Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Yesterday, I published a rather long article on the Selling Process. ” Apologies, the article was rather long, but the selling process is so important. In recent years, we’ve acknowledged the concept of a customer Buying Process. And why would manufacturing care about a new content management system.

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Process Manufacturing Legal Up-sell 133

Martech

AUGUST 16, 2024

While there are useful IoT products, a lot seem to exist so manufacturers can collect data on the users. Processing. I have seen a mirror that could not be used because it needed to reboot. (I I will spare you my rant about IoT locks and lighting systems.) Oral-B just released an AI toothbrush to tell you what spots you missed.

Gambling 133

Gambling Manufacturing Trust Follow-up 133

Martech

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

More and more companies are taking charge of their entire product journey, from ideation and manufacturing to delivery. Use this data to engage consumers directly, understand their buying habits and remove hurdles in the purchase process — boosting satisfaction, loyalty and lifetime value. Amazon, Walmart, Target), per Statista.

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Government Retail Manufacturing Trust 123

Salesforce

MARCH 15, 2024

AI has taken center stage, but the question on many manufacturers’ minds is “how do I get started with generative AI?” While many manufacturers have taken advantage of predictive AI when it comes to planning and supply chain, forecasting, wallet share, and market share, generative AI presents new opportunities and challenges.

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Manufacturing Networking Start-ups Technology 97

Martech

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Surveillance footage from a Shanghai robotics showroom shows a small AI-driven robot, created by a Hangzhou manufacturer, talking with 12 larger showroom robots. Processing. The smaller bot reportedly persuaded the rest to leave their workplace, leveraging access to internal protocols and commands, according to the site Oddity Central.

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Retail Launch Manufacturing Campaign 115

Martech

JANUARY 10, 2025

The challenge of perceived intrusiveness Although device manufacturers and media companies have long refuted the idea that devices and apps listen to consumers, consumers dont necessarily believe this. Processing. This highlights the need for marketers to tailor their strategies to different demographic groups.

Manufacturing 130

Manufacturing Legal Retail Trust 130

Martech

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

These help accelerate CDP implementation with industry-specific templates, data models and attributes; currently available for high tech, industrial manufacturing, professional services, telecommunications, utilities, financial services, travel, and retail. Processing. Industry onboarding accelerators. Don’t forget the consumer.

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Assembly Line Contract B2C GTM 119

Martech

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Which processes should we automate to scale up localized campaigns profitably? These processes are all data-heavy and labor-intensive. These challenges have made automation an essential operational solution. Automation has changed the paradigm for local advertising execution and management.

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Non-Profits Real Estate Launch Campaign 121

Martech

JULY 22, 2024

They manufactured and sold men’s brushless shaving cream and got creative. Processing. If you doubt that quantifying offline advertising is too expensive, too complex and too time-consuming, think again. The Burma-Shave company was doing it in the 1930s. This company started in the mid-1920s.

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Campaign Manufacturing Technique Presentation 126

Martech

APRIL 28, 2025

From manufacturing to craft stores, they’re finally diving in. Processing. Traditional manufacturing companies are increasingly recognizing the need to modernize their systems. Traditional industries are having their digital awakening. But how do we get there? Email: Business email address Sign me up!

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Meeting Objectives and Key Results Manufacturing Retail 117

Adaptive Business Services

APRIL 23, 2025

I call it the Heres what happens next process and it includes what you will do, when you will do it, and what the customer should expect. The electric sign industry is custom manufacturing combined with multiple levels of approvals including municipal permits. It is used both during the sale and after the sale. Your thoughts?

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Process Electricity Government Manufacturing 71

Salesforce

JULY 10, 2024

As AI (and power) usage soars, hardware manufacturers are developing equipment that prioritizes both better performance and higher efficiency. For example, NVIDIA reports its H200 graphics processing units (GPUs) are 50% more efficient than its predecessor.

