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6 Reasons Why Technology Won’t Kill B2B Salespeople

YoungUpstarts

A new report from Forrester Research called “Death of a B2B Salesman,” predicts that one million U.S. B2B salespeople will lose their jobs to self-service e-commerce by 2020. I’ve seen first-hand the growth in the B2B sales industry. Here are 6 reasons why technology will not represent the death of the B2B salesperson: 1.

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Mobile Payments: The Trillion Dollar Industry That's Never - AgileVC

Agile VC

Virtually every mobile payments system in the developed world (see note #3) just piggybacks off the credit card system. Systems like M-Pesa (see note #3 below) took off because in developing nations prepaid wireless minutes were a parallel currency, fungible for real money.

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