2014 Hot List: What’s In and What’s Out in Sales
Click! Snap! Chat! Happy New Year! It’s time to update your new 2014 selfie–the real you. So stop pretending to pay attention and secretly leaning in to your zombie life and pick up the instruction manual for your real life–that starts now.
Our popular “What’s In and What’s Out in Sales” is now in its 11th year! And if you want to know how to best prepare your sales organization for 2014, download our Inside Sales 2014 Trends Report.
This year brings lots of surprises on every front – our 2014 Hotlist is loaded with style, entertainment, gossip, and prolific sales mental floss. So check where you might land on the hipness scale- enjoy!
| What’s OUT | What’s IN |
|---|---|
| Content | Context |
| Lean In | Listen In and Speak Out |
| Introverts vs. Extroverts | Judgers vs. Perceivers |
| Disrupting | Distilling |
| The America’s Cup | The World Cup |
| Happy Hours | Breakfast |
| Whinny Millennials | Your Invincibles |
| Tanking for the NBA draft | Scrambling to rebuild |
| Binge-watching | Fast-forwarding |
| SnapChat | |
| Winter Wonderland pop-up stores | Google’s floating barge showrooms |
| Shutting Down the Government | Going to National Parks |
| Pop-Rock | Pop-Country |
| CatTube | Catstagram |
| Pope Benedict | Pope Frances |
| Teenagers on Wrecking Balls | Over-60 Rock Stars |
| Jay Leno | Jimmy Fallon |
| Sideburns | Full Beards |
| Satellite Radio | Vinyl Records |
| Selfies | Service |
| Showing Off | Showing Up |
| Wallets | Mobile Payments |
| Yellow Cab | Uber |
| Retirement | Semi-retirement |
| Videos | Gifs |
| BYOB | BYOD |
| Gamification | Personal Coaching |
| Longevity | Singularity |
| Skeet Shooting | Drone Shooting |
| The movie “her” | The movie “him” |
| “Gravity” throwing us to Earth | “Interstellar” sending us to the stars |