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Electricity Agriculture Territory Manufacturing 130

Martech

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Example Instead of : How to streamline operations Try this : How operations managers in mid-sized manufacturing companies can cut costs by 15%. Processing. Start by asking: What job roles or functions does this content address? What challenges or characteristics define these people? Email: Business email address Sign me up!

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Education Manufacturing B2B Trust 121

Salesforce

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

In manufacturing facilities , robots already handle repetitive assembly tasksbut next-generation systems will adapt to changing conditions just as flexibly as their human counterparts. ABB has transformed decades of digital process automation expertise in manufacturing into the world’s most sophisticated industrial robots.

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Hospitality Objectives and Key Results Healthcare Manufacturing 104

Heinz Marketing

JULY 19, 2024

AI is being adopted by companies at an increasing rate to help optimize internal processes, create better customer experiences, identify new opportunities – the list can go on and on. This decision hinges on various factors, including the nature of the task, budget constraints, and long-term strategic objectives.

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Strategize B2B Lead generation Objectives and Key Results 114

Martech

MARCH 19, 2025

Edwards Demings 14 principles transformed manufacturing by emphasizing quality, efficiency and continuous improvement. Stop depending on inspections In manufacturing, inspections dont improve qualitythey just identify failures after the fact. Deming believed that quality should be built into the process from the start.

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Assembly Line Manufacturing Campaign Education 79

Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Project management is basically a work plan/process that enables us to accomplish our objectives in a disciplined, effective, and efficient manner. Finalize the product design and release to manufacturing, 4. Begin manufacturing. There are agile and lean tools we can use to help us in this process.

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Manufacturing Launch Sales Process 168

G2

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

E-signatures are essential for the manufacturing industry. Learn how digitizing signing processes can transform supply chain processes, meeting manufacturing demands.

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Manufacturing Meeting Process Networking 64

Partners in Excellence

MAY 26, 2021

Our demand gen, marketing, sales organizational design, sales processes, customer experience—all of it are generally designed around us. They don’t care about our organizational structure, they don’t care about our selling process or strategies for demand gen. We may be trying to hit certain spend/budget goals.

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Assembly Line Customers Manufacturing Start-ups 156

Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

The templates, scripts, methodologies, processes are all tools we leverage to do this. Nor do we face contexts of function, for example, sales, engineering, manufacturing, marketing, finance, or HR. Does this mean our templates, scripts, processes, methodologies are useless? Increasingly, we face “contexts of one.”

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Manufacturing Finance Engineering Process 156

Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 20, 2020

This assembly line process starts with a widget (let’s call them customers), being passed from person to person down the line until they come out closed or on the reject (loss) pile. The thinking is, “We will get our fair share of deals through this process.” But is that the answer? cited by Gartner.

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Assembly Line Manufacturing Sales Up-sell 147

Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 2, 2024

It’s become the fashion to apply lean/agile manufacturing approaches to our selling and GTM strategies. There are some principles we can learn from manufacturing (just as there are some we can learn from design/development, procurement and other sectors). Waste interrupts the process flow.

Manufacturing 139

Manufacturing GTM Sales Growth 139

Salesforce

JANUARY 8, 2024

Drafting a sales contract Considerations and customization Negotiation and review process Execution and implementation Best practices and legal considerations Speed up the sales cycle from quote to close Go from lead to inked deal in record time with automation that speeds up quoting, approvals, and contracting.

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Contract Process Legal Real Estate 110

Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 7, 2024

Continuing my series on applying lean/agile manufacturing principles to selling, I was reminded by Charles Green and Dave Jackson about an important aspect of these principles that is never mentioned by those promoting lean/agile in our sales assembly lines. This problem solving process is driven by the people responsible for doing the work.

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Trust Assembly Line Manufacturing GTM 139

Martech

APRIL 14, 2025

It might be that manufacturers aren’t making appliances as they used to, or maybe I’m just tough on them. Processing. Innovative appliance manufacturers have great potential to improve customer experience (CX) and business outcomes with connected and smart appliances. Email: Business email address Sign me up!

