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Get inside your Buyers Head - Improve Funnel Conversion Rates

The document outlines strategies for enhancing conversion rates by designing a buyer-centric growth process that aligns with the buyer's journey. It emphasizes the importance of understanding buyer personas, addressing their concerns, and optimizing the sales funnel to minimize friction and enhance motivation. Key recommendations include leveraging content marketing, nurturing leads, and ensuring a seamless onboarding experience to drive customer success.

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[ ]GET INSIDE YOUR BUYERS HEAD IMPROVE CONVERSION RATES
WHY DO WE NEED A GROWTH PROCESS?
MyProduct.com HOW IT WORKS DESCRIPTION Our collaboration product allows you … BUY NOW! Only $9,999 In a perfect world…
WHY DOESN’T THIS WORK?
BUYER QUESTIONS AND CONCERNS BUYING PROCESS
How do we respond?
Break the process down into a series of steps… Design a series of steps that we want customers to go through Website Free Trial Purchase
Results in a Funnel Not all people entering the first step will get to the second, etc.
Studying Funnel Blockage Points Suspects Suspects Suspects Suspects Suspects Suspects Suspects Suspects Suspects Suspects Suspects Suspects
The Source of most Problems Vendor Centric
NOT MOTIVATED TO DO THAT THEY ARE CUSTOMERS WILL DO SOMETHING YOU ARE HOPING YOUR
A better way to approach to Funnel Design Buyer Centric Buyer-Centric
THE BUYERS JOURNEY
THE BUYERS JOURNEY Awareness Consideration Purchase
Mismatch: Sales often handle every lead as though they were in the Purchasing phase I’m paid to sell. I better be selling.
Likely Distribution of Web Site Visitors Vendor Web Site 80% Awareness 15% Consideration 5% Purchase
Different Dialog and Content for each stage Awareness Consideration Purchase • Create Problem & Pain awareness • Discuss how people are solving • Discuss benefits people are seeing • Don’t mention your product • Don’t sell! • Help in choosing a particular solution • Explain how your Product can solve their pain • Free Trial / Demo • Customer stories • Nurture with regular content (Newsletter) • Case studies • Results achieved • How you helped achieve them • Other proof points • Customer references • ROI data
• Just lost my data in hard drive crash • Backup software/service • Starting a new software project • Dev Tools, etc. • Performance issues with existing app • APM tools • Difficulties tracking bugs across multi-tier apps • Bug tracking software TRIGGERS
Buyer Personae Who is involved in the buying process? Champion Economic Buyer / Decision Maker IT required for sign off
Getting to know your Buyer Personae • Identifying Characteristics • Company Profile (your ICP) • Any special characteristics relevant to this purchase • E.g. Developers: • Don't have a budget • Prefer Open Source, and don't like to pay for software • Professional Role • What does a day in their life look like? • Key business goals? • What does their Boss expect of them? • How does our product help them achieve those? • Motivations / Aspirations? • What would make their job easier?
Getting to know your Buyer Personae • What pain do they have that we address? • Is it latent pain, or obvious pain? • How do they describe the pain and what they are looking for? • (Helpful for messaging) • Is solving this pain a high priority for them? • If not, what features would make it a higher priority? • What are the triggers that cause them to buy?
Getting to know your Buyer Personae • Are they searching for a solution? • If yes, how do they go about doing that? • Who influences them? (Sites, organizations, and people) • (Helps us figure out how to market to them) • Most important features? Decision criteria? • What are their reactions to our product/company? • What will they like? • What will they not like? • What are the main questions and concerns they have? • What competitors will they also evaluate? • What will they like or dislike about each of those?
FUNNEL DESIGN GET INSIDE YOUR BUYERS HEAD
Designing a Growth Process to match Buyer’s Journey Strangers VisitorsAttract CustomersCloseLeadsConvert PromotersDelight Awareness PurchaseInterest Post Purchase
Top of Funnel Drive the right traffic that matches your ICP and convert to raw leads Middle of Funnel Convert raw leads into MQLs Sales Convert MQLs into closed deals Customer Success Onboard, support and ensure customer success as measured by a customer KPI Designing a Growth Process to match Buyer’s Journey Strangers VisitorsAttract CustomersCloseLeadsConvert PromotersDelight Credit: HubSpot Awareness PurchaseInterest Post Purchase
Top of Funnel Inbound Marketing Paid Marketing Website Strangers Conversion Event Raw Lead Outbound SDR’s Account-based Mktg Targeted Strangers Mktg Qualified Lead Qualify?
