No two sales calls are alike. One prospect demands data. Another wants a big-picture vision. The third? Ghosts you after three emails. Without a clear system, even top reps waste time guessing and lose deals they could've won. A great sales playbook gives your team a repeatable game plan: what to say, when to say it, and how to keep deals moving.
Business development is often framed as a numbers game: more dials, more emails, more sequences. But sheer activity without depth rarely builds trust, let alone a pipeline. That's why we stopped calling our entry-level salespeople "BDRs." In our organization, they are junior consultants. This change in title isn't cosmetic; it reflects a completely different approach to how we engage prospects and build meaningful conversations.