bluewolf and salesforce.com transforming sales executive forum
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The speed of business, explosion of the social web, and cloud-based technologies have changed the enterprise dynamic. Organizations are looking to realign their technology and culture around a new approach to innovation that delivers a competitive advantage. Bluewolf and salesforce.com hosted an invite-only executive forum that highlighted strategies to increase enterprise collaboration, transform sales organizations, and shorten sales and delivery cycles.TRANSCRIPT
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Mobile Field Sales Gene-Michael Koopman
Director, Mobile Application Development
@genebike
Mobile is a top priority for Salesforce customers
Combining
social + mobile to make
workforces more:
• Collaborative
• Productive
• Customer-centric
Powering the new agile, mobile enterprise
89 of the top 100 US companies offer telecommuting
– Insight Research Corporation, 2012
Firms with mobile solutions are
23% more able to
achieve sales quotas –Mobile Mutual, 2012
80% of companies
allow BYOD or will in
next 24 months –BT, 2012
Mobile tablets boost field
service productivity
by 28% –Qualcomm and Lenovo, 2012
Don’t go mobile for the sake of going mobile!
A successful mobile strategy is dictated by clear business goals
5 Rules for Optimizing
Mobility ROI with
Salesforce
Rule #1
Identify common actions driving key business goals that would
benefit from mobile access
Rule #2
Develop a deep understanding of employee and customer
behaviors and experiences
Rule #3
Break down the mobility transformation process into very
practical steps
Rule #4
Establish a governance framework to prioritize and track the
mobility transformation
Determining What to Work On
Rule #5
Iterate based on customer and employee feedback, as well as
business and market demands
Users want:
• Intuitive interface
• Ease of use
• Few clicks
• Speed
Going mobile:
Real-life examples
Agile mobile transformation
Goal Increase sales revenue & brand loyalty
Challenges A commoditized & competitive market
How do you stand out from other reps?
How can a dispersed sales force deliver consistently?
What drives sales?
When reps can have more educated conversations with physicians
Efficiently matching message & content to customers across the sales
continuum
Koach: iPad App for GSK Sales Reps
› Prompts with right questions and
appropriate products to recommend
› Easy access to sales & marketing info, and
track activities on a single device
› GSK leadership has better visibility into
sales calls & regulation compliance
Results:
Customer engagement
Elevated reputation
Brand loyalty
Sales Revenues
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› Real time, mobile access to items most
used by a sales rep during a customer
visit.
› GPS-Enabled account finder
› Pipeline management on the go: Update
& add activities to opportunities via type
or speech
› Part of the PackApps Mobile Suite
Questions and
Discussion
Michael Rogan
Senior Consulting Manager
@mjrogan
Best Practices for Social Selling
› We are connected. Sales has been transformed.
Best Practices for Social Selling – Agenda
› Social has changed the game
› Use Social to level the playing field
› Real life example – Bluewolf #GoingSocial
› Q&A
Social Has Changed the Game
› Information empowers buyers to be in the driver’s seat
› Social and mobile technologies accelerate sharing capabilities
› Consumer experiences are shaping B2B buyer expectations
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEl1fiqLCVM
Use Social to Level the Playing Field
› Intelligence tools can provide industry/account/contact views
› Macro and micro level, integrated/non-integrated solutions exist
Be Viewed as a Trusted Expert
› How will you leverage available data?
› Goal is to be viewed by your customer as a trusted advisor
› Don’t be a stalker, be a steward!
Establish a Winning Social Persona
› Focus on building credibility and authenticity
› Tailor content to audiences based on roles/personas
› Blog regularly with engaging, focused content
Actions of Top Social Sales People
› Listen and share
› Keep up with the industry
› Connect with customers/prospects
› Engage top influencers
› Demonstrate thought leadership
How Do You Make It Happen?
› Adoption
› Executive sponsorship
› Gamification
› Internal collaboration
› Social monitoring
Real Life Example Bluewolf #GoingSocial
1. #GoingSocial Portal
2. Pack Profiles
3. Gamification
#GoingSocial Portal
Pack Profiles
> Managed by every Bluewolf employee within Salesforce
Gamification
Gamified behaviors
Leaderboards
Rewards Store
#GoingSocial Internal Success 57% Increase in average Chatter activity in Q1 2012 compared to Q4 2011
68% Increase in Social Traffic to Website
This graph from Google Analytics represents the increase in website
traffic from all social media platforms from January-August 2012.
153% Increase in Blog Traffic This graph from Google Analytics represents website traffic to our blog
from January-August 2012.
Q&A
Thank You!
Customer Panel
› Angela Stewart, Manhattan Associates
Angela Stewart, Manhattan Associates
Sr. Manager, Enterprise Applications
With offices in nine countries and partners on nearly every continent, Manhattan Associates is the supply chain solutions provider of choice for supply chain leaders around the world.
