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Maximizing
Renewal
Revenues
WHITE PAPER
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Maximizing Renewal Revenues
       INTRODUCTION
       This White Paper is about transforming your Customer         We will look at how the renewal sales model has evolved
       Renewal team into a high-performing sales team.              over time, and overview the transformation model
                                                                    underpinning the objective of this White Paper. We will
       When The TAS Group acquired Infomentis at the end            discuss checklists for each of the 4 main parts of the
       of 2010, it acquired high caliber professionals and          transformation model: coverage, people and skills, sales
       methodologies with a 16-year track record of delivering      process, and finally knowledge and sales tools. We will
       measured uplift in renewal revenues to almost 100            also present our top 5 transformation best practices. We
       enterprise companies.                                        will close by touching on The TAS Group’s Selling the Value
                                                                    of Renewals solution which builds on and automates the
       This White Paper shares the insights and best practices      renewal best practices in this White Paper through the
       honed over this period, so that, where appropriate, you      Dealmaker intelligent software application.
       can put them into practice in your renewal organization.
       Of course, much of this will depend on your perspective      As with any of our White Papers, there will be a big
       towards renewals, as well as your business situation, the    variance in the seniority and experience of the readership.
       products and services you sell, the types of renewals you    This White Paper aims to provide something for the
       deal with, and how you harness the efforts of people         complete range of requirements, but if you want to dig
       directly or tangentially involved in your renewal process.   deeper or move wider, we urge you to get in touch with
                                                                    us individually. You can do this via email to:
                                                                    info@thetasgroup.com.




EVOLUTION OF THE RENEWAL
SALES MODEL
In established technology providers, renewal revenues can
                                                                                          Evolution of
account for half of total revenues, and attract a vastly higher
profit margin than new business. Despite this glaring fact,
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many companies do not have a dedicated and strategic                                                                                  Inside Sales
approach to managing and growing the recurring revenue                                                                                   Team
number.

The renewal sales model has been an interesting evolution to                                                      Renewal
watch over the last 30-plus years. Initially, when there was just                                                  Team
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a perpetual license paid up front and annual maintenance,
the maintenance bill was mailed out annually and technology                                         Collections
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vendors just waited for the money to come in. The
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maintenance sold itself and there was no alternative. Over                                   SA
time, marketplace resistance started to set in and in the early                          Sells Itself
1990’s customers were questioning the value they received
                                                                                            80’s                                      Today
from maintenance. Vendors found themselves periodically
contacting customers to find out why the invoice wasn’t paid.




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The focus moved to collecting on the invoice, with ‘Customer       your customer could derive value from. Customers might
Service teams’ being set up that were really focused on            not always be aware of the service features in your offerings.
collection. This became a more strategic approach, making          They may also see additional value in a higher level of service
sure that there were no issues with large strategic customers,     depending on where they are in their lifecycle with you. This
enabling their maintenance bills to be paid on time. By the        is done more effectively in sales mode than just from an
early 2000’s, these teams were still reactive for the most part,   administrative perspective.
solving system and billing problems, and paving the way for
the maintenance to get paid.                                       Furthermore, renewals are about uncovering and reinstating
                                                                   lapsed customers. It makes sense to periodically investigate
By the mid-2000’s, the license model had started to move           groups of customers for whom maintenance or subscription
towards subscription or software-as-a-service. As long as you      has lapsed to see if there is a possible way back in. This is a
continued to subscribe, your software will run. If you ceased      great opportunity to find out why they didn’t renew – much
to subscribe, you might get a short grace period but in time       like the more established win/loss analysis you might do for
you wouldn’t be able to access the software, or your data.         your new business deals, and a sales approach pays dividends
                                                                   again here. You can also employ the bargaining chip of an
Most recently we’ve seen companies that have made the              amnesty for back charges, since most technology companies
most gains in renewal metrics equip and recognize their            will apply all back charges for customers who want to re-sign.
renewal sales teams as real sales teams. In fact, we see
more and more sales VPs responsible for the overall renewal        A sales approach to renewals is also about identifying and
number.                                                            generating opportunities for additional users, product or
                                                                   services. This is not unlike up-selling additional service plans
A December 2011 poll by The TAS Group of 145 companies             or features, but it requires actual discovery and ability to
found that 16% took a collections-focused approach to              probe for additional customer needs outside what they are
renewals, 23% had an administratively-focused team in place,       currently licensed to address. As you probe for feedback on
whereas 61% had deployed a true inside sales team focused          the value of the original investment, you get to discover their
on renewals. We hope this White Paper will provide those           business needs, how much they’re using of your product
with a collections focus some insights to change the way           or service, and what additional gaps or broken elements of
they approach their customers, those with an administrative        their business model you can help address with additional
focus the incentive to take their staff to the next level, and     products and services.
those with an inside sales resource, who know the effort and
resources involved, further advice on up-skilling their people     Finally, it may also involve closing the sale of those additional
to maximize revenues.                                              products and services. It’s important to distinguish between
                                                                   groups that have responsibility for selling or positioning, and
RENEWALS ARE A SALES EFFORT                                        those that have quotas and are expected to actually close
                                                                   business and may even carry a quota. Sometimes it is a fine
Renewals mean real selling. If you’re talking to a customer,       line between customer service and inside sales and so you
then you have to be in sales mode. This starts with the            may also be closing this business, or you may have a formal
concept of the value of renewal. You need to be able to sell       process for handing off the lead in a disciplined fashion to the
the value of being your customer, even if you’re in a services     person that will hopefully close it.
or support role. Never has this been truer than with existing
customers. Your customers bought your solution for specific        If you are doing the closing, it’s all understanding how your
reasons, to solve specific business problems. They renew           additional products can help with more value. For the
for those same reasons – so that your solution can continue        customer, the benefit is that they only have to deal with one
to deliver whatever those results are. You need to be able         person. You are improving the trust, the relationship and the
to convey to each customer specifically why they should            continuity of relationship by uncovering needs, elevating
continue to be your customer.                                      them to matters of consequence, attaching solutions,
                                                                   developing benefit statements, and closing the business. This
You also need to be able to uncover and up-sell additional         is real selling.
plans or features, exploring what else in your offering set




