Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 15, 2021

” We look at, how do we reduce onboarding time, how do we maximize productivity during that time? We redesign knowledge work, emulating the principles of the industrial assembly lines of the past. them passing the work to the next person in the knowledge worker assembly line. The problem is at the top!

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

And, there’s always endless product training (actually most of sales training ends up not being selling skills, but instead product training.). Rather than heavily product selling focused, they leverage more customer focused language, but under the covers, they haven’t changed substantively.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 31, 2017

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 may get smarter as they go through our and our competitors assembly lines.

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Highspot

JULY 31, 2020

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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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

To put customers on an assembly line where they are touched by an SDR, moved to an account manager, moved to a demo-er, moved to the next step and the next and the next…until the customer makes a decision. These people are the most productive. They are expecting them to think for themselves and trusting them to do so.

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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 21, 2017

We see too many signs of mechanization, losing the person, treating customers as widgets to move through our highly efficient selling process assembly lines. Send me an email for my eBook on applying the Toyota Production Process to selling). We’ve focused more on the mechanics and less on the people.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 3, 2021

Isn’t it ultra-satisfying to watch a perfectly automated factory assembly line? A sales team is focused on helping first-time users discover the initial value of a product or service, such as the unique selling proposition , then complete the purchase. It could be cars, machinery, or maybe just ice cream sandwiches.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 4, 2025

Your go to market motion has to be driven by the product. It has to be driven by what the product can do and the value that the product drives for the customer. And the reason we had very strong PLG motions was that the, is that the product is incredibly intuitive and delightful. Scott Barker: Yeah.

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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 4, 2016

In recent years we’ve increasingly leveraged technology, both to improve productivity, but to automate as much of these processes as we can. One begins to see images of assembly lines with customers on a conveyor belt moving from station to station. Things like trust, relationships come into play.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 17, 2021

Second-stage startups are companies that have already established proof of concept, product-market fit, pricing strategy, and initial clientele to achieve their beginning growth goals. Trusting opinion more than data. When you think about making a car, everyone’s specific job on the assembly line works together.

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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 5, 2019

We pitch our products, we manage customers to fit into our selling process, we move customers through our sales assembly line because it is more efficient for us, though perhaps not helpful to what the customer is trying to do. How we engage the customer, how we develop empathy, trust, how much we care and demonstrate that care.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 12, 2021

In many organizations, the customer journey looks like an assembly line. Additionally, buyers know that the salesperson they work with and trust ultimately won’t be the person servicing their account once the contract is signed. Bring customer success into the sales process.

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 29, 2016

It almost seems that we have an assembly line that we pass our customers along—we try to attract attention, building a relationship through our digital presence–web sites, blogs, other materials. Through their use of the product, the “relationship” gets passed from one person or department, to another.

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 18, 2017

We see discussions focused on increasing specialization in sales–actually adaptations of the Toyota Production System. We see tools and methods focused on our efficiency, not how they enhance the customer engagement, or help build trusted relationships.

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Gong.io

APRIL 28, 2021

a factory assembly line). With your potential ROI missteps under control and your champion offering up the right information, you’ll provide a deeper understanding of your product and remain a trusted and reliable source. In most cases, they aren’t correlated. Mission accomplished.

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Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Brian is regularly referenced in popular books including Chris Brogan's Trust Agents and Seth Godin's Linchpin. They have a product to sell.". He runs Copyblogger.com , an awesome copyblogging, copywriting, and SEO tips and tricks blog that frequently makes the AdAge Top 150. How to write for both search engines and humans.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 9, 2019

In a big, multinational company, on the other hand, Business Development may do market analysis for new-market entry or a new line of products. . Developing new products. It’s like an assembly line. . For example, Business Development in a SaaS scaleup usually involves a lot of cold outreach to potential customers.

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Search Engine Land

OCTOBER 13, 2023

In many instances, it’s still seen as a creative support function to sales, not as a function that has bottom-line impacts.” Dig deeper: How to convince leadership why they can’t ignore SEO We’re incentivized to avoid risks Without a clear ROI, we suffer the consequences of not being trusted. I’ll never do that again!” Duffy said.

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Gong.io

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

After all, some jobs have already been replaced by AI and robotics ( assembly lines come to mind). As such, you’ll need to change how you position your products or services to influence their decision. Bottom line? Productive sales teams ultimately close deals. Will sales AI replace sales reps?

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Spiro Technologies

OCTOBER 20, 2022

On this podcast, I talk with company leaders about how they’re modernizing the business of making, moving, selling products, and of course, having fun along the way. And what that basically means is for distribution centers and other areas like manufacturing, they use voice-enabled workflow technology to help them be more productive.

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Lead Fuze

JANUARY 2, 2024

Think about it: catching a visitor’s attention at just the right moment is like saving a relationship before it ends—they remember why they loved your product in the first place. This kind of interactive approach fosters trust between brand and consumer leading up towards increased sales—not bad for some clever coding.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Make prospecting videos, follow-ups, product demos, and other communications that drive virtual selling. The second aspect of the predictive revenue model is the sales assembly line or seller specialization or sales handoffs , primarily the AE/CSM split. Try Vidyard for free by signing up at Vidyard.com/free.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 12, 2020

This is the downside of the modern Sales Assembly Line — both buyer and seller feeling like a cog in the wheel. Learn how Some Hot Tech Startup increased productivity by 115%.”. Whether you resist change or not, it is still a game of know, like, and trust. How did that make you feel? Like a piece of meat?

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 4, 2017

Yet sales people constantly focus on pitching their products. We know people buy from people, yet we create assembly line/transactional processes. We focus on maximizing sales efficiency rather than buying effectiveness.

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Spiro Technologies

JANUARY 18, 2023

On this podcast, I talk with company leaders about how they’re modernizing the business of making, moving, and selling products, and of course, having fun along the way. They’re bringing a new product to market, and they wanna get into their grocery stores and their distribution outlets. You never know.

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Hubspot

JULY 18, 2016

Its narrow offerings were all produced in an assembly-line-style system. You want a trusted team with skin in the game at your side as you move into the implementation phase. The owner realizes that by blindly trusting Harry, he has put his business in serious jeopardy. Creating the vision will be the easy part.

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

We take them through the same stuff, then start pitching our products. We move them to the same standard demo.

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Highspot

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) is a cross-department process that helps ensure companies have the right amount of products to satisfy customers without extra stock piling up. Action plan: Finalize and implement a detailed production plan. S&OP’s intention: to align sales operations with long-term goals.

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