Aaron Ross (CEO, Predictable Revenue) - Building Outbound Sales Through Predi...Sales Hacker
Aaron Ross (CEO, Predictable Revenue) - Building Outbound Sales Through Predictable Revenue
Visit SalesHacker.com for more sales hacks, tips, and tactics.
"Winning The Professional Services Sale" with Aaron Ross & Ago CluytensAaron Ross
* Discover the #1 mistake consultants / sellers make
* Find out what the top–5% of rainmakers do
* Learn a simple messaging "mind trick”
* The “three pillars” of successful lead generation
* Bringing in revenue
Aaron Ross (CEO, Predictable Revenue) - Building Outbound Sales Through Predi...Sales Hacker
Aaron Ross (CEO, Predictable Revenue) - Building Outbound Sales Through Predictable Revenue
Visit SalesHacker.com for more sales hacks, tips, and tactics.
"Winning The Professional Services Sale" with Aaron Ross & Ago CluytensAaron Ross
* Discover the #1 mistake consultants / sellers make
* Find out what the top–5% of rainmakers do
* Learn a simple messaging "mind trick”
* The “three pillars” of successful lead generation
* Bringing in revenue
Are you leveraging social proof to optimally boost leads and sales? Checkout out these tricks for harnessing current and past customer success (testimonials, star ratings, customer action shots, etc.) to drive more conversions.
You'll learn:
- What kinds of social proof aid conversion (and why)
- Common conversion-killing social proof cases to avoid
- When and where social proof matters on a landing page
- How to score/grade the quality of your social proof
- What elements make a highly persuasive testimonial (and how to get them)
BONUS: Learn my "CRAVENS" methodology -- a simple scorecard for measuring the quality of social proof to effectively persuade conversion. CRAVENS = Credible, Relevant, Attractive, Visual, Enumerated, Nearby [anxiety points], Specific.
Note: A "craven" is a chicken, quitter, scaredy cat, etc. The CRAVENS model focuses on leveraging social proof to strategically reduce anxiety (i.e. scaredy cat, abandonment tendencies) and in turn boost conversion. Get ready for some actionable social proof tips and some epic LOL cat slides! #RememberTheCravens (scaredy cats!)
>> Presented Aug 26, 2014 for an Unbounce Webinar.
Short link: http://j.mp/socialproofcrowebinar
Biggest misconceptions in modern sales: “Adding salespeople grows revenue”
Revenue should be predictable, in other words creating a revenue pipeline helps a company to have a consistent growth.
3 keys to predictable revenue:
Predictable lead generation
Sales development team to bridge the gap between Sales & Marketing
Consistent sales systems
- by Promptcloud.com
How to win on the customer experience battleground; where businesses are won ...Noojee Contact Solutions
Everyone's talking about customer experience. But what is it? And how can you really influence it, to give your business a winning advantage? Here's your action plan!
We take you step by step through how to define customer experience (hint: it's not the same as customer service!).
Then, through a series of checkpoints you'll begin to identify the touchpoints and interactions that you can influence, particularly in your contact centre.
Finally we'll take a look at how Zappos managed to transform their customer experience - and what the learnings are for you.
This is a great presentation to go through with your management team or a customer service team looking to find way to improve.
How to make sure your canvassing, direct mail and leafletting works! Get every valuation and win every instruction by following my tricks, tips and tactics.
If you haven't already, sign up to my Supertips here >> http://samashdown.co.uk/samsupertips
and get great tips, tricks and tactics direct to your inbox each week, free of charge.
How to Drive Growth with Customer Success MetricsGainsight
The most successful Enterprise SaaS companies know that growing revenue only through new customer acquisition is the less efficient way to scale. Rather, they understand that growing revenue within your existing customer base - through up-sells, cross-sells, and expanded use - is the most profitable way to scale.
In fact, Enterprise SaaS companies that grow revenue - and company valuation - by expanding revenue within their existing customer base also know the key to making this work is to focus on - and operationalize - Customer Success.
This presentation - How to Drive Growth with Customer Success Metrics - is from Pulse 2014, the biggest Customer Success industry event ever and included panelists Aaron Ross, author of Predictable Revenue, Jason Lemkin of Storm Ventures, Tomasz Tunguz of Redpoint Ventures, and Brian Stafford McKinsey.
Striving for Success in 2017 for Remodeling Businesses with Mark RichardsonSurefire Local
Mark Richardson shows you the 3 key ingredients for success, how to position your business for future success, where most businesses fail and how to avoid the same mistakes, and how your business can plan for a prosperous 2017. This is one video you won't want to lose!