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RENEWAL
TRANSFORMATION MODEL
There are 4 parts to the Transformation Model:
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                                                                                                                                                                                              As a general rule, we recommend having some kind of
                                                                                                                                                                                              customer segmentation strategy applied to coverage and
                                                                                                                                                                                              the overall renewal process. It’s not how many segments you
                                                                                                                                                                                              end up with, but how you segment that’s important. In a
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                                                                                                                                                                                              customers by their annual renewal spend, as the graphic
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Further investigation usually reveals that customers at the
top of the pyramid are not only adequately covered, but are
at the lowest risk of defecting. Coverage in this case is often
provided by one or more field sales people, perhaps working                                         “Top”                       Sales
with a renewal or account manager. Customers in the small or           Marketing                                                • Field Sales
inactive segments often don’t require any coverage at all. It’s        • Strategy                   “Big”                       • Account
the customers in the middle of the pyramid that are usually at         • Campaigns                                                Mgmt
risk, as they are the ones that you might not have adequate            • Messages                                               • Telesales
coverage for, and are attractive to your competitors. We                                        “Medium”
recommend you take a look at the customers in the middle of
your pyramid and ensure that there is enough coverage there.
                                                                                                  “Small”
Importantly, closer analysis may unveil that buying behaviors
and opportunities vary by segment and may therefore require
different coverage. For example, depending on your industry,                                     “Inactive”
companies might require more or less care or service levels
                                                                        Source: Customer Marketing Method, 2000
from you depending on where they are in their lifecycle with
you, and often depending on how large your footprint is with
them.

When there is a choice of service level, most companies will       Particularly for larger customers, aligning the renewal model
gravitate towards the least expensive service level that they      with the field sales model often makes the most sense, as
can live with unless there is some driver for more or less         sales and renewals can work together to come up with the
services. A larger footprint often requires a higher level of      strategy that will deliver the most value for – and revenue
service to keep systems optimized, and customers can either        from – customers. Where the teams are separate, you need
resource this in-house or else pay you. You need a different       tight alignment, or it destroys credibility with customers
sense of skills, degree of touch and relationships between         when they hear different stories from different quarters
your top 5 renewal customers and your smallest renewal             of your company. We encourage you to look at how they
customers. You need the right people, talking to the right         communicate with one another, furnish them with exactly the
customers, at the right time, and you should adapt your            same information to use, and institutionalize a high degree of
approach to each segment.                                          co-ordination.

In a subscription model, there is typically one level of support   Another consideration within coverage models is what skills
service, but there could perhaps be ancillary services that        and competencies are required for each customer segment.
customers might be interested in. Renewal reps, therefore,         Obviously, working with a multi-million dollar customer
could be tasked with identifying additional products for their     requires a different skill set than working with a $10,000
customers.                                                         customer. With smaller customers, you would typically see
                                                                   less complexity, less time at your disposal to deal with the
                                                                   renewal, and fewer objections as well.




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People and Skills
So how do you address each segment? Once you figure
out how you want to treat your customers, getting the right
people with the right skills into the job is next. We encourage
you to develop a competency model, recognizing that
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competencies. Then you can perform a gap analysis and                                              Sales Tools
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There are different ways to close the skill gaps based on your
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you have. Another alternative is to hire in the talent from
outside. For people who are not suited to the role and the
competencies that the segment demands, you may consider
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moving them to other parts of the business where they
can contribute more productively. We have seen field sales




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people successfully moving into account management and
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renewal roles, and clearly the success of this will depend on
the compensation models.

A good number of our customers also outsource a piece
– though not all – of their renewals business to a specialist
third party renewal company. Typically the outsourced part        It’s also important to establish an ongoing hiring plan, and a
will be towards the bottom of the pyramid, the part that          progression plan for how you plan to develop your people
received little or no coverage. In this area we can point to      over time. This development of your people is not just a
one customer improving renewals by 20%, from 60% to 75%           case of up-skilling them once and then letting them loose.
renewal rate, by outsourcing the smaller renewals. You need       Transforming your renewals team into a high performance
to ask yourself how important it is that you have your own        sales team is a process, not an event, and you need to put in
employees interfacing with customers, as opposed to a third       place the appropriate framework for regular coaching and
party, and as you might imagine, the tendency is to stay closer   regular reinforcement. When you train people, you’re asking
to those customers towards the top of the pyramid. You need       them to change their behavior for the foreseeable future, and
to make sure you align available resources with the right         this won’t happen unless all the conditions for change are in
customer segment, and how you prioritize your segments will       place. (For more information on Sales Change Management,
guide the levels of allocation that each segment receives.        refer to our White Paper with the same name.)




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Sales Process
Companies with a well defined – and well followed – sales
process, generate more sales. You need to clearly define your
renewal sales process, and even within the renewals area you
might find there is more than one sales process. For example,
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you may differentiate an annual renewal from a mid-term                                           Sales Tools                                                                                     Skills
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A renewal process is usually different from a new business
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sales process. A new business sales process has a variable
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closed date and in effect works in reverse, the variable time
being when you start to engage with your renewal customer.
You need to plan by working backwards, and this can be                                                                                         Sales Process
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zero’ and run the risk of derailing the renewal.

