Partners in Excellence

JUNE 11, 2017

We’re almost through the 14 principles of lean manufacturing that underlie the Toyota Production System (TPS). If you haven’t read the three preceding articles, you may find them helpful: What Sales Can Learn From Lean Manufacturing , Part 2 , and Part 3.

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Salesforce

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Building a sales forecast is both an art and a science. Accurate sales forecasts keep your leaders happy and your business healthy. Build sales forecasts with accuracy Use the real-time data updates and insights of Sales Cloud to keep your forecasts accurate and your teams on track to hit targets.

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Partners in Excellence

JUNE 13, 2017

If you haven’t read them, here are the links: What Sales Can Learn From Lean Manufacturing , Part 2 , Part 3 , and Part 4. Technology, logistics systems, and off line processes enable the right part/component be brought to the right station at the right time.

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Partners in Excellence

JUNE 1, 2017

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. To our customers?

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Partners in Excellence

JUNE 24, 2017

In my last Bits and Pieces article , I referred to a series of articles I’d written about applying manufacturing and lean techniques to sales and marketing. I’ve consolidated the series into an eBook — What Can Sales Learn From Lean Manufacturing ?

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Partners in Excellence

JUNE 6, 2017

As I mentioned in my prior post , there are a lot of people promoting the application of Lean Manufacturing principles in sales. There is a lot we can learn, at the same time, there are huge areas where the comparisons break down. Principle 3: Use “pull” systems to avoid overproduction.

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Hubspot

MAY 7, 2020

Businesses all across the globe are learning how to adapt to these new circumstances and we're all learning how to operate in a "new normal" that's constantly changing. While this post focuses on the highlights of last week, you can explore all the data we're publishing here. What We're Seeing. About the Data.

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Partners in Excellence

JUNE 1, 2012

They were focused on identifying great improvements in my client’s go to market and sales strategies. One of the profound things about these workshops was that 70% of the participants came from non-sales or marketing functions—manufacturing, development, operations, quality, legal, human resources, and executive management.

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Heinz Marketing

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Late in 2015 we started producing a bi-weekly radio program called Sales Pipeline Radio , which runs live every other Thursday at 11:30 a.m. It’s just 30 minutes long, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals. She is the founder and CEO of Endurance Sales.

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

” I’m not sure what I think about this issue, so I’m using the post to help me think through it and to get your input and ideas. In the face of all this, for the most part we are training our sales people in the same skills I learned many decades ago, and my predecessors learned decades before that.

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Martech

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Putting together and analyzing a customer acquisition funnel is a big part of a marketer’s work. After all, funnels are supposed to map the sequential steps a customer takes from awareness through conversion and advocacy. The limitations of marketing funnels Traditional marketing strategies have long leaned on the concept of funnels.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 26, 2023

It’s easy to get to $10M or $15M ARR, but the problem is… What happens next? The great part about having a couple of thousand startups using your product every day is there is so much innovation. Per Daniel, g etting from $200M to $400M doesn’t require any imagination. He ran from the term. Not quite yet. On websites.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Women in sales often have a polarizing experience. The expectation is that we can “do it all.” Let’s flip the script: Your intellect, emotion, instinct, and empathy as a woman are what make you both a valuable human and invaluable company asset. Doubt is a part of life. Anything less is failure. Imbalance is okay.

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Salesforce

JANUARY 18, 2024

Not long ago, Schneider Electric created what it calls its “digital opportunity factory.” As a result, the sales team reduced its time to close by 30% — an impressive figure for a company with so much competition. What you’ll learn: What is a sales lead? What is a qualified sales lead?

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The classic lifespan of successful products is a story in four parts: Introduction Growth Maturity Decline. You’ll learn about the different strategies available and the impact they’ll have on the future of your product. Once you know who you’re talking to, you can begin laying the foundations for what’s to come.

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Salesforce

JANUARY 18, 2024

What your process is matters.” Think of your sales process like a map. It shows you how to get from point A in the sale (finding your prospect) to point Z (closing the deal), highlighting necessary steps along the way. What you’ll learn: What is the sales process? Sound complicated?

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Partners in Excellence

JUNE 18, 2017

Hope you are taking time away from work and social media to spend time with your families. Many of you know I’m just finishing the follow up book to Sales Manager Survival Guide (SMSG). Where SMSG focused on helping Front Line Sales Managers maximize individual and team performance. The Lean Startup , Eric Ries.

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Hubspot

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Unless you’ve worked in manufacturing, chances are you may not be familiar with the principles of Lean management. Originating from the Toyota Production System — an impressive implementation of organizational and manufacturing improvements — the benefits of Lean extend far beyond the field of manufacturing.

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Search Engine Land

JULY 6, 2023

The transition from “search engine 2.0” Building your own SEO ‘notional machine’ In my early years of learning to code, a teacher introduced an impactful concept known as “notional machine,” which reshaped my approach to programming and, later, SEO. to “search engine 3.0” ′, even though “search engine 3.0”

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Search Engine Land

JULY 11, 2023

Everyone can access the thousands of data points Google uses to make decisions, the same competitive bidding algorithms that drive incremental growth. When everyone has access to the same tools, you can never claim an advantage over anyone else. Instead, you create that with what you do beyond your ad account.

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

I’m often asked, “Who’s the best sales person you’ve ever known.” I’ve reflected on the thousands of sales people I’ve worked with over my career. I can go on. I’ve seen fantastic product sales people, who can’t transition into complex services.

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SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2020

Leveraging survey data from 66+ enterprise SaaS companies, Matt Garratt, Managing Partner of Salesforce Ventures shares the landscape of how businesses are shifting their sales & GTM strategies to react to today’s uncertain times. Adnan Chaudhry | SVP of Sales @ Salesforce. Adnan Chaudhry: Thanks, Matt. There we go.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 14, 2016

The question becomes… what do you do if you don’t have enough traffic to run valid tests ? What if you don’t have the resources? After reviewing cumulative data, ConversionXL highlighted just how vital speed is to conversions : “57% of visitors will abandon a page that takes 3 seconds or more to load.”. “47% seconds to 2.9

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Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

” No I’m not announcing a new sales methodology or trying to infringe on a few companies calling their methods “Principle Based Selling.” Do your people understand those base principles, can they leverage them in situations they haven’t encountered before. Why we do things the way we do them?

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 1, 2018

What are you doing?” ” I’m really thinking about applying the principles and concepts of “Servant Leadership” to sales and our relationships with customers. ” But these principles really reflect a different mindset and behaviors from those who execute them.

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