Over the last few years the UK tech sector has whetted strong investor appetite and has attracted all kinds of service providers who want to seize a piece of the pie from the booming community.
The Silicon Valley-based tech campus RocketSpacehas housed unicorns like Uber, Spotify, Hootsuite and Supercell and recognises now as the right time to give further momentum to British tech growth by opening a ‘state-of-the-art’ campus in London.
Now there will be some eagle eyed of you out there who will not miss the irony of this post, not only am I Southern but I am also a sales person and ex promotions manager. Due to my professional background I have spent the majority of my adult life glued to some form of communication device or social media. Far from being a technophobe I am an advocate for technological advancement and feel when used correctly social media can be an insanely powerful tool.
A lot of entrepreneurs have flourished on the back of giants like Xero, Sage, FreeAgent and Quick Books, opening up their software to cloud adopters through Add-On marketplaces. The logic is sound, thousands of Accountancy Software customers are ready and waiting for Add-On’s to help their business grow with seamless integration to their finances.
Selling is social. It always has been, it always will be. But the way we do sales has changed.
In 2010, the first work-based BA (Hons) Sales degree was co-created by Anglia Ruskin University in close collaboration with the iconic luxury retailer Harrods.