Whatever the sales process is, it must support the intricacies
of the contract between you and your customer. Despite the
written word being enshrined in your contract, customers          Sales is predominantly about revenues, which means renewal
may still look to reduce users, look for bargaining room,         sales is about renewal revenues. Make sure your renewal
plead poverty, employ fellow-vendor peer pressure, or play        sales process supports your renewal revenue objectives.
procurement hard-ball. Or they may elect to try not to pay        Your revenue objectives and compensation plans should be
or get out of the contract. Some contracts are not auto-          properly defined and dovetail accordingly.
renewable, and you have to re-sell the value. Customers will
always look to get a better deal, or get more benefit. So while   With any sales process, you need to think about
timings vary by customer, and circumstances vary, the need        measurement, review, adjustment, improvement and so
for having your renewal process mapped out does not vary;         on. You should look at measuring renewal rates (by both
you must do it.                                                   customer count and revenue), the time and effort to renew,
                                                                  the length of the renewal sales cycle, how much you are
If your company has a prevailing sales methodology, leverage      discounting, how often, and so on, by segment. When you
it for your renewals. Sales process and sales methodology         measure it, you can manage it, fine-tune it, improve it, and
integrated in your CRM system are proven to increase              eventually become more proactive about how you approach
revenues and improve the use and data integrity of your CRM       your renewals. For example, if the renewal cycle metric is
system. For example, you could adapt Target Account Selling®      getter longer, you can move out the start date from 120 days
(also known as TAS®) opportunity management methodology           to 150 days before the contact renewal date.
to your renewals, thereby connecting the method to the
process.                                                          To read more on the subject of sales process, see the White
                                                                  Paper from The TAS Group called ‘Sales Process Equals Sales
                                                                  Success’.




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Knowledge and Sales Tools
It goes without saying that you have to arm your reps
properly for them to succeed. Your value story is so
important. Why should your customers renew? What are
the real benefits of being your customer? What makes you
different from competitors, including the competitive option                                     Knowledge &                                                                                                            People &
to ‘do nothing’?
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is typically not as good. In this scenario, customers have
additional objectives that can’t be handled, the renewal sales
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and employing good marketing, but understanding your
customer and using a specific, resonating value story is key to
protecting your current customer base.

Your reps need to have access to all types of information         on and made specific to your customer. Especially towards
regarding your customers: industry knowledge, specific            the top of the pyramid, you have to understand the specific
customer results as available, and their product history with     value that each customer gets from your products and
you – what they’ve purchased and dropped, what products           services. You should point to concrete results, like renewal
and services they are currently using. Good renewal sales         rates, customer satisfaction scores, and the other metrics
people will also listen to earnings calls and strategize with     where you have collected the actual results to compare with
their counterparts in field sales to determine if there are       the target results established at the outset of the contract.
additional opportunities they might listen for or focus on        Companies who have renewal roles focused on the customer,
when talking to customers.                                        not the selling team, will generally achieve better satisfaction
                                                                  scores.
It’s important to have a call plan before you make your
renewal call to your customer. As well as the basic details       As we have mentioned before in this White Paper, there has
of the customer contacts you’re calling, you should prepare       to be an ongoing coaching process. Just like in the sports
the questions you will ask to elicit the information you need,    domain, people need observation and feedback from coaches
detail out the objections you anticipate for this customer,       in order to develop skills. Be proactive about your coaching,
what expectations you have already set, and what your             based on what you are measuring, so you can adapt the
objectives and desired next steps are for the call itself.        development plans for your people. Finally, there will almost
                                                                  always be things you are doing well within the enterprise.
You should equip your renewals teams with a range of sales        Don’t re-invent the wheel needlessly. Capture the internal
tools. These might include typical objections, preferred          best practices you have, bring in the best practices you don’t
answers, job aids, and generic value stories that can be built    have, and coach to them both relentlessly.




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TOP 5 TRANSFORMATION
BEST PRACTICES
1. Start with a Solid Renewal Sales Process                         5. Recognition of the Investment Required
Document and ensure that internal systems are in place              When there’s change involved, there’s investment, and getting
and everyone is trained accordingly on your renewal sales           the right renewal systems, processes, people and tools in
process. Remember to coordinate activities with the intent          place is no different. Investigate what’s going on in the
of subscription customers renewing before their contract            market, and how you compare. There’s nothing wrong with
expires, and maintenance customers paying before their              being more expensive, you have to be able to understand
contract expires.                                                   why and explain why you are worth more and defend it.

2. Avoid Competing Priorities of Renewing and Sales                 Furthermore, pricing analysis of renewals rates involving
Revenue                                                             complexities like bundles may lead you to see if there is any
Here we are talking primarily about compensation plans. If          elasticity to the pricing that will drive greater acceptance and
you are compensating renewal sales reps for new sales of            adoption.
product or service, on top of renewals, make sure that that
compensation is weighted so that they are not sacrificing a         Segmentation is important and does take time. The biggest
single customer renewal in order to make a sale at another          challenge can often be your systems and extracting the data
customer. Examine your compensation plans and look for              you need in the form and detail you need it.
where you might be incenting sub-optimal behavior.
                                                                    In short, developing your systems, processes, people, and
3. Have Realistic Renewal Expectations                              tools requires investment. If you make the investment, and
You might have one overall renewal rate goal you are                execute correctly, the benefits are better coverage, better
striving for, but make sure it is realistic within your industry,   customer satisfaction, improved revenue, improved renewal
and recognize that there should probably be different               rates, and renewals ahead of time, which in turn improves
expectations for each customer segment in the pyramid and           cash-flow.
for each rep. For example, in the Government segment sector,
there is generally one set renewal process from which vendors
cannot deviate or they will be excluded.

4. Have Lead Management Discipline
If you do uncover a lead, you need to have the engrained
discipline to manage it according to your current lead
management process. Either you hand it on according to the
process, or you close it yourself.




