{"id":498,"date":"2025-05-07T14:26:57","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T14:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coclea.org\/?p=498"},"modified":"2025-06-25T15:59:32","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T15:59:32","slug":"why-replacing-human-salespeople-with-ai-is-a-mistake-for-b2b-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.coclea.org\/index.php\/2025\/05\/07\/why-replacing-human-salespeople-with-ai-is-a-mistake-for-b2b-companies\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Replacing Human Salespeople with AI Is a Mistake for B2B Companies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"hs-featured-image-wrapper\">\n <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesalesblog.com\/blog\/why-replacing-human-salespeople-with-ai-is-a-mistake-for-b2b-companies\" title=\"\" class=\"hs-featured-image-link\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"Why Replacing Human Salespeople with AI Is a Mistake for B2B Companies\" class=\"hs-featured-image lazyload\" style=\"width:auto !important;max-width:50%;float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.coclea.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/ai-human-salespeople.jpg\"> <\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>AI can mimic voices, take orders, and even argue it&#8217;s human\u2014but it still can&#8217;t build trust the way a real person can.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" style=\"min-height:1px!important;width:1px!important;border-width:0!important;margin-top:0!important;margin-bottom:0!important;margin-right:0!important;margin-left:0!important;padding-top:0!important;padding-bottom:0!important;padding-right:0!important;padding-left:0!important\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/track.hubspot.com\/__ptq.gif?a=2922376&amp;k=14&amp;r=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thesalesblog.com%2Fblog%2Fwhy-replacing-human-salespeople-with-ai-is-a-mistake-for-b2b-companies&amp;bu=https%253A%252F%252Fwww.thesalesblog.com%252Fblog&amp;bvt=rss\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI can mimic voices, take orders, and even argue it&#8217;s human\u2014but it still can&#8217;t build trust the way a real person can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":500,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coclea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coclea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coclea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coclea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coclea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.coclea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":501,"href":"http:\/\/www.coclea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions\/501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coclea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coclea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coclea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coclea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}