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A SaaS Fairy Taleā€¦.

Partners in Excellence

And assembly line process started to emerge. Each worker on the assembly line had did their job, then passed the customer to the next workstation on the assembly line, until a PO was spit out at the end of the process. The jobs for each person on the assembly line were well segmented and well defined.

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Predictable Revenue

Partners in Excellence

One of the biggest challenges, particularly now when investors are unwilling to support growth regardless of cost model, is cashflow. The underlying principles of all of these is an assembly line mentality in workflow design. The greater the variation, the more likely the assembly line would fail to meet it’s objectives.

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5 Missed Revenue Growth Opportunities of Second-Stage Startups

Sales Hacker

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 canā€™t seem to take that next step? Combatting missed revenue growth for second-stage startups. 5 revenue growth mistakes second-stage startups make.

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The Joy Of Sellingā€¦ā€¦

Partners in Excellence

Some react, “Dave, we’ve got to focus on hitting the numbers, achieving our growth goals! Sellers have become replaceable widgets on an assembly line optimized for growth regardless of cost (figuratively and literally). It’s tough work and sellers need to be tough minded!”

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No More Quotas, No More Commission: Sales Without SDRs

Sales Hacker

Their growth is worse off for it. The elements within those companies, within their marketing and sales, that aren’t predictable revenue models, is what drives their better aspects of their growth. Those two aspects, prospecting/SDRs and the sales assembly line are the two key aspects that I challenge.

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

Highspot

There are three main models for sales teams: the assembly line, the pod, and the island. The Assembly Line. In the assembly line model, also known as the hunter-farmer model, sales teams are organized based on each individual’s job title. What Are the Types of Sales Organizations? Customer Size.

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We Get Specialization Wrong!

Partners in Excellence

The customer has become almost irrelevant, instead, we have optimized roles for moving our customer through our sales assembly line. It’s really madness, our push to specialization to maximize our efficiency isn’t producing the revenue growth we need.