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DEALMAKER SMART
RENEWALS MANAGER
Dealmaker Smart Renewals Manager from The TAS Group                        •	 Find a partner with the necessary knowledge and
helps you maximize renewal rates for subscription or                          experience of the maintenance business
maintenance recurring contracts. The smart renewals sales
process and playbook outline the proactive steps to take to           Smart Renewals Manager presented Lawson with a range
anticipate potential cancellation of contracts. Automated             of solution components to address their specific business
deal coaching, applied in context, identifies risks and               requirements:
vulnerabilities in upcoming renewals, and helps you to defend              •	 Consultative selling from the buyer’s viewpoint
the value of retaining your solution. Call planning techniques             •	 Completing and using discovery techniques and tools
help you optimize each sales call, and anticipate and answer                  to expand their footprint in and navigation through
objections and tough questions. Dealmaker Smart Renewals                      their customer organizations
Manager helps you standardize your approach and maximize                   •	 Handling objections more creatively and successfully
predictable and profitable revenue from subscription or                    •	 Avoiding competitive traps that delayed the sales
maintenance recurring revenue.                                                process
                                                                           •	 Avoiding feature/function discussions which inevitably
In order to achieve sustained benefits from Dealmaker Smart                   led to commodity-based discussions about price, in
Renewals Manager, we offer a blended learning approach,                       favor of value-based discussions which commanded a
including eLearning, instructor-led web sessions and                          higher price
workshops to increase your knowledge and skills.
                                                                      This approach yielded the following quantified results:
The proven effectiveness of Smart Renewals Manager is                      •	 Increased number of customers on the ‘Silver’
exemplified in our work with Lawson Software (now part of                     maintenance program from 50 to 87 within a year, a
Infor). Lawson set a number of challenges for their initiative:               74% increase
     •	 Grow the maintenance portfolio of each support or                  •	 Improved an already excellent renewal rate by 3
        maintenance manager                                                   percentage points
     •	 Improve on an already excellent renewal rate                       •	 Increased up-sell amount by 20%
     •	 Take a more customer-focused approach to selling                   •	 Exceeded NetPromoter customer satisfaction target
     •	 Meet their NetPromoter customer satisfaction targets                  scores in all categories
        across the business



        “We have been able to expand our footprint and navigate
        our customer organizations and relationships far more
        successfully. We’ve been able to quantify both the revenue   “The TAS Group brought to bear their experience, depth of
        and non-revenue effects of The TAS Group programs, and       knowledge and understanding of our business, against a
        they really work.”                                           very aggressive timescale. Our teams are now experts of
                                                                     positioning the value of our services, and understand the
        Jaymie Cater, Global Director, Silver Maintenance            dangers of feature/function dialog which inevitably leads
        and Business Development, Lawson                             to price- or commodity-based discussions.”

                                                                     Mick Ling, Global Director,
                                                                     Maintenance Business, Lawson




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      CONCLUSION
      The renewal sales model has evolved over time, to        maximizes the probability that the transformation
      the extent that progressive organizations realize that   of your Customer Renewal teams will be a success.
      selling renewals requires genuine selling approaches     The TAS Group’s Dealmaker Smart Renewals Manger
      and skills. Transforming a Customer Renewals team        provides an automated and intelligent skills blueprint
      into a high-performing sales team requires attending     proven to protect and grow renewal revenues.
      to renewal customer segmentation and coverage,
      the people and skills needed to deliver the renewals,    For more information on The TAS Group, Dealmaker
      sales process and best practices that underpin the       Smart Renewals Manager, or anything else discussed in
      company’s renewal function, and finally the right        this White Paper, please contact us at
      knowledge and sales tools. A number of best practices    info@thetasgroup.com.




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ABOUT THE TAS GROUP 
The TAS Group helps sales professionals sell smarter and manage better. Through a unique combination of deep sales
methodologies and intelligent software applications, customers achieve measureable results including increases in win
rates, deal sizes and qualified opportunities, as well as decreases in sales cycle length. According to the Aberdeen Group,
customers of The TAS Group realize 21 percent greater attainment of sales quotas.

Dealmaker® intelligent software is the engine driving revenue growth and sustained adoption of improved sales
practices.

The TAS Group has helped more than 850,000 sales professionals in more than 65 countries, from small private
companies to market leaders. For more information visit http://www.thetasgroup.com and read the dealmaker365 blog
at http://www.dealmaker365.com.




ABOUT DEALMAKER
Dealmaker software from The TAS Group delivers real-time opportunity and account management, intelligent
deal coaching, accurate sales forecasts, smart playbooks, self-paced learning, and predictive analytics, resulting in
measurable sales growth.

Dealmaker can be delivered as a standalone application or can be integrated with Salesforce CRM, Microsoft Dynamics
CRM, Oracle CRM On Demand, Oracle’s Siebel CRM and SAP CRM, or with any third party software application through
the Dealmaker API. For more information visit http://www.thetasgroup.com.




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Sales White Paper: Maximizing Renewal Revenues

