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Marketing technology and cost has reached an inflection point

Now every business lead generation can achieve significant growth with a digital customer acquisition framework that fits the budget and pays for itself. 

The new, hyper-personalized, intelligent messaging systems have the power to identify, engage and nurture your target customers, until they are ready to move forward and connect with your sales team.  

The recent advances in technology, social media platforms and email automation make it finally possible, to reach your ideal clients when they are ready, with the right message and at the right place.

If you’re running marketing or sales for a software company, are the following questions keeping you up at night?

#1 How can I get a consistent stream of qualified opportunities into the sales pipeline?

#2 How can I improve forecast accuracy and deal closure rates? 

SalesPilot created a brand-new, digital customer acquisition framework, to consistently identify, engage, qualify, and set up meetings with your ideal customers, completely on autopilot. 

Unlike the lukewarm prospects you get with traditional lead-gen services and systems, your sales team will be working with pre-qualified, hot leads that are truly ready to move forward and close the deal.

Now you’ll be able to crack the code of effective sales development because the research data in the next blog posts, that is based on leading sales organizations, will help you to enable rapid growth in your business. 

What this really means is that you and your team can consistently hit your sales goals, and finally achieve the breakthrough you are looking for.

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Do you want to know how forward-thinking sales and marketing teams get more qualified opportunities and higher paying clients? Find out how you can create a well-oiled machine, that allows you to convert strangers into friends, friends into prospects, prospects into qualified leads and qualified leads into paying clients.

SalesPilot has more than 20 years experience in sales and business development. Now, we are condensing our knowledge and using the best third-party research to do one thing:

We are here to help you make better decisions, where your resources should be focused, by sharing our experience and looking at data from the top-performing sales and lead generation organizations around the globe. 

Founded by sales and marketing expert Gerd Graumann, SalesPilot developed the B2B Pareto Funnel, a Digital Customer Acquisition Framework that is built on the experience of raising Venture Capital funds and closing partnership and software deals with more than a thousand B2B clients. 

Marketing and sales teams have been using high-volume outreach strategies for decades, to drive revenue. The high-volume, churn and burn approach has only led to more frustration as lead quality plummets and closing percentages drop. 

The following six key steps, which we cover in the next blog posts, allowed forward-thinking marketing and sales teams to improve their sales development processes, strengthen relationships with their target markets, and ultimately, drive more revenue. 

Sales development does not involve closing deals, but the creation of qualified sales opportunities.

It’s the process of attracting, warming up, nurturing, and vetting quality leads, before they are handed over to the sales representative to close the deal. 

Many teams focus only on quickly burning through their cold prospect lists, and wait patiently for inbound leads or referrals. This will only lead to frustration and not enough qualified opportunities in the pipeline.

The six steps we identify in the following blog posts highlight a proactive system that consistently generates qualified sales opportunities to help you forecast better, achieve your goals and grow your business. Learn how businesses of any size can increase their lead quality, allocate their resources more effectively, and build stronger relationships with prospects based on trust. 

Our sole purpose is to give your sales team the opportunity to close high-value customers, so you can reach your monthly sales goals.

Click here to find out how you can apply the Pareto Principle to your sales process, by focussing your sales team’s activities only on the 20% that generate 80% of your revenue.

Check out our next blog post and discover, why high-performing sales teams employ at least three channels and 15 + touchpoints with each prospect, and why you otherwise risk losing sales opportunities. 

More in the next blog post!

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Step #1

It’s common sense that you shouldn’t put all your eggs in the same basket. 

This is especially true since so many lead generation businesses have learned from the Facebook and Google changes over the years that if you rely too heavily on one channel, it can impact your entire business. 

But this is not the only reason.

If you don’t connect with prospects through multiple marketing channels at the same time, and don’t meet them, where they are, you risk losing sales opportunities because this is like running radio ads only on FM 93.5, while most of your clients listen to various other stations. 

This means that you can easily increase your lead flow by being visible in the preferred channel of your prospects because this is the best way to break through the noise and reach your clients where they are. 

A steady flow of new qualified opportunities in your pipeline will focus your sales team on closing deals instead of cold outreach and make everybody more successful. High-performing sales teams employ at least three channels and at least 15 touchpoints with each prospect. 

The teams, which are using a multi-channel approach, realized that It is important to understand the different channels that you include in your marketing mix. This will allow you to communicate with prospects through the best channels, at the perfect time, and with the right messaging. 

