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3 Things Every Sales Team Needs To Be Thinking About
3 Things Every Sales Team Needs To Be Thinking About
3 Things Every Sales Team Needs To Be Thinking About
Armen Zildjian
VP of Sales @ Drift
Here are his top 3 things sales teams
should be focusing on in 2017.
1) Adding
Messaging to Your
Sales Process
So you've got the phone, and email,
and maybe you’re even using social
as an outreach tool.
But these days, more and more of
your prospects are using messaging.
Just look at the numbers…
Share of Usage Time Spent in
Top 5 Email & Messaging Apps
8.00%
Email Messaging
6.00%
4.00%
2.00%
0.00%
13-24 25-44 45+
ages
Source: Andrew Wagner. #Converted16 Conference. Figures from 2015 and U.S. only.
The takeaway here isn’t that you
need to replace those other channels
with messaging.
But with billions of people now using
messaging worldwide, it should at
least be a part of your sales motion.
Pro tip for getting started:
• Repeat.
From a buyer's perspective, the
timing is usually terrible when a
BDR reaches out. Just think about it:
After being forced to fill
out forms, buyers don’t
sit around waiting for
follow-up phone calls.
That’s why on average it takes BDRs
9 touches over 2 weeks before
they're able to qualify a given lead.
These days, buyers would rather
have those sales conversations when
it’s convenient for them…
…while they’re live on your website.
So here’s a simple change: Start
having your BDRs run weekly chat
shifts.
We do this at Drift and call it chat
duty. Everyone has a certain day &
time when they’re responsible for
responding to chats.
And remember: You don’t need your
BDRs online around the clock in
order to drive results.
You can have them do a few hours
per week on chat, and then let bots
do the rest.
For example, at Drift we have a bot
that qualifies leads for our sales
team on our pricing page.
That way our sales team is only
talking to people after they’ve been
qualified.
3) Doing Account-
Based Marketing
the Right Way
(So You Can Stop Leaking Money)
Account-based marketing (ABM) is
amazing. But there’s now a growing
disconnect between…