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Top 3 Reasons Why … Your Account Planning Process is Broken (and how to fix it)
Áine Denn, EVP Customer Experience
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Áine Denn Executive Vice President &
Co-Founder
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Account Planning Challenges Understanding the customer’s strategy and how they measure success.
Conducting account reviews and coaching to drive behavior.
Prioritizing accounts to ensure we focus more time on those with potential.
Identifying the “White Space” (areas of opportunity where your solutions can add value to the customer).
Executing our account plans.
Mapping the organization’s political landscape to identify and nurture the right relationships.
Using a common language, processes and tools to drive scalability.
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Account Planning Challenges Understanding the customer’s strategy and how they measure success.
Conducting account reviews and coaching to drive behavior.
Prioritizing accounts to ensure we focus more time on those with potential.
Identifying the “White Space” (areas of opportunity where your solutions can add value to the customer).
Executing our account plans.
Mapping the organization’s political landscape to identify and nurture the right relationships.
Using a common language, processes and tools to drive scalability.
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Account Planning Challenges Understanding the customer’s strategy and how they measure success.
Conducting account reviews and coaching to drive behavior.
Prioritizing accounts to ensure we focus more time on those with potential.
Identifying the “White Space” (areas of opportunity where your solutions can add value to the customer).
Executing our account plans.
Mapping the organization’s political landscape to identify and nurture the right relationships.
Using a common language, processes and tools to drive scalability.
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Account Planning Challenges Understanding the customer’s strategy and how they measure success.
Conducting account reviews and coaching to drive behavior.
Prioritizing accounts to ensure we focus more time on those with potential.
Identifying the “White Space” (areas of opportunity where your solutions can add value to the customer).
Executing our account plans.
Mapping the organization’s political landscape to identify and nurture the right relationships.
Using a common language, processes and tools to drive scalability.
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Your Account is a Marketplace
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Your Account is a Marketplace
Create, develop, pursue, and win business that delivers mutual value
for you and your customer
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Cost to retain existing and acquire new customers2
6 Times More Costly to Acquire
100% 200% 300% 400% 500% 600%
1$
6$
Account Planning helps Growth & Retention
Source: (1) Marketing Metrics, (2) Bain & Company
50%
0% Existing
Customer New
Customer
75%
25% 5% - 20%
60% - 70% Likelihood of winning business in existing and new customers1
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maximize revenue from key accounts 53% gain access to key players 54% uncover customer business problems 61%
+ 41%
+ 30%
+ 28%
Some facts about Account Planning ...
Sales Reps who say they can … Increase quota attainment by …
Source: Dealmaker Index Global Sales Benchmark Study
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3 Things to Consider
Research for Insight
Integrate for Velocity
Focus for Impact
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Understanding the Customer’s Strategy
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The way customers buy is changing
“The age of the customer is upon us. Buyers are more demanding, informed, value-sensitive, and have more choices available to them than at any other point in history.” Forrester, The Selling System in the Age of the Customer, March 2014
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The Customer Lifecycle
Source: Account Planning in Salesforce, Daly 2013
1. Prospect
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The Customer Lifecycle
Source: Account Planning in Salesforce, Daly 2013
1. Prospect
2. Customer
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The Customer Lifecycle
Source: Account Planning in Salesforce, Daly 2013
1. Prospect
2. Customer
3. Loyal Customer
4. ______________
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The Customer Lifecycle
Source: Account Planning in Salesforce, Daly 2013
1. Prospect
2. Customer
3. Loyal Customer
4. Former Customer
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How much does Price act as a driver of customer defection?4
Customer’s View
Vendor’s View
0% 25% 50%
25%
48%
Account Planning helps Growth & Retention
Source: (1) Marketing Metrics, (2) Bain & Company, (3) US SBA, US CC, (4) Rightnow Technologies
50%
0% Customer Service
Product
75%
68% 25%
14%
Drivers of customer defection3
25%
Price
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Source: Forrester Executive Buyer Insight Study
What’s the Problem? Executives don’t believe that salespeople are well prepared to engage with them...
…because they know about their own offerings, not the realities and needs of executives.
Salespeople are knowledgeable about:
Source: Forrester Research
Their own products and services
Buyers’ roles and responsibilities
Buyers’ specific business
Questions buyers ask
40% 36% 43% 71%
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Sales / Marketing / Customer Misalignment
Little Business Context
Not Customer Focused
Product Centric
No Insights Inside
Sellers Sell Only What They Know…
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The Alignment Triangle
Marketing
Customer
Sales
… It should really be all about the Customer
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Things Customers Care About …
Goals
Pressures
Obstacles
Initiatives
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Things Customers Care About …
Solutions
Goals
Pressures
Obstacles
Initiatives
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Things Customers Care About …
Customer Insight Map
Solutions
Goals
Pressures
Obstacles
Initiatives
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TRANSFORMED BUSINESS CONVERSATIONS
+
Dealmaker Align Solution Components
Goals
Pressures
Initiatives
Obstacles
Solutions
Customer Insight Map
Key Messages
Insights
Sales Tools
High Yield Questions
Competitive Positioning
Objections
1
2
3
4
5
6
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Map the buyer’s Goals, Pressures,
Initiatives, and Obstacles.
Attach issues to
individuals
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Political Mapping
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Conducting Account Reviews
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Front Line Sales Managers should balance……
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Sales Coaching Improves Performance
+88%
Coaching Improves Productivity1
Source: 1 SEC/CEB, 2 Gallup
+56%
Coaching Increases Customer Loyalty2
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23%
Why Sales Managers Don’t Coach
Source: Sales Management Association
47%
26%
100%
50%
0% Don’t Value
Coaching Not Enough
Time Don’t Know
How to Coach Sales Reps Don’t Ask
Other
2% 2%
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Role of Sales Leadership in Peer Review
Before • Set expectations with presenting & reviewing teams:
• Rules of engagement
• Expected outcome of the peer review
During • Engage the team to prevent multi tasking
• Evaluate the critical thinking and preparation of the presenting team and the reviewers
After • Follow up with the team on vulnerabilities, ideas, and actions
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1 2
3
Understand the Plan
Review the Plan
Improve the Plan
Peer Review Process
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Pres
ente
r R
evie
wer
s
Present the Plan (30 minutes)
Present the Plan 1a
Questions & Answers (10 minutes)
Answer Questions 1d
Listen till the END 1b
Ask Questions 1c
Understand the Plan Understand
Vulnerabilities (20 minutes)
Identify Vulnerabilities &
Recommendations
2
Consider Plan Vulnerabilities &
Recommendations
2
Review the Plan
Update the Plan 4
Recommendations for Improvement
(30 minutes)
Recommendations for Improvement
3a
Recommendations for Improvement
3b
Improve the Plan Peer Review Process
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Reviewers : 4 Perspectives The Customer – as a key player
Competitor – as you competitor
Sales Manager – on behalf of the company
Partners
TAS / Dealmaker coach
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Revenue Objectives
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Business Development Objective
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Cross-Account Objectives
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Prioritizing Accounts
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Focus for Impact
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Focus for Impact
Importance to Customer
Impo
rtan
ce to
Us Future Potential
Current Opportunities Previous Business
Revenue Contribution Profit Contribution
Current Importance Future Importance …
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Focus for Impact
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Find Mutual Value: Prioritizing segments that are
Important to You and to your Customer
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Your Account is a Marketplace
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Your Account is a Marketplace
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Q A
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Top 3 Reasons Why … Your Account Planning Process is Broken (and how to fix it)
Áine Denn, EVP Customer Experience