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“Why I’m So Interested In Selling,” Don Mulhern

Partners in Excellence

Whether it’s territory planning, account planning, deal planning or sales call planning, YOU create the strategies and the plan. I am a firm believer in following a documented sales process, but at the same time realizing it’s not a prescribed robotic assembly line type of process that works the same way every time.

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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. There are three main models for sales teams: the assembly line, the pod, and the island. The Assembly Line.

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Are “Traditional” Selling Skills Even Relevant Anymore?

Partners in Excellence

This has a number of advantages, skill levels don’t need to be as high, we can leverage role specialization more effectively (creating sales assembly lines with customer widgets passing through each station), and we can effectively leverage all the traditional selling skills.

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Keys To Success In The New Year!

Partners in Excellence

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. But everything we do is targeted to exactly the opposite.

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A 5-step framework to scale your content operations and SEO

Search Engine Land

Awful regional manager. From there, as you grow in both stature and resources, you continue adding specializations to master each small piece of the much larger content operation machine – like a giant factory assembly line. In other words, completely different skill sets that too many teams try to force into one individual.

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Customers Aren’t Widgets

Partners in Excellence

One begins to see images of assembly lines with customers on a conveyor belt moving from station to station. Perhaps the most subtly arrogant assumption of this assembly line mentality is that we are in control. Rather than objects going down the assembly line with each station doing it’s function (e.g.

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3 Proactive Revenue Operations Projects That Deliver Value

Sales Hacker

In addition, you can collect and catalog questions tailored to each market or region further allowing you to customize and make your RFP template more valuable to future customers. In many organizations, the customer journey looks like an assembly line. Bring customer success into the sales process.