Social Media Marketing 2020 by Aaron Stelle with WEST, a Williston Financial ...Aaron Stelle
In this presentation, Aaron Stelle with WEST, a Williston Financial Group Company, talks about the trends he's seeing in 2020 for both social media and digital marketing. In addition to first hand experience he also pulls from the Tom Ferry Virtual Summit and discusses what real estate brokers across the country are doing through their coaching program. The topics include content buckets, pro tips, and tools to make it happen.
Category leadership is the name of the game beacuse the one who wins the category they have the most customers, valuation, brand, and can dominate the market. But how do categories evolve?
This presentation is about the three pillars on which categories are built - Disruption, Leadership style, and Authenticity
Call to Action - Creating Marketing That Gets ResultsAaron Stelle
In this presentation, Aaron Stelle with WEST, a Williston Financial Group Company, will be discussing how to create marketing that will get your client to act. It's not about giving information, but getting outcomes.
Want to know how companies are tripling their new sales growth? This webinar covered topics that will give you specific insights and tips you can implement right away to begin increasing sales.
What you’ll learn:
- 3 fatal mistakes sales leaders make
- How to build an outbound sales machine that can triple your pipeline
- Why salespeople shouldn’t prospect
- How to hire and grow the best kinds of salespeople
What it takes to create sales growth that scales-
Are you leveraging social proof to optimally boost leads and sales? Checkout out these tricks for harnessing current and past customer success (testimonials, star ratings, customer action shots, etc.) to drive more conversions.
You'll learn:
- What kinds of social proof aid conversion (and why)
- Common conversion-killing social proof cases to avoid
- When and where social proof matters on a landing page
- How to score/grade the quality of your social proof
- What elements make a highly persuasive testimonial (and how to get them)
BONUS: Learn my "CRAVENS" methodology -- a simple scorecard for measuring the quality of social proof to effectively persuade conversion. CRAVENS = Credible, Relevant, Attractive, Visual, Enumerated, Nearby [anxiety points], Specific.
Note: A "craven" is a chicken, quitter, scaredy cat, etc. The CRAVENS model focuses on leveraging social proof to strategically reduce anxiety (i.e. scaredy cat, abandonment tendencies) and in turn boost conversion. Get ready for some actionable social proof tips and some epic LOL cat slides! #RememberTheCravens (scaredy cats!)
>> Presented Aug 26, 2014 for an Unbounce Webinar.
Short link: http://j.mp/socialproofcrowebinar
Biggest misconceptions in modern sales: “Adding salespeople grows revenue”
Revenue should be predictable, in other words creating a revenue pipeline helps a company to have a consistent growth.
3 keys to predictable revenue:
Predictable lead generation
Sales development team to bridge the gap between Sales & Marketing
Consistent sales systems
- by Promptcloud.com
How to win on the customer experience battleground; where businesses are won ...Noojee Contact Solutions
Everyone's talking about customer experience. But what is it? And how can you really influence it, to give your business a winning advantage? Here's your action plan!
We take you step by step through how to define customer experience (hint: it's not the same as customer service!).
Then, through a series of checkpoints you'll begin to identify the touchpoints and interactions that you can influence, particularly in your contact centre.
Finally we'll take a look at how Zappos managed to transform their customer experience - and what the learnings are for you.
This is a great presentation to go through with your management team or a customer service team looking to find way to improve.
How to make sure your canvassing, direct mail and leafletting works! Get every valuation and win every instruction by following my tricks, tips and tactics.
If you haven't already, sign up to my Supertips here >> http://samashdown.co.uk/samsupertips
and get great tips, tricks and tactics direct to your inbox each week, free of charge.
How to Drive Growth with Customer Success MetricsGainsight
The most successful Enterprise SaaS companies know that growing revenue only through new customer acquisition is the less efficient way to scale. Rather, they understand that growing revenue within your existing customer base - through up-sells, cross-sells, and expanded use - is the most profitable way to scale.
In fact, Enterprise SaaS companies that grow revenue - and company valuation - by expanding revenue within their existing customer base also know the key to making this work is to focus on - and operationalize - Customer Success.
This presentation - How to Drive Growth with Customer Success Metrics - is from Pulse 2014, the biggest Customer Success industry event ever and included panelists Aaron Ross, author of Predictable Revenue, Jason Lemkin of Storm Ventures, Tomasz Tunguz of Redpoint Ventures, and Brian Stafford McKinsey.
