October 13, 2011

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John Staples Today’s Guest…..

Principal at SBI

Prior to SBI, held Executive Leadership positions at NeuStar, Telcordia Technologies, Fluor Corp and CCC Network Systems

Industry thought leader with more than 25 years of business experience, including B-to-B field sales, sales management, and sales operations

Overview

Goal

Questions you need to answer

Structure Models

Territory Potential

Selling Capacity – Market Demands

Inside and/or Key Accounts

Time Study

Shift & Lift

Results / benefit

Takeaway actions

Back

Structure goal

Align the level of effort, time and cost to the best opportunities

Sales Structure questions

1. Have you performed a territory potential analysis?

2. Have you matched selling capacity to market demand?

3. Should you be leveraging inside sales or a key account program?

4. When was the last time you performed a sales resource time study?

5. Are your sales roles and responsibilities corrupted?

Back

Structure Options

Top 1%

Develop

Long Tail

Securities & Investing

Institutional

Private Mkts

Banking & Credit

Consumer

Investment

Accounting &

Consulting

Strategic

Boutique

Big 5 Acct Firms

Advertising & Comm

Agencies

PR Firms

Govt

Pharma

Commercial

Tier Geography

Industry/Market

Algo Investment

Banker Venture Source

Newswires FX Factiva

PRCC Watchlist Anti

Corruption

Activity

Hunter Farmer

Product Buying Roles

VP Corp

Comm

Dir

Compliance

VP Global

FX Mkt Data

Dir

VP

Trading

Dir PR

Hybrid

Territory Potential

Potential / Segmentation

Revenue Segment % Revenue Customers Segment % Customers

8,813,592,941 A (>20M) 66% 446 A (>20M) 10%

2,173,612,147 B (5-20M) 16% 466 B (5-20M) 11%

1,016,232,974 C (2-5M) 8% 606 C (2-5M) 14%

1,342,112,767 D (<2M) 10% 2,808 D (<2M) 65%

13,345,550,829 Total 4,326

Segment Accounts by revenue contribution or potential

Opportunity to introduce a Key Account Program and Inside Sales?

Selling Capacity – Market Demand Data Input fields

Calculated fields

Delta

A B C Total Direct (A, B, C) Inside (D) Total

Number of Customers 322 791 1,362 2,475 773 1,809 2,581 106

Total Revenue 4,532 5,833 2,587 12,951 12,486 1,433 13,919 968

Total Reps 19 11 25 55 34 12 46 (9)

Total Hours per Rep 2,000 2,000 2,000 2,000 2,000

% Selling Time 40% 40% 40% 70% 70%

Selling Hours per Rep 800 800 800 1,400 1,400

Total Selling Hours 15,200 8,800 20,000 44,000 47,600 16,800 64,400 20,400

Non-Selling Hours per Rep 1,200 1,200 1,200 600 600

Total Non-Selling Hours 22,800 13,200 30,000 66,000 20,400 7,200 27,600 (38,400)

Customers per Rep 16.9 71.9 54.5 45.0 23.3 155.6 56.1 11

Revenue per Rep 239 530 103 235 367 119 303 67

Hours per Account 47.2 11.1 14.7 17.8 60.1 9.0 -

Hours per Touch 4.0 4.0 4.0 4.0 2.7 0.8 4.0

Touches per Account 11.8 2.8 3.7 4.4 22.5 12.0 -

Total Cost 3,160$ 2,075$ 4,158$ 9,394$ 5,807$ 1,108$ 6,915$ (2,478)$

Cost per Rep 166$ 189$ 166$ 171$ 171$ 92$ 150$ (20)$

Total Margin 337$ 81$ 222$ 641$ 563$ 105$ 668$ 28$

Margin per Rep 18$ 7$ 9$ 11$ 17$ 9$ 13$ 1$

Customer Segmentation Sizing Model

Current Channels Future Channels

Selling Time Analysis

Segment # Custs Rev (M) % Custs % Rev Hrs/Cust Hrs/Touch Touch/Cust Total Hrs % Hours

A (>20M) 140 8,855 7% 68% 144 6 24 20,160 33%

B (5-20M) 233 2,387 11% 18% 48 2 24 11,184 18%

C (2-5M) 763 1,020 36% 8% 24 2 12 18,312 30%

D (<2M) 986 855 46% 7% 12 1 12 11,832 19%

Analyze Selling Hours vs. Customer Value

Key Account / Inside Sales?

Sales Force Time Study

49.4% Non-Selling time

Which selling activities can we make more efficient?

Return on selling time 63% of revenue from 6% of customers

Bottom 70% of customers make up 10% of revenue

15

6% 9%

15%

70%

% Total Customers

63% 18%

8% 10%

% Total Revenue

How much sales force time is spent on the 70% of customers that should be invested in the top 6%?

90%

10%

56%

44%

-3% -9%

-20%

0%

20%

40%

60%

80%

100%

> $24K Customers < $24K Customers

Rep Time Allocation by Customer Group

% Revenue Rep Time Allocation YoY Revenue Inc/Dec

38% of Accounts

• Smaller accounts consume selling time from larger accounts

44% of time spent on accounts only yielding 10% of revenue

Smaller Accounts continue to shrink (-9%) despite time investment

Productivity Opportunity

Role Corruption

13

3

6

5

30

4

4

8

2

7

5

18

11

15

4

8

10

6

4

23

8

0 10 20 30 40 50 60

Prospecting

Obtaining trials/keys for customers

Obtaining miscellaneous documentation for customers

Coordinating responses from product teams for customer questions

Managing billing issues

Managing open support issues

Updating salesforce.com and other sales forecasting system activity

Top Choice

Second Choice

Third Choice

59% of reps report managing support issues

79% of reps cite inefficient time managing billing issues

Structure needs to focus sales on selling activities

Shift & Lift Shift non-selling activities to lower cost resources

or eliminate them

Move up market, lift the direct & key account resources up market to higher potential clients

Add lower cost Insides Sales reps to support lower tier customers

Adjust Key Account resources to increase wallet share within programs

Results / Benefits

Increased annual available selling hours by 17,500

Increased selling time from 42% to 71%

Lowered cost of sales by $4.7M annually

Takeaway actions Do you connect territory penetration and potential to sizing

needs?

Are the number of accounts in sales territories based on selling capacity?

Have you calculated breakeven cost & economic contributions of an incremental sales rep?

Should you deploy Inside sales or a Key Account Program?

Do you have the right sales manager or support ratios?

Are sales roles and responsibilities well defined?

Is the sales structure aligned to the sales strategy?

Do you have the A players necessary?

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