Hewlett-Packard recently shifted its entire U. S. sales force into home offices and saved $10 million in staff salaries and office rent despite spending $8,000 to equip each home office with a notebook computer, fax/copier, cellular phone, two phone lines, and office furniture. Such decreased selling costs are among the benefits of

Sales force automation

Explanation:

Sales force automation can be defined as the software applications that are used for sales management by creating automated sales and sales process, team performance and sales forecast.

From the above question, setting up each house of employees to include computer, 2 phone lines, office furniture, etc to help them have an automated process to either compare staff performances as well other sales automation processes.

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1   all nations face the problem of scarcity because there are limited resources and unlimited wants. nations do not have enough factors of production to produce everything that their population wants. entrepreneurial resources initiate businesses to make new goods and services; labor resources produce goods and services.

2 there are four factors of production: natural resources, labor resources, capital resources, and entrepreneurial resources. natural resources are raw materials from nature that are used to produce goods. trees, water, and grains are natural resources. some natural resources, such as wheat and cattle, are renewable

3 wants

things that you do not need to have in order to survive, but would like to have

needs

things that you must have in order to survive

goods

physical products

services

tasks that a business perform for customers

resources

items that people can use to make or obtain what they need or want

determine

to settle or decide by choice of alternatives or possiblities

4 i really dont know