Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Yesterday, I published a rather long article on the Selling Process. ” Apologies, the article was rather long, but the selling process is so important. In recent years, we’ve acknowledged the concept of a customer Buying Process. And why would manufacturing care about a new content management system.

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Process Manufacturing Legal Contract 133

Salesforce

MARCH 15, 2024

AI has taken center stage, but the question on many manufacturers’ minds is “how do I get started with generative AI?” While many manufacturers have taken advantage of predictive AI when it comes to planning and supply chain, forecasting, wallet share, and market share, generative AI presents new opportunities and challenges.

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Manufacturing Networking Start-ups Technology 96

Martech

AUGUST 16, 2024

While there are useful IoT products, a lot seem to exist so manufacturers can collect data on the users. Processing. I have seen a mirror that could not be used because it needed to reboot. (I I will spare you my rant about IoT locks and lighting systems.) Oral-B just released an AI toothbrush to tell you what spots you missed.

Gambling 126

Gambling Manufacturing Trust Follow-up 126

Martech

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

More and more companies are taking charge of their entire product journey, from ideation and manufacturing to delivery. Use this data to engage consumers directly, understand their buying habits and remove hurdles in the purchase process — boosting satisfaction, loyalty and lifetime value. Amazon, Walmart, Target), per Statista.

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Government Retail Manufacturing Trust 114

Sales Pop!

MAY 8, 2022

Take manufacturing, for example—how many different kinds of manufacturing exist? What would be the considerable difference between manufacturing an automobile and manufacturing a coffee maker? Each indicator can be set for all pipelines, for a selected pipeline, or for each stage of a particular sales process.

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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 1, 2021

We’ve long known (whether we use it or not) about the “sales process.” ” Virtually every organization has some variant of a sales process with stages we move through and, possibly, critical activities we should be executing within each stage. Then we go through some sort of discovery process.

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Martech

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Surveillance footage from a Shanghai robotics showroom shows a small AI-driven robot, created by a Hangzhou manufacturer, talking with 12 larger showroom robots. Processing. The smaller bot reportedly persuaded the rest to leave their workplace, leveraging access to internal protocols and commands, according to the site Oddity Central.

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Martech

JANUARY 10, 2025

The challenge of perceived intrusiveness Although device manufacturers and media companies have long refuted the idea that devices and apps listen to consumers, consumers dont necessarily believe this. Processing. This highlights the need for marketers to tailor their strategies to different demographic groups.

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Manufacturing Legal Retail Trust 122

Salesforce

JULY 10, 2024

As AI (and power) usage soars, hardware manufacturers are developing equipment that prioritizes both better performance and higher efficiency. For example, NVIDIA reports its H200 graphics processing units (GPUs) are 50% more efficient than its predecessor.

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Electricity Agriculture Territory Manufacturing 130

Martech

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

These help accelerate CDP implementation with industry-specific templates, data models and attributes; currently available for high tech, industrial manufacturing, professional services, telecommunications, utilities, financial services, travel, and retail. Processing. Industry onboarding accelerators. Don’t forget the consumer.

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Salesforce

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

In manufacturing facilities , robots already handle repetitive assembly tasksbut next-generation systems will adapt to changing conditions just as flexibly as their human counterparts. ABB has transformed decades of digital process automation expertise in manufacturing into the world’s most sophisticated industrial robots.

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Hospitality Objectives and Key Results Healthcare Manufacturing 102

Martech

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Which processes should we automate to scale up localized campaigns profitably? These processes are all data-heavy and labor-intensive. These challenges have made automation an essential operational solution. Automation has changed the paradigm for local advertising execution and management.

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Heinz Marketing

JULY 19, 2024

AI is being adopted by companies at an increasing rate to help optimize internal processes, create better customer experiences, identify new opportunities – the list can go on and on. This decision hinges on various factors, including the nature of the task, budget constraints, and long-term strategic objectives.

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Project management is basically a work plan/process that enables us to accomplish our objectives in a disciplined, effective, and efficient manner. Finalize the product design and release to manufacturing, 4. Begin manufacturing. There are agile and lean tools we can use to help us in this process.

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Manufacturing Launch Sales Process 168

Martech

JULY 22, 2024

They manufactured and sold men’s brushless shaving cream and got creative. Processing. If you doubt that quantifying offline advertising is too expensive, too complex and too time-consuming, think again. The Burma-Shave company was doing it in the 1930s. This company started in the mid-1920s.

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Martech

MARCH 19, 2025

Edwards Demings 14 principles transformed manufacturing by emphasizing quality, efficiency and continuous improvement. Stop depending on inspections In manufacturing, inspections dont improve qualitythey just identify failures after the fact. Deming believed that quality should be built into the process from the start.

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Assembly Line Manufacturing Campaign Education 68

Martech

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Example Instead of : How to streamline operations Try this : How operations managers in mid-sized manufacturing companies can cut costs by 15%. Processing. Start by asking: What job roles or functions does this content address? What challenges or characteristics define these people? Email: Business email address Sign me up!

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Education Manufacturing B2B Trust 112

G2

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

E-signatures are essential for the manufacturing industry. Learn how digitizing signing processes can transform supply chain processes, meeting manufacturing demands.

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Partners in Excellence

MAY 26, 2021

Our demand gen, marketing, sales organizational design, sales processes, customer experience—all of it are generally designed around us. They don’t care about our organizational structure, they don’t care about our selling process or strategies for demand gen. We may be trying to hit certain spend/budget goals.

