1. How to narrow down your search for companies and contacts
2. How to create an authentic outreach email
3. How to follow up
4. A/B testing to increase open and reply rates
5. Tools to help you along the way
This document discusses optimizing sales opportunity management through improving sales processes and opportunity planning. It poses 12 critical questions for sales leaders to ask regarding their approach. Specifically:
- The document advocates for a rigorous "Win Lab" approach to opportunity planning that is collaborative, generates ideas/strategies, and produces action plans. It emphasizes focusing resources on important opportunities.
- It argues that opportunity planning must be collaborative, drawing on different strengths to uncover buyer needs, solutions, value propositions, and strategies.
- It also stresses that a well-defined sales process, with guides and checklists, enhances seller judgment rather than limiting it. The document outlines levels of process maturity and strategies for improvement.
Account Based Sales for Key Account GrowthRevegy, Inc.
According to SiriusDecisions, the recent buzz around account based sales reflects a long overdue need to enhance the way companies do account management...by breaking out of the status quo and exploring new, innovative approaches to the age-old concept of account planning, companies like Oracle are driving immediate pipeline growth from their most strategic customers.
Learn how world-class sales organizations are applying modern, account-based selling techniques to grow existing revenues:
The critical missing element that prevent account teams from discovering more immediate revenue opportunities
Why traditional approaches to account planning fail and what the most successful programs have in common
The best practices framework that companies like Oracle, JDA and BlackLine use to drive organic growth
The Agoge Sequence slide deck from Sam Nelson
Livestream: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6555128262367027200
Article: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/writing-copy-closers-blueprint-2x-response-rates-sam-nelson/
The document outlines four key areas and questions to determine the viability of an opportunity: 1) Is there an opportunity by examining the customer's business initiatives, profile, finances, and reasons to act. 2) Can we compete by assessing our solution fit, resources, value proposition, and relationship. 3) Can we win by analyzing support, alignment with the customer's vision, informal decision factors, and cultural fit. 4) Is it worth winning by evaluating short-term revenue, future revenue potential, profitability, risks, and strategic value. The questions provided for each area aim to thoroughly understand and assess the opportunity.
An ABX strategy involves focusing marketing and sales efforts on specific target accounts across their buyer's journey. The document discusses aligning teams around growth objectives, gaining buy-in, and executing and optimizing the strategy. It also covers identifying best opportunity accounts, taking a journey stage approach to engage accounts where they are in the buying process, and measuring key metrics to track engagement, pipeline, and ROI. The goal of an ABX strategy is to orchestrate relevant interactions between marketing and sales to close more deals.
A look at the marketing strategy with the highest ROI and how it helps companies close more accounts.
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The document provides information about The Selling Skills Institute, a company that specializes in sales training and personal development. It discusses the company's proprietary Shift Thinking teaching model, which focuses on changing how clients think in order to transform their behavior and drive better performance. The model addresses mindset, skills, behavior, and process. The document also outlines the company's approach to onboarding new clients, which includes assessing needs, defining objectives, diagnosing strengths/weaknesses, and developing a customized learning program. It provides an overview of the company's teaching topics and buyer-aligned sales framework.
This document discusses optimizing sales opportunity management through improving sales processes and opportunity planning. It poses 12 critical questions for sales leaders to ask regarding their approach. Specifically:
- The document advocates for a rigorous "Win Lab" approach to opportunity planning that is collaborative, generates ideas/strategies, and produces action plans. It emphasizes focusing resources on important opportunities.
- It argues that opportunity planning must be collaborative, drawing on different strengths to uncover buyer needs, solutions, value propositions, and strategies.
- It also stresses that a well-defined sales process, with guides and checklists, enhances seller judgment rather than limiting it. The document outlines levels of process maturity and strategies for improvement.
Account Based Sales for Key Account GrowthRevegy, Inc.
According to SiriusDecisions, the recent buzz around account based sales reflects a long overdue need to enhance the way companies do account management...by breaking out of the status quo and exploring new, innovative approaches to the age-old concept of account planning, companies like Oracle are driving immediate pipeline growth from their most strategic customers.
