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Getting the Most Out of CRMAn Executive Guide for Planning and Execution
Mark Dancer
OPEESA Annual Meeting
St. Petersburg, FL
March 3, 2015
OPEESA 2015 Annual Meeting - Getting the Most Out of CRM
Today’s objectives
• Adoption, benefits and barriers
for the use of CRM by
distributors
• Distributor executive
perspectives on planning,
implementing and achieving
results
• CRMs role in enabling
common distributor strategies
• A peek at the larger topic of
becoming a digital distributor
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Insights are “by distributors” and “for distributors”
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“CRM is a standard practice for any sales organization. Companies that don’t use CRM will fall behind”
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Data represent findings from online survey of distributor executives.
CRM is new again …
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Innovative
Flexible
Mobile
… but CRM has it’s place!!
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“CRM is a tool, not a solution!”
CEO, Distributor
Competitiveness = unique solutions for common challenges
• OPE market dynamics
• Customers = commercial service dealers,
consumers
• Price, margin and channel pressure
• Whole goods and parts
• Marketing programs and lead management
• Seasonality … and variability
• Long sales cycles (new account acquisition)
• Potential threat from online disruptors
• Acquisitions / consolidation
• …
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What is your strategy?
Will CRM change information sharing and collaboration between distributors and suppliers?
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Data represent findings from online survey of distributor executives.
• Examples:
• Velocity and win
rates
• Full cycle lead
management
• Force multipliers
vs. joint calls
• Proof of value
Lessons from the school of hard knocks
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Technology ≠
strategy
Top 10 Benefits of CRM
1 Manage customer contact information.
2 Manage sales pipeline or territory results.
3 Provide access to customer data for salespeople.
4 Provide data for coaching by sales managers.
5 Improve handling of leads and prospects.
6 Automate reports for salespeople and management.
7 Provide data for management decisions.
8 Execute marketing programs through salespeople.
9 Optimize product mix sold to customers.
10 Improve accuracy of sales forecasts.
The “Top Ten” benefits of CRM
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Data represent findings from online survey of distributor executives.
Lessons from the school of hard knocks
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New results
require new
behaviors
Distributor strategies vs. priority CRM modulesStrategy determines behaviors information improves results
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Strategy
Contact
Mgmt.
Call
Planner
Customer /
Territory
Dash Board Call Reports Pipeline
Marketing
Automation
Social
Comm.
Right information,
Right customer,
Right time,
Every time
Sales Activity
Management, or
Territory
Optimization
Account
Optimization, or
Customer
Stratification
?
?
?
Alignment of strategies with priority modules will vary for each distributor’s unique information enablers
Lessons from the school of hard knocks
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Start small before
you go big
Strategy
Contact
Mgmt.
Call
Planner
Customer /
Territory
Dash Board Call Reports Pipeline
Marketing
Automation
Social
Comm.
Seasonal
Loading, or
Product / Solution
Sales
Demand
Creation, or
Marketing
Optimization
Field, Inside and
Web Activity
Coordination and
Optimization
Distributor strategies vs. priority CRM modulesStrategy determines behaviors information improves results
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?
?
?
Alignment of strategies with priority modules will vary for each distributor’s unique information enablers
Improving sales productivity is a top priority for more than 75 percent of executives
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Data represent findings from online survey of distributor executives.
Formula for organic growth
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Value
Selling
Sales
Coaching
Lessons from the school of hard knocks
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The people you have
may not be the
people you need
Talent upgrades begin with defining the required sales role and competencies for your business
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Business
acumen
Relationships
Solutions
Proving
Value
Confidence
Influence
Trusted Advisor Deal Maker
For a discussion of value selling, see “Addressing New Sales Roles” by Michael Vaccaro and Tom Hill of Hay Group,
World and Work Journal, 2014 (2nd Quarter), Vol. 23, no. 4
Lessons from the school of hard knocks
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“Discipline: the bridge between goals and accomplishment.”
Jim Rohn
Value selling requires a disciplined process
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Ideas Possibilities Solutions
Measures
Business acumen
Relationships ConfidenceSolutions
Influence
Proving value
One distributor’s journey
• From account maintenance (farming) …
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Informal
Plans
Favorite
CallsOpportunities
Territory plans Milk run
Personal
relationships
Inventory checks
and order status
Reactive pricing
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• To business development (hunting)
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One distributor’s journey
Plan Qualify Assess Propose Close Grow
Targeted
accounts
Onsite
analysis
Quantified
gains
Non-price
negotiation
Opportu-
nities
Territory
plans
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Fitting CRM to your sales model
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Results!Behaviors
Information
Processes
Customers
Designing your CRM tool kit
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Your Sales Process Here
Lessons from the school of hard knocks
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“Stick to it, the end is worth it.”
DistributorExecutive
“Move the Middle” – A Strategy for Organic Growth
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Unskippable: Three Phases of CRM implementation and ongoing execution
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Recognize
Resistance and
Push Forward
Overcome
Barriers and
Create Success
Improve
Performance
and Expand Use
Lessons from the school of hard knocks
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Focus on making
salespeople
successful
Sales people will resist
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Data represent findings from online survey of distributor executives.
Overcoming barriers
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Top 10 Methods for Overcoming Barriers
1 Include active support from leaders
2 Develop follow on training after launch
3 Implement face-to-face training
4 Add online and telephone training
5 Include coaching by sales managers
6 Match CRM to your sales process
7 Assign CRM champions
8 Recognize and reward top users
9 Make CRM mandatory
10 Roll out CRM in phases, not all at once
Data represent findings from online survey of distributor executives.
Lessons from the school of hard knocks
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“CRM is not about micromanaging, it’s about changing the way we manage.”
National Sales Director
A “distributor approved” framework for managing organizational change
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CRM is part of a larger, ongoing “digitalization” of businesses and distribution channels
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… the way we do our work …
… the way we live our lives …
Digital tools are changing ….
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… and ultimately, the way we create value!
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CRM, in combination with other digital tools, can create strategic value for distributors
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A multichannel strategy is essential for leveraging information and optimizing the use of digital tools
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Lessons from the school of opportunity
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““If we are smart, digital tools will dramatically improve our productivity and solutions. Customers and suppliers are also using digital tools. In the end, digital tools will transform the value chain.”
President, Wholesaler-Distributor
Thank you!
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