Goal: To have valuable, simple and regular selling motions to my clients.
Execution: Combination of social selling, live meetings, cold calling and other methods.
- Other methods: We have databases to run reports per client of what they purchased over the past 10 years, called the Cisco Ready Report.
- We can determine when their equipment is end of life and end of support with the goal of identifying refresh opportunities.
- We can share this data with clients (not Cisco Partners), so it helps to create value and get a meeting.
- It also gives the perception that their Cisco team knows their environment well and helps drive specific architecture discussions.
- Work with product sales specialists to record/video their product pitches with the goal of helping me better position the wealth of Cisco products in my bag.
- Leveraging partners & extended team
- I work with my extended team and Cisco partners to gain additional visibility into accounts.
- Social Selling – Is the method by which I reach out to customers through direct email and social media in electronic form. This method is utilized in live meetings and cold calling activities.
- Social Selling Activity #1 – Lobo Cisco Sales Blog
- I aggregate contact relevant to my clients from my Cisco extended team, partners and the industry.
- Ex of aggregated Unified Communication Content
- Ex of aggregated local event content
- Ex of aggregated partner content
- Ex of aggregated Webinar content
- All content is searchable through the search box and category dropdown
- Social Selling Activity #2 – Lobo Cisco Event Round ups
- I send round-ups every two weeks on average to clients and partners through mailchimp
- This serves as a touchpoint for everyone and I typically follow up with calls and/or discuss in meetings
- Social Selling Activity #1 – Lobo Cisco Sales Blog
- I also use Lobo Cisco for demand gen activities based on an architecture
- Example of Wireless Mailer that yielded 5 key meetings last week and this week
- I use a combination of social selling, traditional cold calling and other strategies together to penetrate accounts and get meetings.
- I keep two lists of clients and partners
- Outlook
- Mailchimp
- This strategy enables me to touch my 150 client contacts and 90 Cisco partner contacts twice a month.
- It also enables me to provide tremendous value to my clients and also give me an excuse to reach out.
Mission – EMBRACING SOCIAL MEDIA TO SIMPLIFY LOCAL CISCO MESSAGING
- Lobo Cisco Round Up Week Ending 2/26/16 – March Week 1 of 4
Lobo Cisco Round Up Week Ending 2/26/16