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A SaaS Fairy Tale….

Partners in Excellence

Rather than paying up front for a license, people could pay on a monthly basis for a subscription. Since the target customers, initially, for these tools were individuals and small teams, the methods others had used in consumer product selling were adapted. And assembly line process started to emerge.

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No More Quotas, No More Commission: Sales Without SDRs

Sales Hacker

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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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Let’s Talk About Lean Manufacturing For A Moment….

Partners in Excellence

So much of what our focus in “modern selling,” seems to be the adaptation of Lean Manufacturing techniques into selling. We’ve created “assembly lines” with specialized functions, passing our customers from one station to the next. One of the biggest areas of waste is the product itself.

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We’re Long Past Our “Use By Date”

Partners in Excellence

It’s tantamount to my brushing the dust off that use by 12/2004 can and polishing it up. Those distinct models no longer represent the way customers buy and grow in the utilization of our products. Whether it’s specialization in how we move our customers through the “sales assembly line.”

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How to Make a Winning Sales Organization Structure

Lead Fuze

In this article, we provide insights on how to build a product sales organization structure that yields results. In the SaaS world, it is not enough for us to look at salespeople as individual contributors but rather as an entire team across departments such as marketing and product development. The Assembly Line.

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How to Lead a Sales Team: 14 Key Tips to Help New Managers Thrive

Hubspot

An effective team is rarely some undefined, "everyone for themself" chaos pit where reps are left up to their own devices when trying to collaborate. The Assembly Line — a model where reps work on designated responsibilities, specific to a certain pipeline stage. But competition can be fickle.