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Rethinking The Sales And Marketing Organization

Partners in Excellence

.” 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. Most sales people are in a rush to close.

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Do We Really Want Our Sales People To Be Value Creators?

Partners in Excellence

We are creating massive sales assembly lines optimizing the order taking process. We nurture them until they have done much of the work, then we engage them running them through our sales assembly line of qualifying, demoing, pitching, proposing, closing. This is so much simpler and more efficient for us.

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The Problem With Efficiency

Partners in Excellence

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. They go from being MQLs to SQLs to qualified opportunities.

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

Highspot

In order for salespeople to effectively close deals, they need to focus on sales-critical activities. Engages with buyers in order to close deals and generate revenue. Manages administrative tasks, such as expense reports and CRM data entry. There are three main models for sales teams: the assembly line, the pod, and the island.

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Are “Traditional” Selling Skills Even Relevant Anymore?

Partners in Excellence

This has a number of advantages, skill levels don’t need to be as high, we can leverage role specialization more effectively (creating sales assembly lines with customer widgets passing through each station), and we can effectively leverage all the traditional selling skills.

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No More Quotas, No More Commission: Sales Without SDRs

Sales Hacker

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. The second aspect of the predictive revenue model is the sales assembly line or seller specialization or sales handoffs , primarily the AE/CSM split.

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Who Owns The Customer Relationship?

Partners in Excellence

Yet, it seems that too much of how we actually manage the customer engagement life cycle seems to ignore the importance of developing relationships with our customers. This AE manages us for the next few steps–discovery, presenting the solution, closing. Instead, we focus on our efficiency in handling the customer.