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2015 hotlist2015 Hot List: What’s In and What’s Out in Sales

Greetings from the Smart Selling universe! Our drones have instructed you to “let it go” when it comes to data fatigue, unavailable prospects and recreating the narrative for the 18th time. Let’s calendar in more Giving Days this year, promise not to fall asleep at the wheel of our self-driving cars, or self-dialing phones and have more conversations with HUMANS and not wearables this year.

Our popular “What’s In and What’s Out in Sales” is now in its 12th year! And if you want to know how to best prepare your sales organization for 2015, download our Inside Sales 2015 Trends Report.

This year brings lots of surprises on every front – our 2015 Hotlist is loaded with tech trends, style, entertainment, and sales tips. So check where you might land on the hipness scale- enjoy!

 

What’s OUT What’s IN
Email Phone calls
Red Bull Premium milk
FitBit Apple Watch
Swiping Right Saying Hello
Adults reading young books Judy Blume for adults
Binge-watching TV shows Binge-listening to Podcasts (Serial)
Conscious uncoupling Unintentionally staying togethe
Lumbersexuals Urban nomads
Hashtag-activism T-shirt advocacy
Prematurely promoting managers Team leads and coaches
Quitting your job Following a strategic career trajectory
Selfies Narcissistick (Selfies on a stick)
Tools Hybrid clouds
Naturally thin Fitness cults
Passwords Fingerprints
CTO’s CMO’s
Big Data Hadoo
The AKL Ice Bucket Challenge GoFundMe.com
Ready for Hilary Ready for Bernie
Cupcakes Ice cream sandwiches
Juice cleanses Solid food
FOMO Be here now
No-Po’s Millennials with SERIOUS spending power
Uber Bike Rental Stations
Disrupting Delighting
Black Friday Twitter Wednesday
Stock Photos GIFS
Changing the narrative Sticking with the facts
Wi-Fi, Bluetooth IoT (The Internet of Things)
Social Selling experts who don’t know sales Smart #Women in Sales
Talking-Head Sales Training Learning the FUN ways from your peer

Previous Years’ Hot Lists:

  • 2014 Hot List
  • 2013 Hot List
  • 2012 Hot List
  • 2011 Hot List
  • 2010 Hot List
  • 2009 Hot List
  • 2008 Hot List
  • 2007 Hot List
  • 2006 Hot List
  • 2005 Hot List
  • 2004 Hot List

2015 Offerings

TeleSmart provides a wide assortment of service offerings, from on-site training to virtual webinars. Our training is uber focused for inside sales—combining phone, online, and sales and social tools productivity. If you would like to invite Josiane to speak at your next sales conference, popular topics include: inside sales 2.0 trends, managing millennials and smart selling to the right people.

Josiane’s Book #3 will be published in 2016. Josiane is conducting interviews and collecting stories from salespeople and sales managers who have wasted way too much time with powerless (No-Po’s). This is your chance to also be featured in the upcoming book. Contact Josiane @ getsmart.com for more info.

 

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