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In the past year, we’ve seen 100’s of thousands of layoffs, particularly in technology segments. Customers have become depersonalized widgets that we move along our selling assemblylines. The people impacted are those that trusted management and do the work management directed.
This has a number of advantages, skill levels don’t need to be as high, we can leverage role specialization more effectively (creating sales assemblylines with customer widgets passing through each station), and we can effectively leverage all the traditional selling skills.
It’s a model from 20 years ago that people are still running today, despite changes in how buyers are buying and technology and marketing and sales know-how and all the tools that we have and everything like that. Those two aspects, prospecting/SDRs and the sales assemblyline are the two key aspects that I challenge.
Many think this is being driven by technology, AI/ML. We redesign knowledge work, emulating the principles of the industrial assemblylines of the past. We chop up work, creating assemblylines where knowledge workers focus on perhaps the functional equivalent of tightening a bolt.
Already, I’m seeing articles on, “Do these 5 things… The 10 critical success factors… These technologies are critical to customer engagement in 2020…” I’m no different, I’m jumping into the fray with the secrets to sales success in 2020. Second, it’s really tough–boring stuff.
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The same can be said about technology, CRM usage, and the overall process. Trusting opinion more than data. When you think about making a car, everyone’s specific job on the assemblyline works together. Attacking revenue growth through siloed strategies. A new tech stack alone won’t scale revenue.
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 assemblylines with customers on a conveyor belt moving from station to station. Things like trust, relationships come into play.
This is the downside of the modern Sales AssemblyLine — both buyer and seller feeling like a cog in the wheel. Sales Engagement Platforms are very helpful to increase your opens in email, and dialer technology is very useful with phone calls. Well, we’ve improved the core technology of the Amphibious Kit. looks normal).
We have highly focused roles, each role focuses on it’s job in the sales process, once complete, the widget–I mean customer, is passed to the next function, then the next, then the next… on down the sales assemblyline.
Brian is regularly referenced in popular books including Chris Brogan's Trust Agents and Seth Godin's Linchpin. Or like Henry Ford went to a meat packing plant in Chicago and saw how they had conveyor belt assemblylines, and he applied that to the automobile industry, which was completely unheard of before then.
Uh, and then ended up kind of finding my way and some of my way into technology. Is there any, I’m sure there’s many, but what are some of the standout lessons that you took from the yogurt business into your career in technology? Without fear and there’s, there’s trust built, built in. Super cool.
Al the posts seem to come from sales “gurus” and technology suppliers, perhaps foreshadowing their own demise. We know people buy from people, yet we create assemblyline/transactional processes. What’s killing sales isn’t the buyer. We know that we have to research, prepare.
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