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Sales Tactics and Tools
June 12, 2013
@markeelliott melliott@vapartners.ca www.vapartners.ca
Agenda
• Introduction
• Networking for Sales
• Cold Call
• Email
• Prospecting Research Tools
• Linkedin
• Twitter
• Social Media Tools
• Sales CRM
• Skype
• Web demos
• Content Marketing
• Meeting Plan
• Resources
• Sales Peer2Peer
@markeelliott melliott@vapartners.ca www.vapartners.ca
Introduction
• Mark Elliott co-founder
• VA Partners provides Part-time Sales and
Marketing
• Almost 20 Years of Sales and Marketing
• Worked with 60 clients over 6+ years
• Created a $600,000 annual annuity stream for a
finance company
• Grew Financial client from 1 to 50 customers and
double revenue
• Closed over $100,000 in sales directly from Social
Media Leads
• Booked 100+ meetings using Social Media
• Increased revenue for web based company by 50%
@markeelliott melliott@vapartners.ca www.vapartners.ca
Networking for Sales
• People are there to
meet other people
• Go to where your
customers and
partners are
• Have a plan
• Meet new people
• Ask questions
• Next steps
• Connect on Linkedin
• Follow-up
@markeelliott melliott@vapartners.ca www.vapartners.ca
Cold Calling
• Do your research
• Have a plan
• Understand your goal
• Benefits
• Right time to call
• Practice handling
objections
@markeelliott melliott@vapartners.ca www.vapartners.ca
Email
• Research
• Subject line
• Keep it short
• Benefits
• Next step
• Tools available
@markeelliott melliott@vapartners.ca www.vapartners.ca
Prospecting Research Tools
@markeelliott melliott@vapartners.ca www.vapartners.ca
Linkedin
• Have a plan
• Connections
• Status Updates
• 2nd
Connections
• Groups
• Trigger Events
• Signal
• inMail
@markeelliott melliott@vapartners.ca www.vapartners.ca
Twitter
• Have a plan
• Reinforce message
• Connect with
customers, partners,
prospects
• Share information
• Interact
• Ask for an email or
telephone number
@markeelliott melliott@vapartners.ca www.vapartners.ca
Social Media Tools
• Web based
• Search
• Multiple Views
• Lists
• Schedule Tweets
• Mobile
@markeelliott melliott@vapartners.ca www.vapartners.ca
Sales CRM
• Accounts
• Contacts
• Activities
• Opportunities
• Notes
• Leads
• Share information
@markeelliott melliott@vapartners.ca www.vapartners.ca
Skype
• Free Calls between
users
• Inexpensive long
distance
• Connect to multiple
people
• See when people are
available
@markeelliott melliott@vapartners.ca www.vapartners.ca
Web Demo
• Presentations
• Demos
• Sharing documents
@markeelliott melliott@vapartners.ca www.vapartners.ca
Content Marketing
• Blogs
• Whitepapers
• Subject matter expert
• Content for other
platforms
• Linkedin
• Twitter
• Newsletter
• Drive more hits to your
site
• Downloads can
become leads
@markeelliott melliott@vapartners.ca www.vapartners.ca
Meeting Plan
• Keeps the meeting on
track
• Ensure you are moving
to the right goals and
next steps
@markeelliott melliott@vapartners.ca www.vapartners.ca
Great Sales Resources
Entrepreneurs Tool Kit
Peer2Peer
Sales 2.0 Book
Linkedin Group
@markeelliott melliott@vapartners.ca www.vapartners.ca
Sales Peer2Peer
• Next event in the Fall
• Frequency
• Move to monthly
• Sales Topics

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