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Our Customers Are Changing Faster Than We Are!

Partners in Excellence

As a result, sellers are playing a losing game of catch up. Customers and sellers have become widgets moving along the sales manufacturing line, losing the humanity, failing to build trust and confidence the buyers crave. Percent of sellers reaching quota continues to plummet. Win rates are plummeting.

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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. As the initial companies offering SaaS solutions started demonstrating success, it generated huge interest among diverse audiences. And as SaaS exploded, new dynamics started emerging. And assembly line process started to emerge.

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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. What if we started to challenge the short tenures of Gen Zs (and all other Gens) in the same way we find low win rates unacceptable?

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A Script Isn’t A Call Plan!

Partners in Excellence

ā€ Second, the script focuses on what we want to talk about, and the things we need to move the customer to the next station on our sales assembly line. Fortunately, many of the AI/ML based tools enable us to start thinking about maximizing the impact of each digital interaction with our customers.

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Sales And The Zombie Apocalypse

Partners in Excellence

I don’t know if it’s the workloads, the sheer size of our quotas and expectations of performance. As I look at quotas and targets qualitatively, as I look at general sales production, I don’t see changes that are unexpected or abnormal. Yes, quotas go up, but we expect people to improve and become more productive.

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

Highspot

Proactively thinking through how and why your sales organization is set up a certain way ensures that you are not only making strategic hiring decisions but that you’re putting your reps in position to thrive. Sales organization structure is important as it sets sellers up for success. The Assembly Line.

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5 Missed Revenue Growth Opportunities of Second-Stage Startups

Sales Hacker

These are the people that helped them build something from the ground up, and they often let that emotional attachment get in the way of success. When you think about making a car, everyone’s specific job on the assembly line works together. CEOs and executives are emotionally attached to their people, as they should be.

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