Account Based Marketing • ICP powers all marketing • Ideal Customer Profile • Build lists of matching accounts • Discover.org, Lead Fox, ZoomInfo, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, etc. • Track who is in buying cycles • Visiting G2 Crowd, Bombora • Track which companies are on your website • Targeted outreach • Aircover from Ads Thanks to Eric Spett, Terminus
Middle of Funnel Raw Lead Lead Scoring Lead Nurturing Database High Low Nurture Webinars, events, newsletters, etc. Enrich Use software like ClearBit to enrich the email address to identify company, job title, etc. Segment Identify interesting segments based on attributes (verticals, job functions, etc.) or actions Mktg Qualified Lead Yes No Qualify?
Mktg Qualified Lead Sales – Lead Stages Qualify Sales Qualified Lead CustomerClose Discovery Call Opportunity Ready to buy? Sales interaction Note: Your process will likely be different, and there will be more Opportunity stages in your CRM pipeline
Initial Guess at Growth Process Website Free Trial
Map Buyers Process to Your Steps Research Shortlist Vendors Check Review Sites Evaluation Website Free Trial BUYER VENDOR ROI & Justification
GET INSIDE YOUR BUYERS HEAD How are they reacting as they go through our funnel steps? What are they thinking as they go through their process? Research Shortlist Vendors Check Review Sites Evaluation Website Free Trial BUYER VENDOR ROI & Justification
Optimize Your Steps to Fit Research Shortlist Vendors Check Review Sites Evaluation Website BUYER VENDOR ROI & Justification Free Trial ROI Calculator Competitive Features Matrix
Optimize Your growth process to Fit Research Shortlist Vendors Check Review Sites Evaluation Website BUYER VENDOR ROI & Justification Free Trial ROI Calculator Competitive Features Matrix Incent customers to do reviews
ADDRESS ALL DECISION CRITERIA Address Security Concerns 3rd Party Security Audit & Whitepaper BUYER Is this a safe vendor to choose? • Customer Stories • Safe Channel Partners
Choosing a Go-to-Market Model Freemium Viral No Touch Self- Service Light Touch Inside Sales High Touch Inside Sales Field Sales Field Sales with SE’s
How I assumed the two would relate
A rough estimate of CAC versus Sales Complexity Freemium No Touch Self- Service Light Touch Inside Sales High Touch Inside Sales Field Sales Field Sales with SE’s $0- $10 $50 – $200 $1,000 - $2,000 $3,000 - $8,000 $25,000 – $75,000 $75,000 – $200,000 Rough Estimates of Cost of Customer Acquisition (CAC)
The relationship is roughly exponential Clearly adding Human Touch dramatically increases costs
Sales Complexity CAC (logarithmic) 10x 10x 10x
The Obvious Take-away • Do everything you can to remove human touch from sales and onboarding
What creates Sales Complexity • High Price point • Complicated to evaluate? • Integration needed with other systems? • Multiple people involved in purchase decision? • Risk to business of a bad buying decision? • E.g. loss of data, business unable to operate if system is down, etc. • Requires purchase of other products / services to complete the solution? Freemium Viral No Touch Self- Service Light Touch Inside Sales High Touch Inside Sales Field Sales Field Sales with SE’s
Start with the buyer Understand the Complexity of your Sale • Price point • Larger investments need greater justification, & more levels of sign off • How complicated to evaluate? • Single person, or multiple people? • Integration needed with other systems? • How many people involved in the purchase decision? • Risk to their business of a bad buying decision? • E.g. loss of data, business unable to operate if system is down, etc. • Does it require other products or services to be purchased to complete the solution? Freemium Viral No Touch Self- Service Light Touch Inside Sales High Touch Inside Sales Field Sales Field Sales with SE’s
Land & Expand Much easier to get a large order once the product is proven
Product-Led Growth Models $1 $10 $100 $1,000 $10,000 $100,000 $1,000,000 Freemium No Touch Inside Sales Channel Field Sales Sales Complexity  CAC Logarithmic
Fixing broken funnels by getting inside your buyer’s head
FRICTION CONCERNS Find the worst blockage point in your funnel
MOTIVATIONS FRICTION CONCERNS Re-design, or try to use what motivates them
EXAMPLE BLOCKAGE POINT WEB SITE EMAIL CAPTURE FORM Typically a low conversion step
FRICTION CONCERNS Problem: Buyer’s fear Email Overload and Spam
MOTIVATIONS FRICTION CONCERNS We try to motivate with good content But frequently irritate the buyer with the barrier that stops them from getting at the content, and lose them at that step
Drift Redesign
OUTBOUND COLD CALLING
Outbound Cold Calling Cold Call Arrange Meeting with Sales Rep
FRICTION CONCERNS Problem: No Buyer wants a cold call from a salesperson
MOTIVATIONS FRICTION CONCERNS Get inside your buyers head – look for a suitable motivation