Learn how world-class sales organizations are applying modern, account-based selling techniques to grow existing revenues:
The critical missing element that prevent account teams from discovering more immediate revenue opportunities
Why traditional approaches to account planning fail and what the most successful programs have in common
The best practices framework that companies like Oracle, JDA and BlackLine use to drive organic growth
The Agoge Sequence slide deck from Sam Nelson
Livestream: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6555128262367027200
Article: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/writing-copy-closers-blueprint-2x-response-rates-sam-nelson/
The document outlines four key areas and questions to determine the viability of an opportunity: 1) Is there an opportunity by examining the customer's business initiatives, profile, finances, and reasons to act. 2) Can we compete by assessing our solution fit, resources, value proposition, and relationship. 3) Can we win by analyzing support, alignment with the customer's vision, informal decision factors, and cultural fit. 4) Is it worth winning by evaluating short-term revenue, future revenue potential, profitability, risks, and strategic value. The questions provided for each area aim to thoroughly understand and assess the opportunity.
An ABX strategy involves focusing marketing and sales efforts on specific target accounts across their buyer's journey. The document discusses aligning teams around growth objectives, gaining buy-in, and executing and optimizing the strategy. It also covers identifying best opportunity accounts, taking a journey stage approach to engage accounts where they are in the buying process, and measuring key metrics to track engagement, pipeline, and ROI. The goal of an ABX strategy is to orchestrate relevant interactions between marketing and sales to close more deals.
A look at the marketing strategy with the highest ROI and how it helps companies close more accounts.
Get product and customer marketing tips right to your inbox once a week. Subscribe here: www.drift.com/subscribe
The document provides information about The Selling Skills Institute, a company that specializes in sales training and personal development. It discusses the company's proprietary Shift Thinking teaching model, which focuses on changing how clients think in order to transform their behavior and drive better performance. The model addresses mindset, skills, behavior, and process. The document also outlines the company's approach to onboarding new clients, which includes assessing needs, defining objectives, diagnosing strengths/weaknesses, and developing a customized learning program. It provides an overview of the company's teaching topics and buyer-aligned sales framework.
The document discusses account based selling strategies and tactics. It recommends selecting target accounts based on industry, company size, and potential deal size. It also advises investigating accounts to identify decision makers, influencers, and pain points. Personalized value propositions should be crafted based on account insights and tailored for specific industries and roles. A multi-channel outreach approach using tools like email, phone, LinkedIn, and social media can be used to engage decision makers at various levels.
Terminus' Director of Marketing Operations, Stephanie Kelly, shares the account-based marketing programs she has developed internally at Terminus. She shares how she created an "always-on" pipeline velocity program to support the account executives as well as how she developed bespoke ABM campaigns for events and expands reach into accounts for inbound efforts.
Presentation I have done in a Sloan software class on sales, sales management, and sales strategy. Particularly applicable to companies doing b2b selling.
7 Account-Based Marketing Strategies Every Marketer Must MasterTerminus
According to SiriusDecisions, 90% of B2B marketers say ABM is at least very important, yet less than 20% of practitioners have implemented ABM. Learn the 7 basic strategies of Account-Based Marketing covering the entire buyer / customer journey and including details on the right metrics, tactics, and expected benefits of each.
Opportunity Management: The Key to Winning OpportunitiesAltify
The document discusses opportunity management and provides a framework for winning opportunities. It introduces a 20-point framework for assessing opportunities across four key questions: 1) Is there an opportunity? 2) Can we compete? 3) Can we win? 4) Is it worth winning? Each point covers an essential factor to evaluate for qualifying opportunities. Continuous qualification is emphasized as critical to focusing on qualified opportunities and improving win rates, forecast accuracy, and quota achievement.
The document summarizes key points from Jeffrey Gitomer's book The Sales Bible. It provides tips for salespeople, including establishing rapport with customers, asking questions to uncover needs, developing power statements, creating a 30-second personal commercial, and techniques for handling referrals and cold calls. The summary focuses on building relationships, qualifying buyers, and separating oneself from competition through preparation and a positive attitude."
7 Strategies for Account-Based Marketing with SalesforceSangram Vajre
Presented at Dreamforce '17 by Terminus Co-Founder & CMO, Sangram Vajre, author of "Account-Based Marketing for Dummies" and founder of the #FlipMyFunnel movement transforming B2B marketing and sales. Learn the basics of ABM and seven practical strategies for demand generation, sales pipeline velocity, and customer marketing.
How to always know the right sales questions to askSalesScripter
The document discusses how to ask the right sales questions at different stages of the sales process, including qualifying questions, pre-qualifying questions, closing questions, and general meeting questions. It also provides examples of different types of questions to ask prospects and describes when to use each type of question. The document promotes a sales methodology and software platform called SMART Sales System that is designed to provide sales scripts, templates, and training to help salespeople be more effective.