  • 2. Sell Smarter. Manage Better. Maximizing Renewal Revenues INTRODUCTION This White Paper is about transforming your Customer We will look at how the renewal sales model has evolved Renewal team into a high-performing sales team. over time, and overview the transformation model underpinning the objective of this White Paper. We will When The TAS Group acquired Infomentis at the end discuss checklists for each of the 4 main parts of the of 2010, it acquired high caliber professionals and transformation model: coverage, people and skills, sales methodologies with a 16-year track record of delivering process, and finally knowledge and sales tools. We will measured uplift in renewal revenues to almost 100 also present our top 5 transformation best practices. We enterprise companies. will close by touching on The TAS Group’s Selling the Value of Renewals solution which builds on and automates the This White Paper shares the insights and best practices renewal best practices in this White Paper through the honed over this period, so that, where appropriate, you Dealmaker intelligent software application. can put them into practice in your renewal organization. Of course, much of this will depend on your perspective As with any of our White Papers, there will be a big towards renewals, as well as your business situation, the variance in the seniority and experience of the readership. products and services you sell, the types of renewals you This White Paper aims to provide something for the deal with, and how you harness the efforts of people complete range of requirements, but if you want to dig directly or tangentially involved in your renewal process. deeper or move wider, we urge you to get in touch with us individually. You can do this via email to: info@thetasgroup.com. EVOLUTION OF THE RENEWAL SALES MODEL In established technology providers, renewal revenues can Evolution of account for half of total revenues, and attract a vastly higher profit margin than new business. Despite this glaring fact, Renewal Sales Sales many companies do not have a dedicated and strategic Inside Sales approach to managing and growing the recurring revenue Team number. The renewal sales model has been an interesting evolution to Renewal watch over the last 30-plus years. Initially, when there was just Team Administrative a perpetual license paid up front and annual maintenance, the maintenance bill was mailed out annually and technology Collections R Focus FO LE LD vendors just waited for the money to come in. The SO maintenance sold itself and there was no alternative. Over SA time, marketplace resistance started to set in and in the early Sells Itself 1990’s customers were questioning the value they received 80’s Today from maintenance. Vendors found themselves periodically contacting customers to find out why the invoice wasn’t paid. Share this White Paper! Copyright © The TAS Group. All rights reserved. 1
  • 3. Sell Smarter. Manage Better. The focus moved to collecting on the invoice, with ‘Customer your customer could derive value from. Customers might Service teams’ being set up that were really focused on not always be aware of the service features in your offerings. collection. This became a more strategic approach, making They may also see additional value in a higher level of service sure that there were no issues with large strategic customers, depending on where they are in their lifecycle with you. This enabling their maintenance bills to be paid on time. By the is done more effectively in sales mode than just from an early 2000’s, these teams were still reactive for the most part, administrative perspective. solving system and billing problems, and paving the way for the maintenance to get paid. Furthermore, renewals are about uncovering and reinstating lapsed customers. It makes sense to periodically investigate By the mid-2000’s, the license model had started to move groups of customers for whom maintenance or subscription towards subscription or software-as-a-service. As long as you has lapsed to see if there is a possible way back in. This is a continued to subscribe, your software will run. If you ceased great opportunity to find out why they didn’t renew – much to subscribe, you might get a short grace period but in time like the more established win/loss analysis you might do for you wouldn’t be able to access the software, or your data. your new business deals, and a sales approach pays dividends again here. You can also employ the bargaining chip of an Most recently we’ve seen companies that have made the amnesty for back charges, since most technology companies most gains in renewal metrics equip and recognize their will apply all back charges for customers who want to re-sign. renewal sales teams as real sales teams. In fact, we see more and more sales VPs responsible for the overall renewal A sales approach to renewals is also about identifying and number. generating opportunities for additional users, product or services. This is not unlike up-selling additional service plans A December 2011 poll by The TAS Group of 145 companies or features, but it requires actual discovery and ability to found that 16% took a collections-focused approach to probe for additional customer needs outside what they are renewals, 23% had an administratively-focused team in place, currently licensed to address. As you probe for feedback on whereas 61% had deployed a true inside sales team focused the value of the original investment, you get to discover their on renewals. We hope this White Paper will provide those business needs, how much they’re using of your product with a collections focus some insights to change the way or service, and what additional gaps or broken elements of they approach their customers, those with an administrative their business model you can help address with additional focus the incentive to take their staff to the next level, and products and services. those with an inside sales resource, who know the effort and resources involved, further advice on up-skilling their people Finally, it may also involve closing the sale of those additional to maximize revenues. products and services. It’s important to distinguish between groups that have responsibility for selling or positioning, and RENEWALS ARE A SALES EFFORT those that have quotas and are expected to actually close business and may even carry a quota. Sometimes it is a fine Renewals mean real selling. If you’re talking to a customer, line between customer service and inside sales and so you then you have to be in sales mode. This starts with the may also be closing this business, or you may have a formal concept of the value of renewal. You need to be able to sell process for handing off the lead in a disciplined fashion to the the value of being your customer, even if you’re in a services person that will hopefully close it. or support role. Never has this been truer than with existing customers. Your customers bought your solution for specific If you are doing the closing, it’s all understanding how your reasons, to solve specific business problems. They renew additional products can help with more value. For the for those same reasons – so that your solution can continue customer, the benefit is that they only have to deal with one to deliver whatever those results are. You need to be able person. You are improving the trust, the relationship and the to convey to each customer specifically why they should continuity of relationship by uncovering needs, elevating continue to be your customer. them to matters of consequence, attaching solutions, developing benefit statements, and closing the business. This You also need to be able to uncover and up-sell additional is real selling. plans or features, exploring what else in your offering set Share this White Paper! Copyright © The TAS Group. All rights reserved. 2
