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Digitalizing The Channel Partners In IT Industry

Digitalizing The Channel Partners In IT Industry

When face-to-face sales vanished, the IT industry turned crisis into opportunity. Discover how digital transformation, AI, and virtual experiences revolutionized channel partnerships and redefined customer engagement in the post-pandemic world.

December 5, 2022 8 min read IT
#digital transformation, IT industry
Digitalizing The Channel Partners In IT Industry

In every industry, specifically when it comes to sales, the first thing any salesperson starts with is a prospecting lead.

Prospecting Leads

The customers' buying behavior for products and services has constantly been evolving, especially after the pandemic. The traditional channel marketing or sales starts with meeting a prospecting customer, giving the product information, followed by a quotation, and then closing the deal. However, this has completely changed post-pandemic.

When the entire world was suffering from the lockdown, businesses were taking a huge hit because the physical proximity of the customers was missing. But thanks to Zoom, Teams, and other digital platforms, the industry could connect with their customers via phone calls and on a real-time basis, which we call a virtual mode.

While it has been observed that this pandemic caused havoc in certain industries such as automobile, hospitality, and aviation, to name a few, there was a silver lining for one such industry called information and technology. This industry has not only managed to survive the pandemic but also saved other businesses.

Despite this global crisis, theIT industryreached around 190 billion U.S. dollars in the year 2022-2021 globally, and it is expected to reach around 300…

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