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We Get Specialization Wrong!

Partners in Excellence

As an account manager, much of my time was spent in identifying new opportunities to engage specialists to work with my customer, growing our value and share of customer. The customer has become almost irrelevant, instead, we have optimized roles for moving our customer through our sales assembly line.

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No More Quotas, No More Commission: Sales Without SDRs

Sales Hacker

Their growth is worse off for it. The elements within those companies, within their marketing and sales, that aren’t predictable revenue models, is what drives their better aspects of their growth. Those two aspects, prospecting/SDRs and the sales assembly line are the two key aspects that I challenge.

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How to Make a Winning Sales Organization Structure

Lead Fuze

With the role of HR Manager. The Assembly Line. In the assembly line model, leads are handed off between specialized teams to make sure that they move through all of the stages in a sales cycle. For this model to work, the company needs a higher volume of deals in order for it to have an effect on growth.

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Are “Traditional” Selling Skills Even Relevant Anymore?

Partners in Excellence

This has a number of advantages, skill levels don’t need to be as high, we can leverage role specialization more effectively (creating sales assembly lines with customer widgets passing through each station), and we can effectively leverage all the traditional selling skills.

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Optimizing Part Of The Selling Function, Sub-Optimizing The Whole

Partners in Excellence

We’ve long had product line specialists, organizations where sales is oriented around different product lines, each sales team responsible for the sale of a specific product line. A terrific strategy for driving product line growth. Enter the realm of account management/territory.

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Sales Organization Structures for Success: Models, Tips, and Best Practices

Highspot

There are three main models for sales teams: the assembly line, the pod, and the island. The Assembly Line. In the assembly line model, also known as the hunter-farmer model, sales teams are organized based on each individual’s job title. What Are the Types of Sales Organizations? Customer Size.

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7 Steps to Creating an Operating System for Your Agency

Hubspot

Its narrow offerings were all produced in an assembly-line-style system. If processes only exist in your head and in the minds of your team members, then business growth is capped by your team’s existing capacity. When Ray Kroc walked into the McDonald brothers’ restaurant in San Bernardino, California, he was blown away.