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Do We Really Want Our Sales People To Be Value Creators?

Partners in Excellence

Too many organizations seem so focused on their own efficiency, mechanizing our process, and transactionalizing our engagement strategies. We are creating massive sales assembly lines optimizing the order taking process. At the time, many of us were alarmed with that statistic. We usually win on pricing.

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We Get Specialization Wrong!

Partners in Excellence

When I started selling, I had the responsibility for growing a very large banking account. So specialists in check processing helped customer re-engineer their processes. The customer has become almost irrelevant, instead, we have optimized roles for moving our customer through our sales assembly line.

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Are “Traditional” Selling Skills Even Relevant Anymore?

Partners in Excellence

Even concepts of insight based selling are repackaging of consultative, solution, customer focused selling programs of the 60s, 70s, 90s. Even concepts of insight based selling are repackaging of consultative, solution, customer focused selling programs of the 60s, 70s, 90s. But there are limitations to this.

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Rethinking The Sales And Marketing Organization

Partners in Excellence

” Sales picks up the process, SDRs call to qualify the opportunity, they hand the lead to an account manager who gets more information, the customer is handed over to a pre-sales person for a demo, then someone else try to close them. Likewise, sales shouldn’t be waiting for marketing to create awareness and demand.

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4 Key Components to a Winning Handoff Process for SaaS Companies

Sales Hacker

Isn’t it ultra-satisfying to watch a perfectly automated factory assembly line? Salespeople create relationships, but it has traditionally been up to the customer success or account management team to nurture them. What is the handoff process? Why is the handoff process important? See how smooth things are?

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No More Quotas, No More Commission: Sales Without SDRs

Sales Hacker

We’re also brought to you by Vidyard — the best way to sell in a virtual world, whether you need to connect with more leads, qualify more opportunities, or close more deals. Make prospecting videos, follow-ups, product demos, and other communications that drive virtual selling. Welcome to the Sales Hacker podcast.

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Relationships Matter–But What Does That Mean?

Partners in Excellence

Often, these are those with the assembly line version of selling, optimizing our process, treating the customer as a widget they move through the process—lead, SDR, Demo, Account Manager, Specialist, Customer Experience Team… The customer is an object upon which we execute our selling process, working the numbers.