Email marketing: lead generation and lead nurturingMaria Wachal
Email marketing provides you the opportunity to capture new visitor’s attention and nurture the relationship with helpful and informative content. Keynote consist of ideas which help you get started with your email list building. Then presentation focuses on the type of content you should use in your lead nurturing emails in order to acquire new customers and bring people back to your business time and again.
Account based marketing: from strategy and plans to execution and insightsEngagio
It’s time to go beyond the buzz of Account-Based Marketing and put the strategy to work. However, even some of the smartest and most sophisticated companies are struggling to align their organization and get started with ABM. It doesn’t have to be hard. In fact, it’s easier than you think. Join Engagio and Demandbase, to hear how the marketing leadership from each team has built a world-class ABM program from the ground up. You’ll discover who the key players are that you'll need for your ABM Tiger Team, critical factors for selecting the accounts most likely to close, and how to find the buyers and key influencers to cut sales cycles times in half. You'll also learn how to capitalize on anonymous buying behavior, and the biggest secrets to launching your ABM program.
Download Engagio's Clear and Complete Guide to Account Based Marketing at Engagio.com/guide
Learn more about Engagio at Engagio.com
Twitter.com/Engagio
Linkedin.com/Company/Engagio
Facebook.com/Engagio
5 Critical Steps to Account-Based MarketingMarketo
Check out our webinar as part of Uberflip’s ABM Hacks series, where Marketo’s Charm Bianchini, Senior Director of Enterprise Marketing, and Uberflip will share their secrets for improving the results from your account-based marketing efforts. Whether you're a seasoned ABM user or embarking on your first ABM campaign, you’ll learn the tips and tricks you need to improve the effectiveness of your ABM tactics.
This document provides techniques for improving sales closing skills. It discusses that enthusiasm, belief in the product, and persistence are key to success. Specific closing techniques include finding the "hot button" benefit for each customer, using suggestive language to imply the purchase decision has been made, inviting customers to "give it a try", and telling relevant stories about how others benefited from the product. Qualifying customers and addressing their fears around purchase decisions are also important. The overall message is that sales is a skill developed through practice of different closing approaches.
This presentation is from my talk at the 2017 SaaStr Annual Conference in San Francisco. It offers an overview of a simple model to understand a SaaS business and the key levers a CEO can pull to get the most impact. The presentation covers:
Optimizing the SaaS Funnel:
- Get inside your customer’s head
- Break down the funnel into microsteps
- Identify bottlenecks
- Use funnel math to make improvements
12 key levers within the funnel:
1) Product/Market fit
2) Top of the funnel flow
3) Conversion rate
4) CAC (customer acquisition cost)
5) Number of sales people
6) PPR (productivity per rep)
7) Getting enough leads
8) Pricing
9) Customer retention rate
10) Dollar retention rate
11) Months to recover CAC
12) Recruiting, onboarding & management
5 Go-to-Market Strategies for B2B SaaS, FinTech, and IaaS [Webinar Recording]SP Home Run Inc.
(Preview Webinar for Go-to-Market Strategy Reboot Camp)
For founders, marketers, and sales professionals at B2B SaaS (software as a service), FinTech (financial technology), and IaaS (infrastructure as a service) firms -- especially startups, scaleups, and small businesses
How B2B prospects and clients research and make buying decisions has changed. Quite dramatically!
Some of the biggest names in the tech industry have figured this out. And they are shouting it from the rooftops:
Gartner found that 83% of a typical B2B purchase decision -- researching, comparing options, and evaluating pricing -- happens before a potential buyer engages with a vendor.
McKinsey discovered that 70% to 80% of B2B decision-makers now prefer to make decisions digitally.
And LinkedIn, partnering with Edelman, concluded that “thought leadership remains critical to customer engagement, but breaking through the noise is harder than ever.”
However, most SaaS, FinTech, and IaaS startups, scaleups, and small businesses are largely unprepared to confront this once-in-a-generation change in purchasing behavior -- that’s approaching at jet speed whether your company is prepared or not.
And that’s why we hosted this webinar: to help you and your team upskill and stay relevant to how your prospects and clients want to buy.
When you watch the recording of 5 Go-to-Market Strategy Best Practices, you’ll learn how to:
Adapt your sales process to support your prospects’ and clients’ buying process
Build your team with the right mix of generalists and specialists, modeled after some of the most successful professional baseball teams on the planet
Connect the dots between marketing, sales, customer success, and product, so you approach go-to-market as a team sport
Get on the radar screen of the right strangers, in the right places, at the right time, and in the right context
Plan your content strategy for maximum relevance, efficiency, and effectiveness across the most popular formats
And much more!