Redesign Cold Outreach Invitation to… (something of value) • Educational Event • Meet their peers • See data that is of value • See their own data in a new way • Etc. Build Relationship Build Trust
Use publicly accessible Data to build personalized assessments Hi Barbara, In doing a bit of research on fortinet.com, I noticed that you’ve lost a significant amount of traffic to the site (4,400 visits) over the past month. Is this something the team is aware of or have any idea what could have contributed to it? I also noticed while you folks dropped off the 1stpage of Google in 11 searches, there are tons of opportunities for your team (916 search opportunities!) See below:
USING CHROME EXTENSIONS
CLEARBIT LEADS + DATA ENRICHMENT New Leads Enrich Existing Leads
CLEARBIT • Data Quality • Highly skeptical • Seen lots of products like this before • Enrichment data wasn’t good • Data Coverage • Skeptical • What % of our leads would be covered in this database? Buyer’s Key Concerns
I have to go through IT to get Salesforce connected FREE TRIAL BLOCKAGE POINT Connect to Salesforce
SOLUTION: CHROME EXTENSION Browser connection to Salesforce See enriched data in Salesforce UI Judge quality of data Report shows data coverage % Chrome Extension
CHROME EXTENSION • Easy to install • Low buyer concern • Re-write the page’s HTML
CLEARBIT CHROME EXTENSION - ENLARGED
ELIMINATE STEPS THAT HAVE DEPENDENCIES ON OTHER PEOPLE
Freemium, Free Trials, Open Source The Product is your sales person
WHAT IS YOUR TIME TO WOW! ? Thanks to Gail Goodman of Constant Contact
DEFINING WOW! Thanks to Gail Goodman of Constant Contact A moment where your buyer sees something cool and exciting • Motivates them to continue exploring The moment when your buyer gets excited enough to want to buy Mini Wow! Full Wow!
TIME TO WOW! • How many steps? • How much time does it take? • How much FRICTION is involved
REMOVE STEPS & REMOVE FRICTION
EXAMPLE
As eCommerce shoppers… … what makes us buy?
Photos Feature Summary Recommended Accessories Rich description Video Reviews Detailed Specifications Answer: Rich Product Content
Salsify – Product Content Supply Chain Automation Brands Photos Videos Text Specs Etc. Retailer Portal Retailer Portal Retailer Portal Retailer Portal
Salsify’s Original Trial Experience Sign up Wait for email with Account Open the App Learn the UI Import Content Locate & Export Content Export to new Retailer Sign up with new Retailer
Landing Page Lots of Fields
Next, Wait for Email…
Sign In… Now What? • Lots of work still required
Get Inside your Buyers Head and Analyze for Problems Sign up Wait for email with Account Open the App Learn the UI Import Content Locate & Export Content Export to new Retailer Sign up with new Retailer
Redesign Trial Steps for Problems (Friction, Concerns, & Motivations) Sign up Wait for email with Account Open the App Learn the UI Import Content Locate & Export Content Export to new Retailer Sign up with new Retailer Delay causing major drop off
First Step in the Redesign Import Content Locate & Export Content Export to new Retailer Sign up with new Retailer Sign up Learn the UI
New Landing Page: JUST YOUR EMAIL
Motivation: “If these guys are using it, it must be pretty good…”
Still leaves a problem: • Locate & Export Content • Then import to Salsify to have something to play with Then: Land directly in App
Major Friction + Other people involved = Long Delays Import Content Locate & Export Content Export to new Retailer Sign up with new Retailer Sign up Learn the UI
Offer a chance to start with Sample Data Sign up Import Content Locate & Export Content Export to new Retailer Sign up with new Retailer They now have the MOTIVATION to import their own data Play with Sample Data Mini Wow! Learn the UI
Eliminate the risk that they won’t find the path to Wow! Learn the UI Import Content Locate & Export Content Export to new Retailer Sign up with new Retailer • High friction • Too much risk they won’t find the path to Wow! Sign up
Guided Navigation Human Help available
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 Before After Trial Request -> Logged into App Trial Request -> Product Page Trial Request -> Taking action 3x Overall Improvement Uplift - % Conversion, Before and After
Next Problem Area… Sign up Import Content Locate & Export Content Export to new Retailer Sign up with new Retailer Play with Sample Data • High Friction • Long Delay
Google Shopping
Problem Solved – Export to Google Manufacturer Center Sign up Import Content Locate & Export Content Play with Sample Data Export to Google
Last Remaining Problem Area… Sign up Import Content Locate & Export Content Play with Sample Data Export to Google • Huge Friction & Delay • Other People involved
Scrape publicly available data from existing retailer’s pages Sign up Play with Sample Data Export to Google No import needed Scrape Content for them • They have my content in here already • They’re showing me all the issues Mini Wow!
