Partners in Excellence

MARCH 9, 2020

We map the buying process, ending up with something that resembles Gartner’s famous “spaghetti” charts. Ironically, while buying is getting more personal–more about people relating to people, selling seems to be, increasingly, less so. Relationships were fundamental to sales and selling in distant times.

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Assembly Line Sell High impact Up-sell 84

Partners in Excellence

JUNE 12, 2023

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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Manufacturing Assembly Line Technique Quota 68

Partners in Excellence

MAY 26, 2021

They don’t care about our organizational structure, they don’t care about our selling process or strategies for demand gen. Somehow mechanization, specialization, and efficiency drive our decisions for engaging customers in our selling process. And it may work, or maybe for some time. Inevitably, it doesn’t work.

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Assembly Line Customers Manufacturing Start-ups 130

Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 15, 2021

We redesign knowledge work, emulating the principles of the industrial assembly lines of the past. We chop up work, creating assembly lines where knowledge workers focus on perhaps the functional equivalent of tightening a bolt. them passing the work to the next person in the knowledge worker assembly line.

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Assembly Line Manufacturing Government Up-sell 73

Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 10, 2018

At the end, Brent Adamson pulled me to the side asking, “Dave, you seem to have a pretty dark outlook about selling, what’s up?” Am I contributing to it’s improvement and the ability of sales to contribute to our customers and the companies we sell for?” The mindless focus on volume/velocity.

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Sell Assembly Line Up-sell Cold Call 80

Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

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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Sell Objection handling Assembly Line Territory 92

Salesforce

JULY 28, 2022

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?

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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 21, 2017

We seem to be approaching or passing the tipping point where leading sales practitioners view successful selling as a disciplined, focused, engineered approach to engaging and creating value for customers. Stated differently, moving more toward selling as a science. We’ve focused more on the mechanics and less on the people.

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Sell Assembly Line Manufacturing Up-sell 67

Highspot

JULY 31, 2020

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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Assembly Line Territory Strategize Education 72

Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 30, 2020

” “We are expanding our factory capacity and need to add a new assembly line, can we talk about your products as a potential solution?” Don’t they know I don’t sell that stuff? What if rather than just showing up, uninvited, in their inbox’s, we started showing up where they are showing up?

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Prospecting Customers Assembly Line Education 106

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

We’re also brought to you by Vidyard — the best way to sell in a virtual world, whether you need to connect with more leads, qualify more opportunities, or close more deals. Make prospecting videos, follow-ups, product demos, and other communications that drive virtual selling. Why prospecting sits apart from sales [6:59].

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The struggles have less to do with choosing what to buy, yet sellers tend to focus on what they are selling. We view the process as a transaction, moving the customer from person to person on our sales assembly lines. Sales Hasn't Changed, We're Just Leveraging Cool New… "Buyer's Remorse" Grows Up.

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Assembly Line Trust Up-sell B2B 48

Spiro Technologies

OCTOBER 20, 2022

On this podcast, I talk with company leaders about how they’re modernizing the business of making, moving, selling products, and of course, having fun along the way. So we say go to aisle 15 and pick up three cans of beans or whatever slot it is, and get this item. Transcript. Adam Honig: Hello and welcome to Make it.

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Sell Manufacturing Assembly Line Technology 52

Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

” Sales picks up the process, SDRs call to qualify the opportunity, they hand the lead to an account manager who gets more information, the customer is handed over to a pre-sales person for a demo, then someone else try to close them. Except our assembly line/linear customer engagement model doesn’t reflect how our customers buy.

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Spiro Technologies

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Adam Honig: Hello and welcome to Make It, Move It, Sell It. On this podcast, I talk with company leaders about how they’re modernizing the business of making, moving and selling products. In order to do that, we groove the drum, and we have wire rope that carries the ball up and down the platform. Transcript.

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

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.). We can fire up the same standard reports and send them to the people, saying they should improve. Selling is a human process.

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Assembly Line Quota Pitch Meeting 69

Partners in Excellence

APRIL 18, 2017

The focus in much of our discussions on selling is about us–sales people. We have highly focused roles, each role focuses on it’s job in the sales process, once complete, the widget–I mean customer, is passed to the next function, then the next, then the next… on down the sales assembly line.

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Assembly Line Sell Customers Up-sell 53

Gong.io

APRIL 28, 2021

Our solution can save your reps 30% in admin time, so they’ll have more time to sell (really?), will sell more (really??), and will get your revenue up by 30% (really???). . a factory assembly line). Here’s what an overcomplicated value story with unreasonable value attribution looks like: . That’s all.

