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The Sales Industry Needs a Henry Ford Assembly Line

The Center for Sales Strategy

And, you can’t talk about automobile history without telling Henry Ford's story. As a visionary, Ford was an entrepreneur that developed many of the best practices that companies still use today. The most famous of his designs was the assembly line. The most famous of his designs was the assembly line.

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Are You Ready to Build a Sales Assembly Line?

The Center for Sales Strategy

Last week, we discussed why the sales industry needed a Henry Ford assembly line. We determined that while the technology that we use has changed over time, our sales structure’s foundation has not. Before Ford's assembly line, auto manufacturers built cars one-at-a-time.

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Sales Waste and the Production Line Theory of Revenue Generation

SBI

“The undirected worker spends more of his time walking about for materials and tools than he does in working; he gets small pay because pedestrianism is not a highly paid line.” Henry Ford. Henry Ford is of course renowned for forever changing the way the automobile industry manufactures cars.

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Customer relations 101: A customer relationship guide

Zendesk

Henry Ford once said , “It’s not the employer who pays the wages. Over a decade ago, Watermark Consulting published its renowned Customer Experience ROI Study , which was largely ignored by industry leaders at the time. Employers only handle the money. It’s the customer who pays the wages.” This can be frustrating.