Optimizing Sales Technology for Success

Authors

  • Palak Vadodaria LJ University
  • Jaimal Modi LJ University
  • Jignesh Vidani LJ University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.59890/ijssi.v3i1.2944

Keywords:

Sales, Technology

Abstract

Companies make investments billions of greenbacks in income technology (STs) (e.g., client relationship management, income automation tools) to enhance income pressure effectiveness and efficiency. but, the consequences predicted from ST investments are often not done. this text proposes courting-forging tasks that are vital to the link among ST use and key factors of salesclerk overall performance (i.e., a salesclerk’s relationship-constructing performance with customers and administrative performance). The authors examine dating-forging duties inside the context of a version that considers the antecedents and effects of 3 one-of-a-kind makes use of of ST: gaining access to, analyzing, and communicating data. In wellknown, the effects of a area take a look at, that is analyzed the use of block-recursive structural equation modeling, assist the relationship-forging principle and show that courting-forging tasks predict 57% of the variance in a salesclerk’s dating-constructing overall performance with clients. The findings also aid hypotheses that the use of ST both to analyze or to speak facts has mediated effective results on a salesperson’s courting-constructing overall performance with clients. but, a shop clerk’s use of ST to analyze information has poor affects on administrative performance, creating an unexpected alternate-off for sales and marketing managers. Let me know if you need any modifications

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Published

2025-04-08

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Palak Vadodaria, Jaimal Modi, & Jignesh Vidani. (2025). Optimizing Sales Technology for Success. International Journal of Social Science and Innovation (IJSSI), 3(1), 11–24. https://doi.org/10.59890/ijssi.v3i1.2944

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