social media for high-tech partners
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Social Media for High Tech Channels
Axel SchultzeXeesm.com/AxelS
#xeesm
Its all about business
Presentation for NewLease Partners
July 26th 2010, Melbourne, Australia
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Social media & business relevancy
Social media is technically a MEDIA
(networks) but attitudinally it is social
Marketing is primarily about blasting amessage into a market NOT social
Sales, support & purchasing is primarily aboutdoing business between people VERYSOCIAL
Social Media is less relevant for marketing very relevant for sales
Purchasing
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Interesting cases B2B, B2C, various industries
Mercedes Benz (Automobile | B2C)
Whole Foods (Food | B2C)
Zappos (eCommerce | B2C)
Wendy Soucie Consulting (Consulting | B2B)
Clere Communications (Services | B2B)
Call GSM (Telco Provider | B2B)
Cisco, IBM, Virgin, Pepsi
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The el f i fl encechanged in it f ndati n
N ber f inquireshasdr pped t the fl rRequest f r inf r ati n l west ever
Leads typically represented thestart fapr cessending withan Educated PurchaseDecisi n it was the begin fasales pr cess
That educati n pr cesshaschanged!
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Lead / inquiry flow over time
News paper
+ Bill boards
+ Tradeshows
+ Internet reg. pages
+ TV commercials
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The new product discovery model
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The selling and buying disconnect
The way most companies sell today:Buy contact lists, do mail shots
Online and offline advertising
Generate leads through cold calls
Qualify, engage, try selling
Compete harder then ever lower profits thanever
Most businesses didnt change
The way most people buy today:We search the Internet
We read blogs
We visit groups, forums, onlinecommunities
We ask connections in our networks
Most of us ignore advertising, emailshots, cold calls
Most of us changed
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Sales teams have a mission to accomplish
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New ways to make educated purchase decisions
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Bring your sales in alignment with you customers
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Sales Needs ABreak Through Process
Sales Needs ABreak Through Process
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Becoming a sales super star
Relationship building is not
a mechanical processwhere some automationtools help you do that
Relationship building is
about YOU and the otherPERSON
Now with social mediahowever you have an allnew way to reach thepeople you want to meet
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Get on to some of the top networks
Dont sit and wait
Find your clients on other networks
If you dont have an account yet start one they are all free
Explore LinkedIn groups
Check out Twitter
Consider Facebook a topbusiness tool
Explore SlideShare tofind presentations
And other sites you think to you could findsome of your clients / prospects
Even if you dont find decision makers you find the driver of demand: Users(the ones who drive the educated purchase decision)
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Search for companies find people
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What do you do with what you find?
You gain a lot of very valuable contacts and
contacts of contacts and will see a variety ofnetworks and sites
You dont want to search for every contactevery time you are in LinkedIn, Facebook,Twitter or any of the social networks
You also want to remember who you visited,when, how often and the last visit
You will need to think out of the box as noCRM system or other software can help at thisstage
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Moving to Social Business Applications
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Xeesm Social Business Applications
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Xeesm User Development
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All your new social connections
You dont want to search for every contact
every time you are in LinkedIn, Facebook,Twitter or any of the social networks
Xeesm is a professional tool help you manageyour social relationships http://Xeesm.com
Upload your contacts
Click Social Finder
Now you know whereyour contacts are
Keep them in your
social address bookAdd more information
Keep track of visits
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The Concept of Flights!
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Creating a lead generation flight
Define up to five milestones:
Start (Objective 1)Listen and learn
Touch (Objective 2)Comment and respond
Milestone (Objective 3)
Connect with the personEngage (Objective 4)Socialize
Goal (Objective 5)Arrange for a meeting
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Onboarding
Onboard people from your
contactsOnboard people from thesearch
Onboard people from otherflights (PRO only)
Onboard from Upload(PRO only)
Stay in the ACTIVE flight
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Engagement and Socializing
Listen and Learn Socialize Comment Intro Grou p invite
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Open Sales Engagement
Dont live in any system live where your customers are
This is your country club
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Your daily social engagement
20 Minutes each day (4% of the day):Day 1 listen / read several posts
Day 2 chime into a conversation
Day 3 comment on blogs, groups, tweets
Day 4 care about their personal lives
Day 5 making introductionsDay 6 Feature your partners on other blogs
Day 7 suggesting an interesting site or post
Day 8 invitation to your own group
Day 9 Feature them on other sites
Day 10 Make them heroes on your presence
Do care be social be helpful
You dont need executive buy in to do this
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Managing Flights
Sharing Flights with others
Share with team matesShare with advocates
Share it with partners
Share it with customers
Export Flight Members
Into CSV fileLeaving a flight
Only invited crew can
Terminating a flight
Only the owner can do that
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Social Relationship Management in action
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Predictive Model Based Forecast
Three core attributes
Relationship strengthSales Process evolution
Team Experience (Best educated guess)
Algorithm
Relationship strength dominatesSales process guides
Experience influences
Your forecast is no longer dependent on the
judgment onlyMore inputs
Higher accuracy
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Reporting on your dashboard
You see how often you
visited your connectionsYou see the number ofnotes you made numberof connections you had
And you see how manyFlight Objectives youcompleted
In the FlightPlan you seeFlight Completion
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The conversation age
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Some statistics
Did you know :
That 40% of voice mails are never evenlistened to
That 90% of voicemails are not returned
That 81% of all mail is caught in spam filters
That in 2009 92% of deals were not closedas predicted - the highest number since
recording (CSO-Insights)That in 2009 sales cycles were 30% shorter onaverage (TAS study of200,000 transactions)
That end of2009 we had over 100 MM Blogs
30 Million Tweets a day
260 Billion page views/month Facebook12 Billion videos viewed per month
Is email and phone all you have?
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Its a High Altitude sales model
Social selling is very FAST and gives youenormous REACH
Press the accelerator hard
Inside Sales
Reach up to 250 contacts a day
Get 30% response rate (only right now)
Field Sales
Visit50 people a day
Have 25 meaningful dialogs
Add online to the mix of Phone & F2F
The power is in the mix & in the ratioF2F: 5 meetings a day | prep: 1-2 weeks
Phone: 10 calls | prep: 1-2 days
Social: 30 dialogs | prep: Instant
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Where do you go from here?
Be on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter,
SlideShare, YouTube, Blogs..Create a Xeesm account - xeesm.com
Upload your contacts
Add their social sites
You may add the Social Finder
Install Flights Business Edition $20/month
Build social business relationships like salessuper stars in country clubs
Apply for the Gold Sphere Club
Top sales performer from around the world
Let us or any of our partner help you
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Feedback Q+A
Q + A
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Thank You
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About
Xeesm Corp. (pronounce see sum) provides social business
applications to reach more people faster, build stronger relationshipsand a better customer experience. The company developed aplatform that hosts both Xeesm developed and third party socialmedia business applications.
Xeesm is used across departmental or company boundaries by salesteams to improve the customer experience, by marketing teams to
improve brand relationships, by product management to develop abetter understanding of market needs or social media based productlaunches, by HR teams or recruiter to learn more and faster aboutcandidates, by channel managers for better partner relationships andmany similar applications. Continuously Xeesm user find newapplications to develop a better way of doing business.
The privately held company is based in Palo Alto, California.