Join award winning Wall Street Journal cartoonist Stu Heinecke and DiscoverOrg CEO Henry Schuck as they discuss powerful new approaches to reaching contacts and getting attention of the most hard-to-reach prospects. Learn how you can get a meeting with anyone and close more sales!
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How to get a Meeting with Anyone
1. How to Get A Meeting With Anyone
USING CONTACT MARKETING TO IDENTIFY AND REACH ANY TARGET
Stu Heinecke
Author of
“How to Get a Meeting
with Anyone”
and
Henry Schuck
DiscoverOrg CEO & Co-founder
info@discoverorg.com
3. Outline
1. What is a Contact Campaign?
2. The Nature of C-Level Contacts
3. Level the Playing Field: Your VIP Makeover
4. Identifying Your Top Prospects
5. Get to Know Your Targets
4. 1 What is a Contact Campaign?
• The nature of Contact
Marketing
• Demonstrate your value
• Gain unfair advantage
• Unique way to create
explosive growth
5. 2 The Nature of C-Level Contacts
• Identify the CEO of the
problem
• “Center of Enterprise
Opportunity”
• Reaching the CIO
7. 3 Selecting Your Contact Campaign Type
• Gifts and Visual Metaphors
• Over the Top
• Free and Nearly Free
• Information, Insight and Media
• Original thought
• Becoming a source of information, providing value
• Being a thought leader
• Become a trusted source
• Giving people visibility
8. 4 Identifying Your Top Prospects
Work the Sphere of
Influence:
“I just reached out to John
(the VP) and wanted to
include you in the
conversation.” Copy John in
your email to your
prospect
Segment and target specific individuals based on
winning criteria:
• Function
• Rank
• Location
• Responsibilities
• Technologies
9. 5 Getting to Know Your Targets
• Dig into sales intelligence
• Look for open projects &
ongoing initiatives
• Executive moves
• Organizational structure
• Actual responsibilities
• Installed technology
10. info@discoverorg.com
Thank you – want more?
Download and read our new ebook
(available on the Resources Page at
DiscoverOrg.com):
Cold Calls, Warm Leads: The Ultimate
Guide for Turning Cold Calls into Leads
Do you need Direct Contact Details for
prospect accounts? Go to discoverorg.com
and click on the Free Data link.
Tell us your top accounts and we can help
you out.
For a signed and personalized print of this
cartoon, or to discuss Contact Marketing
further – reach out to Stu at
stuheinecke@gmail.com.
Editor's Notes
If you focus on connecting with the 1%, creating relationships with them, you can create explosive growth.
Bio Pic, WSJ logo, cartoon
Henry speaks to bio
BIG TAKE AWAY: Focus on the highest level contacts, making connections and relationships with the top 1%. Break through, bring them value, create explosive growth.
- Stu – 80/20 Rule, morphs to top 1%, explosive growth and scale of production. Engage the right people – produce explosive growth. Once you break through to these people, you don’t want to be pitching to them, you want to be understanding how you can bring them value.
Henry – Questioning – how do you do this? With this method, how would you spend $10K
Book with section or page highlighted
Stu – Actual CEO- proposing something that will be passed by the CEO, good that he already knows about it
Not strategic, not CEO. Identify CEO of the problem. DiscoverOrg helps with this.
Audience selling into IT. Unlikely to reach out to CEO, or would those people be interested. CIO as high as they go.
Henry – when you are doing more costly, focused or time intensive campaign, perfecting message – want to be able to REACH those right contacts with that high-impact messaging. (Apteo example)
How do you get response from CIO-or project owner? Data to identify them.
What is their focus length? What are they considering? Help to see around corners?
Gifts and visual metaphors – big board cartoon.
- Sword as metaphor for what Dan can do – 100% response – turn-around specialist.
Over the Top
- Fruit company in Forrest Gump, trying to reach CEO. Wooden box, homing pigeon. Last attempt. Send back meeting time via pigeon.
Free and Nearly Free
- Timing is key. Uses of email, telephone and social media. Henry: guy quoted Henry in outreach.
Information, insight and media
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Timing is key to response
Triggers – How these work to identify opportunities, research and triggers, sphere of influence
Top 100 prospects, Strategic 100, Engagement 100