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. But somehow, we’ve missed some very important principles in Lean Manufacturing. They are the fundamentals that make this so important in making lean manufacturing work.

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Partners in Excellence

MAY 26, 2021

They don’t care about our organizational structure, they don’t care about our selling process or strategies for demand gen. It’s become fashionable, recently, to apply manufacturing principles to our Go To Customer strategies. Its the foundation of modern manufacturing and lean principles.

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Veloxy

JUNE 23, 2021

For most companies, selling virtually has become the new norm. And although some have taken to virtual selling like a fish to water, more and more businesses are struggling to adjust. So, how can we work on fixing a lot of these virtual selling challenges? 10 Steps to Building a Virtual Selling Team. Stop waiting.

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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Amy Volas wrote, “Is Sales Over-segmented,” Bob Apollo wrote, “Has role specialisation in B2B selling gone too far?” Much of their discussion has to do with the current mechanization of selling that’s become popular in the SDR/AE approach to selling. Likewise, selling is more complex.

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Assembly Line Manufacturing Sales Up-sell 147

Hubspot

OCTOBER 15, 2024

When a prospect brings up a concern, you won‘t be caught off guard — you’ll already have the answers ready. It's all about showing that you're not just there to sell but to genuinely help them solve their problems. Remember, it's not just about what you're selling, but who you're selling to.

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 18, 2021

Probably one of the weakest areas of buying and selling I see is “qualifying.” ” BANT is the grandfather of all of these, but others have come up with their own alphabet soup pushing their approaches. A major candy manufacturer was launching a new line of products. It’s actually quite fascinating.)

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

It’s particularly confusing to see the mindset around “settling for what we get,” in selling. While we mouth a lot of words about this, while we orchestrate SKOs to pump people up, too many organizations seem satisfied with these. So much of “modern selling” seems based on lean and agile principles.

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Manufacturing Technique Pitch Up-sell 146

Search Engine Land

AUGUST 9, 2024

Setting up this segment helps to rule out issues for key product lines quickly. This applies to B2B original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) with a wide range of product families. Many companies set this up in their rank tracking tool, which only monitors changes in pre-defined, targeted keywords. Processing. What’s next?

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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Sometimes, while we think what we sell is important, it may not be on the radar of the executives we are trying to reach—nor should it be. ” Bill responded, “Our stuff is really important to their ability to manufacture their products. ” Bill and I show up on “executive row” at the appointed time.

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Salesforce

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

AI can help free up your teams to focus on high-value activities that drive revenue growth and ultimately improve margins. According to a recent study, employees can spend up to 20% of their time on administrative tasks , including order tracking, which translates to a substantial drain on operational efficiency.

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Sales Pop!

MAY 20, 2023

The book was by Daniel Pink and was entitled To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth about Moving Others. In To Sell Is Human , the author quotes playwright Arthur Miller from his famous play Death of a Salesman. This was certainly true at the time To Sell Is Human was published in 2012. Pink cited the U.S.

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Spiro Technologies

JUNE 3, 2024

If they’re going into manufacturing at the high school level, they made that decision a long time ago. What we really have to do is show people, young people and those that influence them, parents, counselors, peers, friends, that manufacturing really is cool. Adam Honig: Hello and welcome to Make It. Welcome to the podcast, Ray.

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Manufacturing Electricity Education Territory 59

ClickFunnels

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

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Lead generation Finance Non-Profits Up-sell 245

Partners in Excellence

JUNE 9, 2021

Part of our problem in figuring out how to respond to these changes is that we continue to start from our current/historical models of marketing, selling, customer service/experience. Today, we tend to leverage partners as channels to sell our products. At one point in my career, I worked with engineers and manufacturing organizations.

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Manufacturing Up-sell Technology Technology 149

Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Yesterday, I published a rather long article on the Selling Process. It’s part of my series of articles about “Things We Thought We Understood About Selling But Really Didn’t.” ” Apologies, the article was rather long, but the selling process is so important. The reality is, however, very different.

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Usually this focuses on identifying their needs for solutions we sell, understanding how much they know about our products and the competition. So we have a huge disconnect with our selling process–to the point where it seems to have meaning only to us and not to helping the customer.

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Cerebral Selling

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

In one experiment the researchers set up a display of gourmet jams in an upscale supermarket. All the jams were made by the same manufacturer, and customers were allowed to sample them as they walked by. You give up and decide to just book the place and hope for the best. Prescriptive sellers like these sell with conviction.

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Sell Gambling Manufacturing Up-sell 178

Spiro Technologies

JANUARY 23, 2024

On this podcast, I talk with company leaders about how they’re modernizing the business of making, moving and selling products, and of course, having fun along the way. We realized that for us to really move the needle and grow our business, we needed to become more of a solutions-based manufacturer. Not 21st, 20th.

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Manufacturing Product Electricity Start-ups 59

Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 15, 2022

A reader wrote me, “Dave do you think sales enablement professionals need selling experience?” If we are so prepared to ignore those who don’t back up their roles with deep experience in selling, then we must challenge ourselves with another question. How would customers respond to the same question?