Eliminates Need for Sample Data Sign up Play with Sample Data Export to Google See their own Data Scrape Content for them
Final Redesigned Process • Fast Time to Wow! • High conversion rates Sign up Export to Google See and solve problems with their own Data Scrape Content for them
Funnel Optimization Meeting Suspects Suspects Suspects Suspects Suspects Suspects Suspects Suspects Suspects Suspects Suspects Suspects
Funnel Whack-a-Mole • Solve for blockage points • As you fix one, the problem will move elsewhere
SILOED THINKING MARKETING SALES CUSTOMER SUCCESS PRODUCT
THE NEW GROWTH TEAM MARKETING SALES CUSTOMER SUCCESS PRODUCT
USE FUNNEL FLOW CHARTS Website Free Trial Handle other questions Proposal High Level Overview xx xx xxx xx xx xxx MicroFunnels where needed
Treat your Buyer like a Bank Account Make a deposit before you try to make a withdrawal
Selling can be the worst way to sell Build Trust Consult SellFirst Contact First Contact Build Relationship
Design a funnel that Delights Entices and Motivates
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Get inside your Buyers Head - Improve Funnel Conversion Rates

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    [ ]GET INSIDEYOUR BUYERS HEAD IMPROVE CONVERSION RATES
  • 2.
    WHY DO WENEED A GROWTH PROCESS?
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    MyProduct.com HOW IT WORKS DESCRIPTION Ourcollaboration product allows you … BUY NOW! Only $9,999 In a perfect world…
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    How do werespond?
  • 7.
    Break the processdown into a series of steps… Design a series of steps that we want customers to go through Website Free Trial Purchase
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    Results in aFunnel Not all people entering the first step will get to the second, etc.
  • 9.
    Studying Funnel BlockagePoints Suspects Suspects Suspects Suspects Suspects Suspects Suspects Suspects Suspects Suspects Suspects Suspects
  • 10.
    The Source ofmost Problems Vendor Centric
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    NOT MOTIVATED TODO THAT THEY ARE CUSTOMERS WILL DO SOMETHING YOU ARE HOPING YOUR
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    A better wayto approach to Funnel Design Buyer Centric Buyer-Centric
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    THE BUYERS JOURNEY AwarenessConsideration Purchase
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    Mismatch: Sales often handleevery lead as though they were in the Purchasing phase I’m paid to sell. I better be selling.
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    Likely Distribution ofWeb Site Visitors Vendor Web Site 80% Awareness 15% Consideration 5% Purchase
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    Different Dialog andContent for each stage Awareness Consideration Purchase • Create Problem & Pain awareness • Discuss how people are solving • Discuss benefits people are seeing • Don’t mention your product • Don’t sell! • Help in choosing a particular solution • Explain how your Product can solve their pain • Free Trial / Demo • Customer stories • Nurture with regular content (Newsletter) • Case studies • Results achieved • How you helped achieve them • Other proof points • Customer references • ROI data
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    • Just lostmy data in hard drive crash • Backup software/service • Starting a new software project • Dev Tools, etc. • Performance issues with existing app • APM tools • Difficulties tracking bugs across multi-tier apps • Bug tracking software TRIGGERS
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    Buyer Personae Who isinvolved in the buying process? Champion Economic Buyer / Decision Maker IT required for sign off
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    Getting to knowyour Buyer Personae • Identifying Characteristics • Company Profile (your ICP) • Any special characteristics relevant to this purchase • E.g. Developers: • Don't have a budget • Prefer Open Source, and don't like to pay for software • Professional Role • What does a day in their life look like? • Key business goals? • What does their Boss expect of them? • How does our product help them achieve those? • Motivations / Aspirations? • What would make their job easier?
