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Territory or Vertical: What’s the Best Sales Team Structure for Your Business?

Highspot

Should we organize our sales team by region or industry? What is a territory-based sales structure? In a territory-based structure, your reps own opportunities and accounts within defined geographic regions. For example, a rep covering Texas must understand regional energy markets and local procurement norms.

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What Sales Can Learn From Lean Manufacturing

Partners in Excellence

There a number of people with views that sales can learn a lot from manufacturing and applying lean and agile manufacturing methods to the sales function. I tend to agree, a lot of the underpinnings of great manufacturing have great applicability to selling. How do we add value to each of those?

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Modern Forecasting Technology: Changing the Game for Manufacturers

Salesforce

As every manufacturer knows, demand forecasting is critical to operational success. Overestimate, and you’ll be trying to explain to management why shelves are full of obsolete inventory no one can sell. They’re enabling manufacturers to understand future demand better than ever before. There is no ERP holy grail.

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Dear SaaStr: How Should I Specialize My Sales Team?

SaaStr

Geography : This is a common starting point, especially if youre selling globally or across multiple time zones. It ensures reps can work during the same hours as their prospects and build relationships in specific regions. Its also useful if there are regional differences in how your product is adopted or sold.

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Sales Strategy Guide: 5 Steps to More Efficient Selling

Salesforce

Making a selling machine — a defined sales process fit to match your customer and your product, with tools and data to make your sellers more productive and efficient. Plan faster to sell more What is a sales strategy? Are they selling enough to hit your forecast? Segment by region. What’s better than making a sale?

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Product Centric Selling, It Really Is About Us!

Partners in Excellence

To maintain our focus on the customer, we have to distance ourselves from all the chatter we hear when we get back to our offices—-Endless pipeline, forecast, deal, account, territory and other reviews. Endless communication from marketing and product management about our products. Related Posts: Should Marketing Be Measured On Revenue?

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Going Beyond Traditional Relationship Selling | Sales Strategies

Engage Selling

???????????????????????????Most of my clients are in traditional businesses: commodities, manufacturing, aerospace, and finance. When you spend 30 years in your territory selling … Read More » Businesses and business reps that have a long history in the market have been successful because of relationships.

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