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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. There were however, some limitations to this.

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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. 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.

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The Problem With The Data….

Partners in Excellence

Or, if we aren’t meeting our goals, targets, quotas. Prospecting results are fixed, so the only we we get more prospects is to up the volume and frequency with which we prospect. They recognize the real value in the organization has nothing to do with what they sell, or the tools, programs, processes, and so forth.

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What You Need to Know About Sales AI

Gong.io

If you’ve ever used a smart assistant on your phone to ask a question, a chatbot to check up on an order, or social media to browse your feed, you’ve benefited from AI. But they’re not stopping there; they’re also leveraging sales AI to boost their bottom line. And at the end of the day, you’re selling to a person.