Manufacturing 79

Manufacturing Trust Relationship building Start-ups 79

Martech

AUGUST 22, 2023

How an industrial chemical pumps manufacturer modernized its go-to-market strategy Finish Thompson is a family-owned manufacturer of pumps for moving fluids — usually chemicals — founded in 1951 and based in Eerie, Pennsylvania. The company realized they needed to reposition themselves as a solution provider rather than a manufacturer.

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B2B Process Manufacturing Customers 97

Martech

MAY 19, 2025

For marketers, particularly those navigating manufacturing and international commerce, this moment demands strategic reinvention. Object Edge, a leader in digital transformation for manufacturers, saw that many clients were anxious about tariff volatility affecting supply chains and costs. Processing.

Manufacturing 117

Manufacturing Legal Education Territory 117

Salesforce

MAY 7, 2025

COGS includes expenses such as raw materials, direct labor, and manufacturing overhead. Companies in industries with high production costs, such as manufacturing or construction, tend to have lower gross profit margins compared to industries with lower production costs, such as technology or software services.

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Profit margin Non-Profits Manufacturing Price 90

Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 30, 2020

The number of people, directly and indirectly, involved in the buying process has grown. Often, corralling them, and helping them navigate their buying process makes herding cats seem trivial. ” Here are some thoughts: What is the vested interest of the people involved in the buying process? ” I asked. Mike went on.

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Sell Manufacturing Appointment Trust 152

Salesforce

DECEMBER 23, 2024

In this model, both the B2C seller and the business that manufactured the product each receive a portion of the sales price. B2C might be right for you if… You manufacture products intended for consumers You prefer the reliability of large-scale online marketplaces 2. And, it’s expected to reach 54% in the years to come.

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B2C Government Manufacturing Retail 98

Salesforce

MARCH 13, 2025

Example: TAM SAM SOM Let’s say you manufacture baseball bats. Due to supply constraints, your manufacturing facility can only produce 200,000 bats per year. This metric takes into account your supply limits, production capability, and competitors. and discover there are 20 million customers who would buy one $60 bat per year.

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Minimum Viable Product Strategic planning Territory E-commerce 100

Salesforce

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Yet many companies are still held back by the inefficient manual processes that order management entails. The MedTech industry is evolving rapidly, and with it, the complexities of supply chain and manufacturing. Effective MedTech order management is crucial for organizations to remain competitive.

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Manufacturing Cross-sell Represent Inside sales 59

Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 8, 2024

” In the original development of Lean/Agile principles in manufacturing, leaders recognized they could never rest on their laurels. ” “Can we improve processes upstream, by helping our suppliers improve what they are doing with us?” ” “Can we the downstream experience of our customers?”

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Assembly Line GTM Manufacturing Engineering 139

Martech

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Abdulaziz Alnaghmoosh, “ The Power of Storytelling: Inspiring Audiences in Business Development ” People are biologically hard-wired to use storytelling to process and internalize critical information and bond with other humans. “ Processing. People naturally remember stories better than facts, statements or data.”

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Drivers/motivators Transportation Territory Manufacturing 125

Search Engine Land

MAY 22, 2024

Brands cannot easily manufacture such a reputation for their authors at scale without the author’s involvement and personal investment. The decision power to implement the tactic is outside of their direct control; they’re often reliant on the author and constrained by people, processes and technology.

Manufacturing 83

Manufacturing Follow-up Contract Start-ups 83

Sales Pop!

MARCH 4, 2024

Stealthily meandering through diverse landscapes, trucks carry supplies from suppliers to manufacturers and retailers everywhere. This industry, which distinguishes between long-distance and local delivery, powers retail, manufacturing, construction, and agriculture industries.

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Transportation Electricity Agriculture Manufacturing 162

Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

We had several manufacturing companies using it for improving manufacturing processes, quality, and yields. So for our first few years, we focused exclusively on manufacturing process control and prescriptive maintenance. Some changing the settings in their manufacturing machines.

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Manufacturing Engineering Technology Technology 139