Striving for Success in 2017 for Remodeling Businesses with Mark RichardsonSurefire Local
Mark Richardson shows you the 3 key ingredients for success, how to position your business for future success, where most businesses fail and how to avoid the same mistakes, and how your business can plan for a prosperous 2017. This is one video you won't want to lose!
Social Media Marketing 2020 by Aaron Stelle with WEST, a Williston Financial ...Aaron Stelle
In this presentation, Aaron Stelle with WEST, a Williston Financial Group Company, talks about the trends he's seeing in 2020 for both social media and digital marketing. In addition to first hand experience he also pulls from the Tom Ferry Virtual Summit and discusses what real estate brokers across the country are doing through their coaching program. The topics include content buckets, pro tips, and tools to make it happen.
Category leadership is the name of the game beacuse the one who wins the category they have the most customers, valuation, brand, and can dominate the market. But how do categories evolve?
This presentation is about the three pillars on which categories are built - Disruption, Leadership style, and Authenticity
Call to Action - Creating Marketing That Gets ResultsAaron Stelle
In this presentation, Aaron Stelle with WEST, a Williston Financial Group Company, will be discussing how to create marketing that will get your client to act. It's not about giving information, but getting outcomes.
Want to know how companies are tripling their new sales growth? This webinar covered topics that will give you specific insights and tips you can implement right away to begin increasing sales.
What you’ll learn:
- 3 fatal mistakes sales leaders make
- How to build an outbound sales machine that can triple your pipeline
- Why salespeople shouldn’t prospect
- How to hire and grow the best kinds of salespeople
What it takes to create sales growth that scales-
DF15 Startup Summit: Building a Killer Sales TeamMike Kreaden
At the inaugural Startup Summit at Dreamforce 2015, Jason Lemkin and Aaron Ross talked about key plays and strategies to consider when building and scaling a sales team. Here is the entire presentation behind the talk. Recording of the talk can be found at https://goo.gl/zB9LH9
Digital Strategy Executive Boardroom Strategy Session With Doyle Buehler Doyle Buehler
Digital Strategy And Marketing Executive Boardroom Strategy Session With Doyle Buehler
We often focus on the wrong things, at the wrong time, and leave too much up to chance or hope. Build it and they will come doesn’t work in the digital space. Content is king doesn’t work either. Automation is not a full solution either. There are sometimes too many factors to try to consider all at once. We fundamentally are missing some of the key ingredients to be able to build a clear and compelling marketing message, without the fluff.
Here's some of what we're going to be covering...
How to build a persuasive digital platform that speaks to your target audience
How to create a strategy and execute tactics so you can surround your buyers with a complete and experiential journey
How to position yourself in the top 3% of online businesses
How to create, drive and schedule your content that reflects your audience and their buying journey
How to maximise your content’s reach with a strategic alignment
How to generate more warm referrals and attract more prospects, and the underlying process that allows you to sell more
Your digital toolkit that will save you time and make you more productive
How to understand, develop and enhance the way that you manage your digital assets and ecosystem, through your DigitalGenius
Why aren't you growing faster? What does it take to get to hyper-growth? How do you sustain growth?
Growth exposes your weaknesses and it will cause more problems than it solves—until you make sales scalable.
Join us as Aaron Ross explains the 7 painful truths you have to face before you can kick off your biggest growth spurt yet.
Insurance marketing like geico or progressive.keyCarole Mahoney
Do you work for or own an independent insurance agency? Have you seen growth either decline or just remain flat? Do you or your producers spend more time trying to find new business then you do servicing it?
Anti “Personal Brand”: The Damage & 35 Downsides of Building a Personal Brand...Sales Hacker
It seems everywhere you turn today, someone’s trumpeting that you ABSOLUTELY must build a personal brand.
That it’s your golden ticket to endless opportunities. Your quick-and-easy meal ticket to success. That you’d be absolutely crazy not to.
But in a land where everything has an opportunity cost, you have to ask: When can it hurt you?
What are the downsides of building a personal brand?
Live Email Tear Downs and How to Build Up Your Sales Org for the New Email Fu...Sales Hacker
This event will be an eye-opener for SDRs, prospecting AEs, and their managers.
You’ll SEE exactly how to improve your outreach. 👀
This isn’t just about tactics. Managers will want to pay attention too! We’re digging into what it takes to build an organization that excels in the inbox.
How to Put the “Person” in Personalization and Get 10+% Reply RatesSales Hacker
If your definition of personalization is still {Insert Name Here}, you’re in trouble.
