The automation playbook that gave me back my weekends—and my sanity The Breaking Point Picture this: It's 9 PM on a Thursday. I'm sitting in my car outside a dealer's office, laptop balanced on the steering wheel, frantically copy-pasting SKU numbers into a quote template. My phone's buzzing with texts from three different reps who need spec sheets "ASAP." My dinner? A cold protein bar I found in my glove compartment from... Tuesday? Maybe Monday? That was my life in foodservice sales. Every. Single. Day. If you're reading this between follow-up emails or while waiting for a manufacturer to call you back, I see you. You're not lazy. You're not inefficient. You're just buried under systems that were built for a different era—when "urgent" meant next week, not the next ten minutes. But here's what changed everything for me: I stopped trying to work harder and started working smarter. The foodservice industry is experiencing a ma...
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