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Discover the Future of Affordable Housing in Silicon Valley

Sales Pop!

Land of tech giants, venture capitalists, and sky-high housing prices. Growing up in an unstable housing situation himself, he saw firsthand the struggles of those priced out of the traditional housing market. They’re built in factories on assembly lines, significantly reducing construction time and costs.

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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 differentiate our offerings through nuances of product differences, hoping we can make one feature/function important to the customer, but mostly we win through pricing. We usually win on pricing. This is irresponsible!

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No More Quotas, No More Commission: Sales Without SDRs

Sales Hacker

The second aspect of the predictive revenue model is the sales assembly line or seller specialization or sales handoffs , primarily the AE/CSM split. Those two aspects, prospecting/SDRs and the sales assembly line are the two key aspects that I challenge. Why prospecting sits apart from sales [6:59].

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How Manufacturing Works, Applying It To Selling

Partners in Excellence

” or “what’s the final product that comes off the end of the product line.” ” The answer to this includes the full specifications, quality expectations, pricing/cost expectations, etc. And this concept ripples back through the manufacturing line. Then we look at, how we build the product.

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6 signs that you need to automate your RFP process

PandaDoc

Even for something like a simple pricing query, if you don’t have the information to hand, it’s a huge barrier. Instead, they need to source testimonials, balance pricing, and learn their way around new products. More and more, assembly lines are manned by robotic, not human, hands.

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Being Human in the Time of Automation

Salesforce

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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The Top 10 Sales Engagement Articles in 2018

Outreach

Early Bird pricing ends January 7, 2019, FYI. How I Built an SDR Assembly Line with Outreach and Doubled my Team’s Output. Maybe it was the snazzy 2018 highlights video at the top of the post, or the fact that it's happening two months earlier , or the promise of tickets to come.