Sending the same templated emails to prospects is going to land you right in the dreaded email trash folder alongside countless other unread and unanswered cold emails.
LeadIQ is on a mission to help you bring your cold email strategy out of the ice ages and into 2022.
Learn how to personalize to anyone with creative persona-based value props, specific and relatable subject lines, and clever transitions that will leave no email wasted.
2021's Hidden Sales Problem: This Playbook will 2-5X your PipelineSales Hacker
There’s a big sales problem hiding in plain sight and it’s sitting right at the top of your funnel. If it’s not corrected, your team will feel the negative effects throughout 2022.
We will be sharing a playbook on how to fix this lead chasing problem that slows down your sales team. This playbook will boost your pipeline, shorten your sales cycles, and book more sales meetings than ever before.
Your Global Sales Playbook: How to Take on International ExpansionSales Hacker
DocSA company can only be as big as its global ambitions.
International sales bring new markets, fresh revenue streams, unique talent, and a higher return on investment. But a methodical go-to-market plan is critical in ensuring that your organization is set up for success.
When appropriately composed, these strategies mitigate expansion risk and encourage efficient use of resources, timelines, and capital for global expansion. How can you avoid the most common international expansion mistakes?
Globalization Partners' Chief Revenue Officer, Diane Albano, joined us to share expert insight into building a global sales strategy that can dramatically improve the long-term outlook of your company.
A Repeatable Process for Crafting Perfectly Personalized EmailsSales Hacker
Writing a good personalized email is kind of like building out the perfect March Madness bracket, or selecting your own numbers for the next big lottery ticket. With email reply rates below 1% these days, the odds are incredibly stacked against you.
Check this deck to learn from Josh Braun and Ryan O’Hara how to create a repeatable process for creating personalized emails that will lead to double digit reply rates and more booked meetings.
How A 'One Team' Mindset Fuels Revenue Growth in 2021Sales Hacker
Macaroni and cheese. Bacon and eggs. Sales and marketing.
All of them should make the perfect team. But somewhere along the line, sales and marketing teams developed deep-rooted differences that need resolution. As organizations grow, this rift widens as the two teams act like two different organizations that plan, execute, and optimize two separate processes for the same buyer.
To develop a deeper understanding, we interviewed 1200+ global sales and marketing professionals - the largest-ever survey on sales and marketing alignment.
Learn from Stephen Pacinelli, Chief Marketing Officer at BombBomb and Brogan Taylor, Head of Enterprise Sales at Freshworks as they discuss the findings and share tactical ways to align the two in order to drive revenue and collaboration.
The Framework for B2B Sales Leaders to Develop a Customer Centric Business ModelSales Hacker
The way your customers buy has permanently changed. 80% of buyers say that the experience a company provides is as important as its products and services.
And with an overabundance of information available online, through countless channels, buyers are also armed with more information than ever before - sometimes more than your sales team.
The answer is a transition to deep customer-centricity, not just in theory, but in practice.
In this deck, Moxtra’s Head of Strategic Business Development, Nikhita Iyar discussed the steps B2B sales leaders need to take to shift to a more customer-centric approach, how to build a digital buyer experience that fuels revenue growth, and reaches and retains all potential customers.
Buyer Sentiment: How to use the Newest Data Source Available to B2B Sales TeamsSales Hacker
If your prospecting team is optimizing emails based on reply rate or open rate (yuck), this is for you.
Buyer sentiment data shows you how your prospect actually feels about what you said to them. In this deep-dive with real examples, we’ll explain how it’s different from buyer intent data and how frontline sales managers are using it to coach outbound sales teams to new heights.
In this session, we were joined by Kaitlen Kelly, Manager of Sales Development at Outreach, for an exclusive peek into the future of truly insights-driven prospecting!
3 Ways to Improve Your Inbound Process with AutomationSales Hacker
A successful inbound engine takes a whole lot of strategy and collaboration to pull off. The buyer experience and how quickly your reps get in front of your prospects is hugely influential on your close rates. This is something you may have experienced or are experiencing now — RevShoppe and their clients have seen this first hand and successfully transformed organizations into automation machines.
The common challenges that RevShoppe clients were experiencing around the inbound motion prompted RevShoppe to dig deeper into how companies are engaging their inbound prospects. They worked with a data science team to understand patterns in the inbound process across 400+ SaaS companies today.
In this deck, Patricia McLaren, Co-founder and CEO at RevShoppe, showed us the most shocking findings from their inbound research and taught us the steps to create your own successful inbound engine and buyer experience.
Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Sales Plays Cheat SheetSales Hacker
“The Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Sales Plays” to deliver an answer on the one overarching playbook — that can create predictable & repeatable pipeline for Sales teams of ALL sizes, SDR teams at ALL stages, and ALL based on data!
Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Sales PlaysSales Hacker
Since inception, the sales industry has historically had questions that have gone unanswered and substantial problems that have gone unsolved.
First, there’s the tactical ones: What makes the perfect cold call? How do I handle the objection “Send me an email”? What’s the perfect subject line? And when someone ghosts me, how do I re-engage with them in a way that gets the response I want?
And then there’s the bigger ones.. Why do my AEs fight with my SDRs on which meetings are TRULY qualified? Why does Marketing complain that Sales isn’t following up with their MQLs in a timely manner? Why does Sales complain that ALL of the marketing leads are “BS”? And what is the ONE playbook that will help my team drive predictable & repeatable pipeline, once and for all?
In this deck presensted by Becc Holland & Scott Barker for “The Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Sales Plays” to deliver an answer on the one overarching playbook — that can create predictable & repeatable pipeline for Sales teams of ALL sizes, SDR teams at ALL stages, and ALL based on data!
Defining sales enablement charter 2021Sales Hacker
What You'll Learn:
- Benchmark your enablement maturity for 2021 planning
- Solidify your current state and where you (enablement, sales, marketing) want to go
- Expand enablement’s impact across the entire go-to-market organization
How to Inspire, Grow, and Enable Your Teams (even in a Down Market!)Sales Hacker
What You'll Learn:
- How to build structures to move ambitious team members from SDR to AE and beyond
- How to help salespeople pivot into other roles in the org (Sales to Ops, Enablement, Leadership, or even Marketing!)
- How to inspire and retain talent that will carry your company forward (down market, or not)
How to Book More Meetings w/ “Persona-Based” PersonalizationSales Hacker
Ever been told that personalization is THE key to masterful sales messaging & more booked meetings?
Well, you’ve been lied to! Salespeople have fetishized personalized messaging for over a decade when, in reality, relevance is king.
The even worse news? Because you’re competing for your prospect’s attention, it falls on your shoulders to stay ahead of the pack & remain relevant.
Luckily for us, TJ Macke is revealing his framework for creating sales messaging that prospects actually read & respond to, and it’s called “persona-based” personalization.
Workshop: Breaking Down a Real Outbound Prospecting SequenceSales Hacker
With 2020 hitting the market hard, many sales leaders are facing less staff & resources while still being expected to hit (or exceed) quota.
With our customers facing similar squeezes, tried and true outbound tactics are falling flat, leaving us all scrambling to find that extra gear in our outbound sequences….TODAY!
In this presentation, Jeff Swan, Chief Playmaker at RevUp Sales, will demonstrate how to think critically about your sales messaging & sequences, so you can find an extra gear and book more meetings, while your competitors continue to fall flat with outdated (or worse, irrelevant) sales plays.
The Link between Sales Happiness, Performance and TechnologySales Hacker
That sales culture trumps strategy is not new. But can the culture of a sales team be based on “happiness”? How do catch-phrases like “work hard, play hard” impact the culture of the sales team? And does a happy sales team even lead to great performance?
These are the questions we set out to answer when we commissioned Harvard Business Review (HBR) to study the impact of a happy sales culture on business outcomes, metrics such as sales productivity and performance. The results break some long-standing myths.
Learn from our panel discussion that uncovers these insights. It brings together leaders who have built high performing sales teams with happiness at the core of their sales culture.
The Secret Recipe to Show Extreme Value to Your New Buyer: The CFOSales Hacker
What You'll Learn:
- What CFOs really care about in today’s environment
- How to reposition your value-prop to “CFO-proof” your deals
- Tips & tricks to increase your impact with intentional, value-driven meetings
- How to use extreme preparation to “earn the right” to engage with your buyers
3 Techniques That Will Transform Your Deal ExecutionSales Hacker
What You'll Learn:
- Why winning influence is critical for closing revenue.
- How to build trust and credibility with team selling.
- The #1 signal that all winning deals have in common.
From Call to Close: Three Strategies to Uplevel Your Entire Sales ProcessSales Hacker
The world of sales has changed. Sales teams across the globe are grappling with longer payment terms, enhanced deal scrutiny, and stalled sales motions.
As a sales leader, how do you ensure your entire sales process is keeping up?
