#DEMAND GENERATION tweet Book01

download #DEMAND GENERATION tweet Book01

of 26

Transcript of #DEMAND GENERATION tweet Book01

  • 7/30/2019 #DEMAND GENERATION tweet Book01

    1/26

  • 7/30/2019 #DEMAND GENERATION tweet Book01

    2/26

    #DEMAND GENERATIONtweetBook01

    By Gaurav Kumar

    140 Insights on Powering Your Sales Pipeline

    E-mail: [email protected]

    20660 Stevens Creek Blvd., Suite 210Cupertino, CA 95014

    Book Excerpt

  • 7/30/2019 #DEMAND GENERATION tweet Book01

    3/26

    BOOK EXCERPT Table of Contents

    Section I: Never Forget the Basics

    Section II: Know Your Customers

    Section III: Profile Your Accounts

    Section IV: Nurture Your Leads

    About the Author

    140 Insights on Powering Your Sales Pipeline

  • 7/30/2019 #DEMAND GENERATION tweet Book01

    4/26

    3#DEMAND GENERATION tweet

    Contents

    Section I

    Never Forget the Basics 19

    Section II

    Know Your Customers 33

    Section III

    Profile Your Accounts 47

    Section IV

    Nurture Your Leads 61

    Section V

    Engage and Involve 75

    This is the Table o Contents (TOC) rom the book or your

    reerence. The eBook TOC (below) difers in page count rom

    the tradebook TOC.

  • 7/30/2019 #DEMAND GENERATION tweet Book01

    5/26

    Section VI

    Communicate Right! 89

    Section VII

    Training and Quality 103

    About the Author 119

    140 Insights on Powering Your Sales Pipeline

  • 7/30/2019 #DEMAND GENERATION tweet Book01

    6/26

    5#DEMAND GENERATION tweet

  • 7/30/2019 #DEMAND GENERATION tweet Book01

    7/26

    Section I: Never Forget the Basics

  • 7/30/2019 #DEMAND GENERATION tweet Book01

    8/26

    #DEMAND GENERATION tweet 7

    Section I

    Never Forget the Basics

    Every organization needs to boost its sales

    pipeline, and your organization is not an

    exception. This section will help you with the

    basic ground rules o demand generation.

  • 7/30/2019 #DEMAND GENERATION tweet Book01

    9/26

    Section I: Never Forget the Basics

    Good leads are the lieblood

    o any company, irrespectiveo its size. Its every leaders

    responsibility to get them.

    You can either have a solid demand

    generation strategy or you can

    believe in winning a lottery.

    1

    2

  • 7/30/2019 #DEMAND GENERATION tweet Book01

    10/26

    #DEMAND GENERATION tweet 9

    3

    4

    I you dont have a high-quality

    product or service, it is not worthwasting your time and money on

    generating demand or them.

    Build it and the prospects

    mightcomebut you dont

    want to just hope or that.

  • 7/30/2019 #DEMAND GENERATION tweet Book01

    11/26

    Section II: Know Your Customers

  • 7/30/2019 #DEMAND GENERATION tweet Book01

    12/26

    #DEMAND GENERATION tweet 11

    Section II

    Know Your Customers

    Knowing your customers is NOT optional unless

    you want to leave demand generation to chance.

    Knowing who your customers are is not the same

    as knowing your customers. In this section, you

    will learn how to get into your prospects shoes

    and see the world through their eyes.

  • 7/30/2019 #DEMAND GENERATION tweet Book01

    13/26

    Section II: Know Your Customers

    I you dont know who your idealtarget buyers are, dont expect to

    make a lot o progress.

    Defining the ideal customer is

    not easy, but it is a necessary

    requirement or your demand

    generation programs to succeed.

    21

    22

  • 7/30/2019 #DEMAND GENERATION tweet Book01

    14/26

    #DEMAND GENERATION tweet 13

    23

    24

    Get in your ideal customers shoesand identiy their biggest pain

    points that you can address.

