Evaluate this SLA: Marketing will produce $100,000 of lead value each quarter, and sales will contact every marketing qualified lead within 24 hours of receiving it.
Evaluate this SLA: Each month, marketing will qualify enough leads for sales to close $50,000 in new business, and sales will contact every marketing qualified lead.
Evaluate this SLA: By the end of this month, Marketing will increase website traffic by 50%, and sales will attempt contact up to three times for each website lead.
Situation: Binge TV is a streaming service that specializes in irresistible shows. Their shows are so good, in fact, that their customers’ health has been suffering from watching so much TV. Some doctors are encouraging their patients to cancel their Binge TV subscriptions. Therefore, Binge TV is putting a new system in place: Any time an individual user streams content for 16 continuous hours, they get locked out of their account for 8 hours to force them to take a break. This is an example of:
Situation: Goat Splat is the latest up-and-coming punk band in Perth, Australia. Previously, their live shows were poorly attended because their international fanbase had trouble getting to Perth (it’s a bit out of the way regardless of where you’re coming from). To remedy this, Goat Splat is experimenting with live streaming their shows so fans can attend without having to travel. This is an example of:
Situation: C’est Wot is a Quebecois-British fusion restaurant specializing in jellied eel poutine. To encourage customers to bring their friends, C’est Wot gives first-time visitors buy-one-get-one meal vouchers for their next visit. This is an example of:
Situation: Ruthie’s Office Furniture sells office furniture to offices that need furniture. Ruthie believes passionately that all contracts should be signed by hand, so she requires her clients to send them to her using a fax machine. This is an example of:
Situation: Chuck’s Nuclear-Powered Chainsaws are not only the most powerful power tools in the world but also the most dangerous. To prevent overeager apartment landscapers from accidentally cutting down high-rise buildings while trimming the hedges, Chuck requires his customers to complete a four-part training program before purchasing a saw. This is an example of:
Situation: Excelsior Automotive sells autonomous limousines to the wealthy. They recently created a referral program where customers can refer friends in order to get a discount on their bill. Excelsior’s VP of Sales decides that, at the end of each quarter, she’ll find the ten customers who have submitted the most referrals, and the sales reps who closed those ten customers originally will each get a bonus. This is an example of:
Situation: Granny’s Handmade Electronics produces high-end computers and TVs using only yarn and apple pie filling. Many consumers are skeptical that the products would work as advertised, so Granny has introduced a seven-day free trial and a one-year money-back guarantee. This is an example of:
Evaluate this SLA: Each month, Marketing will generate 500 qualified leads, and sales will contact each lead as quickly as possible.
Situation: Denice Powell is the head of operations at Magic Feather Airlines, which provides flights for people who enjoy traveling with their pets. Magic Feather is popular at small airports but wants to expand. Denice comes from a customer support background and is passionate about building processes that serve their passengers well, but she wants to hire someone who can help build a process for securing space in major airports. Which type of candidate would be best for this role?
In Monroe’s Motivated Sequence, the purpose of the Action section of a persuasive speech is to _____.
In Monroe’s Motivated Sequence, the purpose of the Visualization section of a persuasive speech is to _____.
In Monroe’s Motivated Sequence, the purpose of the Satisfaction section of a persuasive speech is to _____.
Situation: Bartholomew’s Luxury Furniture produces handcrafted home goods with lifetime warranties. Bartholomew invests heavily in educating and training his team to help them avoid mistakes that could lead to defective products. According to The Cost of Poor Quality, what category does this cost belong to?
Situation: Maria’s Seltzer Broth produces a wide array of ready-made carbonated soups. Be sure to look for the hand-labeled cans at your local grocer! But, labeling cans by hand frequently causes errors, and customers who purchase a can labeled Bubbly Beef sometimes find that the can actually contains Chipper Chicken. The disappointed customers call Maria’s hotline, and the support team has to correct the mistake. According to The Cost of Poor Quality, what category does this cost belong to?
Situation: Tamara’s Monogrammed Baked Goods sells muffins, cakes, and pastries that have their customers’ initials sewed onto them with celery strings. But, the delivery team sometimes gets orders mixed up and delivers monogrammed baked goods to the wrong customers. For health reasons, food items cannot be returned, so Tamara has to monogram a new set of baked goods and have them delivered to the affected customers. According to The Cost of Poor Quality, what category does this cost belong to?
Situation: Charlie’s Pressurized Cottage Cheese Company sells soft cheese products in aerosol cans, making it easy for their customers to put copious amounts of cheese onto fruit, granola, or directly into their mouths. Yum! Unfortunately, the cans occasionally explode in the warehouse before they can be sold to customers. According to The Cost of Poor Quality, what category does this cost belong to?
What accounting tool gives a snapshot of your business’s financial standing at a single point in time?
Situation: Beep Boop Beep is a quickly growing telecommunications company that recently hired a RevOps professional named Alexis. She is developing a data dictionary to document all the information stored in the company’s many systems and how they are connected to each other. This is an example of:
Situation: Bedside Manor is a healthcare company that recently hired a RevOps professional named Dyani. Dyani has determined that there is more work to do than she can accomplish by herself, and she’s using an A3 template to persuade the executive team to hire a second operations professional. This is an example of:
Situation: Oslo’s biggest knitting supplies wholesaler recently launched an ecommerce store and hired a RevOps professional named Einar. He has mapped out the buyer’s journey for the company’s customers, and he is in the process of documenting everywhere responsibility for a customer is passed from one team to another. This is an example of:
Situation: The Lucky Nickel Construction Company recently hired a RevOps professional named Abeeku. He has discovered that the sales department and the customer support department have two different systems for tracking customer information and that the two aren’t connected in any way. He would like to get both departments onto the same system, but in the meantime he is focusing on integrating the two systems so they can share data. This is an example of:
Situation: Real Good Manufacturing recently hired a RevOps professional named Vladislav. Vladislav has discovered that the company has no restrictions on who can access and change customer data, and he is working to put regulations in place that control access and permissions. This is an example of:
Situation: Trustworthy Financial Services recently hired a RevOps professional named Markeisha. Markeisha is spending her first few months trying to understand where leads come from, how they get passed to sales, and what happens to new customers after the deal is closed. This is an example of:
Situation: Dmitry McNamara is the RevOps leader at Just Me, a single sign-on tool for consumers who want to manage all their social media accounts and email addresses from a unified dashboard. Just Me manages huge quantities of data, and Dmitry wants to hire someone who can analyze the data more deeply to help the company make more informed decisions. Which type of candidate would be best for this role?
Fill in the blank: Every step of your sales process should be required, factual, inspectable, and _____.
Fill in the blank: As marketing gets better at delivering the right number of leads each month, they’ll also need to get better at ______.
True or false? According to the cost of poor quality, if your products were perfect, you could save 100% of the cost of appraising them.
True or false? Share capital is the amount of money a company pays to its shareholders in the form of dividends and increased share value.
True or false? Preserving the integrity of your company’s data model is exclusively the job of operations professionals.
Fill in the blank: The flywheel is a model adapted by HubSpot to explain the momentum you gain when you align your entire organization around _____.
True or false? Friction can be used to describe challenges that hold back your internal teams as well as challenges that hold back your customers.
