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Sales Elite, LLC / 20 Sales Hacks in 60 Minutes!
Gary SmythFounder / CEO
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Defining Sales SuccessB-A-T Triangle
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Sales Tools, Technologies & Techniques
• Hiring
• CRM
• Lead Generation
• Sales Intelligence
• Social Media Management
• Productivity
• Sales Techniques
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Hiring.
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Building a Sales Team
• Sales Education Foundation: Identify Professional Sales programs.
• Leverage for entry level, interns and tenured sales professionals
• Pi Sigma Epsilon: Start working with the next generation of sales professionals.
• Only national, professional fraternity dedicated to sales
• Leverage resources provided by University Sales Center Alliance.
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HubSpot / Insightly
• HubSpot
• Free CRM
• Unlimited users, usage, data
• Customize views, deal and task board
• Insightly
• Free CRM up to 2 users.
• Advanced reporting functionalities.
• Email templates, large email distribution.
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Lead Generation.
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LinkedIn / Twitter Boolean Search
• What is Boolean Search
• A type of search allowing users to combine keywords with operators such as AND, NOT and OR to further produce more relevant results.
• (“Vice President” OR VP OR “V.P.” OR SVP OR EVP) AND SALES
• Helpdesk OR “Help Desk” OR “Technical' Support”
• crm "anyone know" lang:en since:2015-12-31
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ZoomInfo Community
• Gain access to ZoomInfo contact database.
• An Outlook plug-in that shares your business contacts with the ZoomInfo community.
• In return you gain access to more than 65 million people and six million company profiles.
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Rapportive / Google Docs
• Leverage tool identify email address as well as other online information, including LinkedIn profile.
• There are a couple steps to this…
• Leverage Google Docs spreadsheet to help minimize the work.
• Refer to link / video for additional instructions.
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MailTester & “Whois” Search
• “Whois” search
• When a company registers a website, need to provide contact for admin or technical contact
• Often this can provide the email format for a specific company
• Note: many companies use private or 3rd parties to register site
• Other resources that can help verify email addresses
• MailTester & Verify Email Address
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Profile Views
• See full history of LinkedIn views.
• View beyond 5 recent views limit.
• Basic LinkedIn subscription
• No upgraded profile needed.
• No 90 days limit for historical views
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Sales Intelligence.
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Crystal
• People communicate differently. Communicate with empathy.
• Crystal is a communication coach for every conversation: phone, in-person, social, email
• View personality profiles from across the web, integrates with social networks.
• Personality-driven email templates.
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Charlie App
• Prepare for meetings effectively.
• Will compile one-pager on the people you are about to meet with, before you see them.
• Can integrate with your calendar and synch with your scheduled meetings.
• Provides breaking news on a company, professional history, news articles where mentioned.
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Datanyze
• Research and qualify accounts.
• Identify technologies being currently leveraged at that company.
• Build prospect lists and uncover email addresses.
• Export information into SalesForce.
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Owler
• Provides sales intelligence in a consolidated location.
• Receive free quarterly competitive intelligence reports.
• Receive daily snapshot of news and alerts for all companies.
• Run reports on funding, acquisitions and leadership changes.
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Demograph
• Research prospects more quickly.
• Enter a company’s web address only
• Get up-to-date information about your target companies in real time.
• Discovers key information including business summary, contact information and executive team members.
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Social Media Management.
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MeetEdgar
• Edgar is a social media scheduling tool and an Austin company!
• Instead of publishing your updates just once (which you can still do), the tool categorizes them in a library you build over time.
• All updates are sorted into categories you create.
• Once an update is shared it goes to end of a category queue and rescheduled for future. Never run out of posts.
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Statusbrew
• Built upon Twitter and Instagram.
• Initially to track followers/following but evolved into broader social management application.
• Grow and organize your community.
• Automate interactions: new follower / mention.
• Receive weekly analytics, user engagement.
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Productivity.
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Cold Turkey
• Fewer distractions.
• Increase productivity by:
• Temporarily blocking websites
• Temporarily blocking applications
• Lock yourself out of your computer for periods of time
• Free version and Pro version ($19 one time).
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Sales Techniques.
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Pull vs. Push
• A prospect who is listening is no prospect at all.
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Four Steps to an Effective Email
• Include research
• Referrals -> Context
• Value
• Action -> Next step
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Voicemail / Email Jail
• Introduction
• Seems like things have changed in your business…
• That’s ok
• Please give me a call before / after hours
• ‘No’ is good: from a mindset point of view, we can move on.
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Why are we here?Think of Value from the Client Perspective
What happens if you don’t move forward…?
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Handling Objections
• Opportunity to gain clarity
• Listen / Acknowledge / Respond
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My Favorite Tool – Bonus!.
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