Is your sales team is struggling to get leads on the phone?
This might be one of those situations where technology and easy access to digital data are getting in the way of good old fashioned common sense.
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When a new lead gets assigned to one of your sales reps, there are things that sales reps do before trying to connect with the lead?
- They decide when they are going to reach out (hopefully asap)
- They prepare their “connect call” script or outline.
- They open up a new note in their CRM.
- Most importantly, they do research on the lead.
It is important that sales reps try to understand the lead’s situation or the context of their initial conversion so they can make their first touch a relevant interaction.
How Small Marketing Teams Leapfrog Larger Competitors
Since this cursory research only takes a few minutes, it is a major leverage point for small marketing and sales team.
By doing things smarter, your sales reps can close a lot more sales using the same amount of time and effort.
In this episode of the Small Marketing Teams podcast, I discuss how using your lead intelligence differently can result in an increase in revenue.
The first thing you need to know is that not all sales reps use lead intelligence (the data you have about a lead and their interests) the same way.
An AVERAGE sales rep looks at which offer or landing page the lead converted on before calling or emailing them.
A GOOD sales rep analyzes additional digital behavior, including:
- How many web pages they viewed
- When they were last on your website.
- The most recently opened emails
- Data submitted in the landing page form
- Social profiles
Both of these approaches represent the use of quantitative data in building your assumptions about a lead’s problems, priorities, and motivations.
The BEST sales reps take it a step further. They build on quantitative data by adding qualitative elements.
These top performers build a narrative around the journey that the lead look - from the first ad or search engine query to their landing page conversions.
Where do they get this information?
They put themselves in the prospective buyer’s shoes by immersing themselves in the experience that the buyer takes.
They take into account the ad that got the lead’s attention and the language that led them to click on the call to action.
They analyze the copy on the landing page to identify the hook that caused the lead to first opt-in.
If the lead converted on a second or third offer further down the funnel after their first conversion, what was the communication and copy that drove them to take the next step?
Together this information in your CRM enables savvy sales reps to create a fairly accurate narrative that will inform how they connect with, qualify, and build relationships with leads.
Next, let’s explore why this is important.
Continuity Is The Key To Productive Sales Calls
It used to be that prospective buyers did very little digging online before contacting a company. Today, leads do 50-70% of the research on their problem online before reaching out to a sales rep.
That means that they have an understanding of their problem and potential solutions
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