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Our Customers Are Changing Faster Than We Are!

Partners in Excellence

There seems to be an arrogance or conceit in so many of the conversations I see about the future of selling. My feeds are filled with new technologies, new selling models, new engagement strategies, new organizational structures. As a result, sellers are playing a losing game of catch up. Win rates are plummeting.

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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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We Need To Change The Selling Conversation!!

Partners in Excellence

I just listened to an outstanding webcast on the future of selling, conducted by four close friends. I am a student of their work, they are among the smartest thinkers about selling I’ve ever met. It seemed, unconsciously, the conversation around selling gravitates to SaaS selling.

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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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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. The secret?

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

Spiro Technologies

Adam Honig: Hello and welcome to Make It, Move It, Sell It. On this podcast, I talk with company leaders about how they’re modernizing the business of making, moving and selling products. In order to do that, we groove the drum, and we have wire rope that carries the ball up and down the platform. Transcript.

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Are “Traditional” Selling Skills Even Relevant Anymore?

Partners in Excellence

Even concepts of insight based selling are repackaging of consultative, solution, customer focused selling programs of the 60s, 70s, 90s. And, there’s always endless product training (actually most of sales training ends up not being selling skills, but instead product training.).

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