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 11, 2024

Preface : Jill Konrath is one of the most well respected author, speaker, teacher on all things selling. She’s written 4 masterpieces on selling. Yet, if I wanted to start my own company it was necessary to learn how to sell. I toured manufacturing plants. I detail my process in Agile Selling ).

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Sell Manufacturing Up-sell Consult 133

Partners in Excellence

MAY 17, 2021

I started selling to large banks and investment companies, so I made it my job to learn their language so that I could understand what they were saying and I could make myself understood. When a manager asks about the pipeline, we don’t conjure up sewage systems, water or gas pipelines and the associated pumps and valves.

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Objectives and Key Results Technique Manufacturing Objection handling 143

Sales Pop!

DECEMBER 12, 2022

percent THC content, while marijuana can contain up to 30 percent or more THC content. It’s also important to remember that some companies may offer higher margins on their products without necessarily making them better than those made by other manufacturers who sell cheap-margin items. Conclusion.

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Manufacturing Price Legal Up-sell 130

Salesforce

DECEMBER 2, 2024

The first initiative I have taken at every company I’ve worked at is to develop, design and implement a lead to opportunity process (ensuring leads end up on the opportunities they belong to). Let’s say your company sells multiple products and opens up multiple opportunities for those products.

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Closing Objectives and Key Results Manufacturing B2B 59

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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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Recently, thanks to Brent Adamson and Matt Heinz, this self oriented obsession came up again in the discussion. In that discussion, the unfortunate reality came up. They describe themselves as finance, HR, engineers, developers, manufacturing, operations, marketing, sales, customer experience. ” Talk about vanity!

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Manufacturing Finance Presentation Up-sell 146

Martech

JUNE 18, 2024

. “S&P Global Mobility is a data-rich environment of automotive information and analytics from every part of the automotive life cycle, whether it’s the manufacturer’s planning for their next vehicle launch or understanding how many vehicles they’re going to sell over the next five years.” franchisees.

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Manufacturing Real Estate Represent Finance 109

Martech

MAY 19, 2022

Some dealers find it difficult to have repeated conversations about problems with manufacturing or delivery. Sharer’s question for them: “If a manufacturer knew a delivery was delayed, when would you want to know?” “I worked with a guy one time who joked, never confuse selling and delivery,” said Sharer.

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Veloxy

APRIL 12, 2023

But selling solar isn’t easy – it requires knowledge, skill, and persistence to convince customers to invest in this renewable energy source. Speed up the process. Educate the Customer As a solar salesperson, you are not only selling a product but also educating your customers about solar energy. of all U.S.

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Referrals Finance Objectives and Key Results Sales 246

Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 15, 2022

While optimizing each step was important, the governing design principle for effective manufacturing processes was the flow of the entire line. When this was done, the manufacturing process was suboptimized. Alternatively, WIP might build up after one manufacturing step.

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Sales Pop!

JANUARY 13, 2024

For all of us in selling, while we may not strike fear in the hearts of those we deal with as dragons clearly do, we depend daily on our courage, creativity and innovation. But the real survival skill in selling is our ability to KARE. In selling, we spend much time with logical groupings. That’s why it’s important to care.

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Sales Pop!

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Manufacturers and advocates of e-cigarettes argue that they are a healthier alternative to tobacco. The idea was not a fad, but it was expanded and ended up showing that this type of e-liquids or e-juice is an effective method. Then the manufacturing technique improved, creating devices in various shapes and with flavors included.

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Women Sales Pros

MAY 10, 2019

Here are six must-know things to have at the top of your “no do” sales list: Mistake # 1 Focus On The Market Vs Customer – understanding your best and most profitable markets is just the first step in achieving your sales goal To sell more you have to stop focusing so much on the market, and focus more in the individual customer.

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Manufacturing Sales Niche Up-sell 108

Heinz Marketing

MARCH 13, 2020

For many sales teams, especially those who already sell remotely, the restrictions on travel due to COVID-19 haven’t changed the nature of how they sell. If you already sell primarily via the telephone, digital channels and video conferences, not a lot has changed.

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Meeting Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Up-sell 125

Salesforce

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Channel sales — or selling through partners — represents 75% of the world’s commerce, according to Forrester. In channel sales, companies (here we’ll call them vendors) sell through intermediaries. This business model is also called indirect selling, because the company doesn’t have a direct connection to the end customer.

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Manufacturing Retail Territory Sales 111

Cerebral Selling

APRIL 20, 2020

The good news is when it comes to messaging some sellers are attempting to up their game with narratives that are more specific and tailored. . Consider these real-world sales outreach examples: “We are the first to design, manufacture and sell industrial plasma cutting solutions. Can we set up a quick demo?”. “I

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Real Estate Pitch Networking Manufacturing 162

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

A channel partner is a company that sells products and services for a technology manufacturer or vendor. Channel partners basically onboard other people to sell your product for you. In the tech world, massive enterprise companies have entire sales channel departments who sell outside technology solutions to their clients.

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Martech

JULY 29, 2022

When COVID-19 happened, manufacturing, shipping and storage all became wild and unpredictable. Merchandise at rest is a cost, minimized if the stuff sells shortly after it arrives at the warehouse or fulfillment center. Hart offered a more pro-active approach: Online retailers must take a position on what they want to sell.

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