implement social media into their strategies and how the individual salesperson might implement social media into his or her daily selling routine, no substantive discussion on how social media is affecting the role of the sales manager has appeared in the literature. This article systematically examines how social media is impacting the sales management function and, in fact, may be dramatically revolutionizing the position. To help the marketing and sales organization better understand the changing sales world, we present eight lessons that every sales manager needs to embrace.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Marketing Group Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School |
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Journal or Publication Title: | Business Horizons | ||||||
Publisher: | Elsevier Inc. | ||||||
ISSN: | 0007-6813 | ||||||
Official Date: | January 2015 | ||||||
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Volume: | 58 | ||||||
Number: | 1 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 45-55 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1016/j.bushor.2014.09.009 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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