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    Getting to knowyour Buyer Personae • What pain do they have that we address? • Is it latent pain, or obvious pain? • How do they describe the pain and what they are looking for? • (Helpful for messaging) • Is solving this pain a high priority for them? • If not, what features would make it a higher priority? • What are the triggers that cause them to buy?
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    Getting to knowyour Buyer Personae • Are they searching for a solution? • If yes, how do they go about doing that? • Who influences them? (Sites, organizations, and people) • (Helps us figure out how to market to them) • Most important features? Decision criteria? • What are their reactions to our product/company? • What will they like? • What will they not like? • What are the main questions and concerns they have? • What competitors will they also evaluate? • What will they like or dislike about each of those?
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    FUNNEL DESIGN GET INSIDEYOUR BUYERS HEAD
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    Designing a GrowthProcess to match Buyer’s Journey Strangers VisitorsAttract CustomersCloseLeadsConvert PromotersDelight Awareness PurchaseInterest Post Purchase
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    Top of Funnel Drivethe right traffic that matches your ICP and convert to raw leads Middle of Funnel Convert raw leads into MQLs Sales Convert MQLs into closed deals Customer Success Onboard, support and ensure customer success as measured by a customer KPI Designing a Growth Process to match Buyer’s Journey Strangers VisitorsAttract CustomersCloseLeadsConvert PromotersDelight Credit: HubSpot Awareness PurchaseInterest Post Purchase
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    Top of Funnel InboundMarketing Paid Marketing Website Strangers Conversion Event Raw Lead Outbound SDR’s Account-based Mktg Targeted Strangers Mktg Qualified Lead Qualify?
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    Account Based Marketing •ICP powers all marketing • Ideal Customer Profile • Build lists of matching accounts • Discover.org, Lead Fox, ZoomInfo, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, etc. • Track who is in buying cycles • Visiting G2 Crowd, Bombora • Track which companies are on your website • Targeted outreach • Aircover from Ads Thanks to Eric Spett, Terminus
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    Middle of Funnel Raw Lead Lead Scoring Lead Nurturing Database High Low Nurture Webinars,events, newsletters, etc. Enrich Use software like ClearBit to enrich the email address to identify company, job title, etc. Segment Identify interesting segments based on attributes (verticals, job functions, etc.) or actions Mktg Qualified Lead Yes No Qualify?
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    Mktg Qualified Lead Sales – LeadStages Qualify Sales Qualified Lead CustomerClose Discovery Call Opportunity Ready to buy? Sales interaction Note: Your process will likely be different, and there will be more Opportunity stages in your CRM pipeline
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    Initial Guess atGrowth Process Website Free Trial
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    Map Buyers Processto Your Steps Research Shortlist Vendors Check Review Sites Evaluation Website Free Trial BUYER VENDOR ROI & Justification
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    GET INSIDE YOURBUYERS HEAD How are they reacting as they go through our funnel steps? What are they thinking as they go through their process? Research Shortlist Vendors Check Review Sites Evaluation Website Free Trial BUYER VENDOR ROI & Justification
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    Optimize Your Stepsto Fit Research Shortlist Vendors Check Review Sites Evaluation Website BUYER VENDOR ROI & Justification Free Trial ROI Calculator Competitive Features Matrix
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    Optimize Your growthprocess to Fit Research Shortlist Vendors Check Review Sites Evaluation Website BUYER VENDOR ROI & Justification Free Trial ROI Calculator Competitive Features Matrix Incent customers to do reviews
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    ADDRESS ALL DECISIONCRITERIA Address Security Concerns 3rd Party Security Audit & Whitepaper BUYER Is this a safe vendor to choose? • Customer Stories • Safe Channel Partners
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    Choosing a Go-to-MarketModel Freemium Viral No Touch Self- Service Light Touch Inside Sales High Touch Inside Sales Field Sales Field Sales with SE’s
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    How I assumedthe two would relate
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    A rough estimateof CAC versus Sales Complexity Freemium No Touch Self- Service Light Touch Inside Sales High Touch Inside Sales Field Sales Field Sales with SE’s $0- $10 $50 – $200 $1,000 - $2,000 $3,000 - $8,000 $25,000 – $75,000 $75,000 – $200,000 Rough Estimates of Cost of Customer Acquisition (CAC)
