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Inside Sales Strategies for MSPs Tan Ansari Inside Sales Manager

Inside Sales Strategies for MSPs

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Inside Sales expert Tan Ansari shares the insight and in-depth knowledge that has resulted in his assembling one of the most successful inside sales teams in the MSP space. Tan discusses top trends within the MSP industry when it comes to developing a successful inside sales strategy. In this webinar you will learn: · How to use Social Media as a lead generation tool · How to measure the effectiveness of your sales team · How to set up a successful sales strategy for net new customer acquisition

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Inside Sales Strategies for MSPsTan Ansari

Inside Sales Manager

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Presented By

Tan Ansari Sales Manager

Ali MahmoudProduct Marketing

@alimahmoud_

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30 min presentation

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N-able Technologies® Fast Facts

• 120,000 Managed SMB’s

• Offices in North America, Europe, Australia, Singapore, Sweden, Ireland

• Typically deal with leading MSP’s in a geographic area

• The Leading RMM & Automation Platform for MSPs

• Channel Only Company

• Acquired by SolarWinds in 2013– 1000+ Employees

• 3000 MSP Partners

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Cold Calls per month 1000

IP’s Booked 15

IP’s Completed 10

New Deals Closed 2-3

1.5%

75%

23%

It all Starts with the Sales Funnel

• Avg. Completed /Rep • Avg. deals Rep• Avg. deal Size • How many Funnels?

• New vs. Existing

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How to fill the Inside Sales Funnel?

LEAD GENERATION

Collateral

Case StudiesTestimonialsLiterature (Flysheets, Billing Inserts, Door Hangers

Web

NewsletterSearch Engine OptimizationDownloadable WhitepapersDedicated Website

Strategic Partnerships

Customer ReferralsTech Referrals / Point of Pain Calls

Cold Calls & Canvassing:Yellow PagesClassifiedsList Brokers

Advertising(Print Ads:Trade Journals; Local Paper, Value Paks; Radio)

Direct Mail

Associations

Trade Shows Speaking Engagements

Personal Networking

Writing Articles

Sales Affiliation Programs

Sales RepsSocial Media, Twitter®, LinkedIn®, Facebook®, Yellow Pages, Chamber

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Strategy to Success Perspective

how sales people typically see cold calling

how customers see cold calling done poorly

what successful cold calling should be

fearfulboring, repetitive

unpleasantpressurisedrejections

confrontationalunproductivedemoralizing

unhappy

nuisanceunwanted

pressurisingtricky, shifty

shady, evasive

honest/openstraightforward

interesting/helpfuldifferent/innovativethoughtful/reasonedprepared/informed

professional/business-likeenthusiastic/up-beat

informative/newthought-provokingtime/cost-saving

opportunity/advantage

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Underpinning Principles

Important basic cold calling techniques are:

1. Preparation - self, environment, knowledge, and who you represent2. Introduction - key phrases explaining and positioning yourself and your purpose3. Questioning - help, facilitate and enable rather than assume, sell and push4. Listen and interpret5. Inform and educate

Strategy to Success Technique

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Pre-Sales

• CRM Tools:

– Salesforce.com

– Microsoft CRM

– SugarCRM

– Act!

• Predictive Dialer System: PhoneBurner

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Pre-Sales Lead Generation

Business Directories: • Manta®, Yelp®, ZoomInfo®,

YellowPages , Business.com®

Social Media: • LinkedIn, Twitter, Blogs,

Forums

List Sources: • infoUSA®, Dun & Bradstreet®

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What is Social Media?

Online platforms where people connect

and communicate.

Social Media Marketing = A process of promoting your site or business though social media channels, where

'social' and 'marketing' coexist.

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Social Media Platforms

Think like a user first and sales rep secondSocial media users are there for anything but advertising and marketing. Once you understand the main purpose of a social media platform, you can do a lot to increase your traffic, and grow your business with social media in ways that

don't turn off users, but engage, intrigue and excite them.

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Social Media Goals 1. INCREASE AWERENESS/BRANDING

2. CUSTOMER SERVICE/LOYALTY3.SALES / LEAD GENERATION

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Social Media Influence Has more than 300 million active global users and is growing every day.

It has 20 Million users and is the fastest growing social media networking site.

It has 43 million users representing over 170 industries, and is an ultimate online

Rolodex

Consumers are now spending more time with online media than they are with traditional forms of media. Globally digital including social media and mobile internet usage now

accounts for 57% of daily media time.

Overall, consumers now spend an average of 10.7 hours a day with all forms of media

and 5.6 hours of that on digital.http://globalwebindex.net/

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Why is Social Media engagement important ?

• Consumers continue to spend more time on social networks than on any other category of sites—roughly 20 percent of their total time online via personal computer (PC), and 30 percent of total time online via mobile.[6]

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Opportunity

1. Listen & Respond listening to what the public has to say about you

2. Two way communication educating and informing your audience

about your area of expertise and generating feedback

3. Relationship development & Leadership

4. Monitor the industry

5. Monitor the competition

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Social Media in MSP World

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HOW?

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How to?

1. Define your target market

2. Attract Foster communication with your audience though status

updates and regular interaction

3. Inform, educate, engage = establish credibility

4. Transform your online relationships into leads

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Resources & Monitoring 1. Hootsuite®

2. TweetDeck®

3. Seesmic®

4. SocialOomph®

5. CoTweet®

6. Ping.fm®

7. SpredFast®

8. Buffer®

9. SocialFlow®

Monitor what others are saying about you

Keep on top of industry trends and news

Evaluate opportunities and feedback

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N-ableAn MSP’s complete toolkit

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Better Protection Better Service

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Thank you

Tan Ansari Sales Manager

Want to learn more:for more info contact your partner

development specialist or myself at: [email protected]

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Questions?

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