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Happy New Year! Welcome to our annual and popular list of What’s OUT and What’s IN for 2012. This list is loaded with style, sports, politics, entertainment, gossip — and, oh yeah, sales stuff.

And speaking of sales stuff… Inside Sales is occupying the hot job market, with teams bulking up faster than field sales. What trends will be important this year?
Download our 12 in 2012 Smart Inside Sales Trends and find out.

What’s Out What’s In
Traveling solo Traveling social
Hoarding Cleaning
Apps Naps
Sales managers who “carried a bag” Sales managers who carry an iPad
Ryan Gosling Michael Fassbender
Groupon Coupons
Euro Drachmas, lira, pesos
Geographically aligned territories Working remotely and managing multiple time zones
Instagram Gold-Edition Polaroid
Google+ Pinterest
Klout Clout
Metrics that measure talk time Metrics that measure social time
Words with Friends Scrabble (with neighbors)
Humans Japanese Robots
Books on Kindle Books on Mobile
Tolerant customers Customers that are Mad as Hell
Occupying public parks Occupying your office
Writing checks and balancing checkbooks Google wallet
Skyping from home Facetime
Houses Van Dwelling
Michael Phelps Missy Franklin
#SWAG #PLUR
Off-site corporate retreats Yoga retreats
Tweeting privates Private tweets
Reagan Thatcher
Planking Hiding
iTunes Spotify

 

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
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