This webinar is especially crucial for founders, marketers, sales professionals, customer success leaders, and product managers at B2B SaaS, FinTech, and IaaS firms -- especially startups, scaleups, and small businesses.
Learn About Go-to-Market Strategy Reboot Camp http://www.GTMReboot.com
Slides David Shoenberger recently used in his discussion w/ mentees of The Product Mentor.
The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals…Better Decisions. Better Products. Better Product People.
Throughout the program, each mentor leads a conversation in an area of their expertise that is live streamed and available to both mentee and the broader product community.
Buyers today spend much more time researching a purchase before engaging with a sales person, which puts considerable responsibility for the sale on the marketing team.
Account-Based marketing (ABM) strategy helps B2B marketers target high-yield accounts and stay focused on the deals that are most likely to generate revenue.
Learn how to:
Identify and target your key accounts
Discover and map effective content
Drive engagement with target accounts
Measure and analyze the effectiveness of your marketing programs across various channels
Optimize your marketing budget to focus on the best-performing programs
Learn from real-life examples and how companies applied this strategy.
This document outlines the 6 steps of a sales call: 1) Preparation, 2) Greetings/Icebreaker, 3) Review Situation, 4) Complaints, 5) News, 6) Wrap up/Close. Preparation involves understanding the customer, product, and environment. The greetings/icebreaker aims to build rapport. The situation review addresses the customer's needs, challenges, and information needs. Complaints are handled by listening, defining the issue, rephrasing, isolating it, and presenting solutions. News shares any new developments. The wrap up recaps next steps.
The document discusses inbound marketing methodology and how it can help companies better acquire customers. It notes that half of companies see a 25% greater return on investment from inbound versus outbound marketing due to improved tracking, higher yields, and lower costs. Additionally, the document provides tips on social media marketing, email marketing effectiveness, search engine optimization, and developing a strong value proposition to drive business growth.
1) The document outlines a marketing planning template for IBM business partners to generate software revenue growth. It includes identifying revenue targets, growth areas, projected revenue and leads needed to hit targets, and determining the target mix from new and existing customers.
2) The template provides guidance on selecting target industries, audiences, and key messages tailored to different stages of the buyer's journey. It also addresses allocating marketing and sales resources.
3) The template is designed to help business partners develop a full year marketing plan with targeted activities, timelines, budgets, and assigned responsibilities to generate qualified leads and achieve required revenue.
The document discusses best practices for outbound sales calls as tele-consultants. It emphasizes that the first 30 seconds of a call are most important and outlines approaches for acknowledging the customer, presenting product information, and closing the sale. Key aspects include introducing yourself clearly, verifying customer needs, providing options instead of direct questions, and overcoming objections by presenting solutions. The goal is to serve customers and control the call through each step of the process.
Need efficiency increase in your cold calling? Want your team to be more successful with cold calling? Cannot get better than this. Take a look at this presentation to get more success out of cold calling
The document discusses account based selling strategies and tactics. It recommends selecting target accounts based on industry, company size, and potential deal size. It also advises investigating accounts to identify decision makers, influencers, and pain points. Personalized value propositions should be crafted based on account insights and tailored for specific industries and roles. A multi-channel outreach approach using tools like email, phone, LinkedIn, and social media can be used to engage decision makers at various levels.
Terminus' Director of Marketing Operations, Stephanie Kelly, shares the account-based marketing programs she has developed internally at Terminus. She shares how she created an "always-on" pipeline velocity program to support the account executives as well as how she developed bespoke ABM campaigns for events and expands reach into accounts for inbound efforts.
Presentation I have done in a Sloan software class on sales, sales management, and sales strategy. Particularly applicable to companies doing b2b selling.
7 Account-Based Marketing Strategies Every Marketer Must MasterTerminus
According to SiriusDecisions, 90% of B2B marketers say ABM is at least very important, yet less than 20% of practitioners have implemented ABM. Learn the 7 basic strategies of Account-Based Marketing covering the entire buyer / customer journey and including details on the right metrics, tactics, and expected benefits of each.