Learn from Dan Templatement, RVP of Sales at Chorus.ai, and Ryan Neu, Founder & CEO at Vendr, to learn three proven strategies to re-engage and level up your entire sales motion - from call to close.
14. _______ provides professional consulting services to
develop and support online business solutions. From
startup to Fortune 500 companies, _________ assists
clients to maximize their return on investment in the
Cloud by providing implementation, development, and
value-added software solutions.
speaking to everyone = no one can hear
15.
16.
17.
18. what are you the
King/Queen of?
who’s been your
ideal customer?
get SPECIFIC
SMALL clues!
20. • even with a perfect sales process or big sales
team, if your leadgen is crummy, you’ll struggle
• with great leads, you can get everything else
wrong & still do well
• there are 3 types of leads
leadgen is your “big lever”
34. fatal mistake:
creating a leading, next
generation scalable, social
platform crowdfunded glazed-eye
jargonation
3
35.
36.
37. _______ provides professional consulting services to
develop and support online business solutions. From
startup to Fortune 500 companies, _________ assists
clients to maximize their return on investment in the
Cloud by providing implementation, development, and
value-added software solutions.
speaking to everyone = no one can hear
38. what do customers want?
people don’t care what you do
they care about what
you can do for them
39. improve your messaging TODAY
• “how do you help customers?”
• “so what?”
• “what’s so great about that?” (WSGAT)
43. why salespeople shouldn’t prospect
• they aren’t any good at it
• they don’t like it
• it’s not repeatable
google “Why Salespeople Shouldn’t Prospect”
& send to skeptics (like investors)
57. grow your own talent
• create a farm team system
• lower risk, cost
• faster ramp times
• better sales, service, success
58. 1. Focus on your sales system, not sales people
2. What can you win at easily?
3. Seeds, nets spears – focus on one at a time
4. If you have any customers worth >$10,000, build an
outbound prospecting team
5. When people ask you what you do today, pretend
they asked “how do you help customers?”
6. How can you further specialize (focus) you or your
salespeople?
So -
At the point of death. (of a thing) In terminal decline; lacking vitality or vigor
Shopping mall story
Shopping mall story
If you were king
At the point of death. (of a thing) In terminal decline; lacking vitality or vigor
Shopping mall story
What’s different for each: ICP, leadgen process, response process, funnels & metrics
Orange – whether you have marketing team or do it yourself
Green – prosepcting
Yellow - closing
At the point of death. (of a thing) In terminal decline; lacking vitality or vigor
Shopping mall story
“I’m a sales coach”
We help companies triple
SFDC sold the idea of “ondemand / cloud”
Marketo sells the idea of leads coming to you + automation
SFDC sold the idea of “ondemand / cloud”
Marketo sells the idea of leads coming to you + automation
At the point of death. (of a thing) In terminal decline; lacking vitality or vigor
“hey tell this to my boss”
Need to chunk your time – at least 2 hours for prospecting
Orange – whether you have marketing team or do it yourself
Green – prosepcting
Yellow - closing
At the point of death. (of a thing) In terminal decline; lacking vitality or vigor
At the point of death. (of a thing) In terminal decline; lacking vitality or vigor
At the point of death. (of a thing) In terminal decline; lacking vitality or vigor
Salesforce.com / and all the other companies that we have seen succeed follow this model.
Go through the 4 roles.
To create control over your growth rate, to do it right on your target prospects, you need to have an outbound prospecting role. To make this successful you have to separate it from your closers. You have to specialize. You will not be successful otherwise. We’ve never seen a company succeed in creating an effective prospecting function without specialization.
Stop and Talk..
How is your sales structured?
Do you have any prospectors today?
Is this something you think is important?
How is your sales team set up today?
Reasons to Specialize:
1. To be successful in prospecting today you have to have focused chunks of time. Blocks of 2 hours.
2. AE’s can’t focus, and they don’t have the time to become experts at marketing.
3. A lot more cost effective to have junior people doing it. Why would you have your highest cost people doing the lowest cost work.
4. Side Benefit: Farm team system. Ongoing source of talent for your sales team.
Having an expert at each stage, dedicated attention, rather than fragmented attention. All you have to manage the handover process. Customers get much better service this way. Feeling that they are taken care of.
“hey tell this to my boss”
Under intense scrutiny?
This illustrates the baton pass.
Further illustrates the fact that AE’s are separate from prospectors.
Prospector is doing the read, the closer is doing the blue and there is handoff.
Very defined process to make it work seamlessly.