- 2500 Employees
- Headquarters in Atlanta, GA
- Salesforce.com customer since 2006
- Initial implementation by Bluewolf
- Bluewolf Beyond partnership since 2009
- 1400+ Unlimited User Licenses
- 2000 Customer Portal Licenses
- Leveraging Sales, Service and Custom Clouds
Social Use Cases
› Customer Collaboration
› Customer Portal utilization
› Product Council Member feedback
› Employee Collaboration across Departments
› Sales to Services transition
› Sales to Legal communication @ Deal Closure
› Support for Mobile Workforce
› Professional Services to internal company network
› Professional Services to R&D collaboration
Customer Collaboration
› Customer Portal re-design
› Initially designed for Case Management
› Re-designing portal to include communities, content management, and
project management
› Product Council member feedback
› Started as “Excel spreadsheet / email / phone” process with minimal
participation from customers
› Created private social network for customers to collaborate with other
customers and/or Product Managers
Employee Collaboration across Departments
› Sales to Services Transition
› Initially Professional Services did not use Salesforce.com – struggled to get
access to pipeline of opportunities
› Added 500 Professional Services reps 12 months ago; system generates
“Services opportunities” and notifies PSO Ops Team when Sales deal is
closed-won. Services team works alongside Sales to start allocating
resources based on Services start date.
› Sales to Legal Communication @ Deal Closure
› Started as “Excel spreadsheet / email / phone” process with minimal
participation from customers
› Created Legal Dashboard to provide insight into upcoming deals
Support for Mobile Workforce
› Professional Services to internal company network
› Old process relied on personal relationships
› Social allows mobile employees to post questions to anyone in the company
for assistance
› Professional Services to R&D
› Old process relied on personal relationships
› Social allows Professional Services to “follow” cases/defects for status
updates
Measuring Success
› Dan Hines, Regional VP Enterprise Sales
Salesforce.com Customer Success
Analytics Discussion
Best Practices- “C” Level Analytics
Why Define Business Measures?
Business Measures help to monitor the success of your CRM
program by:
Setting and gauging the level of success in meeting CRM objectives and
adoption goals
Providing feedback to modify the CRM strategy and implementation
Monitoring the customer experience
Acting as a tool for change management
Why use Salesforce.com Analytics?
Proactive vs. Reactive Approach
Visibility and Predictability
Drive Adoption
Increase Productivity
Reduce Risk
Improve Organization and Communicate Your Data
Analytics is About Helping People Make Decisions
From Top Line and Down
Weekly Monthly Quarterly Bi-Annually
Sales Exec
Forecasting
Big deals
Pipeline coverage
Red accounts
Bookings growth
KPI scorecards
Pipeline ROI
Forecasting accuracy
Market coverage
Resource ROI
Sales Mgr
Pipeline changes
Forecasting
Deal reviews
Won/loss/dead
Rep performance
Pipeline pushing
Product Mix
Competition
Systemic bottlenecks
Sales Rep
Meeting/activity
Low hanging fruit
Leaderboard
Pipeline generation
Gap to quota
Account plans
Market activity
Industry perf.
Whitespace analysis
Best Practice: A limited Set of Business Metrics
The Number of Metrics Used
By CEOs of Private U.S. Companies
15 or More Metrics
Ten to 15 Metrics
18%
21%
52%
9% Less Than 5 Metrics
Five to 10 Metrics
(Source: PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Survey of the number of metrics used by CEOs of Private U.S.
Companies — January 2004)
Capture Historical Data With Analytic
Snapshots Role Use Case Example
Chief Sales Officer Wants to see trends in pipeline
quality
Wants to see a trend of how long deals stay in
specific stages. They set up an analytic snapshot
looking at the opportunity history report, for the last
90 days of closed deals, running once a month, and
grouped by “from state”, looking at average days of
stage. This will capture this data and allow the
business to see whether changes in sales process
and tools change stage dwell time.
Chief Marketing
Officer
Wants to see campaign
summaries on effectiveness and
reach
Wants to see campaign effectiveness over time as
campaigns should lead to leads, opportunities, and
closed/won deals. They would snapshot reports on
lead status by campaign, and opportunity status
by campaign every week, then be able to show how
many leads and opportunities were received and
converted from each campaign
Service Manager Wants to see trends per-center
call close rates and times
Wants to see the trend of close rates of calls and
the times to close calls. They set up a report of close
rate and call time for the last day, then snapshot these
summaries every day.
Aggregate Data to Trend
Provides the ability to create custom summary formulas on your
reports that allow analysis of aggregate data
› Use clicks, not code to analyze trend data
› Evaluate differences between months/weeks/days of data
› Win rates, coverage ratios, actual vs. goal comparisons
Previous Group Value (PREVGROUPVAL)
› returns the value of the selected summary field from the previous summary
row at the grouping level that you specify.
Parent Group Value (PARENTGROUPVAL):
› returns the value of the selected summary field from the parent grouping
level that you specify (level above the grouping level where you chose to
display the formula)
Deliver Insight into Future
Identify over-
dependencies
Use past trends to
predict future
MONTH OUT variable: ((YEAR(CloseDate) - YEAR(today())) * 12) + (month(CloseDate) - month(today()))
Provide Deeper Insight With Combo Charts Compare + correlate
Root cause analysis
Behavioral trends
Actuals vs. Targets
Make Your Point With Color
Picklist colors for status
Highlights for aggregates
vs goals
Picking The Right Tool is Half The Job
Sample Dashboards Activity Management: Calls and Meetings
Sample Dashboards Activity Management: “Clean Your Room”
Sample Dashboards Pipeline Management: New Product Sales
Sample Dashboards Pipeline Management: Competitive Win Rates
Sample Dashboards Pipeline Management: Quota Crushers (Part 1)
Sample Dashboards Pipeline Management: Quota Crushers (Part 2)
Sample Reports Pipeline Management: Weekly Next Steps Report
Sample Reports Forecast Management: Holy Grail