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A SaaS Fairy Taleā€¦.

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 we called this business model SaaS, software as a service. And assembly line process started to emerge. Initially, this was very predictable.

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Predictable Revenue

Partners in Excellence

Perhaps the services have not been delivered. The underlying principles of all of these is an assembly line mentality in workflow design. In selling we looked at standardized work by starting to segment parts of the selling process. This represents contracted orders for future delivery.

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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. But this time, I’m seeing companies moving to new email service providers (ESPs). After 17 moves, I have it down to a science.

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We Need To Change The Selling Conversation!!

Partners in Excellence

I just listened to an outstanding webcast on the future of selling, conducted by four close friends. I am a student of their work, they are among the smartest thinkers about selling I’ve ever met. It seemed, unconsciously, the conversation around selling gravitates to SaaS selling.

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The Future Of Work Is About More Than Work!

Partners in Excellence

Often, the corporate reaction to work-life balance has been to offer services in the workplace, so they can get people to do more work. We redesign knowledge work, emulating the principles of the industrial assembly lines of the past. them passing the work to the next person in the knowledge worker assembly line.

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

Partners in Excellence

Despite giving lip service to these concepts, it seems our actions are focused on the opposite. We are creating massive sales assembly lines optimizing the order taking process. But we will never be able to address this as long as we are committed to mechanizing our selling process and building organizations of order takers.

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In a Supply Chain Crisis, Selling Parts Online May Be Your Next Move

Salesforce

Any disruption to an assembly line or a delivery fleet can bring operations to a standstill, putting pressure on manufacturers to fix the issue as soon as possible. Watch this video, featuring Salesforce’s Andy Peebler, to learn how manufacturers can benefit from creating a parts business: Why sell parts online?