6 Secrets to a Successful Inside Sales Organiza5on
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Amnon Mishor @amnonmis
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What is Sales Development?
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Sales development is a phone-‐based team that iden.fies, connects with, and qualifies leads. When a lead is qualified, they then pass the qualified lead to a
sales person who takes over for the rest of the sales process.
“Put simply, SDRs (Sales Development Reps) pass the baton between marke.ng and sales.”
(Marketo Defini.ve Guide to Sales Lead Qualifica.on and Sales Development)
Sales Development is Also Known as….
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ü Business Development ü Lead Development ü Lead Qualifica.on ü Tele-‐qualifica.on ü Tele-‐sales ü Inside Sales
The Case for Sales Development
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Reason #1: It’s Hard to Reach People
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• 12.73 dials-‐to-‐connects w/ direct phone numbers • 18.83 dials-‐to-‐connects with switchboard numbers • 22.5 dials to one meaningful conversa5on (manager level) • 30 dials to one meaningful conversa5on with execu5ves • 3 meaningful conversa5ons to 1 appointment
60-‐90 dials to an appointment!
Reason #2: Follow up Speed
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Sales development is a phone-‐based team that iden.fies, connects with, and qualifies leads. When a lead is qualified, they then pass the qualified lead to a
sales person who takes over for the rest of the sales process.
“Put simply, SDRs (Sales Development Reps) pass the baton between marke.ng and sales.”
(Marketo Defini.ve Guide to Sales Lead Qualifica.on and Sales Development)
Reason #3: Conversion
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Two technology clients sold compe..ve solu.ons to the same type of buyer.
The company with an op.mized sales development converted these leads at 40%. The other organiza.on passed leads directly to quota-‐carrying
sales reps and converted leads at less than 5%. .
Reason #4: Sales and Marke.ng Alignment
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Marke5ng: “Sales doesn’t follow up on my leads.”
Sales: “The leads suck”
Very simply, with a well-‐managed sales development team, lead follow up issues are solved. As for the issue of marke5ng’s leads “sucking”, sales
development solves this problem by sending sales only qualified leads ready to talk.
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Reason #5: Sales Effec.veness
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• 5% increase in selling 5me that can yield a 20% increase in revenue; • 1% increase in pipeline value that can yield a 25% increase in revenue;
and • 15% decrease in sales cycle length that can yield a 30% increase in
revenue .
The 6 Attributes of a Successful Sales Development Team
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The Qualified Lead Definition
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The Key to Success: The QL Defini.on
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• Ambiguity destroys the SDR-‐Sales rela5onship • The QL Defini5on determines strategy, people, process, and technology
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Anatomy of the Qualified Lead
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Customer Profile (Who is our target customer?) ü Company Type (size, ver5cal, etc) ü Buyer Type (Role) ü Loca5on
Environmental Data ü Technology qualifica5ons
Breakdown of the QL Defini.on
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4 Handoff Informa.on (how do SDR’s pass QL’s to sales) ü Ac5vity (mee5ng or intro) ü Required data (phone number, etc ü Timing
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Behavioral Data (When do we pass the lead?) ü BANT versus Interest?
Best Prac.ces
• Commit to develop and follow the qualified lead defini.on
• Get anecdotal feedback on the defini.on from sales
• Use data (CRM and ERP) to iden.fy your most profitable and likely buyers
• Forecast whether the SD team can deliver enough QLs
• Poten.ally create QLs for each buyer type
• Sign and publish the QL defini.on
• Develop SLA’s: Marke.ng will sign up to provide SDR team with enough leads, SDR team will sign up for a number of QLs, and sales will sign up to follow up on QL handoff and provide feedback
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Qualified Lead Template
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Informa.on Qualified Lead Requirements Example
Customer Profile
Company Size 100+ employees
Revenue Not applicable
Loca5on North America
Title or Role Manager, Director, or VP of Marke5ng
Industry All excluding government and non-‐profit
Behavioral Informa.on
Has pain The right type of pain or challenge for your solu5on
Budget Has budget or ability to get budget
Timeframe Has firm 5meframe or enough urgency to work on this project
Poten5al Deal Size Some people use number of users or poten5al spend
Agrees to appointment with sales Answered “yes” to hearing more from a sales person
If a lead performs any of the aforemen1oned ac1ons, the lead fits behavioral qualifica1on requirements
Environmental Informa.on
Technical Requirements Number of servers, desktops, etc
Handoff Informa.on
SDR-‐to-‐sales handoff point Prospect amends appointment with sales
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The Importance of the Customer Profile
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• The customer profile is more than just part of the defini5on, it helps dictate scoring, data, focus, messaging, etc
• Just answer the ques5on: Who are the most ideal people and organiza5ons we sell to?
