3 Essential Steps for Turning Social Inbound Prospects Into Sales-Ready Leads

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While companies are generating traffic from social media channels, 63% are not converting that traffic into leads for their businesses. The main culprit? Not prioritizing social prospects, tracking their digital behaviors and providing them with a clear path to deeper engagement. An integral part of the sales process is getting to know your prospects and establishing relationships. Prioritizing social prospects allows you to segment those leads by specific categories of interest. When coupled with marketing automation and a lead nurturing strategy, campaigns become more tailored to the lead’s interest which allows your sales team to respond and communicate more intelligently and effectively. Social123’s Scott Miller and LeadLife’s Lisa Cramer discuss best practices and the 3 steps for converting social leads into sales opportunity: 1) Profiling social prospects using Social Scoring 2) Tracking digital behavior for creating relevant content 3) Engaging in a regular digital conversation with a lead nurturing strategy Watch the Recording here - http://bit.ly/WpJoRj

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We do the Heavy Lifting for You

3 Essential Steps for Turning

Inbound Social Prospects into

Sales-Ready Leads

Today’s Speakers

Scott Miller

• President, Social123

• Prior Principle for the world-renowned sales

consultancy, “The Complex Sale”

• Sales Enablement Expert

Lisa Cramer

• President & Co-founder, LeadLife Solutions

• Recognized in the top ten of SLMA’s 50 Most

Influential Sales Lead Management Professionals

& Top 20 Women in Sales & Lead Management

(2009 and 2010, 2011, 2012)

@social123

@leadlife #leadlife

Agenda

1

2

3

Profiling social prospects using Social

Scoring

Tracking digital behavior for creating

relevant content

Engaging in a regular digital

conversation with a lead nurturing

strategy

How Did We Get Here?

?

• Sales Representatives believe contact data in LinkedIn is better than the data inside of their CRM

85%

• Marketers plan to use Social Media Data to drive marketing campaigns in 2013

78%

Social. Sales. Enablement.

“65% of the most

successful

salespeople believe

social media is integral

to their sales success.”

-

Social. Sales. Enablement.

Profiling Social Prospects Using

Social Scoring

1

Social. Sales. Enablement.

Social123 provides

sales intelligence on

every social contact in

the form of current

company, current title,

current location, and

current industry.

We allow our

customers to allocate

a point value for each

matching field – thus

providing a higher

score to the ideal

buyer in the ideal

location.

Social. Sales. Enablement.

Social. Sales. Enablement.

Social123 allocates a point

value based on the actions

your contacts make with

your social media outlets.

The example to the left

allocates 1 point for liking,

commenting, or retweeting a

post we made. We also

account for following on

twitter. This expression of

interest to our brand is

expressed by a point value.

Social. Sales. Enablement.

Social123 allocates a point

value based on the attributes

our contacts have with social

media. This provides a

customized social influence

value instead of relying on

standards that may not be as

relevant to every organization.

The example to the left

allocates points based on the

number of friends on Facebook

and connections on LinkedIn.

Twitter activity is scored based

on followers, following, and

number of tweets.

Social. Sales. Enablement.

Social123 allocates a point

value to keywords that our

contacts state on social

media outlets. These

keywords should consist of:

1. My Company

2. My Products

3. My Competitors

4. My Competitors’

Products

5. My Customers

6. My Prospects

7. Industry Keywords

8. Industry Events

9. Google AdWords

10.Hashtags

Segmenting & Targeting • Demographics :

o Information about the prospect

Ex: Company size, job title, geography, etc.

• Behavior :

o Monitoring the prospects behavior

Ex: Website visits, whitepaper and/or case study downloads, etc.

• Demographics + Behavior =

o The complete picture of your lead.

Scoring Strategy

• Understand signs of engagement

– Educational vs. Buying Signs

– Clicks, Page views, page time, downloads, frequency

• Integrate demographics and firmographics

• Track engagement

– Lead score movement

• Move leads to sales

– Analyze scoring threshold(s)

An example of what you can score…

What Do I Score?

Scoring from an Email Campaign:

VISITOR

CLICKED LANDING

PAGE (Score 5)

TIME ON LANDING

PAGE (Score 5 if >= 10 sec)

VIEWED PRODUCT PAGES OR

CASE STUDIES (5 each)

VIEWED CASE

STUDIES (5 each)

WHITEPAPER

DOWNLOAD

(Score 10)

TIME ON SITE

(Score 10 if >= 2 min)

SCORE

1 5 5 15 10 10 10 55

2

5 5 0 0 10 0 20

Tracking digital behavior for

creating relevant content

2

Social. Sales. Enablement.

Tracking Digital Behavior

Understanding Content Marketing

Segment

Problem

Recognition

Information

Search

Brand

Evaluation

Objections/

Obstacles

Purchase

Decision

Segment 1 Industry

stats/reports

Webinars

Whitepapers

Blog

Case Studies

Datasheets

Testimonials

Free demos

Pricing

How to get

started

Segment 2 Industry

stats/reports

Webinars

Whitepapers

Blog

Case Studies

Datasheets

Testimonials

Free demos

Pricing

How to get

started

Move Your Prospects through the Buy Cycle with Relevant Content

Behavior Drives Content:

Effective Nurturing

Engaging in a regular digital

conversation with a

lead nurturing strategy

3

Campaigns vs. Lead Nurturing

One End-to-End Lead Nurturing Process

Awareness Consideration Purchase

Traditional

Campaigns

Theme #1

Theme #2

Theme #3 ©2011 Marketing Interactions, Inc.

Develop A Plan Outline an effective lead nurturing process per target /campaign Example: •Day 1: Thank you email for downloading a whitepaper •Day 10: Email recommending article/whitepaper of related interest •Day 20: Send another email about area of interest – linking to landing page •Day 30: Send an email invite to webinar

• Next series of touches - Dependent on registration and attendance of webinar

•Day 40: If attended webinar, phone call follow up •Day 50: Email a recent customer win case study Rule based on “sales ready” definition sends lead to sales

Lead Nurturing Example Lead Nurturing Example

Nurturing Tips

• Online and offline

• Continual nurturing

• Specific interest

• Lead Scoring Gives Visibility

• Continuously Engage Prospects

• Evaluate All Responses

• Deliver Real Value

• Thought leadership

• Personalization

• Develop a plan

45%

Benefits of Lead Nurturing

The average lift in ROI for organizations

with a lead nurturing strategy

20% The average increase in sales opportunities

for organizations with a lead nurturing

strategy

163% The average lift in ROI for organizations

with marketing automation

MarketingSherpa’s 2011 B2B Marketing Benchmark Survey, Demand Gen

©2013 ©Solution Selling, Inc.

Accuracy and Confidence in Contact Data

Enriched Understanding

Additional Communication Channels

Social. Sales. Enablement.

5 Take-Away’s:

Turning Inbound Prospects Into Sales-

Ready Leads

1. Score / Segment Leads with Social Data

2. Use Social Data and Digital Behaviors to

create content

3. Develop content maps based on targets

4. Engage, nurture, convert

Lisa Cramer

lcramer@leadlife.com

Wanna Learn More?

Get the LeadLife White Paper:

The Cost of Not Nurturing Leads

www.leadlife.com/nurturing

How to Get Started

Scott Miller

Scott.miller@social123.com

https://www.social123.com/salesleads/signup.php

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