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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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We Get Specialization Wrong!

Partners in Excellence

When I started selling, I had the responsibility for growing a very large banking account. 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 post We Get Specialization Wrong! When Less Is More!

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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 nurture them until they have done much of the work, then we engage them running them through our sales assembly line of qualifying, demoing, pitching, proposing, closing. At the same time, we see data that is alarming.

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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.

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No More Quotas, No More Commission: Sales Without SDRs

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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.

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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.