Resources to pitch account-based internally


Hey RevHeads!
A customer of mine is looking for resources other 6sense customers have used to evangelize the 6sense account-based approach internally. Has anyone else been in their shoes and have a resource that really landed well with your internal colleagues that you'd be willing to please share?
Thank you!
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@Gina Occhipinti Hi! I think this Breakthrough deck from @hasingh233 and @kfortman would be useful.
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Hey @Gina Occhipinti! I have some slides that worked well for me in getting our sales leadership on board. What worked for them was telling the story of the modern B2B buyer - people who have access to so much information at their fingertips for free (not even at the cost of their personal information) that they feel confident making the majority of their buying decisions before they even begin talking to reps. This was backed up by the stats Kerry shared from his research during his session.
The great thing about those numbers is that they work for both marketing and sales because, if that's the state of things (it is), then our approaches to both marketing and sales need to adjust to fit that.
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A few things:
When we launched to sales, we did a very brief (like 5 minutes) "What is 6sense". We don't bother with buyer journey, I refer to 6sense as a "Very Big Listening Platform" that's connected to CRM, MAP, our website AND a bunch of sites we would never know about. This gave a quick level-set on what the data is and where it's coming from.
We did a few 'how to use 6sense' sessions, both on alerts as well as sales intelligence. One of my early adopters had several successes right off the bat, so I asked them to present during our (at first monthly, now quarterly) user groups. My 6sense sales rep and CSM are both on these user group calls.
I created several how-to videos, from as simple as 'what's in an alert' to 'how to set up your dashboard' and more recently 'how to use 6s for prospecting outside of named accounts'. No video is more than 5 minutes long, most are about 3 minutes. During our onboarding with new reps, I review the tool and set them up with access.
More recently, our BDR manager has become an evangelist about the tool and has made it integral to his team's processes. I'm working closely with him to help get the message out to sales management (who haven't fully bought in or promote use of the tool).
We still haven't achieved a complete account-based approach between sales and marketing, but we are more often using the data in a variety of ways in both groups.
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This is gold, thank you all!!
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@Jana_Marketing_Maven Brilliant description. Did that resonate well with less tech-savvy sellers? We have a few of those.
I'm stealing that idea as an introduction to the video series I just made.
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It did. We decided to keep it super simple for the rank-and-file sales team. The upper sales mgmt had already seen the presentation directly from 6sense and understood the concept of 'dark funnel'. For the rest we talked about understanding what people may be researching outside of our site/view today.
The biggest thing that is a sticking/hard point for everyone to remember is that keywords are NOT what they are searching for online. In my videos I have a few key things I tell salespeople:
- The first rule of 6sense is: We don't talk about 6sense.
- Keywords do not mean this is what the person/organization is searching. Google/BING, etc are NEVER going to give that data up. These are the keywords we have asked the system to listen for - if they are on an article/video/page that is linked to the 6sense network and that keyword is prevalent enough for the AI to think it's relevant - it will show up.
Our first rule of 6sense is for some sellers who will be all "We saw you were researching XYZ" sigh.
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@Gina Occhipinti There are some really good adoption presentations from this year and last year from Breakthrough!
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My manager just created an internal board (it's a work in progress still as we just onboarded):
that we will keep adding too.2 -
@Kristi Tutt this 6sense internal board is so cool, the organization is immaculate. So easy to see everything!
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