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

1. Inside Sales Strategies for MSPs
Tan Ansari
Inside Sales Manager

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Presented By
Tan Ansari
Sales Manager
Ali Mahmoud
Product 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 SolarWindsin 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 Studies
Testimonials
Literature (Flysheets, Billing Inserts, Door Hangers
Web
Newsletter
Search Engine Optimization
Downloadable Whitepapers
Dedicated Website
Strategic Partnerships
Customer Referrals
Tech Referrals / Point of Pain Calls
Cold Calls & Canvassing:
Yellow Pages
Classifieds
List Brokers
Advertising
(Print Ads:TradeJournals; Local Paper, Value Paks; Radio)
Direct Mail
Associations
Trade Shows
Speaking Engagements
Personal Networking
Writing Articles
Sales Affiliation Programs
Sales Reps
Social Media, Twitter®, LinkedIn®, Facebook®, Yellow Pages, Chamber

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how sales people typically see cold calling
how customers see cold calling done poorly
what successful cold calling should be
fearful
boring, repetitive
unpleasant
pressurised
rejections
confrontational
unproductive
demoralizing
unhappy
nuisance
unwanted
pressurising
tricky, shifty
shady, evasive
honest/open
straightforward
interesting/helpful
different/innovative
thoughtful/reasoned
prepared/informed
professional/business-like
enthusiastic/up-beat
informative/new
thought-provoking
time/cost-saving
opportunity/advantage

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Underpinning Principles
Important basic cold calling techniques are:
1.Preparation-self, environment, knowledge, and who you represent
2.Introduction-key phrases explaining and positioning yourself and your purpose
3.Questioning-help, facilitate and enable rather than assume, sell and push
4.Listen and interpret
5.Inform and educateStrategy to SuccessTechnique

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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/BRANDING2. 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.AttractFoster 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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22. Thank you
Tan Ansari
Sales Manager
Want to learn more:
for more info contact your partner development specialist or myself at: tansari@n-able.com

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