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Our Customers Are Changing Faster Than We Are!

Partners in Excellence

My feeds are filled with new technologies, new selling models, new engagement strategies, new organizational structures. Sellers have, blindly, applied “manufacturing” technique to managing their selling process. There seems to be an arrogance or conceit in so many of the conversations I see about the future of selling.

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The Future Of Work Is About More Than Work!

Partners in Excellence

Many think this is being driven by technology, AI/ML. We redesign knowledge work, emulating the principles of the industrial assembly lines of the past. We chop up work, creating assembly lines where knowledge workers focus on perhaps the functional equivalent of tightening a bolt.

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What Sales Can Learn From Lean Manufacturing — Part 2

Partners in Excellence

As I mentioned in my prior post , there are a lot of people promoting the application of Lean Manufacturing principles in sales. If you haven’t read the first post, What We Can Learn From Lean Manufacturing , be sure to read this. Principle 8: Use only reliable, thoroughly tested technology that serves your people and processes.

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We Need To Change The Selling Conversation!!

Partners in Excellence

VC’s invested billions in SaaS technologies, there has been huge publicity around them—mainly around valuations, numbers of unicorns, the wealth creation (primarily for initial investors and founders), and technology (technology is always a hot and sexy conversation). And with a lot of software companies.

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In a Supply Chain Crisis, Selling Parts Online May Be Your Next Move

Salesforce

That’s where OEM (original equipment manufacturer) and aftermarket parts come in — and sales of these crucial components are big business now. Any disruption to an assembly line or a delivery fleet can bring operations to a standstill, putting pressure on manufacturers to fix the issue as soon as possible.

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Make it. Move it. Sell it. — Episode #9

Spiro Technologies

John Lund: Well, actually, we manufacture a winch for a company in Texas that makes lariots for roping bulls. I’ve been in manufacturing for a little over 30 years. So you’ve probably seen a whole bunch of changes in manufacturing during that time then. When it comes to our cranes, we manufacture a small crane.

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Make it. Move it. Sell it. — Episode #10

Spiro Technologies

And what that basically means is for distribution centers and other areas like manufacturing, they use voice-enabled workflow technology to help them be more productive. Tell us a little bit about voice-enabled workflow technology, what the heck does that mean? Alex, welcome to the show. Adam Honig: Yeah, great to be here.

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