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Sales And The Zombie Apocalypse

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Recently, I was having a conversation with Robert Racine about the state of sales management. During the discussion, he mentioned, almost in passing, that too many Sales Managers are becoming Zombies–that is acting purely on autopilot, rather than thinking, evaluating, engaging. But something has changed in selling.

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Automation: Are We Empowering Human Interaction Or Displacing It?

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The sales and marketing technology along with the social networking/selling technologies represent a huge amount of the changes that are driving sales and marketing. Sales and marketing performance is flat or declining. They enable us to extend our reach, beyond our local geographies to the global community.