  • 4. Sell Smarter. Manage Better. RENEWAL TRANSFORMATION MODEL There are 4 parts to the Transformation Model: • Coverage Knowledge & People & • People and Skills Sales Tools Skills • Sales Process Key Features • Knowledge & Tools 7x24 Knoelefgebase Prog at-a ram Proactive Services User groupsspo Glance Re Product Cases nse Time updates Respo Severi FAQ se by by Ca Cases nse Tim ty Level & ’s by Sev e by Cab Com Oseje erity Level ctio m Geor ns on Coverage Pa ge Sm Stev t Willi ith en am Jam Matth s R LeDiff Susa es espwi ews n a o s ere CW se onse n ils n s b T ti Model y S im ato eve e b rs rity y C Le ase ve l Sales Process Seller Solution Solution Qualify Discovery Development Presentation Close Integrate Monitor Awareness Agree Valid Business Decision Timeline Work Live to to Consider Opportunity Case to Proceed Defined Started Site Defined Coverage As a general rule, we recommend having some kind of customer segmentation strategy applied to coverage and the overall renewal process. It’s not how many segments you end up with, but how you segment that’s important. In a Knowledge & People & Skills December 2011 poll of 165 companies, The TAS Group found Sales Tools that 3% segment by products or services licensed, 26% by Key Features 7x24 Knoelefgebase Prog at-a ram Proactive Services User groupsspo Glance renewal size, 15% by renewal size and region, 39% used a mixture of criteria, and 15% did not segment. Companies Re Product Cases nse Time updates Respo by Severi FAQ se by Ca ’s Cases nse Tim ty Level & C by Sev e by CabOseje om Coverage erity Level ctio m Geor ns on Pa ge Sm could also segment by the number of end users, among other Stev t Willi ith en M ams R LeDiff Jam atth Susa es espwi ews n a o s ere CW se on se n ils n Model s b T ti y S im ato eve e b rs rity y C criteria. Taking the most popular single strategy of sorting Le ase ve l customers by their annual renewal spend, as the graphic suggests, there are different sales and marketing strategies Sales Process you might want to apply depending on where any particular customer falls in the pyramid. Seller Solution Solution Qualify Discovery Development Presentation Close Integrate Monitor Awareness Agree Valid Business Decision Timeline Work Live to to Consider Opportunity Case to Proceed Defined Started Site Defined Share this White Paper! Copyright © The TAS Group. All rights reserved. 3
  • 5. Sell Smarter. Manage Better. Further investigation usually reveals that customers at the top of the pyramid are not only adequately covered, but are at the lowest risk of defecting. Coverage in this case is often provided by one or more field sales people, perhaps working “Top” Sales with a renewal or account manager. Customers in the small or Marketing • Field Sales inactive segments often don’t require any coverage at all. It’s • Strategy “Big” • Account the customers in the middle of the pyramid that are usually at • Campaigns Mgmt risk, as they are the ones that you might not have adequate • Messages • Telesales coverage for, and are attractive to your competitors. We “Medium” recommend you take a look at the customers in the middle of your pyramid and ensure that there is enough coverage there. “Small” Importantly, closer analysis may unveil that buying behaviors and opportunities vary by segment and may therefore require different coverage. For example, depending on your industry, “Inactive” companies might require more or less care or service levels Source: Customer Marketing Method, 2000 from you depending on where they are in their lifecycle with you, and often depending on how large your footprint is with them. When there is a choice of service level, most companies will Particularly for larger customers, aligning the renewal model gravitate towards the least expensive service level that they with the field sales model often makes the most sense, as can live with unless there is some driver for more or less sales and renewals can work together to come up with the services. A larger footprint often requires a higher level of strategy that will deliver the most value for – and revenue service to keep systems optimized, and customers can either from – customers. Where the teams are separate, you need resource this in-house or else pay you. You need a different tight alignment, or it destroys credibility with customers sense of skills, degree of touch and relationships between when they hear different stories from different quarters your top 5 renewal customers and your smallest renewal of your company. We encourage you to look at how they customers. You need the right people, talking to the right communicate with one another, furnish them with exactly the customers, at the right time, and you should adapt your same information to use, and institutionalize a high degree of approach to each segment. co-ordination. In a subscription model, there is typically one level of support Another consideration within coverage models is what skills service, but there could perhaps be ancillary services that and competencies are required for each customer segment. customers might be interested in. Renewal reps, therefore, Obviously, working with a multi-million dollar customer could be tasked with identifying additional products for their requires a different skill set than working with a $10,000 customers. customer. With smaller customers, you would typically see less complexity, less time at your disposal to deal with the renewal, and fewer objections as well. Share this White Paper! Copyright © The TAS Group. All rights reserved. 4
  • 6. Sell Smarter. Manage Better. People and Skills So how do you address each segment? Once you figure out how you want to treat your customers, getting the right people with the right skills into the job is next. We encourage you to develop a competency model, recognizing that People & different skills are required, and assess people against those Knowledge & Skills competencies. Then you can perform a gap analysis and Sales Tools figure out how to fill the gaps to better address each segment. Key Features 7x24 Knoelefgebase Prog at-a ram Proactive Services User groupsspo Glance Re Product Cases nse Time updates Respo by Severi FAQ se by Ca Cases nse Tim ty Lev’s & C There are different ways to close the skill gaps based on your by Sev e by Cab el Oseje om erity Level ctio m Geor ns on Coverage Pa ge Sm Stev t Willi ith en am Jam Matth s R LeDiff Susa es espwi ews n as o s ere company’s policies. You could decide to up-skill the people CW es on se n ils n by Tim tia Model Se e to ve by rs rity C Le ase ve l you have. Another alternative is to hire in the talent from outside. For people who are not suited to the role and the competencies that the segment demands, you may consider Sales Process moving them to other parts of the business where they can contribute more productively. We have seen field sales Seller Solution Solution Qualify Discovery Development Presentation Close Integrate Monitor Awareness people successfully moving into account management and Agree Valid Business Decision Timeline Work Live to to Consider Opportunity Case to Proceed Defined Started Site Defined renewal roles, and clearly the success of this will depend on the compensation models. A good number of our customers also outsource a piece – though not all – of their renewals business to a specialist third party renewal company. Typically the outsourced part It’s also important to establish an ongoing hiring plan, and a will be towards the bottom of the pyramid, the part that progression plan for how you plan to develop your people received little or no coverage. In this area we can point to over time. This development of your people is not just a one customer improving renewals by 20%, from 60% to 75% case of up-skilling them once and then letting them loose. renewal rate, by outsourcing the smaller renewals. You need Transforming your renewals team into a high performance to ask yourself how important it is that you have your own sales team is a process, not an event, and you need to put in employees interfacing with customers, as opposed to a third place the appropriate framework for regular coaching and party, and as you might imagine, the tendency is to stay closer regular reinforcement. When you train people, you’re asking to those customers towards the top of the pyramid. You need them to change their behavior for the foreseeable future, and to make sure you align available resources with the right this won’t happen unless all the conditions for change are in customer segment, and how you prioritize your segments will place. (For more information on Sales Change Management, guide the levels of allocation that each segment receives. refer to our White Paper with the same name.) Share this White Paper! Copyright © The TAS Group. All rights reserved. 5
