Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

We don’t take the time to build relationships and trust. We view the process as a transaction, moving the customer from person to person on our sales assembly lines. We don’t get to know who they are as people, we don’t understand what drives them, what they aspire to, what they fear.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The second aspect of the predictive revenue model is the sales assembly line or seller specialization or sales handoffs , primarily the AE/CSM split. Those two aspects, prospecting/SDRs and the sales assembly line are the two key aspects that I challenge. Why prospecting sits apart from sales [6:59].

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 6, 2017

But I’ve been alarmed by the rise of “assembly line” thinking, extreme specialization, and obsession with our own efficiency—to the detriment of building relationships and trust. But then, I’m a physicist/engineer by training–and somewhat of an introvert. Much of this seems to be a R 3.0

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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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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 9, 2020

Specialization prevails as customers are moved from sales specialist to sales specialist, passing along the optimized sales assembly line. They focus on their own efficiency, automating and mechanizing as much of their work as possible.

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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. They are expecting them to think for themselves and trusting them to do so. Trusting them to do so.

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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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ClickFunnels

JUNE 18, 2021

This sales funnel model is so effective because you are gradually increasing commitment as you are building trust. You can learn more about his Content Assembly Line method here: Build Backlinks to That Content. Here’s how Russel explains it: So if you want to increase online sales, you should create a Value Ladder sales funnel.

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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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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 31, 2017

The SDR passes the customer to a BDR who passes the customer to an AM (Account Manager), who engages a Demoer, than a Product Line specialist. The customers move down our optimized assembly lines, with each sales person doing their job, maximizing the efficiency of our organization. And they are emotional.

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Likewise customers are widgets in our sales assembly line. In our quest for efficiency, we treat people as replaceable widgets. If someone isn’t performing, we fire them, replacing them with someone else, and someone else. Business has always been about people, caring, meaning, and creating value.

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Martech

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

This is another case where they will have to just trust the information that Google Ads is giving them without seeing the inside of the process. The result is a cookie-cutter, assembly line style of marketing that prioritizes measurement over customer needs. Read more here. Quote of the day. Chris Walker , CEO, Refine Labs.

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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 4, 2016

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. Things like trust, relationships come into play. The problem is, customers are not widgets.

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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. How do we build trust across our organizations? Instead, we focus on our efficiency in handling the customer.

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Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 9, 2018

Often, these are those with the assembly line version of selling, optimizing our process, treating the customer as a widget they move through the process—lead, SDR, Demo, Account Manager, Specialist, Customer Experience Team… The customer is an object upon which we execute our selling process, working the numbers.

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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. The Not So New Principles Of Sales Relationships Are Secondary To Sales Effectiveness Don’t Trust Your Sales Process, Challenge It,… My Favorite Sales Books.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 3, 2021

Isn’t it ultra-satisfying to watch a perfectly automated factory assembly line? An emotional bond between two parties can only be established if they trust each other, and if there’s a reason to keep the relationship going. It could be cars, machinery, or maybe just ice cream sandwiches. See how smooth things are?

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

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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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

APRIL 18, 2017

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 assembly line.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 17, 2021

Trusting opinion more than data. When you think about making a car, everyone’s specific job on the assembly line works together. Opinions are valuable, but data is priceless. Too many CEOs let their opinions get in the way of undisputable data, even if their opinions may be valuable. Scaling revenue is no different.

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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). AI can analyze reams of data and identify patterns, but it can’t build those relationships or establish trust with prospects for you. . For now, let’s look at a question that might be on your mind. . It’s a valid question. .

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 4, 2017

We know people buy from people, yet we create assembly line/transactional processes. We know customers struggle with buying, yet none of our programs or activities focus on helping them learn how to buy, or helping them align the diverse interests in the buying group. We know that we have to research, prepare.

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Spiro Technologies

OCTOBER 20, 2022

We were working with a customer who had an assembly line and they had a couple stations along their assembly line. When you work with a customer for a while and you gain their trust as a trusted advisor, sometimes you get into projects that you just never would imagine. I can give an example.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 9, 2019

It’s like an assembly line. . If your sales reps don’t know what your business developers are doing — or vice versa — you might end up with trust issues, or worse, have steps in the funnel fall through the cracks. . Business Developers fill the pipeline. BDRs and SDRs perform different tasks.

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Lead Fuze

JANUARY 2, 2024

This kind of interactive approach fosters trust between brand and consumer leading up towards increased sales—not bad for some clever coding. It’s not just about posting; it’s about engaging smarter and building trust with prospects—without the extra legwork.

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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. 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? Like just another number to be counted in the queue? Modern sales is buyer-centric !

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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. Or like Henry Ford went to a meat packing plant in Chicago and saw how they had conveyor belt assembly lines, and he applied that to the automobile industry, which was completely unheard of before then.

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Partners in Excellence

JULY 12, 2024

Apparently the speakers were noticing the fact that to develop trust and confidence with our customers, we have to build some sort of relationship. And we are discovering that running these people through our sales assembly lines is about as effective as my “just the facts/data” approach was.

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Spiro Technologies

JANUARY 18, 2023

Adam Honig: Yeah, that’s amazing, I can just see the frogs rolling off the assembly line, sealed up in the packaging, ready to go to squeamish high school seniors, taking those things apart. Steve Kingeter: And it’s a lot more diverse than frogs, trust me. Adam Honig: Wow, that’s amazing.

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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

Then we move them to the next step in our process, always with the suggestion, “If you order by the end of the month, I might be able to do something on the price… ” Each customer is moved along a sales assembly line that is designed to maximize our efficiency—not the customer experience. Then we wonder.

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Highspot

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

For S&OP success, you must have committed leadership, clear roles, and a culture of collaboration and trust. A manufacturer might streamline its assembly line to meet increased demand and ensure on-time delivery every holiday season. This cross-functional team brings different views and skills.

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