Opportunity Management: The Key to Winning OpportunitiesAltify
The document discusses opportunity management and provides a framework for winning opportunities. It introduces a 20-point framework for assessing opportunities across four key questions: 1) Is there an opportunity? 2) Can we compete? 3) Can we win? 4) Is it worth winning? Each point covers an essential factor to evaluate for qualifying opportunities. Continuous qualification is emphasized as critical to focusing on qualified opportunities and improving win rates, forecast accuracy, and quota achievement.
The document summarizes key points from Jeffrey Gitomer's book The Sales Bible. It provides tips for salespeople, including establishing rapport with customers, asking questions to uncover needs, developing power statements, creating a 30-second personal commercial, and techniques for handling referrals and cold calls. The summary focuses on building relationships, qualifying buyers, and separating oneself from competition through preparation and a positive attitude."
7 Strategies for Account-Based Marketing with SalesforceSangram Vajre
Presented at Dreamforce '17 by Terminus Co-Founder & CMO, Sangram Vajre, author of "Account-Based Marketing for Dummies" and founder of the #FlipMyFunnel movement transforming B2B marketing and sales. Learn the basics of ABM and seven practical strategies for demand generation, sales pipeline velocity, and customer marketing.
How to always know the right sales questions to askSalesScripter
The document discusses how to ask the right sales questions at different stages of the sales process, including qualifying questions, pre-qualifying questions, closing questions, and general meeting questions. It also provides examples of different types of questions to ask prospects and describes when to use each type of question. The document promotes a sales methodology and software platform called SMART Sales System that is designed to provide sales scripts, templates, and training to help salespeople be more effective.
Email marketing: lead generation and lead nurturingMaria Wachal
Email marketing provides you the opportunity to capture new visitor’s attention and nurture the relationship with helpful and informative content. Keynote consist of ideas which help you get started with your email list building. Then presentation focuses on the type of content you should use in your lead nurturing emails in order to acquire new customers and bring people back to your business time and again.
Account based marketing: from strategy and plans to execution and insightsEngagio
It’s time to go beyond the buzz of Account-Based Marketing and put the strategy to work. However, even some of the smartest and most sophisticated companies are struggling to align their organization and get started with ABM. It doesn’t have to be hard. In fact, it’s easier than you think. Join Engagio and Demandbase, to hear how the marketing leadership from each team has built a world-class ABM program from the ground up. You’ll discover who the key players are that you'll need for your ABM Tiger Team, critical factors for selecting the accounts most likely to close, and how to find the buyers and key influencers to cut sales cycles times in half. You'll also learn how to capitalize on anonymous buying behavior, and the biggest secrets to launching your ABM program.
Download Engagio's Clear and Complete Guide to Account Based Marketing at Engagio.com/guide
Learn more about Engagio at Engagio.com
Twitter.com/Engagio
Linkedin.com/Company/Engagio
Facebook.com/Engagio
5 Critical Steps to Account-Based MarketingMarketo
Check out our webinar as part of Uberflip’s ABM Hacks series, where Marketo’s Charm Bianchini, Senior Director of Enterprise Marketing, and Uberflip will share their secrets for improving the results from your account-based marketing efforts. Whether you're a seasoned ABM user or embarking on your first ABM campaign, you’ll learn the tips and tricks you need to improve the effectiveness of your ABM tactics.
This document provides techniques for improving sales closing skills. It discusses that enthusiasm, belief in the product, and persistence are key to success. Specific closing techniques include finding the "hot button" benefit for each customer, using suggestive language to imply the purchase decision has been made, inviting customers to "give it a try", and telling relevant stories about how others benefited from the product. Qualifying customers and addressing their fears around purchase decisions are also important. The overall message is that sales is a skill developed through practice of different closing approaches.
This presentation is from my talk at the 2017 SaaStr Annual Conference in San Francisco. It offers an overview of a simple model to understand a SaaS business and the key levers a CEO can pull to get the most impact. The presentation covers:
Optimizing the SaaS Funnel:
- Get inside your customer’s head
- Break down the funnel into microsteps
- Identify bottlenecks
- Use funnel math to make improvements
12 key levers within the funnel:
1) Product/Market fit
2) Top of the funnel flow
3) Conversion rate
4) CAC (customer acquisition cost)
5) Number of sales people
6) PPR (productivity per rep)
7) Getting enough leads
8) Pricing
9) Customer retention rate
10) Dollar retention rate
11) Months to recover CAC
12) Recruiting, onboarding & management
5 Go-to-Market Strategies for B2B SaaS, FinTech, and IaaS [Webinar Recording]SP Home Run Inc.
(Preview Webinar for Go-to-Market Strategy Reboot Camp)
For founders, marketers, and sales professionals at B2B SaaS (software as a service), FinTech (financial technology), and IaaS (infrastructure as a service) firms -- especially startups, scaleups, and small businesses
How B2B prospects and clients research and make buying decisions has changed. Quite dramatically!
