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By
Jeffrey Hansler, CSP

The
world is rapidly becoming a global economy where past
limitations due to barriers, delivery, and politics are
being swept away. The result is a wide choice of
products and services for businesses and individuals and
fierce competition for their attention.

Reacting
to the economic pressures created by this competition,
companies are downsizing, removing promises of security and
scrutinizing employee contribution. Thank goodness,
you're in sales and marketing. . . . if you're good.
Marketing and selling is becoming even more crucial to the
success of companies.

Rather
than resist these changes, successful sales and marketing
executives will utilize technology to further improve record
keeping, data retrieval, and documentation of customer's
wants and needs. These same executives will devote
more of their time and attention to understanding these
needs. Their companies will then tailor products to
address their customer’s desires, thus creating specific
markets that spawn new career opportunities for successful
sales and marketing executives.

When
it comes to creating a successful career for sales and
marketing executives, now and in the future, the key will be
to focus on listening and responding to the customer.
Focusing on the customer will keep the sales and marketing
executive in tune with 1) career opportunities, 2)
return-on-investment, and 3) quality of life.

THE
OPPORTUNITIES

The
ability exists today to verify the results of each effort to
gain customers. If you are willing to measure and develop a
successful track record, you will have more opportunity and
more resources than you've ever had before. Better
data, statistic