  • 7. Sell Smarter. Manage Better. Sales Process Companies with a well defined – and well followed – sales process, generate more sales. You need to clearly define your renewal sales process, and even within the renewals area you might find there is more than one sales process. For example, Knowledge & People & you may differentiate an annual renewal from a mid-term Sales Tools Skills invoice-only renewal. Key Features 7x24 Knoelefgebase Prog at-a ram Proactive Services User groupsspo Glance Re Product Cases nse Time updates A renewal process is usually different from a new business Respo Severi FAQ se by by Ca Cases nse Tim ty Lev’s & C el by Sev e by CabOseje om erity Level ctio m Geor ns on Coverage Pa ge Sm Stev t Willi ith en am sales process. A new business sales process has a variable Jam Matth s R LeDiff Susa es espwi ews n as o s ere CW es on se n ils n by Tim tia Model Se e to ve by rs rity C Le ase ve time between first contact and close. A renewal has a fixed l closed date and in effect works in reverse, the variable time being when you start to engage with your renewal customer. You need to plan by working backwards, and this can be Sales Process as far back as 150 or 180 days before the contract renewal Seller Solution Solution Qualify Discovery Close Integrate Monitor date to begin the conversation, set expectations and handle Development Presentation Awareness Agree Valid Business Decision Timeline Work Live to objections, so that they don’t happen a few days before ‘day to Consider Opportunity Case to Proceed Defined Started Site Defined zero’ and run the risk of derailing the renewal. Whatever the sales process is, it must support the intricacies of the contract between you and your customer. Despite the written word being enshrined in your contract, customers Sales is predominantly about revenues, which means renewal may still look to reduce users, look for bargaining room, sales is about renewal revenues. Make sure your renewal plead poverty, employ fellow-vendor peer pressure, or play sales process supports your renewal revenue objectives. procurement hard-ball. Or they may elect to try not to pay Your revenue objectives and compensation plans should be or get out of the contract. Some contracts are not auto- properly defined and dovetail accordingly. renewable, and you have to re-sell the value. Customers will always look to get a better deal, or get more benefit. So while With any sales process, you need to think about timings vary by customer, and circumstances vary, the need measurement, review, adjustment, improvement and so for having your renewal process mapped out does not vary; on. You should look at measuring renewal rates (by both you must do it. customer count and revenue), the time and effort to renew, the length of the renewal sales cycle, how much you are If your company has a prevailing sales methodology, leverage discounting, how often, and so on, by segment. When you it for your renewals. Sales process and sales methodology measure it, you can manage it, fine-tune it, improve it, and integrated in your CRM system are proven to increase eventually become more proactive about how you approach revenues and improve the use and data integrity of your CRM your renewals. For example, if the renewal cycle metric is system. For example, you could adapt Target Account Selling® getter longer, you can move out the start date from 120 days (also known as TAS®) opportunity management methodology to 150 days before the contact renewal date. to your renewals, thereby connecting the method to the process. To read more on the subject of sales process, see the White Paper from The TAS Group called ‘Sales Process Equals Sales Success’. Share this White Paper! Copyright © The TAS Group. All rights reserved. 6
  • 8. Sell Smarter. Manage Better. Knowledge and Sales Tools It goes without saying that you have to arm your reps properly for them to succeed. Your value story is so important. Why should your customers renew? What are the real benefits of being your customer? What makes you different from competitors, including the competitive option Knowledge & People & to ‘do nothing’? Sales Tools Skills Key Features 7x24 Knoelefgebase Pro Many of the companies we have worked with did not have Proactive Services gram at-a User groupssp Glan Re ce Product Casesonse Time updates Resp Seve FAQ se by by Ca on rit Case se Time y Level & C ’s a strong value story for renewals. Companies always have Seve by Caseje omm O s by rity Le b ct ion on Coverage ve Geo l s rg Pa e Sm Stev t Willia ith en m Jam Matth s R LeD ew great messaging for selling their products and services in Susa es espwiff s Model n a o is er CW se on se en ils n s b T tia y S im t ev e b or eri y s ty Ca Le se the first place, but when it comes to renewal, the messaging ve l is typically not as good. In this scenario, customers have additional objectives that can’t be handled, the renewal sales Sales Process cycle elongates, the renewal lapses, and the knock on effects Seller to revenue and cash flow can be significant. You need to do Solution Solution Qualify Discovery Development Presentation Close Integrate Monitor Awareness Agree Valid Business Decision Timeline Work Live to the homework, developing in-depth competitive research to Consider Opportunity Case to Proceed Defined Started Site Defined and employing good marketing, but understanding your customer and using a specific, resonating value story is key to protecting your current customer base. Your reps need to have access to all types of information on and made specific to your customer. Especially towards regarding your customers: industry knowledge, specific the top of the pyramid, you have to understand the specific customer results as available, and their product history with value that each customer gets from your products and you – what they’ve purchased and dropped, what products services. You should point to concrete results, like renewal and services they are currently using. Good renewal sales rates, customer satisfaction scores, and the other metrics people will also listen to earnings calls and strategize with where you have collected the actual results to compare with their counterparts in field sales to determine if there are the target results established at the outset of the contract. additional opportunities they might listen for or focus on Companies who have renewal roles focused on the customer, when talking to customers. not the selling team, will generally achieve better satisfaction scores. It’s important to have a call plan before you make your renewal call to your customer. As well as the basic details As we have mentioned before in this White Paper, there has of the customer contacts you’re calling, you should prepare to be an ongoing coaching process. Just like in the sports the questions you will ask to elicit the information you need, domain, people need observation and feedback from coaches detail out the objections you anticipate for this customer, in order to develop skills. Be proactive about your coaching, what expectations you have already set, and what your based on what you are measuring, so you can adapt the objectives and desired next steps are for the call itself. development plans for your people. Finally, there will almost always be things you are doing well within the enterprise. You should equip your renewals teams with a range of sales Don’t re-invent the wheel needlessly. Capture the internal tools. These might include typical objections, preferred best practices you have, bring in the best practices you don’t answers, job aids, and generic value stories that can be built have, and coach to them both relentlessly. Share this White Paper! Copyright © The TAS Group. All rights reserved. 7