Some of the biggest names in the tech industry have figured this out. And they are shouting it from the rooftops:
Gartner found that 83% of a typical B2B purchase decision -- researching, comparing options, and evaluating pricing -- happens before a potential buyer engages with a vendor.
McKinsey discovered that 70% to 80% of B2B decision-makers now prefer to make decisions digitally.
And LinkedIn, partnering with Edelman, concluded that “thought leadership remains critical to customer engagement, but breaking through the noise is harder than ever.”
However, most SaaS, FinTech, and IaaS startups, scaleups, and small businesses are largely unprepared to confront this once-in-a-generation change in purchasing behavior -- that’s approaching at jet speed whether your company is prepared or not.
And that’s why we hosted this webinar: to help you and your team upskill and stay relevant to how your prospects and clients want to buy.
When you watch the recording of 5 Go-to-Market Strategy Best Practices, you’ll learn how to:
Adapt your sales process to support your prospects’ and clients’ buying process
Build your team with the right mix of generalists and specialists, modeled after some of the most successful professional baseball teams on the planet
Connect the dots between marketing, sales, customer success, and product, so you approach go-to-market as a team sport
Get on the radar screen of the right strangers, in the right places, at the right time, and in the right context
Plan your content strategy for maximum relevance, efficiency, and effectiveness across the most popular formats
And much more!
This webinar is especially crucial for founders, marketers, sales professionals, customer success leaders, and product managers at B2B SaaS, FinTech, and IaaS firms -- especially startups, scaleups, and small businesses.
Learn About Go-to-Market Strategy Reboot Camp http://www.GTMReboot.com
Slides David Shoenberger recently used in his discussion w/ mentees of The Product Mentor.
The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals…Better Decisions. Better Products. Better Product People.
Throughout the program, each mentor leads a conversation in an area of their expertise that is live streamed and available to both mentee and the broader product community.
Buyers today spend much more time researching a purchase before engaging with a sales person, which puts considerable responsibility for the sale on the marketing team.
Account-Based marketing (ABM) strategy helps B2B marketers target high-yield accounts and stay focused on the deals that are most likely to generate revenue.
Learn how to:
Identify and target your key accounts
Discover and map effective content
Drive engagement with target accounts
Measure and analyze the effectiveness of your marketing programs across various channels
Optimize your marketing budget to focus on the best-performing programs
Learn from real-life examples and how companies applied this strategy.
This document outlines the 6 steps of a sales call: 1) Preparation, 2) Greetings/Icebreaker, 3) Review Situation, 4) Complaints, 5) News, 6) Wrap up/Close. Preparation involves understanding the customer, product, and environment. The greetings/icebreaker aims to build rapport. The situation review addresses the customer's needs, challenges, and information needs. Complaints are handled by listening, defining the issue, rephrasing, isolating it, and presenting solutions. News shares any new developments. The wrap up recaps next steps.
The document discusses inbound marketing methodology and how it can help companies better acquire customers. It notes that half of companies see a 25% greater return on investment from inbound versus outbound marketing due to improved tracking, higher yields, and lower costs. Additionally, the document provides tips on social media marketing, email marketing effectiveness, search engine optimization, and developing a strong value proposition to drive business growth.
1) The document outlines a marketing planning template for IBM business partners to generate software revenue growth. It includes identifying revenue targets, growth areas, projected revenue and leads needed to hit targets, and determining the target mix from new and existing customers.
2) The template provides guidance on selecting target industries, audiences, and key messages tailored to different stages of the buyer's journey. It also addresses allocating marketing and sales resources.
3) The template is designed to help business partners develop a full year marketing plan with targeted activities, timelines, budgets, and assigned responsibilities to generate qualified leads and achieve required revenue.
The document discusses best practices for outbound sales calls as tele-consultants. It emphasizes that the first 30 seconds of a call are most important and outlines approaches for acknowledging the customer, presenting product information, and closing the sale. Key aspects include introducing yourself clearly, verifying customer needs, providing options instead of direct questions, and overcoming objections by presenting solutions. The goal is to serve customers and control the call through each step of the process.
