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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. , we caught ’em, you skin ’em.”

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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

And, there’s always endless product training (actually most of sales training ends up not being selling skills, but instead product training.). Critical thinking, problem solving, collaboration, project management, curiosity, facilitation, business management/analysis, dealing with risk/uncertainty/ambiguity and so forth.

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Sales Organization Structures for Success: Models, Tips, and Best Practices

Highspot

Proactively thinking through how and why your sales organization is set up a certain way ensures that you are not only making strategic hiring decisions but that you’re putting your reps in position to thrive. Sales organization structure is important as it sets sellers up for success. The Assembly Line.

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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. Let’s start with a no-brainer. See how smooth things are? There’s no friction whatsoever.

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

Partners in Excellence

We have highly focused roles, each role focuses on it’s job in the sales process, once complete, the widget–I mean customer, is passed to the next function, then the next, then the next… on down the sales assembly line. Related Posts: Wake Up! The Paradigm Has Shifted!

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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. But as buying teams start to overlap, this issue becomes critical. Enter the realm of account management/territory. The concept of “team selling” arose. Quality became an issue.

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