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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. As a side note, manufacturing experts would be appalled looking at the design of our sales assembly lines.

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Do You Genuinely Care About….”

Partners in Excellence

Do you genuinely care about the people you are prospecting? One of my favorite questions when a seller is talking, with great confidence, about a target close date is, “What happens to them if they don’t make a decision by that date?” Those assembly lines are failing! I see this in deal reviews.

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“Why I’m So Interested In Selling,” Don Mulhern

Partners in Excellence

You are on the front line, making things happen. You initiate the work: securing meetings, creating opportunities with prospects and clients, and closing deals that produce revenue for your company (and income for you). It affords a great deal of freedom along with direct accountability. There is direct reward for your success.

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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. Where do I begin, there is so much wrong with this prospecting attempt? He’s granted Don the permission to accept further prospecting from his team. Onward, [Carl].

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

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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?

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A Script Isn’t A Call Plan!

Partners in Excellence

” Second, the script focuses on what we want to talk about, and the things we need to move the customer to the next station on our sales assembly line. As a not so extreme example, too often I see sellers trying to close the deal and the customer may still be very early in their discovery process.

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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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