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Conventionally, the two main methods of increasing sales
Growing Growing
Number of Sales Average Size of Sale
Increasing number of leads at top of funnel Ensuring utilization of sold products with
through aggressive outreach customization and customer service
Reducing attrition through sales funnel Improving client retention through detailed,
patient relationship-building
Increasing speed through tunnel
Selling add-on services and products to
Understanding an industry and its players existing clients based on their needs
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are matched to distinct sales archetypes
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Number of Sales Average Size of Sale
Account Manager
Account Executive
Common Customer Service Rep
Field Sales Rep
Titles Inside Sales Rep
Business Development Rep
Consultant
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In practice, these roles may be grouped into distinct teams or in a
combined team
Pre-Sale Post-Sale
Customer
Lifecycle Sourcing Implementation
Demonstrations Customer Support
Negotiations Upsells
Hybrid
Customer Team
Team
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Each type of team model comes with tradeoffs
Hierarchy can exist between Sales Few agents can perform both
and Account Management functions equally well: recruitment
Client may feel abandoned, senses and performance assessment
a bait and switch harder
Drawbacks Knowledge may be lost during Conflicting responsibilities may
hand-off impact success
Incentive structures trickier to
design
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Therefore, design of sales org should be rooted in criteria specific to
your clients, product and organization
Criteria for Selection Specialized Teams Hybrid Team
of Sales Org Model
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For enterprise sales, org design often hinges on relationship between
selling model and product customization and complexity
Up-sell/ Tendency to hybrid model
ongoing sales
relationship
prioritized
Selling
model
Transactional/
front-loaded
sales
Tendency to specialized model
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Specialized
Case Study: Insightly Teams
As of June 2015
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Specialized
Case Study: NetSuite Teams
NetSuite sells ERP and CRM software for a periodic subscription fee
~2,500 employees
Pre-Sale Solutions
Consultant
As of June 2015
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Hybrid
Case Study: Box Team
Account Executive
Customer
Sales Engineer
Marketing Manager
As of June 2015
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