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No More Quotas, No More Commission: Sales Without SDRs

Sales Hacker

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.

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A SaaS Fairy Taleā€¦.

Partners in Excellence

When customers said tell me more, the sales process was usually pretty short. Sales/marketing started applying these manufacturing principles to the “mechanization” of the process. And assembly line process started to emerge. Just like a factory assembly line, it became so easy to grow.

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Our Customers Are Changing Faster Than We Are!

Partners in Excellence

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. Percent of sellers reaching quota continues to plummet. Win rates are plummeting.

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Letā€™s Talk About Lean Manufacturing For A Momentā€¦.

Partners in Excellence

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?

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Sales Quotas, A Thing Of The Past?

Partners in Excellence

Recently read a provocative post declaring “Sales Quotas A Thing Of The Past!” ” For the most part, the article was a tutorial on pipeline metrics and a diatribe against much of the quota setting process. Much of the way sales quotas and goals are set is wrong. But is the answer throwing these out?

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10 Practical Strategies to Improve Sales Performance & Close Deals

Highspot

In fact, leaders reported that 91% failed to hit sales quota expectations this year. Excellent sales performance hinges on meeting customer needs, using data to guide decisions, and continuously enhancing processes. Are sales reps following processes? Hard work doesn’t always translate into results.

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A Script Isnā€™t A Call Plan!

Partners in Excellence

” 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.