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

Partners in Excellence

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). Whether it’s territory planning, account planning, deal planning or sales call planning, YOU create the strategies and the plan.

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

Highspot

How you organize your sales team will be determined by the regions you serve, the number of products and services you offer, the size of your sales team, and the size and industry of your customers. In order for salespeople to effectively close deals, they need to focus on sales-critical activities. The Assembly Line.

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How to Make a Winning Sales Organization Structure

Lead Fuze

When you’re setting up a sales team, it’s important to consider factors such as: Regions served. The Assembly Line. In the assembly line model, leads are handed off between specialized teams to make sure that they move through all of the stages in a sales cycle. Product/service line.

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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.

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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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Optimizing Part Of The Selling Function, Sub-Optimizing The Whole

Partners in Excellence

Where product lines are very diverse, with different and unrelated buyers within the account, this issue may not be important (But I’m still driven by my mantra, “It’s our God-given right to 100% share of customer and territory…”). Enter the realm of account management/territory.

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3 Proactive Revenue Operations Projects That Deliver Value

Sales Hacker

As sales, marketing, and customer success teams work more closely together, RevOps has the opportunity to foster a future-focused atmosphere that encourages proactive problem solving. Sales hates that RFPs represent a roadblock to closing the deal. In many organizations, the customer journey looks like an assembly line.