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A SaaS Fairy Tale….

Partners in Excellence

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. Toss X number of customers into the beginning of the assembly line and Y in POs would emerge from the end of the line.

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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. Sellers have, blindly, applied “manufacturing” technique to managing their selling process.

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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. We need to think about what it means to achieve our quotas.

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

Highspot

After all, you wouldn’t put a new recruit in charge of your enterprise accounts; similarly, a rep with deep experience in healthcare would probably struggle to sell into tech. There are three main models for sales teams: the assembly line, the pod, and the island. The Assembly Line. Is not suited to scale.

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“One Size Fits All….”

Partners in Excellence

We take them through the same standard “handling” as we engage them and move them through our selling process (forget they have their own buying processes and they struggle with it.). Selling is a human process. We use the same email campaigns, “Dear occupant or current resident,” they each say the same thing.

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We’re Long Past Our “Use By Date”

Partners in Excellence

Whether it’s specialization in how we move our customers through the “sales assembly line.” We focus our skills development on product training and selling skills. We see YoY declines in performance and quota attainment. ” how we staff these roles, how we look at new and current customers.