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“Why I’m So Interested In Selling,” Don Mulhern

Partners in Excellence

” Another thing struck me: “And I love what professional selling is not. Whether it’s territory planning, account planning, deal planning or sales call planning, YOU create the strategies and the plan. And I love what professional selling is not. Plan your work and work your plan” as someone said a long time ago.

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Are “Traditional” Selling Skills Even Relevant Anymore?

Partners in Excellence

Even concepts of insight based selling are repackaging of consultative, solution, customer focused selling programs of the 60s, 70s, 90s. Even concepts of insight based selling are repackaging of consultative, solution, customer focused selling programs of the 60s, 70s, 90s. But there are limitations to this.

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

Highspot

How you organize your sales team will be determined by the regions you serve, the number of products and services you offer, the size of your sales team, and the size and industry of your customers. There are three main models for sales teams: the assembly line, the pod, and the island. The Assembly Line.

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How to Make a Winning Sales Organization Structure

Lead Fuze

When you’re setting up a sales team, it’s important to consider factors such as: Regions served. The Assembly Line. In the assembly line model, leads are handed off between specialized teams to make sure that they move through all of the stages in a sales cycle. Product/service line.

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Optimizing Part Of The Selling Function, Sub-Optimizing The Whole

Partners in Excellence

I read an article in which the position was put forth, “Inside sales does not have the responsibility for creating pipeline, only the responsibility for selling. The speaker was clearly smart and had been very successful in selling, perhaps there was something I misunderstood. Enter the realm of account management/territory.

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Keys To Success In The New Year!

Partners in Excellence

We pitch our products, we manage customers to fit into our selling process, we move customers through our sales assembly line because it is more efficient for us, though perhaps not helpful to what the customer is trying to do. But everything we do is targeted to exactly the opposite. We have to do the whole job.

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Customers Aren’t Widgets

Partners in Excellence

I believe selling is a set of disciplined processes, many of which can be “engineered” to optimize our ability to engage the right customers/prospects, with the right conversations, at the right time. One begins to see images of assembly lines with customers on a conveyor belt moving from station to station.