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Selling in a Social World - Dreamforce 2012 - 9/20
1. Selling in a Social World
Mark Wayland, VP Commercial Sales, Salesforce.com
in/markwayland
@mtwayland
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3. Salesforce.com Coverage Model
Enterprise
Sales Top 2000 Account Families
CMRL – Named
CMRL – GEO
MM 100 - ~3,500 employees
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SMB
ESB
Desk & Do < 100 Employees
4. Last Year We talked about our SUCCESS Methodology
S Start with Discovery
U Users Sell for You
C Compelling Demos
C Connect the Dots
E Experience Events
S Sell High and Through
S Show Them the Money
5. SUCCESS was Designed for Cloud Computing
Enterprise
Mainframe Client/Server Cloud Computing
1960s 1980s Today
6. Business is now Social
Our Selling Playbook had to Evolve
Enterprise Adoption of Social Networking
7. At Dreamforce we have embraced the move to Social
DF09 DF10 DF11 DF12
Chatter Collaborate Social Business is
Enterprise Social
8. How do we sell in a Social
World?
Social
Enterprise
RFP
9. Our Approach to Selling in a Social World
The best social enterprise
Social vision presentations
Enterprise resonate with the CEO
Vision
New
Solution Selling VP Sales VP Service CIO CIO CMO VP HR
to Target Buyers
10. Selling Sales Cloud to VP Sales
Priorities Compelling Events
Change in Contract/Renewal
Revenue Growth leadership or M&A Product Launch
Productivity Annual kick offs or
Visibility partner conference
Discovery Plays
Channel structure Day in the life Sales Productivity Forecasting &
Revenue streams Sales process Social Selling Pipeline
Fiscal year Sales tools Management
11. Selling to VP Customer Service
Priorities Compelling Events
Customer Agent Productivity Pending Upgrade/ Industry
Satisfaction Agility legacy technology Support Issue
Keep cost/ PR Failures
interaction Low Change in
Leadership
Discovery Plays
Contact Center B2B/B2C/both Social Customer Self-Service
Types Existing Tools Service
Customer Profiles Operations Multi-Channel
Service
12. Selling to CIO
Priorities Compelling Events
Innovation with Compliance & Data ERP Renewals or Critical CEO/LOB
Social & Mobile Security Upgrades Initiative
Meet Business Reduce Complexity Pending M&A Pent-up Business
Demands Increase Agility Activity Demand/Slow SDLC
Research Plays
CIO Profile Salesforce Social Front Office: Innovation: Market
Technology Footprint SAP Agility at the speed of
Portfolio Customer Profiles Business Process: change
Business Initiatives Developer Days Replace Lotus Cultural
Notes Transformation &
Collaboration
14. From Social Intranet Social Enterprise
Social Public
Teammate Social
Network Network
Employee
Recognition Social Media
Social & Mobile
Collaboration
IFE Apps
Social Guest Profile
CyberU Marketing &
Loyalty
Social Social Call
Teammates Center
Corporate Guest Service
Sales Reservations
Customer Social
Network
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