Partners in Excellence

JULY 11, 2024

We’ve sold to a customer with a single manufacturing line, but now they are expanding the number of manufacturing lines so they need to buy more. If we create manufacturing machinery, we may have started with machines that do one thing on an assembly line. This is a fundamental part of the growing our customers.

Assembly Line 120

Assembly Line Manufacturing GTM CRM 120

Hubspot

AUGUST 20, 2021

It’s called “process strategy,” and every organization should have it on their books. Several processes could run on autopilot, removing the need for in-the-moment decisions, escalation to management, and — in some cases — human involvement altogether. Examples of Process Strategy. Is it by phone? Is it by email?

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Process Assembly Line Profit margin Sales 93

Partners in Excellence

MARCH 12, 2024

Rather, it requires process, structure, discipline and collaboration with customers to help them improve their business outcomes. I was fortunate to have a great mentor who embraced the notion that sales is work, and all work is a process. .” Another thing struck me: “And I love what professional selling is not.

Sell 133

Sell Assembly Line Territory Sports 133

Partners in Excellence

JUNE 12, 2023

We’ve created “assembly lines” with specialized functions, passing our customers from one station to the next. If, somehow, in the manufacturing process, an error is made, we create “scrap.” In a lean factory line, the entire line would stop. What happened, when something went wrong?

Manufacturing 71

Manufacturing Assembly Line Technique Quota 71

Search Engine Land

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Enhanced collaboration Planning a marketing campaign often involves an assembly line that takes ideas from concept to reality and then introduces them to the market across various channels. Campaign management tools that establish deadlines and responsibilities keep the assembly line moving. Start there.

Campaign 92

Campaign Assembly Line Launch Government 92

PandaDoc

OCTOBER 14, 2020

The Request For Proposal (RFP) process is broken, flawed, and disorganized. When you’re down in the weeds, entangled in the messy process, it can be hard to figure out how to make improvements. If you were to time your RFP creation process, how much time gets sunk into each one? Luckily, technology is our saving grace.

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Process Teamwork Assembly Line Transportation 139

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 142

Partners in Excellence

APRIL 12, 2023

But we seem to miss out on the fact that our buyers have discovered the same tools and are using them to help them in their buying process. Sellers have, blindly, applied “manufacturing” technique to managing their selling process. Now we have 72% of buyers preferring a “rep-free” buying process.

Assembly Line 100

Assembly Line Customers Tradeshows Manufacturing 100

Martech

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

” In a nutshell, Account Profile Explorer “shortens the assembly line of the sales and marketing flow.” Generative AI for contract summarization reducing contract processing time and assisting with contract questions. Processing. It even makes it possible to introduce product teams into the mix.”

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Assembly Line Contract B2C GTM 102

Martech

JULY 19, 2024

What use is it for a graphic designer to create images 10 times faster if it still takes a week to get through the approvals process? Just like the introduction of the assembly line radically increased the speed and efficiency of automobile production, AI can potentially increase the speed and efficiency of producing marketing outputs.

Manufacturing 115

Manufacturing Assembly Line Technology Technology 115

Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 31, 2023

For the past 15 years, we have had such a focus on mechanizing the process. Sellers have become replaceable widgets on an assembly line optimized for growth regardless of cost (figuratively and literally). If our peers don’t succeed and find the same joy we have, we will never be able to achieve our full potential.

Sell 135

Sell Assembly Line Growth Prospecting 135

Martech

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Dig deeper: The future of outbound marketing in an omnichannel stack Enhanced collaboration Planning a marketing campaign often involves an assembly line that takes ideas from concept to reality and then introduces them to the market across various channels. Business email address Subscribe Processing. Get MarTech! See terms.

Campaign 78

Campaign Assembly Line Launch Government 78

Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Too many organizations seem so focused on their own efficiency, mechanizing our process, and transactionalizing our engagement strategies. We are creating massive sales assembly lines optimizing the order taking process. At the time, many of us were alarmed with that statistic. We usually win on pricing.

