Remove Assembly Line Remove Closing Remove Pipeline
article thumbnail

Sales Role Specialization

Partners in Excellence

This assembly line process starts with a widget (let’s call them customers), being passed from person to person down the line until they come out closed or on the reject (loss) pile. If we aren’t making the number we just crank up the volume, feeding more leads into the top of the pipeline.

article thumbnail

What Is Business Development? (And Why It’s Vital to Sales Success)

Sales Hacker

And, even better, he managed to go beyond the target by closing a €350K deal. As it turns out, the CEO was disappointed with these results because only one deal was closed. For example, leadership might think a new business developer will close deals in a very short amount of time. It’s like an assembly line. .

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

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.

Sell 116
article thumbnail

The GTM Learning Loop: How to Optimize Your Funnel with Applied Learning

InsightSquared

Adopted by Japanese manufacturing companies after World War II as a way to reduce waste and create competitive advantage, kaizen evolved beyond the assembly line in manufacturing to all business processes and became the precursor to lean manufacturing. Start with just a simple review of closed-won deals by a lead source.

GTM 73
article thumbnail

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

Highspot

In order for salespeople to effectively close deals, they need to focus on sales-critical activities. Engages with buyers in order to close deals and generate revenue. There are three main models for sales teams: the assembly line, the pod, and the island. The Assembly Line. What Does a Sales Department Do?

article thumbnail

Pleeaaasse…. Can I Be Selected To Give You My Money….

Partners in Excellence

A close friend–a consultant who is one of the best sales experts I’ve met forwarded me a prospecting letter he received. Ben] “green-lighted” me to offer you a free 1-on-1 analysis of your current sales development pipeline. Looks like Don is just another widget on their sales assembly line.

article thumbnail

Customers Aren’t Widgets

Partners in Excellence

Disciplined inbound/outbound programs, SDRs to AE to Demo to someone else to Proposal to Close to Customer Success Teams. One begins to see images of assembly lines with customers on a conveyor belt moving from station to station. Rather than objects going down the assembly line with each station doing it’s function (e.g.