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We Get Specialization Wrong!

Partners in Excellence

My earliest experience of specialization was product/solution focused specialists. When I started selling, I had the responsibility for growing a very large banking account. While I had good knowledge of the customer and good knowledge of our core products, I wouldn’t have been successful without the help of specialists.

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

Partners in Excellence

We are creating massive sales assembly lines optimizing the order taking process. We differentiate our offerings through nuances of product differences, hoping we can make one feature/function important to the customer, but mostly we win through pricing. Rather than becoming value creators, we are becoming order takers.

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No More Quotas, No More Commission: Sales Without SDRs

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The Problem With Efficiency

Partners in Excellence

We design our organizations to be lean mean selling machines. Prospectors prospect, account managers account manage, product line specialists are expert in their product lines, and on and on… Each role is precisely defined, we have the metrics to by which we constantly measure performance.

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

Partners in Excellence

I read an article in which the position was put forth, “Inside sales does not have the responsibility for creating pipeline, only the responsibility for selling. But for a moment, I managed to contain myself. The speaker was clearly smart and had been very successful in selling, perhaps there was something I misunderstood.

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Selling Would Be So Easy If It Weren’t For Those Damn Customers!

Partners in Excellence

The focus in much of our discussions on selling is about us–sales people. We see discussions focused on increasing specialization in sales–actually adaptations of the Toyota Production System. I sit through entire presentations on new trends in selling, where the word customer or buyer may never be mentioned.