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Do We Really Want Our Sales People To Be Value Creators?

Partners in Excellence

We are creating massive sales assembly lines optimizing the order taking process. We nurture them until they have done much of the work, then we engage them running them through our sales assembly line of qualifying, demoing, pitching, proposing, closing. At the same time, we see data that is alarming.

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Our Customers Are Changing Faster Than We Are!

Partners in Excellence

Customers and sellers have become widgets moving along the sales manufacturing line, losing the humanity, failing to build trust and confidence the buyers crave. But buyers don’t need to participate in that assembly line, they are learning through other channels, so our assembly lines are underutilized.

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Sales Talent Is A Problem, Is It Worth Solving?

Partners in Excellence

It will scripting the perfect conversation making sure we limit our discovery questions to 4, and our discovery pitch to 9.1 minutes (some how the concept of a discovery pitch seems odd, how do you do discovery if you are pitching. But one AI vendor has the data supporting this. You just do one for 9.1 minutes and you win.

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Are “Traditional” Selling Skills Even Relevant Anymore?

Partners in Excellence

Otherwise, why do customers constantly complain about being pitched, sales people not understanding their problems, and so forth. Rather than heavily product selling focused, they leverage more customer focused language, but under the covers, they haven’t changed substantively.

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Keys To Success In The New Year!

Partners in Excellence

We pitch our products, we manage customers to fit into our selling process, we move customers through our sales assembly line because it is more efficient for us, though perhaps not helpful to what the customer is trying to do. But everything we do is targeted to exactly the opposite.

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5 tips for successfully switching email service providers

Martech

Moving is always a slog, but I’ve done it so often that I can do it on autopilot: Throw this out, pack that, sell what’s too good to pitch but not needed in the new place. Back in July, I packed up my house and moved everything to my new place. After 17 moves, I have it down to a science. Fast-forward to today.

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6 signs that you need to automate your RFP process

PandaDoc

The effort and time being spent on one of these documents should be about refining answers, crafting intelligent and engaging sales pitches, and ensuring the business and its proposal is presented in the best way possible. More and more, assembly lines are manned by robotic, not human, hands. Souce: GovLoop.

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