Partners in Excellence

APRIL 12, 2023

There seems to be an arrogance or conceit in so many of the conversations I see about the future of selling. My feeds are filled with new technologies, new selling models, new engagement strategies, new organizational structures. As a result, sellers are playing a losing game of catch up. Win rates are plummeting.

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Assembly Line Customers Tradeshows Manufacturing 125

Partners in Excellence

MAY 23, 2024

Rather than paying up front for a license, people could pay on a monthly basis for a subscription. Since the target customers, initially, for these tools were individuals and small teams, the methods others had used in consumer product selling were adapted. And assembly line process started to emerge.

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Partners in Excellence

JUNE 12, 2023

So much of what our focus in “modern selling,” seems to be the adaptation of Lean Manufacturing techniques into selling. We’ve created “assembly lines” with specialized functions, passing our customers from one station to the next. There were however, some limitations to this.

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Partners in Excellence

JUNE 27, 2024

For some reason, there’s a huge attraction to applying “manufacturing techniques” to selling. Second, it always produces the same outcome (manufacturing experts will quibble, but we do design manufacturing lines to produce zero defects.) That makes it very inefficient, things can get backed up at those steps.

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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. One begins to see images of assembly lines with customers on a conveyor belt moving from station to station.

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Assembly Line Customers Manufacturing Objectives and Key Results 58

Highspot

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Coach them, train them, and provide them with the tools to be successful Be agile with your sales strategy, don’t wait for your yearly SKO to change things up What Is Sales Performance? However, if sales reps aren’t using good sales techniques, that pipeline won’t translate into closed deals.

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 5, 2023

I just listened to an outstanding webcast on the future of selling, conducted by four close friends. I am a student of their work, they are among the smartest thinkers about selling I’ve ever met. It seemed, unconsciously, the conversation around selling gravitates to SaaS selling.

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