Social CRM, It’s a philosophy, it’s a strategy – now a product
Social customer engagement from lead generation to closure and way beyond
Social selling techniques and social CRM technology constitute this new solution. But be warned – this is not a refried version of CRM. This is an all new product developed from ground up for sales engagement in the new world. If you are looking for a new address database with your old 7 step sales process – this would be the wrong place. Expect a system that is as different as CRM was back in the days when it was introduced.
Speaker: Axel Schultze, CEO Xeequa Corp,
Agenda:
The Idea and concept of Xeesm/Edge!
Sales objective setting and sales process alignment
Lead generation with Xeesm/Flights!
Prospect nurturing in this new environment
Progress monitoring – sales process management with Xeesm/Edge!
Collaboration with teams, partners AND customers – all in one system
Flight completion – sales closure – long term customer development
Forecasting 2.0 – (fasten your seat belts)
Integration – Processes & Data
Audience:
Sales managers, buying customers, channel partners
2. Xeesm Company Overview Social Business Applications Target Audience: Agile 5,000 Highly agile, leading edge SMB companies. Open minded, success oriented people with a natural tendency to networking Xeesm is a product of Xeequa Corp. Founded in 2007 Palo Alto, CA Privately held
5. The buying – selling disconnect today (B2B) // // // // Sales processes need to be realigned CRM systems fail to support sales teams in the new reality
6. Professional Use Of The Social Web We need to connect with our target audience We need to “professionally listen” We need to know what is on top of their mind We need to find the perfect moment to engage We need to leverage our advocates We need to socialize We need to understand the much broader scope of engagement, a new tool set and align it with our objectives A very early approach:
10. Prepare – Think - Engage Prepare Identify your top targets, prospects, clients Go to LinkedIn and look for relevant names Enter people / profiles into Xeesm/Edge! Think Check if any of your friends can make an introduction Setup Google Alerts Define objectives Engage Visit your contacts daily / twice a week Listen, comment, respond Know when to act
11. Creating a lead generation flight / setup an oppty Start (Objective 1)Listen and learn Touch (Objective 2)Comment and respond Milestone (Objective 3)Connect with the person Engage (Objective 4)Socialize Goal (Objective 5) Arrange for an appointment Estimate 10 days to develop a relationship
14. A high speed, a high reach sales model ‘Social’ does NOT mean slow moving, time consuming Social selling is actually a FAST, HIGH REACH sales model (if done right) Inside Sales Reach up to 250 contacts a day Get 30% response rate Field Sales ‘Visit” 50 people a day Have 30 meaningful dialogs Add online to the mix of Phone & F2F
15. Flights! + Edge! = sCRM From entity focus to people focus From cold calling to socializing From cookie cutter sales processes to custom engagements Relationship strength as new key performance indicator From best guess forecasting to predictive models
16. Keeping track of notes The notes you leave within a flight are available on your dashboard It shows time and source i.e via contacts or the Flight Name Click on the person and you get to details and respond.
17. Your customer engagement stream Social engagement person by person Day 1 review all sites Day 2 listen / read several posts Day 3 chiming in the conversation Day 4 commenting on relevant blogs Day 5 commenting on a group question Day 6 making an introduction to someone Day 7 suggesting an interesting site or post Day 8 invitation to your own group Day 9 Have a conversation over the phone Day 10 Bring others to the conversation Do care – but do not sell Be social first – the selling comes at the end
18. The conversation age Bottom line:Customers are in the process of redefining how they want to talk with you. - Louis Columbus (2008)
21. Predictive Model Based Forecast Three core attributes Relationship strength Sales Process evolution Team Experience (Best educated guess) Algorithm Relationship strength dominates Sales process guides Experience influences Your forecast is no longer dependent on the judgment only More inputs Higher accuracy
23. Reporting on your dashboard You see how often you visited your connections You see the number of notes you made – number of connections you had And you see how many Flight Objectives you completed In the FlightPlan you see Flight Completion
25. Managing Xeesm Applications Sharing Share with team mates Share with advocates Share it with partners Share it with customers Export Into CSV file Integration (Q3) Webservice API Contact information Social Graph Flight Progress Opportunity status …
26. What Xeesm stands for Xeesm provides social business applications that help you to professionally leverage places like LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, SlideShare, PlanCast, Meetup… Business teams need new tools navigating all those destinations, events, activitiesIt is the new way of “visiting” clients Xeesm is a social business application platform helping business teams in all departments to build a better customer experience.
27. Where do you go from here? Create a free Xeesm account - xeesm.com Install Flights™ (free version) Upload your contacts Add their respective social locations Socialize Start Monday morning Use it 20 minutes a day Review your progress next Friday Add Edge! To your apps next week Let us or any of our partner help you
28. Pricing model, options, customization Xeesm/Flights! Free $20/user/month (Business Edition) Xeesm/Edge! Free $40/user/month (Business Edition) Service options You run it all yourself It’s easy enough We help you implement and roll it out $3,500 complete package 3 Month full support, whatever it takes Customization Program structure, rules engine…
31. About Xeesm is a brand of Xeequa Corp. Xeequa is a social business application provider helping business teams to create a better customer experience for their market. Xeequa solutions are delivered as Internet based software service (SaaS), focusing on small medium enterprises. Xeequa has representation in the US, Europe, Asia and Australia. More info on http://xeesm.comhttp://xeeurl.com and http://xeequa.comor +1 (650) 384-0057. The privately held company is based in Palo Alto, California.
32. Why is Xeesm particularly strategic? Before you start social media monitoring you probably want to know what you actually do with the information. Before you run any fancy Fan Page and have some cool initiatives you probably want to have a plan how to actually engage. Before you invest in social media marketing, you probably want to have a plan how your sales team is processing the opportunities Xeesm is the only tool in the market that helps to follow a process, shows progress and allows to consolidate reports from teams
33. A few examples WholeFoods (B2C)Grew during the recession despite the fact that it is a more expensive shop Zappos (B2C)Grew from $500MM to $1B from 2006 – 2009 – selling shoes online Comcast (B2X)Turned a mediocre and controversially discussed brand to a well respected company Cisco (B2B)Bypassed any competitor, invested in new media while others filed chapter 11, got bought.