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. Much of this seems to be a R 3.0

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 18, 2017

We have highly focused roles, each role focuses on it’s job in the sales process, once complete, the widget–I mean customer, is passed to the next function, then the next, then the next… on down the sales assembly line. Ironically, customers are the sole reason for sales people to exist!

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 9, 2020

The buying process is messy, a characteristic of intensely human interaction. We map the buying process, ending up with something that resembles Gartner’s famous “spaghetti” charts. Buying can be confusing–both in managing the internal buying process, but in, also, in assessing the alternative solutions.

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Assembly Line Sell High impact Up-sell 84

ClickFunnels

JUNE 18, 2021

Middle of the sales funnel (MoFu): Potential customers. Bottom of the sales funnel (BoFu): New and existing customers. You offer the potential customer a freebie known as a lead magnet in exchange for their email address. You offer the potential customer your least expensive and least valuable product. Create SEO Content.

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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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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 31, 2017

Each step of our sales process is optimized to maximize the results our sales people get. We recognize different skills and capabilities are needed in different stages of the sales process. We start feeding customers through our process, moving them from person to person. ” But we persist, as do our customers.

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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. In many instances, it’s still seen as a creative support function to sales, not as a function that has bottom-line impacts.” said Brooke Duffy , a fractional CRO for B2B SaaS. Duffy said.

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Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 9, 2018

Their approach is to exploit the “relationship,” but not the value they create in helping the customer achieve their goals. Neither of those extremes is about relationships, neither of these extremes understands the importance of relationships with our customers. Andy poses that relationships are about “connection.”

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Assembly Line Account management Gaming Sell 88

Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 13, 2021

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. Look At Our Dashboards" Is Your Customer Prepared For This Meeting? The post The Problem With The Data….

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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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Martech

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

DDA works by looking at all the touchpoints, like clicks and video engagements, on your Search (including Shopping), YouTube and Display ads in Google Ads to compare the paths of customers who converted with ones who didn’t. The result is a cookie-cutter, assembly line style of marketing that prioritizes measurement over customer needs.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 17, 2021

Getting past the first stage of revenue growth and building an initial customer base is the easy part, but what happens when you hit a revenue plateau and can’t seem to take that next step? Maintaining the same processes. The same can be said about technology, CRM usage, and the overall process.

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

And we have the convergence of information overwhelm, increased sources of distraction, accelerating change, and skyrocketing complexity–in our customers markets, in their own organizations, with competition/partners, and within our own organization. At the same time, sales performance continues to stagnate or even decline.

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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 21, 2017

We seem to be approaching or passing the tipping point where leading sales practitioners view successful selling as a disciplined, focused, engineered approach to engaging and creating value for customers. I hope we no longer live by the mantra, “When the going gets tough, the tough take a customer to lunch/golf.”

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Gong.io

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

But they’re not stopping there; they’re also leveraging sales AI to boost their bottom line. And how can you incorporate this technology into your sales process? . Artificial intelligence or AI encompasses a range of technologies, such as machine learning, deep learning, computer vision, and natural language processing.

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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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Spiro Technologies

OCTOBER 20, 2022

And so what this really is taking that kind of natural interface and applying it into a work process. So the customer themself loves that, it’s just a way for them to save money and make sure they’re being accurate. So can you tell us a little bit about one of your customers maybe? Adam Honig: Yeah, I love that.

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 4, 2017

It isn’t their ability to self educate, to engage other buyers in social conversations, or even to process their buying transaction electronically. We know customers struggle with buying, yet none of our programs or activities focus on helping them learn how to buy, or helping them align the diverse interests in the buying group.

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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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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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Manufacturing Assembly Line Up-sell Engineering 52

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.

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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

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Already, I’m seeing articles on, “Do these 5 things… The 10 critical success factors… These technologies are critical to customer engagement in 2020…” I’m no different, I’m jumping into the fray with the secrets to sales success in 2020. Everything we do is focused on us and our processes.

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Assembly Line Territory High impact Technology 68

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.). Selling is a human process.

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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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