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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. This is so much simpler and more efficient for us.

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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. Except our assembly line/linear customer engagement model doesn’t reflect how our customers buy.

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No More Quotas, No More Commission: Sales Without SDRs

Sales Hacker

We’re also brought to you by Vidyard — the best way to sell in a virtual world, whether you need to connect with more leads, qualify more opportunities, or close more deals. That’s where I present an alternative, which is the buyer centric revenue model. It’s something almost close to 40%.

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Sales Talent Is A Problem, Is It Worth Solving?

Partners in Excellence

A closed mindset would probably say, “No!” ” The article presents a few points of view that reinforce that. People with closed mindsets would tend to address things from an internal orientation. I suppose answers to the question depend on your mindset. But one AI vendor has the data supporting this.

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The Top 10 Sales Engagement Articles in 2018

Outreach

Read his inaugural blog post - the first in a 3-part series - for new skills that will help you become better on the phone with customers or prospects, presenting ideas, or even interacting with others in the workplace. How I Built an SDR Assembly Line with Outreach and Doubled my Team’s Output.

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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 may get smarter as they go through our and our competitors assembly lines.

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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? They can be included in the early calls from time to time, and as the sales team nears the end of their part of the process, the CS team could be more and more present to understand the motives of the customer. See how smooth things are?

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