Search Engine Land

MARCH 20, 2024

Customer-centric focus: Understanding and meeting consumer needs is paramount for position-less marketers who craft personalized messaging that resonates across various touchpoints. By automating these processes, marketers can focus on strategic decision-making and creative tasks rather than being tied down by specific job functions.

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Martech

MARCH 20, 2024

Customer-centric focus: Understanding and meeting consumer needs is paramount for position-less marketers who craft personalized messaging that resonates across various touchpoints. By automating these processes, marketers can focus on strategic decision-making and creative tasks rather than being tied down by specific job functions.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Outreach enables accurate sales forecasting, replaces manual processes with real-time guidance, and unlocks actionable customer intelligence to help you win more often. The second aspect of the predictive revenue model is the sales assembly line or seller specialization or sales handoffs , primarily the AE/CSM split.

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

We know they struggle to make sense of the conflicting information that deluges them through their buying process. While B2B buying is a group consensus process, the struggles buyers have are, more often, individual and personal. We focus on our success, failing to empathize with the customer and showing that we care.

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Hubspot

MAY 9, 2022

That starts with you being involved and thoughtful in the hiring process. The Assembly Line — a model where reps work on designated responsibilities, specific to a certain pipeline stage. And when that happens, make sure you help guide them through those processes without doing their jobs for them.

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Or, if we aren’t meeting our goals, targets, quotas. They recognize the real value in the organization has nothing to do with what they sell, or the tools, programs, processes, and so forth. Likewise customers are widgets in our sales assembly line.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 12, 2021

For years, the work of many revenue operations (RevOps) teams have largely been determined by immediate customer needs. 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.

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Heinz Marketing

APRIL 27, 2020

If instead you share with the seagulls where their project fits into the priority list and why, if they agree with the higher priorities, they generally fall in line. Better to create a strategic product marketing plan up front to ensure the development work (big and small) aligns strategically based on what your customers need.

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 6, 2017

I believe that selling is a disciplined process, that we can “engineer” those processes to increase our impact, customer engagement, and our effectiveness. I believe in sharp, rigorous execution of those processes in driving sales effectiveness and performance.

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Salesforce

AUGUST 20, 2021

Although many of us still think of robots on the assembly line as the typical agent of job displacement, AI has made advances in fields that many people never imagined were vulnerable to automation: Healthcare : Machine-learning algorithms can diagnose some types of cancer or perform common X-rays with better accuracy than human radiologists.

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Lead Fuze

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Size of customers. Need Help Automating Your Sales Prospecting Process? 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. Customer/account size. The Island.

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Martech

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

NYC & Co is now able to supply near real-time data about what visitors to the city do throughout their trip, providing its trade members with the ability to meet people where they are with the right messages. The result is a cookie-cutter, assembly line style of marketing that prioritizes measurement over customer needs.

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Martech

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Moving to a new vendor is a complex process. Managing the moving process can be an anxious time for the in-house team. Develop a custom migration plan. But imagine how confusing and overwhelming it would be if it were your first time! Companies aren’t trained to move the bulk of their email operations to a new provider.

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

This trend is, unfortunately, doing exactly the opposite of what our customers need and what enables us to create the greatest value with them. These are about the only things that customers value in their interaction with sales people. These are the things that only a sales person can do.

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SalesLoft

AUGUST 2, 2018

It could be an image of tiny robots completing sales tasks along an assembly line, or a computer spewing out countless emails day and night. Saving small chunks of time on sales tasks frees up more time for you to prospect and meet with customers. Scheduling Meetings. Taking Meeting Notes. Phone Dialing.

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Outreach

DECEMBER 26, 2018

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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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 9, 2019

For example, Business Development in a SaaS scaleup usually involves a lot of cold outreach to potential customers. In a big, multinational company, on the other hand, Business Development may do market analysis for new-market entry or a new line of products. . BDRs and SDRs work in different stages of the customer journey.

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Highspot

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Sales performance is affected by your enablement efforts, such as sales training or content management; sales productivity; your customer experience; your cross-functional alignment across sales and marketing team members; and your company culture. Personalization is key to buyer engagement — it’s also a frequently cumbersome process.