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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 20, 2020

This assembly line process starts with a widget (let’s call them customers), being passed from person to person down the line until they come out closed or on the reject (loss) pile. The thinking is, “We will get our fair share of deals through this process.” But is that the answer? cited by Gartner.

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Assembly Line Manufacturing Sales Up-sell 147

Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

The templates, scripts, methodologies, processes are all tools we leverage to do this. Nor do we face contexts of function, for example, sales, engineering, manufacturing, marketing, finance, or HR. Does this mean our templates, scripts, processes, methodologies are useless? Increasingly, we face “contexts of one.”

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 2, 2024

It’s become the fashion to apply lean/agile manufacturing approaches to our selling and GTM strategies. There are some principles we can learn from manufacturing (just as there are some we can learn from design/development, procurement and other sectors). Waste interrupts the process flow.

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Manufacturing GTM Sales Growth 139

Salesforce

MARCH 13, 2025

Example: TAM SAM SOM Let’s say you manufacture baseball bats. Due to supply constraints, your manufacturing facility can only produce 200,000 bats per year. This metric takes into account your supply limits, production capability, and competitors. and discover there are 20 million customers who would buy one $60 bat per year.

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Minimum Viable Product Strategic planning Territory E-commerce 96

Salesforce

JANUARY 8, 2024

Drafting a sales contract Considerations and customization Negotiation and review process Execution and implementation Best practices and legal considerations Speed up the sales cycle from quote to close Go from lead to inked deal in record time with automation that speeds up quoting, approvals, and contracting.

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Contract Process Legal Real Estate 109

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Enterprise buyers: Need predictability in pricing Want to buy solutions, not features Require modularity and customization Have completely different procurement processes The key is to repackage your components into enterprise-ready solutions. Their famous 2.9% + $0.30 pricing was brilliant for SMBs but completely wrong for enterprise.

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Hospitality Price Manufacturing Engineering 107

Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 7, 2024

Continuing my series on applying lean/agile manufacturing principles to selling, I was reminded by Charles Green and Dave Jackson about an important aspect of these principles that is never mentioned by those promoting lean/agile in our sales assembly lines. This problem solving process is driven by the people responsible for doing the work.

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Sales Pop!

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

People, Processes and Technology. The crux of digital transformation is that people, processes, and technology must be utilized in an overlapping synthesis to break down silo walls. This is a good thing, but it isn’t so good when it acts as a silo and the velocity of a process is slowed or halted. They demand instant service.

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CRM Manufacturing Technology Technology 244

Search Engine Land

MAY 22, 2024

Brands cannot easily manufacture such a reputation for their authors at scale without the author’s involvement and personal investment. The decision power to implement the tactic is outside of their direct control; they’re often reliant on the author and constrained by people, processes and technology.

Manufacturing 83

Manufacturing Follow-up Contract Start-ups 83

Martech

AUGUST 22, 2023

How an industrial chemical pumps manufacturer modernized its go-to-market strategy Finish Thompson is a family-owned manufacturer of pumps for moving fluids — usually chemicals — founded in 1951 and based in Eerie, Pennsylvania. The company realized they needed to reposition themselves as a solution provider rather than a manufacturer.

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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 30, 2020

The number of people, directly and indirectly, involved in the buying process has grown. Often, corralling them, and helping them navigate their buying process makes herding cats seem trivial. ” Here are some thoughts: What is the vested interest of the people involved in the buying process? ” I asked. Mike went on.

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Sell Manufacturing Appointment Trust 152

Salesforce

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Yet many companies are still held back by the inefficient manual processes that order management entails. The MedTech industry is evolving rapidly, and with it, the complexities of supply chain and manufacturing. Effective MedTech order management is crucial for organizations to remain competitive.

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 8, 2024

” In the original development of Lean/Agile principles in manufacturing, leaders recognized they could never rest on their laurels. ” “Can we improve processes upstream, by helping our suppliers improve what they are doing with us?” ” “Can we the downstream experience of our customers?”

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Assembly Line GTM Manufacturing Engineering 139

Sales Pop!

MARCH 4, 2024

Stealthily meandering through diverse landscapes, trucks carry supplies from suppliers to manufacturers and retailers everywhere. This industry, which distinguishes between long-distance and local delivery, powers retail, manufacturing, construction, and agriculture industries.

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Transportation Electricity Agriculture Manufacturing 162

Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

We had several manufacturing companies using it for improving manufacturing processes, quality, and yields. So for our first few years, we focused exclusively on manufacturing process control and prescriptive maintenance. Some changing the settings in their manufacturing machines.

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Manufacturing Engineering Technology Technology 139

Sales Pop!

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

For example, if your company specializes in a particular area of the manufacturing sector, you can find a number of different businesses in that area to talk to. Most salespeople are familiar with the term “ gatekeeper ,” and often, this is where the sales process gets stalled. Invest In Good Prospecting Software.

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Partners in Excellence

JULY 11, 2024

.” Let’s imagine we sell manufacturing equipment. We’ve sold to a customer with a single manufacturing line, but now they are expanding the number of manufacturing lines so they need to buy more. If we create manufacturing machinery, we may have started with machines that do one thing on an assembly line.

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Assembly Line Manufacturing GTM CRM 138

Membrain

MARCH 29, 2023

Among manufacturers, the concept of Lean is well established and practically universal in its application. Along with Six Sigma and Just In Time (JIT), these approaches have transformed the manufacturing world so profoundly that it’s no longer possible to compete in manufacturing without some version of these practices in place.

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