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Are you aware that the average person sees a mix of 5000 ads, marketing messages, and emails each day? 

With a hyper-targeted, multi-channel strategy, you will cut through the noise. 

Let’s talk about LinkedIn, email, and social media ads. LinkedIn is the most popular social media platform for sales development and lead generation. Did you know that 90% of the top-performing teams use social networking in their sales strategy? 

This is quite a large number of people, who are using social media to find leads and grow their business! Recent research also revealed that LinkedIn accounts for about 80% of social media leads for B2B marketers. You can be sure that you will find your target B2B clients on LinkedIn. 

You are missing a great opportunity, if your team doesn’t actively build relationships on LinkedIn through strategic messages and content marketing. 

Did you know that email is still one of the most effective channels? 

If you are responsible for sales or marketing in your company, you simply can’t ignore the new hyper-personalized email campaign strategies. 87% of B2B marketers use email marketing to generate new opportunities, and  31% cite email as the channel that has the greatest impact on revenue. 

SalesPilot can create a comprehensive email list of your target clients in just a day, instead of weeks or months, even if you currently don’t have a big list.

Social media advertising on LinkedIn, Google and Facebook is a great way to scale up your efforts quickly, and create qualified opportunities for your sales reps. 

Paid social ads combined with LinkedIn outbound messaging and email campaigns will provide you with a guaranteed system to generate qualified leads every month. You can significantly increase your sales and lead generation by running LinkedIn, email and social media ads as a coordinated multi-channel campaign. 

Every channel is unique, just like every prospect. It is essential to reach the right people at the right time with the right message and on the right channels to be successful.

Do you want to find out why sales professionals spend only a fraction of their time on tasks that are directly related to selling, and instead doing tasks they don’t like and aren’t matching their skill set? 

This leads to missed opportunities, communication problems with prospects, and even a breakdown of trust. 

As a result, many businesses have sales pipeline leaks due to the common practice of using closers as hunters or gatherers. 

Step #2

Would you have thought that, according to SalesForce, sales professionals spend only 36% of their time on tasks that are directly related to selling? 

In fact, 42% of sales people believe, prospecting is their hardest job. 35% say it’s closing, and 22% say that pre-qualification of prospects is the most difficult task. 

This means that the majority of B2B companies have their sales staff spend more than half of their time doing tasks they don’t like and aren’t matching their skill set.

How do you feel about your best salespeople spending most of their time on demotivating prospecting and pre-qualification tasks, instead of closing deals? 

Sales will significantly improve, when you assign prospecting and lead qualification to a different group because this will provide your sales people with the time and focus they need to close deals. 

This will make you and your team more successful. The increased motivation will not only increase retention of your successful closers because they will absolutely love their job. You will also easily attract additional top sales people to join your company. 

You can achieve this with an effective in-house sales development team. But,  depending on your budget, an even better option might be to work with a client acquisition agency like SalesPilot, to effectively prospect and pre-qualify new opportunities for you.

This will allow your sales people to concentrate only on the hottest opportunities and close deals.

Step #3

An important aspect is that your marketing and sales teams must be aligned around a common goal, and the strategies to achieve it. 

Marketing teams often track MQLs, clicks, brand awareness and consistency, as well as market position and engagement numbers. 

Sales teams, on the other hand, are typically looking at SQLs, closed and lost leads, customer lifetime value, and customer acquisition cost.

According to a study, only 31% of companies are working on improving their sales and marketing alignment. By aligning both departments and monitor customer journeys between sales reps and marketing specialists, you will help your sales team to close more deals. 

At SalesPilot, our goal isn’t to simply be an outsourced sales development or lead generation team. We partner with you as an extension of both your marketing and sales teams to bridge the gap and support both your long-term goals, and also contribute to your bottom-line revenue numbers.

Click here to set up a call with us. 

In the next blog post, we talk about a better approach to sales forecasting and predictability. 

There are many factors that contribute to the inaccuracies in today’s sales forecasts and can lead to major problems, which could affect every department of your organization. 

Find out how you can improve your forecasts to build an accurate predictive model for your company across all your lead channels.

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How can you make the Pareto Principle work for your sales team? A better approach to sales forecasting and predictability.

