InsideView - Sales Velocity-2014 - Get your Customers’ Attention with Social Selling
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2. Get Your Customers’ Attention With Social Selling
5 Barriers Social Selling Will Help You Overcome
Ralph Barsi
Senior Director
Sales Development
ralph@achievers.com
@rbarsi
Will Spendlove
Vice President
Content Marketing
will.spendlove@insideview.com
@wspendlove
3. What is driving the Social Selling craze?
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1.75
Billion
Social Media Users
70%
of B2B decision makers
use Social Media sources
80%
Online users regularly
interact with social
networks
of Social Media
Users are over the
age of 35
4. Social Selling uses three key sources
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Insights ConnectionsData
Accurate company
and contact
information
Latest news,
financial, social, and
personal
Company-wide
private connections
cloud
19. List Your Top 3 PROJECTS
5 big things I must do to move this project forward
PEOPLE I need to reach out to
today
No matter what
PEOPLE I’m waiting on
People you need something from, to move forward
PRIORITIES
DO these before getting trapped in your inbox
Source: brendonburchard.com
Take ownership of your day
@rbarsi
20. You can’t win if you don’t keep score.
Measure daily, weekly, and quarterly progress: as an individual & as a team
NIMS = New Initial Meetings, OPPS = Sales Opportunities
Measure progress
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22. You can’t take a fishing boat out and just
EXPECT fish to jump in the boat.
Photo: Anton Sulsky
#prospecting
23. Target Accounts
Tier 1 = The Top 25 prospective accounts;
the cream of the crop (Top drawer)
Tier 2 = The 75-100 next best prospective
accounts (2nd, 3rd drawer)
Ideal Customer Profile
Tier 1 & 2 accounts must match
the ideal customer profile
Tier 1 & 2 accounts require
3-5 key contacts each
Put targeted prospects in drawers
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24. Consider a “bookends” approach to each week;
• Mondays & Fridays are admin days
• Tuesdays-Wednesdays-Thursdays are blocked for sacred prospecting
Contributing Source: VorsightBP
Calendar your prospecting
31. Source: Barry Rhein, Selling Through Curiosity
How does this / that compare to what you’re ideally looking for?
How does this / that compare to your ideal situation?
Tell me about...
What do you mean...
How so...
Why is that...
What does that mean to you...
How would you…
Elaborate…
Give me some examples...
I don’t understand...
What other things...
What else...
What additional items...
What are some other reasons...
In what other ways…
Open-ended, conversational questions
Stop asking yes/no questions!
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32. By Title
By Industry
By Location
By Source
By Company
By Offering
By Connection
By Event
Have the same conversation
To establish flow
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33. #5. FAILURE to IMPROVE
Think training is hard? Try losing.
36. Thank you
Ralph Barsi
Senior Director
Sales Development
ralph@achievers.com
@rbarsi
Will Spendlove
Vice President
Content Marketing
will.spendlove@insideview.com
@wspendlove
37. Social Selling uses three key sources
@wspendlove
Insights ConnectionsData
Accurate company and
contact information
Latest news, financial,
social, and personal
Company-wide
private connections cloud
39. InsideView INSIGHTS
Keep watch on
your accounts
Prioritize your most
promising prospects
User alerts to track
events and news
Regularly track
what’s important
to your
prospects.
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