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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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Our Customers Are Changing Faster Than We Are!

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Yet, sellers are still focused on being purveyors of the same product information that buyers have already studied on the web. Customers and sellers have become widgets moving along the sales manufacturing line, losing the humanity, failing to build trust and confidence the buyers crave. Win rates are plummeting.

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A SaaS Fairy Tale….

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Since the target customers, initially, for these tools were individuals and small teams, the methods others had used in consumer product selling were adapted. Materials explaining the capabilities of the products, demos, 30 day free trials were heavily leveraged. And assembly line process started to emerge.

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A Script Isn’t A Call Plan!

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” 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. While we may think about these, the context is always about our product. Can You Make Your Annual Quota In 80 Days?

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Let’s Talk About Lean Manufacturing For A Moment….

Partners in Excellence

We’ve created “assembly lines” with specialized functions, passing our customers from one station to the next. One of the biggest areas of waste is the product itself. It means, we’ve wasted money, resources, and time making a product that we just have to throw away.

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

Highspot

How you organize your sales team will be determined by the regions you serve, the number of products and services you offer, the size of your sales team, and the size and industry of your customers. Your sales organization is in charge of generating revenue for your business by convincing buyers to purchase a product or service.

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Sales And The Zombie Apocalypse

Partners in Excellence

I don’t know if it’s the workloads, the sheer size of our quotas and expectations of performance. As I look at quotas and targets qualitatively, as I look at general sales production, I don’t see changes that are unexpected or abnormal. It may be the systems, tools, processes we put in place.