“Having valuable information to share makes you more valuable to your customers. ” – Luke Floyd in today’s Tip 1021
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Scott Ingram: You’re listening to the Daily Sales Tips podcast and I’m your host, Scott Ingram. Today’s tip comes from Luke Floyd. Luke is a Senior Account Executive at Deel, where he works with Midmarket clients. With a diverse background from musical theater, debate, the military, and seven years in sales, Luke’s intention is to achieve personal, professional, and financial freedom through focused and authentic sales excellence. Here he is:
Luke Floyd: Hi! I’m Luke Floyd, Senior Account Executive at Deel, and my tip is about passively gathering sales intelligence. As knowledge workers, our attention is being fractured in so many ways. Apps buzzing, emails incoming, new bake-off episodes to watch. Point being, If you want to focus on continual practice, setting it up to passively come to you rather than actively searching for it is key to finding some value in this inundating stimulus.
What do I mean by sales intelligence? A target account just raised their seriously post about it on their blog. A huge case study client for you was mentioned in a competitive analysis with other lookalike targets. A competitor dropped hints towards their talk tracks against your organization and Twitter posts without directly tagging your company. All of these things have happened to me in the last week, delivered to me in my inbox for a simple fashion.
So to start passively gathering sales intelligence, there are three simple tips.
First, select your tools. For me, I use a combination of Google Alerts, Twitter List, and LinkedIn Sales Navigator. There are pros and cons for each, and maybe one is better for your industry than others. The point being, you want tools that will send you information on a regular, routine basis and are easy to digest quickly. Like this podcast.
Step Two. Set them up. For Google Alerts I have each of my top 25 accounts set to deliver daily email alerts. I also keep track of industry keywords for me that’s remote work, employee misclassification, and global expansion to receive emails with the latest content.
For Twitter list, I have a couple different types. First, I have all of my competitors, including key executives, on a private list. This allows me to not only see their corporate narrative but also the subtext being pushed by their leaders. You’ll find trends of what top tracks to expect when you compete. Conversely, I have a private list of key prospects of those top 25 accounts so I can see what’s on their mind. Specifically, I use a free app called Tweet Deck, allowing me to display multiple feeds at once, clearing them each time I check them. For LinkedIn Sales Navigator, it’s pretty easy to go in and set up list on your target accounts so that way you can have the information rolling.
Step Three. Calibrate. Google Alert is particularly key to calibrate well, because it can deliver a ton of irrelevant information, either adjust the source settings to narrow in to only news sources rather than blogs or flag repeat offenders as irrelevant. Curating Twitter list does take effort because prospects and competitors are continuously changing. You know that hour-long block you invest in your skills on Fridays, right? Great time to knock this out.
For LinkedIn Sales Navigator, keeping a clean account list is the most important thing. I use the newsfeed religiously to see key updates on hiring and expansion. But if that list has junk, it’s just more distraction defeating the purpose of the passive nature.
Having valuable information to share makes you more valuable to your customers. It keeps them up to speed because you are acting as a filter for the important information they might have missed. Hope this helps. Connect with me, Luke Floyd on LinkedIn or Twitter at this link. Thanks!
Scott Ingram: For those links to connect with Luke on LinkedIn and Twitter, just click over to DailySales.Tips/1021
Once you’ve done that, be sure to come back tomorrow for another great sales tip. Thanks for listening!