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Furthermore, the Sales Coaching System is a subset of the SalesManagement System. So are Buyer Engagement Content, Sales Process, Sales Methodology, Technology & Tools, and SalesAnalytics & Metrics. SalesManagement System [Click the image to view a larger version.]
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Why cannot your AI sales software do that? AI experts often frame this limitation as rule-based salesanalytics versus machine learning. We will discuss in this article, what is a rule-based system and will briefly compare it with a machine learning software for sales. Let us begin then with the comparison.
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He hired Walter Göttinger as Head of E-Commerce Sales; Stephan Wild as Sales Director Europe; Patrick Saigal as Purchasing and Product Manager; Siegfried Hakelberg as a general manager. Hakelberg, a trained mechanical engineer, became the national salesmanager. We stopped following up a few weeks later.
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