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First Call Custom Brief
Here are some prompts to help you better understand your customer before jumping on that first call.
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Pain Points & Priorities
Based on your inputs, these are pain points your customer may be experiencing:
- Prioritizing tasks efficiently: Business Development teams can become overwhelmed with daily tasks and long-term projects. Help your customer to prioritize tasks, put them into manageable chunks, and manage their backlog.
- Re-evaluating process and technology: Your customer may feel held back by existing processes and technologies. Consult with them on process re-engineering and making technology decisions to better their workflow.
- Stepping up collaboration: Collaboration across their organization can be improved to create faster and better decision-making. Help them to leverage collaboration tools such as messaging, document sharing and task management.
- Enhancing visibility: Visibility into key performance metrics and insights can help your customer understand their customers better. Suggest analytics solutions to give greater knowledge of trends, results and bottlenecks.
- External engagement to keep up with the competition: How is your customer approaching their competitors? Suggest sales and marketing automation solutions to better understand industry trends and keep in step with the competition.
Objectives & Key Results
Use these OKRs (objectives and key results) to help your customer find success:
- Objective: Improve collaboration among sales and business development teams. Key Results: Increase communication and reporting between departments, offer educational resources to sales and biz dev teams, reduce inefficiencies in hand-offs between departments.
- Objective: Streamline processes for key accounts. Key Results: Create more efficient customer onboarding system, reduce friction in existing customer renewals, create custom processes or tools for high-value customers.
- Objective: Increase customer success and satisfaction. Key Results: Increase response time for customer issues, improve customer user experience, create visibility metrics to measure customer success.
- Objective: Expand sales and business development. Key Results: Identify and leverage customer success stories, create targeted campaigns for high-value customers, research and develop more effective sources of leads.
- Objective: Increase overall visibility. Key Results: Transform sales and business development teams’ data and information into easy to follow reports, create data-driven insights to build better customer relationships, and develop training to increase knowledge of visibility metrics.
Tactical Considerations
Consider these tactics and strategic initiatives your customer may be planning:
- Decreased collaboration among global teams
- Lack of visibility into sales pipelines and performance
- Difficulty streamlining processes across departments
- Multiple systems to update and manage sales data
- Need for improved customer service and customer loyalty
Building Rapport
Suggestions for an effective first call and any future calls:
- Research the customer's business and related industry topics to better prepare for our call and have conversation starters ready.
- Put myself in the customer’s shoes and consider their organization’s needs, possibilities, and limitations.
- Encourage active engagement and ask open-ended questions to truly understand the customer’s pain points and current processes before discussing solutions.
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