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Assembly Line Sales Price Trust 127

Sales Hacker

MARCH 3, 2021

Isn’t it ultra-satisfying to watch a perfectly automated factory assembly line? What is the handoff process? A handoff process refers to the period where a lead becomes a customer and handed over to the customer success team from the sales team. Why is the handoff process important? See how smooth things are?

Process 81

Process Assembly Line Drivers/motivators UX 81

Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 15, 2021

We redesign knowledge work, emulating the principles of the industrial assembly lines of the past. We chop up work, creating assembly lines where knowledge workers focus on perhaps the functional equivalent of tightening a bolt. them passing the work to the next person in the knowledge worker assembly line.

Assembly Line 77

Assembly Line Manufacturing Government Up-sell 77

Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

It’s become common “wisdom” that we have to align align our sales process with our customers’ buying processes. I suppose it’s easy to want to believe customers have buying processes. Certainly, procurement has processes they follow in their buying activities.

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Process Customers Assembly Line Manufacturing 56

Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

” 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. Except our assembly line/linear customer engagement model doesn’t reflect how our customers buy.

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Assembly Line Sales Process Account management 96

Highspot

JULY 31, 2020

There are three main models for sales teams: the assembly line, the pod, and the island. The Assembly Line. In the assembly line model, also known as the hunter-farmer model, sales teams are organized based on each individual’s job title. Moves customers through your sales process quickly.

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Assembly Line Territory Strategize Sales 72

Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 5, 2023

Pile onto this all the shifts in buyer behavior we see, increasing numbers of buyers actively disengaging with sellers, preferring to navigate their buying processes with out sales help. Our sequences, our assembly line techniques for herding through processed that are optimized for us will fail!

Customers 115

Customers Assembly Line Commission Technique 115

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Outreach enables accurate sales forecasting, replaces manual processes with real-time guidance, and unlocks actionable customer intelligence to help you win more often. The second aspect of the predictive revenue model is the sales assembly line or seller specialization or sales handoffs , primarily the AE/CSM split.

Commission 90

Commission Quota Assembly Line Sales 90

Partners in Excellence

MAY 25, 2021

So specialists in check processing helped customer re-engineer their processes. The customer has become almost irrelevant, instead, we have optimized roles for moving our customer through our sales assembly line. For example, the industry was transforming from a traditional branch orientation, to ATMs, branch automation.

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Assembly Line Account management Education Sell 124

Partners in Excellence

MARCH 9, 2020

The buying process is messy, a characteristic of intensely human interaction. We map the buying process, ending up with something that resembles Gartner’s famous “spaghetti” charts. Buying can be confusing–both in managing the internal buying process, but in, also, in assessing the alternative solutions.

Sell 85

Sell Assembly Line High impact Up-sell 85

Search Engine Land

JANUARY 4, 2023

Avoid doing the hard work of learning how to systemize and build processes and delegate effectively. From there, as you grow in both stature and resources, you continue adding specializations to master each small piece of the much larger content operation machine – like a giant factory assembly line. All of them. See terms.

Assembly Line 93

Assembly Line Start-ups Angle Follow-up 93

Partners in Excellence

MARCH 23, 2022

” Second, the script focuses on what we want to talk about, and the things we need to move the customer to the next station on our sales assembly line. But our scripts are focused on what we need to learn and how we move forward, and, unless the customer is near the end of their buying process, they are rarely relevant to them.

Assembly Line 102

Assembly Line Meeting Quota Customers 102

Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

We know they struggle to make sense of the conflicting information that deluges them through their buying process. While B2B buying is a group consensus process, the struggles buyers have are, more often, individual and personal. We know decision confidence is a huge concern. How will they be viewed? But none of this is new!