Step #4

There are many factors that contribute to the inaccuracies in today’s sales forecasts, which can lead to major issues and impact every department of your organization. This can be caused by not having enough opportunities to build an accurate predictive model for your company across all your lead channels. 

HubSpot’s statistic clearly shows that you need to have a steady flow of opportunities to achieve or set the right goals. 72% of companies with 50 or fewer new opportunities per month failed to meet their sales goals. 

What can you do to avoid this for your team? 

Understanding your sales goals and the volume of leads is the first step in better forecasting future sales. It also gives you insight into which outreach channels are most effective at generating new opportunities. 

You’ll be able to forecast better if you have a steady new supply of qualified opportunities, and if they are well managed because you can rely on the process. Outbound lead generation gives you control over how many people you speak to and connect with. Your numbers will be solid, and your predictions will be a trusted source to make the right decisions.  

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It doesn’t come as a surprise that many businesses have sales pipeline leaks. 

According to Harvard Business Review, 44% of executives believe their organizations are not managing their sales pipelines effectively. Do you see many opportunities in your team’s pipeline being pushed out month after month, only to be eventually lost or not closing at all?

A lack of qualified opportunities can result in bloated sales pipelines with unrealistic deal estimates because sales people want to show a high probability of success in the sales meetings. This makes it difficult to create realistic predictive models for your company. 

It also creates unnecessary work because now the sales team is expected to follow up on these lukewarm leads, instead of focusing all their efforts on closing deals with prospects that are truly ready to move forward.   

What if your sales team could focus only on the 20% of opportunities that will generate 80% of your revenue?

This is the premise of our B2B Pareto Funnel.

We will work with you on a strategy to ensure that your sales team gets a consistent stream of qualified leads,  which are ready to move forward. 

Click here to book a call with us.

In the next step, you’ll find out, how top sales organizations build trust, and foster genuine relationships throughout the entire customer journey.

Step #5

To create sales opportunities, persistence and cadence are essential. 

Research revealed that only 3% of potential leads are ready to buy at any given time, and that 92% of marketers, sales professionals, and businesses give up after the fourth touch-point. 

Even if you believe some prospects are right for you to communicate with because they are problem-aware, they may not even know that a solution exists yet. Knowing this information will help you decide on the best strategy or approach to establish relationships with the different segments of your target prospects to generate sales. 

Outbound lead generation for sales growth works because it is proactive and disruptive. 

It increases your chances to reach the prospects that are not yet actively looking for your specific solution, but are aware of the problem they need to solve. Now you will connect with your future clients, even before they know that they will need you. 

This will significantly grow your list and add many qualified opportunities to your pipeline that are ready to move forward. Your sales team will love it.   

How do we build trust and foster genuine relationships with these prospects?  

Let’s take a closer look, how successful sales people are doing this. They know that hard selling is not going to work because most prospects are not ready to buy yet. 

Sales professionals, who are top performers, know that most prospects need 7 to 13 touchpoints, before they will consider doing business with them. 

79% of business buyers believe it is essential for them to have a relationship with a business and salesperson they can trust, to help them make the right decisions, and build a long-term relationship. This requires to add value, build trust and establish strategic relationships with prospects at every touchpoint over the course of the customer journey, before the client is ready to engage with a salesperson and move forward. 

If you want to create short-term SQLs, without sacrificing long-term gains, consider building a qualified sales development team or consider outsourcing to an organization that excels at both.

SalesPilot recognizes that every opportunity is unique and requires a different sales cycle. This includes what it takes for each opportunity to add value, build trust and establish strategic relationships with your prospects. 

To discuss your options, click here and schedule a meeting with us.

Find out in the next step, how you can make sure that your sales team can function at its best. 

Should you build an internal sales development group, or can it be outsourced to a sales development agency? 

Before you spend money on a top-notch sales development program for your company, it is important to understand the different aspects of each option. 

There are a few critical factors to consider… 

Step #6

Budget considerations: How do you best allocate your investment?  

Let’s put everything together!

Filling your pipeline with a reliable stream of qualified opportunities will enable your sales team to function at its best because they can focus exclusively on closing deals. This means you can be sure that they will hit, or even exceed their goals consistently. Your team will be on fire!

This is possible with a highly specialized group of people to implement and manage the process to consistently generate hot leads that are ready to move forward. To accomplish this task, you can build an internal sales development group, outsource it to a sales development agency, or a combination of both. 

Let’s look at a few details and compare the benefits and cost of each aspect.

