social media sales and marketing revolution
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The Social Sales Revolution: 7 Steps to Get Ahead
1Get in The
GameKnow Your Customer Hangouts
Build your Social
Market Value
First Friends, Then Leads
Connect With Social
Intelligence
Tweet-up Your Pipeline
Get Together, Sell Smarter
The power is in the hands of the buyerEarn credibility and respect to be a recommender - be helpful – trusted advisor
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Build your Social Market Value
A social savvy rep needs to:• Join social dialog
• Build credibility
• Have experience
• Know the industry
• Be transparent
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Build your Social
Market Value
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Case Study:
190,000+CUSTOMER
S84,000+ SERVERS
4,500+ RACKERS
8 GLOBAL DATA CENTERS
120 +COUNTRIE
S
60%FORTUNE® 100
OFTHE
WE SERVE OVER
Annualized Revenue
OVER $1.2BILLION $$$$
OPEN TECHNOLOGY AT WEB SCALE
Choice, flexibility and freedom from vendor lock-in
SEAMLESS PORTFOLIOPublic Cloud, Private Cloud,
Hybrid Hosting and Dedicated Hosting
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Credibility > Selling
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Recommendations
Relationships
Referrals
Inject social into the demand funnel to accelerate deals
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SEM
Trade ShowsOnline Display
Events
Webinars
Demos
Whitepapers
Blogs
Videos SEO
Qualified Leads
LoyalCUSTOMERS
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Sales
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Department involvement
BEFORE
Marketing
NOW
Marketing
Sales
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THROUGH
DecisionConsiderationAwareness
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SharePoint Tuesday – Real life use case of Social Value
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AdviseListenIntro
GroupsFollowConnect
prospect with social
platforms
prospects and have
them follow us
to prospects
for feedback
How we do it
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BuildContent
AdviseListen
prospects on social
media
Including case
studies, webinars and more
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We train our sales teams to think and act social
How to:Build personalized social profiles on multiple platforms
Engage directly with
recommendations and relationships
Join groups and gain credibility
Build contacts by territory and customer list
Involve prospects in the conversation
Build and maintain relationships
Research and monitor social
media
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Make your sales team:1. Effective
2. Social
3. Self-reliant
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The Power of
Recommendations
on LinkedIn
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LinkedIn Provides a Connection to Trusted AdviceWork colleagues are the most widely trusted source of recommendations.
Vendor salespeople
Vendor websites
IT forums and message boards
Consultants
IT publications (CNET, ZDnet, etc.)
Industry analysts (Gartner/Forrester/IDC)
Work colleagues / professional network
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
22%
23%
51%
58%
59%
80%
93%
Base: All IT survey respondents (N = 800).
% Who Would Trust a Recommendation From:
“When deciding whether to purchase a particular software product for your company or institution, do you trust recommendations from the following sources?”
IT Software Study – March 2011
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Rackspace vs. Company X
554Recommendations
17KFollowers
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We failed before we succeeded
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How we first failed:• Our initial approach was too
aggressive in scale• Mass mandate failed
• No instant results
• More planning needed
• Disconnect: tying social to
quotas
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How we succeeded
• A pilot team that
• Understood relationships
• Connected the dots
• Had patience
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Key Results
Engagement Event Participation
Content Marketing
Leads/Signups
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Sameer Khan – Rackspace Sameer Khan – Rackspace
Marketing Manager
Linked: www.linkedin.com/in/ninjamarketing
Twitter: @ninjamarketer
Marketing Manager
Linked: www.linkedin.com/in/ninjamarketing
Twitter: @ninjamarketer
“Social media is revolutionizing and empowering sales and marketing teams to become self-reliant, connected and social”
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