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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

    2010 Xeesm Corp. All rights reserved. Xeesm and the Xeesm logo as well as the Xeesm product names are either trademarks orregistered trademarks. All other company names and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respectivecompanies or owners.

    All materials contained herein are the property of each respective company identified on such materials, and may only be used, copiedor distributed with the express written permission of each respective company.

    Xeesm Corp. | 228 Hamilton Ave. | Palo Alto, CA 94301 | (650) 384-0057 | www.xeesm.com

    +1 (650) 384-0057

    http://xeesm.com

    Xeesm.com/AxelSXeesm.com/MaritaR

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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.