When you spend money on a top-notch Sales Development Program for your company, it  is critical to understand what you could potentially invest, when you look at your ROI. 

Let’s assume that your average client is worth $40K per year in Lifetime Value. Your sales team might close 10% of the meetings and sales opportunities that you have. If you had 10 sales appointments, it might be realistic to close one new client. To get 2x ROI, you would spend $2,000 per lead.

Do you have to invest this? Most likely not. 

If your sales development program is well-executed, you should be able to schedule qualified sales appointments at a fraction of the cost. 

Do you need to build an in-house sales team, or are you better off outsourcing to an agency? 

There are many factors to take into consideration, but let’s just focus in the next blog post on the most important aspects.

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What is the financial investment required to establish an inside sales development and lead generation program? 

Here is a look at the time and cost of running and managing this team. 

Let’s begin with the leads Sales Development Representatives, your frontline troops, making the first contact with prospects. Glassdoor reports that the average salary for an SDR is $48,535. 

However, when you add in bonuses, commissions structures, benefits and software licenses, as well as training costs, it’s more accurate to say that the actual cost to the employer is about 40% higher at $69K.

The truth is that while a solid SDR is an essential part of your Sales Development Team’s puzzle, it’s only one part. 

Even if you strike the jackpot and find a hardworking, smart superstar who can manage each step of the process, (which is highly unlikely) and understands outbound lead generation strategy, (which is even more unlikely), you still only have one SDR. 

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Setting up your own in-house team.

The following roles, and their 2022 average salary based on Glassdoor.com, will make up a complete sales development and lead  generation team, to generate a consistent stream of pre-qualified opportunities. 

The Sales Development Representative contacts cold and warm prospects, to establish trust and qualify prospects.
Annual Salary $48,535.

The Digital Marketing Specialist is trained in LInkedin & email outreach, and builds relationships on behalf of your sales reps with new or existing prospects, to set up a qualified sales appointment. This role will need to have intimate knowledge of email marketing and social selling.
Annual Salary $86,766.

The Copywriter will be the primary communicator with your prospects, by creating and optimizing content for messaging, email campaigns, landing pages and more.
Annual Salary $58,658.

The Data Analyst is responsible for list generation and campaign optimization, based on your company KPIs.
Annual Salary $69,517.

The Digital Advertising Specialist is responsible for paid social ads, for outbound lead generation and sales development campaigns, to complement your LinkedIn messaging and email campaigns.
Annual Salary $88,509.

This is just the direct cost for the different in-house roles, to generate a consistent stream of qualified opportunities for your sales team. 

What gets frequently overlooked, when it comes to the management and actual cost associated with a complete in-house sales development team? 

When you are considering an in-house team, there is something that frequently gets overlooked. It is important to think about management and training once you have established your team.

Smaller businesses may have the owner or their sales reps take care of this. Otherwise, it will be most likely be the Marketing Director or the CMO.

The problem? 

Chances are that the current workload and level of expertise in each of these areas might be a challenge to properly train and manage a sales development team with all the members we’ve just discussed.

Let’s look at the costs associated with a complete sales development team. The cost for each member of the team, and the cost to manage them, will total at least $500K to $600K per year.

It might be possible to find one SDR who can do all of this, but it’s not an easy job.

Create the right outbound strategy for your company.

As noted before, clearly defined roles and responsibilities are the basis for a consistent stream of qualified leads and a happier sales team, which ultimately leads to better results. It takes a lot to optimize a sales development program so that qualified opportunities are consistently generated. 

This is where you can see the true value in a seasoned sales development agency. 

How can you take advantage of this information?

You are a leader in your company and focus on growing your sales and eliminating unnecessary expenses. But there are many options. How do you choose?

You know that growing your business requires you to spend more time prospecting, following up and qualifying opportunities. Many businesses don’t have the resources, time or bandwidth to do this effectively in-house. Not with the care required to succeed right away.

Can an agency provide you with expertise in all these areas, be cost-effective and well within your budget?  

SalesPilot is a company whose sole purpose is to assist companies in this situation as your outsourced sales team for lead generation and sales development. We come to you with expertise in generating and qualifying leads, so you can focus on closing deals. 

We help you to close more sales, increase revenue and grow. You and your team will be celebrated for breaking all sales records. 