• This is key to alignment –“Just get me the right person and the right company with the right pain and my guys should be able to do the rest” – VP of Sales
Develop a Process
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The Qualified Lead Process
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Inbound Lead Score Append Outreach QL
Nurture
• Understand your QL defini5on (Customer Profile, etc) • Design your process to get to maximum number of QLs • Develop the support processes necessary to execute (CRM, Data, Scoring, Dialing
Technology, etc)
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Scoring
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Consump.on Scoring versus…
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If the customer profile fits, who cares what they downloaded?*
*Except to open up the conversa.on of course….
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Customer Scoring
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The most important factors: ü Right organiza5on ü Right interest ü Right person If they fit the bill, it doesn’t mamer if they downloaded one or 20 whitepapers If you don’t have right person, but you have right interest and right organiza5on – keep following!
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• Most sales people do this ins5nc5vely • High targets get maximum amount of outreach • Low targets get less and poten5ally moved into marke5ng funnel quicker
Pre-‐Call Scoring
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Target Factors Short-‐term play
A Right company (ver5cal, size, etc) Right person Right ac5vity (contact us, free-‐trial)
High touch: 6-‐8 touches in two weeks Triangulate on decision makers but work with your champion
A-‐ Right company Right person Ac5vity but no indicators
High touch: 6-‐8 touches in two weeks Triangulate on decision makers but work with your champion
B+ Right company Wrong person Right ac5vity or any ac5vity
Iden5fy right person
Low No data triggers One touch depending on work load
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Data
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The 3 Things SDRs Need from Data
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1. Accuracy ü SDR effec5veness rises by 10-‐15% with bemer data (but isn’t that obvious?) 2. Intelligence ü Who is the buyer? ü What have they done recently? ü What should I say to them? 3. Stakeholder Map ü Who else mamers in the organiza5on to this decision?
Outreach
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Outreach Best Prac.ces
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First contact should happen within 5 minutes of first registra.on. Use a 2 week, mul.-‐touch campaign of at least 8 touches for each prospect for your high targets Use the “Double-‐Tap” • Leave voicemail and send email
within minutes Give SDRs a clear understanding of what it will take to reach and convert a lead to a Qualified Lead Use scoring to ensure maximum effort against high targets
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Sample Call Pamern (high target)
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Amempt Business Day Step Descrip.on
0 1 Research and discover
1 1 Double Tap Voicemail/Email combo
3 1-‐2 Zero out Try to contact buyer live – if no contact, hang up
4 2 Double Tap Voicemail/Email combo
6 3 Zero out Try to contact buyer live – if no contact, hang up
7 4 Double tap Voicemail/Email combo
9 7-‐8 Final double tap Use combina5on of voicemail and email with final outreach and note that you will no longer be contac5ng
Ongoing Ongoing Nurture Send emails and occasional calls with value-‐add content every 2-‐3 weeks
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Sell Inbound Like Outbound
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This is a very hot best prac5ce right now If the org fits the customer profile, then triangulate around the lead like you would in an outbound scenario. Contact the decision maker AND other important stakeholders early in the process
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Sample Call Pamern (high target)
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Amempt Business Day Step Descrip.on
0 1 Research and discover
1 1 Double Tap Voicemail/Email combo
1 1 Decision Maker Double Tap
Outreach to decision maker
3 1-‐2 Zero out Try to contact buyer live – if no contact, hang up
4 2 Double Tap Voicemail/Email combo
4 2 Decision Maker Double Tap
Outreach to decision maker
6 3 Zero out Try to contact buyer live – if no contact, hang up
7 4 Double tap Voicemail/Email combo
9 7-‐8 Final double tap Use combina5on of voicemail and email
Ongoing Ongoing Nurture Send emails and occasional calls with value-‐add content every 2-‐3 weeks
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Call High Referencing the Ini.al Interest
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Dear <decision maker>, Recently <Champion> started a free trial of our XX solu5on. I’d like to introduce myself and schedule a 15 minute call… Craig note: Have content for execu5ves prepared
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Management
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Frontline Coaching is Cri.cal
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ü 5-‐6 hours of dedicated coaching/month ü Role-‐playing, messaging, monitoring
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Protec.on
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SDRs sit between sales and marke5ng – They always need someone to defend them
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