Need efficiency increase in your cold calling? Want your team to be more successful with cold calling? Cannot get better than this. Take a look at this presentation to get more success out of cold calling
This document provides techniques and tips for cold calling potential clients. It discusses formulas for converting calls to appointments and sales. Specific tips are given for getting attention, identifying yourself, stating the reason for calling, qualifying prospects, and setting appointments. Common objections are outlined along with responses. The importance of practicing and keeping records is emphasized. The document also discusses using referrals from existing clients to gain credibility and secure meetings.
Cold calling and tele marketing best pptanand ayush
Cold calling involves making unsolicited phone calls or visits to potential customers to generate sales. It is a form of telemarketing used to convince customers to purchase products or services. Successful cold calling requires preparation like researching the organization, being attentive to details, respecting the prospect's time, answering questions effectively, setting firm follow up dates, and seeking personal connections. Current data shows that referrals are the top driver of new business for 50% of respondents, while cold calling only gains 21.4% of new business. Effective cold calling requires multiple follow up attempts, as many clients will not buy on the first call but 80% will say yes after the sixth contact.
Cold Calling Trends: How to turn your cold calls HOTRCN
This document discusses strategies for improving cold calling effectiveness. It provides tips on researching buyer behavior to understand when prospects are ready to buy. It also recommends forming a hypothesis for why contacts do not respond to emails, voicemails, and messages. Additional tips include leaving 3 voicemails then stopping, using personalized and provocative email subject lines, and calling prospects in between contact attempts. The document also discusses how tracking email engagement and view data can help revive stalled opportunities and increase deal closing.
The document discusses employee relations and reward systems. It defines employee relations as a company's efforts to manage relationships between employers and employees. It notes that a good employee relations program provides fair treatment to employees to gain their commitment and loyalty. It also discusses the importance of developing harmonious relations between management and labor for productivity and industrial progress. Additionally, it outlines factors that influence employee relations such as institutional, economic, technological, psychological, political/legal, and global factors. Finally, it discusses challenges and best practices for employee reward systems, including linking rewards to performance and company objectives.
Cold calling involves directly contacting potential employers to inquire about job opportunities. It is an important method for job seekers to create a network and find openings that may not be publicly advertised. The document provides tips for making cold calls, including feeling confident and giving a positive impression, as well as examples of scripts to use when initially calling employers or asking to speak to hiring managers. Cold calling saves time and money compared to more passive job searching methods.
Cold Calling Tips and Million Dollar Sales Prospecting SecretsInsideSales.com
Jul 16th , 2015 at 11:00 a.m. PT
Featuring Ken Krogue, President and Founder at InsideSales.com and New York Times Bestselling Author Grant Cardone.
Breathe new life into the argument that cold calling may be alive and well, while warm calling and follow up calling bring even better results. All will be discussed in light of the latest technologies and techniques of research, sales training and sales systems. Grant and Ken share value that can make you millions on the phone today.
In this webinar you will learn:
How to Handle Price on the Phone
How to Get Past the Gatekeeper
How to Create Urgency
How to Close on the Phone
How to Separate Yourself from the Competition
How to Qualify the Buyer Over the Phone
What to Never Say on the Phone
How to Follow-Up the Unclosed Buyer
Here are 5 things to avoid when you are cold calling. By following these simple best practices you will be sure to improve your ability to cold call successfully.
More tips on how to cold call successfully can be found on my free Udemy course on how to get meetings with any company here: http://www.udemy.com/bd-101-how-to-get-meetings-with-anyone/
How to Write Emails People WANT to Respond to [Sales Template]HubSpot
The document provides a 5-part formula for writing emails that people want to respond to. The formula includes preparing the email with relevant information about the recipient, writing effective subject lines, starting with a personalized opening line about the recipient, asking questions in the body that relate to the recipient's goals, and keeping the signature short and simple with contact details.
The document provides training for salespeople on sales techniques. It discusses the importance of planning, introducing oneself professionally to prospects, demonstrating products effectively, and closing the sale. It emphasizes appearance, manners, attitude, knowing the products and customers, and having a goal of earning as much as possible through hard work. The 5 basic steps to success are outlined as planning, introduction, presentation, demonstration, and closing.