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Hubspot

JANUARY 31, 2018

My blog articles live forever, so while old-line salespeople are cold calling, my content is converting like an assembly line in a factory. Meeting in person was not only expensive, it was also a huge pain. In-person meetings are the most inefficient process imaginable. It’s about solving for the customer.

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

It’s somewhat ironic, many sales people love the job because of the freedom, the challenge of figuring things out, the creativity of engaging customers to help them recognize and solve their problems, and the rush of winning deals. Plus we are investing in tools, programs, processes, and training to help them become more productive.

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Highspot

MARCH 30, 2021

Sales performance is affected by your enablement efforts, such as sales training or content management; your customer experience; your cross-functional alignment; and your company culture. Together, these elements determine whether your reps have the training, context, and guidance they need to successfully engage customers.

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Objectives and Key Results Assembly Line Cross-sell Sales 69

Search Engine Land

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Marketing is just often seen as a cost center since we’re not directly bringing in revenue like sales or customer success,” Marcotullio said. Many organizations have turned their content operations into an assembly line, pumping out predictable, stable and utterly uninspired algorithm-pleasing content. Yes, tensions run high.

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Lead Fuze

JANUARY 2, 2024

Ever felt like you’re in a never-ending game of hide and seek with potential customers? Sure, the mechanics behind it might seem as intricate as clockwork—but don’t worry; we’ll break down how simple gears and sprockets turn strangers into paying customers. Ready to dive in?

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Partners in Excellence

MAY 15, 2017

” For the most part, the article was a tutorial on pipeline metrics and a diatribe against much of the quota setting process. Or is it fixing the process by which we establish goals? It does this through providing innovative products/services that it’s customers want to buy. But is the answer throwing these out?

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Spiro Technologies

JANUARY 18, 2023

There’s medical applications, there’s industrial applications, and so we have customers in a wide range of fields that rely on our machines every day. We have machines that are entry-level machines where customers transition from one type of packaging to our type of packaging. How big are they? Is that the kind of output?

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SBI

JULY 9, 2013

Ford had 3 principles for eliminating waste in the assembly process: 1) Place the tools and the men in the sequence of the operation so that each component part shall travel the least possible distance while in the process of finishing. And prospect interactions do not occur continuously during the production process.

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PandaDoc

OCTOBER 14, 2020

The Request For Proposal (RFP) process is broken, flawed, and disorganized. When you’re down in the weeds, entangled in the messy process, it can be hard to figure out how to make improvements. If you were to time your RFP creation process, how much time gets sunk into each one? Luckily, technology is our saving grace.

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Hubspot

JULY 18, 2016

Its narrow offerings were all produced in an assembly-line-style system. It wasn’t the quality of the fries and the burgers that made McDonald's valuable; it was the system and processes they had created. These systems should be driven by standardized individual processes. A customer calls to complain. Die by them.

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Hubspot

MAY 29, 2014

Every step in the process of getting food to the consumer and creating a pleasant experience involves operational planning. In order to do this, the staff needs to know where to be, what to do, and how long to take during each step of the assembly line. Organizational Structure. Three Lenses.

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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 4, 2016

I believe selling is a set of disciplined processes, many of which can be “engineered” to optimize our ability to engage the right customers/prospects, with the right conversations, at the right time. Even to the point that some commoditized or repeat buys are completely automated on the customer and supplier sides.

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Highspot

JULY 31, 2020

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. Prepares sellers for customer engagements via training and onboarding activities. The Assembly Line.

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Each of our customers’ strategies, goals, priorities, culture, and values are different. We take them through the same standard “handling” as we engage them and move them through our selling process (forget they have their own buying processes and they struggle with it.). We have the follow on meeting.

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Highspot

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

3 Components of S&OP Why a Well-Executed S&OP Matters for Every Business Top Benefits of S&OP S&OP Maturity S&OP Process S&OP Tips and Best Practices Debunking Misconceptions About S&OP Common S&OP Problems and How to Overcome Them Measuring the Success of S&OP What Is Sales and Operations Planning?

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