  • 9. Sell Smarter. Manage Better. TOP 5 TRANSFORMATION BEST PRACTICES 1. Start with a Solid Renewal Sales Process 5. Recognition of the Investment Required Document and ensure that internal systems are in place When there’s change involved, there’s investment, and getting and everyone is trained accordingly on your renewal sales the right renewal systems, processes, people and tools in process. Remember to coordinate activities with the intent place is no different. Investigate what’s going on in the of subscription customers renewing before their contract market, and how you compare. There’s nothing wrong with expires, and maintenance customers paying before their being more expensive, you have to be able to understand contract expires. why and explain why you are worth more and defend it. 2. Avoid Competing Priorities of Renewing and Sales Furthermore, pricing analysis of renewals rates involving Revenue complexities like bundles may lead you to see if there is any Here we are talking primarily about compensation plans. If elasticity to the pricing that will drive greater acceptance and you are compensating renewal sales reps for new sales of adoption. product or service, on top of renewals, make sure that that compensation is weighted so that they are not sacrificing a Segmentation is important and does take time. The biggest single customer renewal in order to make a sale at another challenge can often be your systems and extracting the data customer. Examine your compensation plans and look for you need in the form and detail you need it. where you might be incenting sub-optimal behavior. In short, developing your systems, processes, people, and 3. Have Realistic Renewal Expectations tools requires investment. If you make the investment, and You might have one overall renewal rate goal you are execute correctly, the benefits are better coverage, better striving for, but make sure it is realistic within your industry, customer satisfaction, improved revenue, improved renewal and recognize that there should probably be different rates, and renewals ahead of time, which in turn improves expectations for each customer segment in the pyramid and cash-flow. for each rep. For example, in the Government segment sector, there is generally one set renewal process from which vendors cannot deviate or they will be excluded. 4. Have Lead Management Discipline If you do uncover a lead, you need to have the engrained discipline to manage it according to your current lead management process. Either you hand it on according to the process, or you close it yourself. Share this White Paper! Copyright © The TAS Group. All rights reserved. 8
  • 10. Sell Smarter. Manage Better. DEALMAKER SMART RENEWALS MANAGER Dealmaker Smart Renewals Manager from The TAS Group • Find a partner with the necessary knowledge and helps you maximize renewal rates for subscription or experience of the maintenance business maintenance recurring contracts. The smart renewals sales process and playbook outline the proactive steps to take to Smart Renewals Manager presented Lawson with a range anticipate potential cancellation of contracts. Automated of solution components to address their specific business deal coaching, applied in context, identifies risks and requirements: vulnerabilities in upcoming renewals, and helps you to defend • Consultative selling from the buyer’s viewpoint the value of retaining your solution. Call planning techniques • Completing and using discovery techniques and tools help you optimize each sales call, and anticipate and answer to expand their footprint in and navigation through objections and tough questions. Dealmaker Smart Renewals their customer organizations Manager helps you standardize your approach and maximize • Handling objections more creatively and successfully predictable and profitable revenue from subscription or • Avoiding competitive traps that delayed the sales maintenance recurring revenue. process • Avoiding feature/function discussions which inevitably In order to achieve sustained benefits from Dealmaker Smart led to commodity-based discussions about price, in Renewals Manager, we offer a blended learning approach, favor of value-based discussions which commanded a including eLearning, instructor-led web sessions and higher price workshops to increase your knowledge and skills. This approach yielded the following quantified results: The proven effectiveness of Smart Renewals Manager is • Increased number of customers on the ‘Silver’ exemplified in our work with Lawson Software (now part of maintenance program from 50 to 87 within a year, a Infor). Lawson set a number of challenges for their initiative: 74% increase • Grow the maintenance portfolio of each support or • Improved an already excellent renewal rate by 3 maintenance manager percentage points • Improve on an already excellent renewal rate • Increased up-sell amount by 20% • Take a more customer-focused approach to selling • Exceeded NetPromoter customer satisfaction target • Meet their NetPromoter customer satisfaction targets scores in all categories across the business “We have been able to expand our footprint and navigate our customer organizations and relationships far more successfully. We’ve been able to quantify both the revenue “The TAS Group brought to bear their experience, depth of and non-revenue effects of The TAS Group programs, and knowledge and understanding of our business, against a they really work.” very aggressive timescale. Our teams are now experts of positioning the value of our services, and understand the Jaymie Cater, Global Director, Silver Maintenance dangers of feature/function dialog which inevitably leads and Business Development, Lawson to price- or commodity-based discussions.” Mick Ling, Global Director, Maintenance Business, Lawson Share this White Paper! Copyright © The TAS Group. All rights reserved. 9
  • 11. Sell Smarter. Manage Better. CONCLUSION The renewal sales model has evolved over time, to maximizes the probability that the transformation the extent that progressive organizations realize that of your Customer Renewal teams will be a success. selling renewals requires genuine selling approaches The TAS Group’s Dealmaker Smart Renewals Manger and skills. Transforming a Customer Renewals team provides an automated and intelligent skills blueprint into a high-performing sales team requires attending proven to protect and grow renewal revenues. to renewal customer segmentation and coverage, the people and skills needed to deliver the renewals, For more information on The TAS Group, Dealmaker sales process and best practices that underpin the Smart Renewals Manager, or anything else discussed in company’s renewal function, and finally the right this White Paper, please contact us at knowledge and sales tools. A number of best practices info@thetasgroup.com. Share this White Paper! Copyright © The TAS Group. All rights reserved. 10
  • 12. ABOUT THE TAS GROUP  The TAS Group helps sales professionals sell smarter and manage better. Through a unique combination of deep sales methodologies and intelligent software applications, customers achieve measureable results including increases in win rates, deal sizes and qualified opportunities, as well as decreases in sales cycle length. According to the Aberdeen Group, customers of The TAS Group realize 21 percent greater attainment of sales quotas. Dealmaker® intelligent software is the engine driving revenue growth and sustained adoption of improved sales practices. The TAS Group has helped more than 850,000 sales professionals in more than 65 countries, from small private companies to market leaders. For more information visit http://www.thetasgroup.com and read the dealmaker365 blog at http://www.dealmaker365.com. ABOUT DEALMAKER Dealmaker software from The TAS Group delivers real-time opportunity and account management, intelligent deal coaching, accurate sales forecasts, smart playbooks, self-paced learning, and predictive analytics, resulting in measurable sales growth. Dealmaker can be delivered as a standalone application or can be integrated with Salesforce CRM, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Oracle CRM On Demand, Oracle’s Siebel CRM and SAP CRM, or with any third party software application through the Dealmaker API. For more information visit http://www.thetasgroup.com. Copyright © The TAS Group. All rights reserved. This briefing is for customer use only and no usage rights are conveyed. Nothing herein may be reproduced in any form without written permission of The TAS Group.