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    The relationship isroughly exponential Clearly adding Human Touch dramatically increases costs
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    The Obvious Take-away •Do everything you can to remove human touch from sales and onboarding
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    What creates SalesComplexity • High Price point • Complicated to evaluate? • Integration needed with other systems? • Multiple people involved in purchase decision? • Risk to business of a bad buying decision? • E.g. loss of data, business unable to operate if system is down, etc. • Requires purchase of other products / services to complete the solution? Freemium Viral No Touch Self- Service Light Touch Inside Sales High Touch Inside Sales Field Sales Field Sales with SE’s
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    Start with thebuyer Understand the Complexity of your Sale • Price point • Larger investments need greater justification, & more levels of sign off • How complicated to evaluate? • Single person, or multiple people? • Integration needed with other systems? • How many people involved in the purchase decision? • Risk to their business of a bad buying decision? • E.g. loss of data, business unable to operate if system is down, etc. • Does it require other products or services to be purchased to complete the solution? Freemium Viral No Touch Self- Service Light Touch Inside Sales High Touch Inside Sales Field Sales Field Sales with SE’s
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    Land & Expand Mucheasier to get a large order once the product is proven
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    Product-Led Growth Models $1 $10 $100 $1,000 $10,000 $100,000 $1,000,000 Freemium NoTouch Inside Sales Channel Field Sales Sales Complexity  CAC Logarithmic
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    Fixing broken funnels bygetting inside your buyer’s head
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    FRICTION CONCERNS Find theworst blockage point in your funnel
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    MOTIVATIONS FRICTION CONCERNS Re-design, ortry to use what motivates them
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    EXAMPLE BLOCKAGE POINT WEBSITE EMAIL CAPTURE FORM Typically a low conversion step
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    FRICTION CONCERNS Problem: Buyer’sfear Email Overload and Spam
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    MOTIVATIONS FRICTION CONCERNS We tryto motivate with good content But frequently irritate the buyer with the barrier that stops them from getting at the content, and lose them at that step
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    Outbound Cold Calling ColdCall Arrange Meeting with Sales Rep
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    FRICTION CONCERNS Problem: NoBuyer wants a cold call from a salesperson
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    MOTIVATIONS FRICTION CONCERNS Get insideyour buyers head – look for a suitable motivation
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    Redesign Cold Outreach Invitation to… (somethingof value) • Educational Event • Meet their peers • See data that is of value • See their own data in a new way • Etc. Build Relationship Build Trust
  • 58.
    Use publicly accessibleData to build personalized assessments Hi Barbara, In doing a bit of research on fortinet.com, I noticed that you’ve lost a significant amount of traffic to the site (4,400 visits) over the past month. Is this something the team is aware of or have any idea what could have contributed to it? I also noticed while you folks dropped off the 1stpage of Google in 11 searches, there are tons of opportunities for your team (916 search opportunities!) See below:
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    CLEARBIT LEADS +DATA ENRICHMENT New Leads Enrich Existing Leads
  • 61.
    CLEARBIT • Data Quality •Highly skeptical • Seen lots of products like this before • Enrichment data wasn’t good • Data Coverage • Skeptical • What % of our leads would be covered in this database? Buyer’s Key Concerns
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    I have togo through IT to get Salesforce connected FREE TRIAL BLOCKAGE POINT Connect to Salesforce
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    SOLUTION: CHROME EXTENSION Browser connectionto Salesforce See enriched data in Salesforce UI Judge quality of data Report shows data coverage % Chrome Extension
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    CHROME EXTENSION • Easyto install • Low buyer concern • Re-write the page’s HTML
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    Freemium, Free Trials,Open Source The Product is your sales person
  • 68.
    WHAT IS YOURTIME TO WOW! ? Thanks to Gail Goodman of Constant Contact
  • 69.