    Lie is going on, with or without

    your solution. Understand how your

    prospects are currentlysolving the

    problems you are addressing.

  • 7/30/2019 #DEMAND GENERATION tweet Book01

    15/26

    Section III: Profile Your Accounts

  • 7/30/2019 #DEMAND GENERATION tweet Book01

    16/26

    #DEMAND GENERATION tweet 15

    Section III

    Profile Your Accounts

    Dig deeper into your target accounts to uncover

    opportunities to engage. By profiling and mapping

    your accounts, you and your team will learn how to

    best help your customers and yourselves.

  • 7/30/2019 #DEMAND GENERATION tweet Book01

    17/26

    Section III: Profile Your Accounts

    Not investing in account profilingis the astest way to squander a

    precious meeting opportunity.

    Right account mapping exercises

    will not only prepare you to pursue

    obvious opportunities, they might

    also reveal hidden possibilities.

    41

    42

  • 7/30/2019 #DEMAND GENERATION tweet Book01

    18/26

    #DEMAND GENERATION tweet 17

    43

    44

    A lot o inormation to

    develop a solid account map isavailable online. O course, you

    should know where to look.

    Verification o acts is equally

    important as good research.

  • 7/30/2019 #DEMAND GENERATION tweet Book01

    19/26

    Section IV: Nurture Your Leads

  • 7/30/2019 #DEMAND GENERATION tweet Book01

    20/26

    #DEMAND GENERATION tweet 19

    Section IV

    Nurture Your Leads

    Anything that you dont pay attention to will

    slowly disappear. Your leads need to be nurtured

    throughout their liecycle. Not all leads are ready to

    buy today, but i you dont nurture them, they wont

    be there to buy rom you when they are ready.

  • 7/30/2019 #DEMAND GENERATION tweet Book01

    21/26

    Section IV: Nurture Your Leads

    Either you nurture your prospects or

    you lose them. The choice is yours.

    Invest in lead nurturing

    to convert your cold and

    warm leads into hot leads.

    61

    62

  • 7/30/2019 #DEMAND GENERATION tweet Book01

    22/26

    #DEMAND GENERATION tweet 21

    63

    64

    Ensure that every meeting generallyends with a date or the next meeting

    to keep making progress.

    Keeping in touch with

    your prospects regularly

    is not an expense, it is a

    long-term investment.

  • 7/30/2019 #DEMAND GENERATION tweet Book01

    23/26

  • 7/30/2019 #DEMAND GENERATION tweet Book01

    24/26

    Gaurav Kumar is a well-recognized demand generation expert. He is currently

    the ounder and CEO o Beyond Codes, which ofers demand generation, account

    profiling, and contact discovery services or several high-profile companies in

    the U.S., Europe, and the Asia Pacific. Under his leadership, Beyond Codes builds

    aggregate pipelines worth several hundred million dollars or its clients.

    A serial entrepreneur, Kumar is also the ounder o Entertainment Ecosystem Inc,

    one o the leading online radio stations targeted at the South Asian diaspora. He

    has been associated with various TiE chapters or over 15 years and is currently

    part o Executive Council o TiE Southern Caliornia. He is a sought-ater speakeron demand generation.

    Kumar holds an MBA in General Management. He loves to travel; play gol

    socially; and spend time with his beautiul 3-year-old daughter, Bani.

    Kumar can be reached at [email protected].

    About the Author

  • 7/30/2019 #DEMAND GENERATION tweet Book01

    25/26

    Getting #DEMAND GENERATION tweet Book01

    (http://www.thinkaha.com/demand-generation-tweet/ )

    #DEMAND GENERATION tweet Book01 can be purchased as an eBook or

    $14.95 or tradebook or $19.95 at

    http://www.thinkaha.com/demand-generation-tweet/ or at other online

    and physical book stores.

    Please contact us or quantity discounts [email protected] or to beinormed about upcoming titles [email protected] or phone

    (408-257-3000).

  • 7/30/2019 #DEMAND GENERATION tweet Book01

    26/26