Are you startup with too little resources and time? Don't worry John Coombs of Rover explains how to crush your enterprise competitors at Tech Toronto October 2015 meetup
12. Bonus: SPY!
http://sitealerts.com/ - track competitors
buzzsumo.com - what is being blogged about and shared
http://www.spyfu.com/ - your competitors’ paid search and
keyword ads
Many more!
@johnecoombs - Rover
13. GO DO IT!
John Coombs
john@roverlabs.co
@johnecoombs
@roverlabsinc
Notes de l'éditeur
Quick Intro - Me, Rover, what we do
Focus - Many things ‘against you’ as a startup, but focus is on the advantages you have!
Advantages stem from Hustle
Hustle is not Sleeze or scamming as with these guys
It is the ability to find fast and efficient ways to positive business outcomes, whether its press, sales, hiring, raising etc.
many def’n’s of hustle, in fact its quite the buzzword
I’m going to avoid cliches and highlight advantages you have and some specific techniques you can employ to get shit done and beat out your enterprise competitors
Many ways you can have advantages - will touch on some high level concepts but then dig deeper in to some tangible tools you can use
Influencers like to talk to innovators, founders, interesting people - not sales guys
Pace - you can get things done faster
Teams proximity to each other, coherent problem solving
You live and breath your businesses
I spoke to some high-level ways you can hustle
But want to zero in on something tangible, will focus in on some practical actions you can take
Specifically taking a look at sales/BD software and things like chrome extensions that can help you perform at 5x the output of what an enterprise business developer can achieve
Remember, even today - most enterprise inboxes looks like this
Yours can look like this!
See those chrome extensions and inbox integrations with productivity software
These allow you to get more productivity and more results
Tools in your inbox can help you out prospect, connect, track and close customers faster and more efficiently than more traditional enterprise sales guys
Important to try out different options and see what works for you
Going to show you some of my favourite productivity software and chrome extensions that help optimize the sales process, just a few of the many available to you
These will help you be super productive and efficient as you: prospect, reach out, track, follow up, close
You can spend thousands on conferences and travel, flashy sales people with huge networks
OR
Identify your decision maker
Get their contact info and get to them FAST
Outreach: automate, personalize, variable text
Boomerang: Sunday night blitz
Twitter: personal connection on twitter, context
Track/Understand: What are they interested in? How should i follow up?
email opens, email clicks, use across site
google analytics, sidekick, hubspot
wistia - coupon example ‘hot’ video zones
Salesforce, streak, crm
Follow up is critical (think about the funnel 100->15->1), engagement events are key to great follow up
Snooze!
http://sitealerts.com/ - track competitors
buzzsumo.com - what is being blogged about and shared
http://www.spyfu.com/ - your competitors paid search and keyword ads
Enterprise is catching up and getting wise, successful leaders and salespeople will/are embracing this culture
Get out there and hustle and take advantage of these opportunities while you still can!