[Franklin]

Karen,

It's why those of us that practice true "business development" will never be replaced by a robot or a little girl in a call center in India.

There are certain tasks that automation will never replace, like human relationships, but there are plenty of grunt actions, like manually dialing a phone, or counting numbers and data points, that a robot can easily replace and do more efficiently than a human with feelings and emotions that deals with boredom and de-motivation.

Even if a robot can generate 1 qualified app from 1500 phone calls, they can do it in under an hour, and for less than $30.

If you paid a telemarketer $12 an hour, they would take a whole day to generate 1 - 2 apps from the yellow pages (if we say 1.5 apps, that would be $96 for the day, or about $64 per app out). A robot is cheaper, faster, doesn't complain, doesn't take bathroom or smoke breaks, doesn't burn out, and if you tell it to triple it's production, you don't need to say one word, just give him a slap in the head (or move the slider on it's interface a little to the right).