3 Things Every Sales Team Needs to Be Thinking About in 2017Drift
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TAKEAWAYS
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Identifying good contacts at events
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- Leaving a conversation
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Following up after the event
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1. Finding the right prospect
2. Creating an authentic outreach campaign
3. Outlining sales cadence
4. A/B test optimizing for opens and replies
5. Tools to help you along the way
The Process
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Niche Persona Popular Points
of Pain (PPP)
Want Need
-B2B SaaS
companies
-Dedicated
outbound sales
team
-$50-100M in
revenue
-50+ employees
on LinkedIn
-$2M+ in funding
-VP of Sales
-Director of Sales
Operations
-SDR Manager
-Wasting time
-Wasting money
-Missing quota
-Looking bad in
front of the CEO
-More
qualified leads
-More efficient
sales team
-Deeper
understanding
of target
prospect
-Targeted lists
-Accurate
sales data
h#p://predictablerevenue.com/blog/a7sell7ideas7not7stuff7matrix!
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Sample buyer persona matrix
8. Definition:
An action taken by a
prospect that suggests
that they are in the
market to purchase a
particular product in
the near future.
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Signals
of intent
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Signal: started a free trial
Tip: Know which prospects are trying your competitor’s solution by
seeing which websites have added your competitor’s technology each day.
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Tip: If you have LinkedIn Premium, use the ‘Save to Contacts’ feature to
keep track of customers when they change companies.
Signal: new leadership
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Signal: using a complementary product
Tip: Know which prospects are using a product you integrate with, and
create a campaign to target these users.
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LinkedIn Outreach
• Connect with prospect
• send prospect a short,
personal note
• reference this note in
your first email the
next day
Step 1:
Create a human
connection
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1. Intro line: reference
LinkedIn connect
2. Value proposition:
use a signal of intent
3. Close: who would
you recommend?
Step 2:
Draft personalized
email
3 key components
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Tests
• Clarity: Is it clear what
we do and what I’m
asking for?
• Authenticity: Do I
sound like a human?
• Actionable: Would you
respond?
• Spelling: (duh)
!
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!
!
Step 4:
Friend test
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To-do list
• Create email templates
around buyer personas•
• Settle on a cadence
for outreach touches
• Test, test, test!
Step 5:
Templatizing and
Scaling
1
2
3
19. Number of touch
points
• No less than 3
• No more than 7
• We see doubling or
tripling or quadrupling
of reply rates with
follow-ups after the
first message
• Mix phone calls with
emails if you can
20.
21. Mix Your Touch
Points
• Phone calls
• Emails
• inMails
• Tweets
• Think about how you mix
these channels to
approach your prospect
22.
23. Reply Follow-Ups vs
New Threads
• We see equal reply rates to
simple bumps to existing
threads as we do with new
threads
• Don’t hammer on your
prospect with tons of
information. Follow-ups as
replies on the same thread are
great.
• When your emails feel
personal people appreciate
when you follow up on email
24. Timing of your
messages
• Think about when does your
prospect actually read emails
and inMails and phone calls.
Time of day?
• Think about when you read
emails!
• Think about spacing between
touch points. How long do you
wait?
• Don’t be too aggressive! Start
spacing it out, give them time
to breathe.
25. Be Personal
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• Try personalizing messages.
• Follow-ups can be more
generic, but your initial
messages can contain
personalization. Something
about them or their company
that obviously isn’t mass mail
merge possible.
• We see 20%-30% improvement
in conversion rate when email
is personalized
• Try flattery. We saw a jump
from 2% to 7% reply rate on
two different templates, the
only difference was a single line
of flattery.
27. Be Consistent
• Work your prospects
consistently
• Use the same process
across every contact
• You will need data on what
works and what doesn’t.
Walk away knowing what
works and what doesn’t.
• You can then test one
process vs. another
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28. Watch For Subtle
Feedback
• Watch feedback from your
prospects through their actions.
• What do they open? What do they
not open?
• What messages are they replying
to and which aren’t?
• When are they opting out? It’s an
indication you were irritating them,
or weren’t personal enough. High
opt out rate (over 10%) is good
data, it means you need to re-
evaluate your approach.
/"
29. Start A/B testing
• A/B testing is simple! In any
given touch point, give half
the prospects one email, and
half the other. It could be as
simple as a different subject
line. It could be as simple as a
line of flattery vs not. Or
personalized vs not.
• You should have at least one
A/B test in a sequence.
• You can continue to iterate on
your process over time.
• Get 150 or more data points
before drawing conclusions
on any given touch point.
/"
30. Effort vs Touch Point
• Understand how many
touches you need to drive
engagement, ie reply rates
• What touch points drive the
highest replies
• Try interspersing valuable
content in your follow ups.
Does it work?
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