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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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The Problem With Efficiency

Partners in Excellence

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. They go from being MQLs to SQLs to qualified opportunities.

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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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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? The Island.

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Who Owns The Customer Relationship?

Partners in Excellence

It almost seems that we have an assembly line that we pass our customers along—we try to attract attention, building a relationship through our digital presence–web sites, blogs, other materials. We complement that with the right content, theoretically nurturing the prospect to a certain “score.”

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

Partners in Excellence

They should never pick up the phone and make a prospecting call!” But for a moment, I managed to contain myself. Enter the realm of account management/territory. We’ve sliced and diced the sales process, getting people expert at one thing–prospecting, qualifying, discovering, proposing, closing.

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How to Make a Winning Sales Organization Structure

Lead Fuze

Need Help Automating Your Sales Prospecting Process? 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. The Pod is a combination of the Island and Assembly models. Size of your sales team.