What is sales automation?
Sales automation is software that removes manual, repetitive work from the sales process: email sequencing, meeting scheduling, follow-up reminders, data entry into CRM, deal-stage progression, quote generation. Modern sales automation platforms (Outreach, Salesloft, Apollo, HubSpot Sales Hub) combine sequencing, dialing, and analytics into one workflow. The point isn't replacing salespeople. It is freeing them from tasks that don't require judgment so they spend more time on tasks that do.
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