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Assembly Line Manufacturing Drivers/motivators Strategize 71

Partners in Excellence

JUNE 30, 2023

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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Assembly Line High impact Quota Technique 62

Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Prospecting results are fixed, so the only we we get more prospects is to up the volume and frequency with which we prospect. And, while I will contradict my opening premises, too much of the time, in seeking “predictable revenue,” we treat every aspect of selling as laws etched in granite.

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Assembly Line Quota Prospecting Start-ups 85

ClickFunnels

JUNE 18, 2021

Our co-founder, Russel Brunson, has developed a sales funnel model called The Value Ladder, which we believe is the most effective way to sell online. You can set up your content management system to automatically add an opt-in form to the end of each blog post. He ended up making $203,736 that year. 3 Build a Popular Blog.

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Gong.io

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

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.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 22, 2017

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. They should never pick up the phone and make a prospecting call!” The concept of “team selling” arose. How do we reduce the cost of selling?”

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Territory Sell Assembly Line Manufacturing 48

G2

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

To amp up a brand, many manufacturers and dealers have started to capitalize on modern technology like automotive marketing software. These tools help dealers market their services, hyping up the excitement surrounding their brand. People in the car industry work in making, selling, designing, and engineering.

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Manufacturing E-commerce Transportation Electricity 52

Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

But the past couple of weeks, I’ve been in a bit of a dark place on the “state of selling.” Sadly, too many sales executives, too many clueless corporate executives; all supported by vendors and consultants trying to sell them something are in a mad rush in exactly the opposite direction. Principle Based Selling!

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Assembly Line Trust Consult Up-sell 77

Partners in Excellence

MARCH 31, 2017

We design our organizations to be lean mean selling machines. Prospectors prospect, account managers account manage, product line specialists are expert in their product lines, and on and on… Each role is precisely defined, we have the metrics to by which we constantly measure performance.

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Assembly Line Manufacturing Account management B2B 58

Sales Hacker

MARCH 17, 2021

The reason they were such a good salesperson in the past is because they had the automation, infrastructure, and internal alignment in place to sell at a high rate. 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. The problem?

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Growth Assembly Line Cross-sell Engineering 94

Hubspot

MAY 9, 2022

An effective team is rarely some undefined, "everyone for themself" chaos pit where reps are left up to their own devices when trying to collaborate. The Assembly Line — a model where reps work on designated responsibilities, specific to a certain pipeline stage. Acquaint your team with other departments.

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Assembly Line Objectives and Key Results Construction Commission 73

Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 4, 2016

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.

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Assembly Line Customers Manufacturing Objectives and Key Results 49

Salesforce

AUGUST 20, 2021

Although many of us still think of robots on the assembly line as the typical agent of job displacement, AI has made advances in fields that many people never imagined were vulnerable to automation: Healthcare : Machine-learning algorithms can diagnose some types of cancer or perform common X-rays with better accuracy than human radiologists.

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Assembly Line Healthcare Education Technology 98

Martech

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Back in July, I packed up my house and moved everything to my new place. 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. After 17 moves, I have it down to a science. Fast-forward to today.

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Service Assembly Line Cross-sell Follow-up 95

A Sales Guy

MAY 18, 2013

Henry Ford : While Ford is today known for his innovative assembly line and American-made cars, he wasn’t an instant success. Stephen King : The first book by this author, the iconic thriller Carrie, received 30 rejections, finally causing King to give up and throw it in the trash.

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Assembly Line Drivers/motivators B2B Up-sell 118

SalesLoft

AUGUST 2, 2018

It could be an image of tiny robots completing sales tasks along an assembly line, or a computer spewing out countless emails day and night. Which begs the question, what sales tasks should be automated so you can save time and focus on selling? Automation is one way you can allocate more time for core-selling activities.

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Lead Fuze

DECEMBER 31, 2021

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 Structure.

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Territory Assembly Line Commission Objectives and Key Results 52

Hubspot

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Maybe you took a mental note on which player had the most properties, or who had the best buying and selling strategy. One way to get there is through something called "competitive benchmarking" — the process of looking externally to see how your business stacks up against your competitors and industry standards.

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Manufacturing Assembly Line User Experience Gaming 61

Martech

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The assembly line. Of course, you can always choose to scale up over time, but in today’s ultra-competitive world, that can be a huge mistake. Remember that rebranding aims to showcase your brand’s strengths in the market and sell more products or services. Others include: The automobile. The airplane.

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Assembly Line Launch Real Estate Electricity 112

PandaDoc

OCTOBER 14, 2020

It serves to free up time and remove barriers that lead to more efficient and higher-quality work. It sets the business up for its next venture, it helps pinpoint the exact business partners you should be working with, and if done correctly, can help to minimize problems further down the road. So how do you free up their time?

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Process Teamwork Assembly Line Transportation 139