Assembly Line 48

Assembly Line Trust Up-sell B2B 48

Search Engine Land

MARCH 20, 2024

By automating these processes, marketers can focus on strategic decision-making and creative tasks rather than being tied down by specific job functions. Agile methodologies: Agile methodologies, borrowed from software development, are increasingly being applied to marketing processes.

Sports 81

Sports Assembly Line Campaign Technology 81

Martech

JANUARY 25, 2022

The average number of touches during the buying process grew from two in 2006 to six in 2021, according to Butler. The outreach we’re doing feels a little bit like an assembly line,” she said. “As However, marketers shouldn’t focus entirely on video in the personalization process.

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Assembly Line Prospecting Contact Customers 93

Partners in Excellence

JUNE 30, 2023

The processes are intertwined and interleaved through the life cycle of our relationships with our customers. We need to look at, organizationally, processes, responsibilities/accountabilities very differently if we are to engage our customers in high impact ways. We see YoY declines in performance and quota attainment.

Assembly Line 62

Assembly Line High impact Quota Technique 62

Martech

MARCH 20, 2024

By automating these processes, marketers can focus on strategic decision-making and creative tasks rather than being tied down by specific job functions. Agile methodologies: Agile methodologies, borrowed from software development, are increasingly being applied to marketing processes.

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Sports Assembly Line Campaign Technology 74

Hubspot

MAY 9, 2022

That starts with you being involved and thoughtful in the hiring process. The Assembly Line — a model where reps work on designated responsibilities, specific to a certain pipeline stage. And when that happens, make sure you help guide them through those processes without doing their jobs for them.

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Assembly Line Objectives and Key Results Construction Commission 77

InsightSquared

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

The Japanese term “Kaizen” stands for the continuous improvement of a process. Adopted by Japanese manufacturing companies after World War II as a way to reduce waste and create competitive advantage, kaizen evolved beyond the assembly line in manufacturing to all business processes and became the precursor to lean manufacturing.

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GTM Assembly Line Manufacturing SQL 73

Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 30, 2020

” “We are expanding our factory capacity and need to add a new assembly line, can we talk about your products as a potential solution?” . “We are looking to buy electronic components to use in a new consumer product we are developing. Can we take 15 minutes of your time to talk about how you might help us?”

Prospecting 108

Prospecting Customers Assembly Line Education 108

Partners in Excellence

APRIL 6, 2017

I believe that selling is a disciplined process, that we can “engineer” those processes to increase our impact, customer engagement, and our effectiveness. I believe in sharp, rigorous execution of those processes in driving sales effectiveness and performance. Much of this seems to be a R 3.0

Assembly Line 60

Assembly Line SQL Trust Sales 60

Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 9, 2018

Often, these are those with the assembly line version of selling, optimizing our process, treating the customer as a widget they move through the process—lead, SDR, Demo, Account Manager, Specialist, Customer Experience Team… The customer is an object upon which we execute our selling process, working the numbers.

Assembly Line 88

Assembly Line Account management Gaming Sell 88

Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 13, 2021

They recognize the real value in the organization has nothing to do with what they sell, or the tools, programs, processes, and so forth. Likewise customers are widgets in our sales assembly line. They realize the key differentiator is their people and their alignment with the purpose and mission of the organization.

Assembly Line 96

Assembly Line Quota Prospecting Start-ups 96

Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 4, 2016

I believe selling is a set of disciplined processes, many of which can be “engineered” to optimize our ability to engage the right customers/prospects, with the right conversations, at the right time. We’ve developed predictable models of moving these customers through the process in very high volumes/velocity.

Assembly Line 49

Assembly Line Customers Manufacturing Objectives and Key Results 49

Partners in Excellence

MARCH 31, 2017

Each step of our sales process is optimized to maximize the results our sales people get. We recognize different skills and capabilities are needed in different stages of the sales process. We start feeding customers through our process, moving them from person to person. And they are emotional.

Assembly Line 63

Assembly Line Manufacturing Account management B2B 63