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The Big Social 2011 Telligent Customer Conference #Telligent #TheBigSocial Amplify Your Sales Teams with Communities Forrest W. Lymburner WW Community Program Manager, Texas Instruments Inc.
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This is a presentation I presented at The Big Social 2011 about how to incorporate community into your sales process.
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The Big Social 2011Telligent Customer Conference
#Telligent #TheBigSocial
Amplify Your Sales Teams with CommunitiesForrest W. Lymburner
WW Community Program Manager, Texas Instruments Inc.
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Session Objective
Provide steps on how to successfully get community to be an integrated part of your sales strategy
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Who is ?
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Understand
Integrate
Am
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y
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Understand
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How Does it Work Today?
What do you sell? What is the process? How is your sales forces
organized? Where are your sales offices? Do you have any central sales? What tools is your field using? Who are your largest customers?
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What do the field complain about?
What do they need to succeed? What can’t the current tool set
do?
Identify Challenges
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What We Found
Déjà-vu Email was King
Lost Treasure
Old Way of Thinking
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Integrate
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Top Side/Bottom Side Buy In
Start at the bottom for pilots
Once you have a story…go up the ladder
When the program is ready go to the top
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Build to Suit
Don’t go crazyStick to the planStart smallFind your storyFind your advocates
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Slow & Steady
Social Media is scary
Solve a problem …use the gratitude
Use the momentum
Never Stop Selling!
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What We Implemented
Started with internal first
Launched an external pilot with a handful of product segments
Wrote a story… started telling the story
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If you build it, they will come… doesn’t work
Sell It!
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Start Rewarding
Field Motivation… Money and Recognition Recognize your
advocates and early adopters
Get included in existing bonus programs
Encourage competition
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Make it “Part of” not “Extra”
Become part of the sales process If you become too much extra
work…you will fail
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Take it Global…Smartly
Don’t Assume
Don’t Cookie Cutter
Field Sales is different regionally
Go back to step one and start again
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What We Implemented
Combined our internal & external sites into one
Expanded the pilot to include the entire business
Integrated with other social media programs
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What We Implemented
Customer intelligence integration
Employee Reward & Recognition program
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What We Implemented
Email wasn’t going away
Integrate email into the community functionality
Email-in, Email-out
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Summary
Research before you begin
Start small but keep moving
Communicate a lot
Expand slowly and steadily
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Our Sites & Contact Info
WW English Community http://e2e.ti.com
China Community http://www.deyisupport.com
Open Source Portal http://designsomething.org
Forrest W. Lymburner [email protected]
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