When you partner with SalesPilot, we help you uncover, qualify and connect to a steady stream of your ideal clients and get them to book meetings with your team. We work tirelessly to ensure that your team will have always enough qualified opportunities to close new deals. 

If you’re looking for a consistent stream of pre-qualified and targeted prospects that want, need, AND can afford your products and services, without the high price tag of a full internal sales development team… 

…that’s what we do at SalesPilot. 

So, let’s talk about your options, which might differ depending on the stage your business is at. 

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How do you get started?

We help you streamline your efforts so that your sales team can focus on closing deals. 

When you work with us as your outbound sales development partner, it is more cost-effective than hiring internally, and it will produce better results with less time and energy. Because we have build our system based on decades of digital marketing and sales experience, we will get better results than many in-house teams.

There is only one question at the end: Do you want to expand your business? 

If your answer is yes, you need to leverage your resources and focus your sales team on closing deals.

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How Lead Generation For Technology Companies Works

When it comes to growing your technology business, it’s important that you leverage sophisticated tools and tactics to connect with your potential clients! Lead gen is a great solution for technology companies who want to unlock growth. Get started with these steps today and watch your team close more deals. 

How do you generate qualified prospects for your company? Technology companies must be able to stand out from the competition by connecting with qualified leads who are ready to buy. Marketing campaigns, like online ads, can create an initial list of qualified prospects. But once you have this list, you need to nurture it with a consistent flow of content. Emails, videos, blog and social media posts as well as webinars are a great way to nurture leads.

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Provide valuable downloadable content to your target audience. Create resources that add value for your potential customers without making them feel like they’re being sold. Committed audiences will recommend your company to their friends and associates. Ultimately, this will ensure you will grow your business. If you want to make the most out of your marketing campaigns, make sure to create content that helps educate your target audience.

How to Improve Cold Email Outreach Campaigns

When it comes to cold email outreach, you can’t just send out an e-mail and expect it to reach its recipient. You must test your message to ensure that it is delivered to the prospect’s inbox and not caught in spam filters. Cold email campaigns can be improved by using automation software that allows you to test different opening lines and subject lines to see which perform better. This will ensure that the message is being opened and read by your target audience.

After you have generated your list, you need to verify the addresses on the list. Whether your list has been verified will impact the deliverability of your emails. The verification process takes time, but it will pay off when your messages get read by your prospect.

Lead Generation and Sales Conversion

If you are a technology company looking to increase your sales, you should consider how lead generation can help you. A solid lead generation program is built upon a foundation of data, not a formula. It is a comprehensive plan whose ingredients are bold and proven to get results. 

Before starting the process, you should determine a buyer persona. This persona will include information such as age, gender, company size, and willingness to spend. Knowing these details beforehand will save you time in attracting prospects who are not qualified. By focusing on the right type of prospects, you can improve your sales conversion rate. 

While leads are not ready to purchase, they show interest in your product or service. To convert leads into customers, tech companies must educate them about the benefits of their products. When they have been convinced, they initiate the sales conversation with your company. 

Best Strategies: Lead Gen for Technology Companies

Free trials are a great way to get people to test out your product or service before they commit. Make sure to design your trials, so they’re user-friendly and relevant to your audience. While most technology companies hate free trials, they can help you generate qualified prospects. Moreover, they increase the chance of converting leads. Here are some of the best practices to generate qualified leads.

Webinars can help you generate qualified leads since attendees can take actionable steps. It’s estimated that 30% of marketers allocate a budget to webinars. Webinars can also help you interact with your potential customers and other tech experts. They can easily be shared by other people in the field, thus increasing attendance rates. While webinars have proven to be effective for generating qualified leads, the biggest problem is ensuring that participants are actually interested.

How to Find Best Lead Gen agency for Your Business

Technology companies often turn to lead generation agencies to help them develop outbound sales operations. However, a technology-focused firm can also offer other services, such as inbound sales development. Technology-focused agencies often promise a higher standard for qualified leads compared to traditional outsourcing companies. In fact, many such companies specialize in generating targeted, high-quality leads.

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A good lead generation company will integrate its marketing technology with your company’s CRM. They should monitor the transfer of data and maintain the quality of generated leads. A good lead generation company will also analyze data such as sales triggers, prospect behavior, and performance, as well as identify new business opportunities. By integrating with your company’s CRM, a qualified lead generation vendor can provide you with a database of qualified prospective customers.

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