    DEFINING WOW! Thanks toGail Goodman of Constant Contact A moment where your buyer sees something cool and exciting • Motivates them to continue exploring The moment when your buyer gets excited enough to want to buy Mini Wow! Full Wow!
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    TIME TO WOW! •How many steps? • How much time does it take? • How much FRICTION is involved
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    As eCommerce shoppers… …what makes us buy?
  • 74.
    Photos Feature Summary Recommended Accessories Richdescription Video Reviews Detailed Specifications Answer: Rich Product Content
  • 75.
    Salsify – ProductContent Supply Chain Automation Brands Photos Videos Text Specs Etc. Retailer Portal Retailer Portal Retailer Portal Retailer Portal
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    Salsify’s Original TrialExperience Sign up Wait for email with Account Open the App Learn the UI Import Content Locate & Export Content Export to new Retailer Sign up with new Retailer
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    Sign In… NowWhat? • Lots of work still required
  • 80.
    Get Inside yourBuyers Head and Analyze for Problems Sign up Wait for email with Account Open the App Learn the UI Import Content Locate & Export Content Export to new Retailer Sign up with new Retailer
  • 81.
    Redesign Trial Stepsfor Problems (Friction, Concerns, & Motivations) Sign up Wait for email with Account Open the App Learn the UI Import Content Locate & Export Content Export to new Retailer Sign up with new Retailer Delay causing major drop off
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    First Step inthe Redesign Import Content Locate & Export Content Export to new Retailer Sign up with new Retailer Sign up Learn the UI
  • 83.
    New Landing Page:JUST YOUR EMAIL
  • 84.
    Motivation: “If theseguys are using it, it must be pretty good…”
  • 85.
    Still leaves aproblem: • Locate & Export Content • Then import to Salsify to have something to play with Then: Land directly in App
  • 86.
    Major Friction +Other people involved = Long Delays Import Content Locate & Export Content Export to new Retailer Sign up with new Retailer Sign up Learn the UI
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    Offer a chanceto start with Sample Data Sign up Import Content Locate & Export Content Export to new Retailer Sign up with new Retailer They now have the MOTIVATION to import their own data Play with Sample Data Mini Wow! Learn the UI
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    Eliminate the riskthat they won’t find the path to Wow! Learn the UI Import Content Locate & Export Content Export to new Retailer Sign up with new Retailer • High friction • Too much risk they won’t find the path to Wow! Sign up
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    0 10 2030 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 Before After Trial Request -> Logged into App Trial Request -> Product Page Trial Request -> Taking action 3x Overall Improvement Uplift - % Conversion, Before and After
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    Next Problem Area… Signup Import Content Locate & Export Content Export to new Retailer Sign up with new Retailer Play with Sample Data • High Friction • Long Delay
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    Problem Solved –Export to Google Manufacturer Center Sign up Import Content Locate & Export Content Play with Sample Data Export to Google
  • 97.
    Last Remaining ProblemArea… Sign up Import Content Locate & Export Content Play with Sample Data Export to Google • Huge Friction & Delay • Other People involved
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    Scrape publicly availabledata from existing retailer’s pages Sign up Play with Sample Data Export to Google No import needed Scrape Content for them • They have my content in here already • They’re showing me all the issues Mini Wow!
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    Eliminates Need forSample Data Sign up Play with Sample Data Export to Google See their own Data Scrape Content for them
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    Final Redesigned Process• Fast Time to Wow! • High conversion rates Sign up Export to Google See and solve problems with their own Data Scrape Content for them
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    Funnel Optimization Meeting SuspectsSuspects Suspects Suspects Suspects Suspects Suspects Suspects Suspects Suspects Suspects Suspects
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    Funnel Whack-a-Mole • Solvefor blockage points • As you fix one, the problem will move elsewhere
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    THE NEW GROWTHTEAM MARKETING SALES CUSTOMER SUCCESS PRODUCT
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    USE FUNNEL FLOWCHARTS Website Free Trial Handle other questions Proposal High Level Overview xx xx xxx xx xx xxx MicroFunnels where needed
  • 106.
    Treat your Buyerlike a Bank Account Make a deposit before you try to make a withdrawal
  • 107.
    Selling can bethe worst way to sell Build Trust Consult SellFirst Contact First Contact Build Relationship
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    Design a funnelthat Delights Entices and Motivates
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