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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.