Get inside your Buyers Head - Improve Funnel Conversion Rates

1. [ ]GET INSIDE YOUR BUYERS HEAD IMPROVE CONVERSION RATES

2. WHY DO WE NEED A GROWTH PROCESS?

3. MyProduct.com HOW IT WORKS DESCRIPTION Our collaboration product allows you … BUY NOW! Only $9,999 In a perfect world…

4. WHY DOESN’T THIS WORK?

5. BUYER QUESTIONS AND CONCERNS BUYING PROCESS

6. How do we respond?

7. Break the process down into a series of steps… Design a series of steps that we want customers to go through Website Free Trial Purchase

8. Results in a Funnel Not all people entering the first step will get to the second, etc.

9. Studying Funnel Blockage Points Suspects Suspects Suspects Suspects Suspects Suspects Suspects Suspects Suspects Suspects Suspects Suspects

10. The Source of most Problems Vendor Centric

11. NOT MOTIVATED TO DO THAT THEY ARE CUSTOMERS WILL DO SOMETHING YOU ARE HOPING YOUR

12. A better way to approach to Funnel Design Buyer Centric Buyer-Centric

13. THE BUYERS JOURNEY

14. THE BUYERS JOURNEY Awareness Consideration Purchase

15. Mismatch: Sales often handle every lead as though they were in the Purchasing phase I’m paid to sell. I better be selling.

16. Likely Distribution of Web Site Visitors Vendor Web Site 80% Awareness 15% Consideration 5% Purchase

17. Different Dialog and Content for each stage Awareness Consideration Purchase • Create Problem & Pain awareness • Discuss how people are solving • Discuss benefits people are seeing • Don’t mention your product • Don’t sell! • Help in choosing a particular solution • Explain how your Product can solve their pain • Free Trial / Demo • Customer stories • Nurture with regular content (Newsletter) • Case studies • Results achieved • How you helped achieve them • Other proof points • Customer references • ROI data

18. • Just lost my data in hard drive crash • Backup software/service • Starting a new software project • Dev Tools, etc. • Performance issues with existing app • APM tools • Difficulties tracking bugs across multi-tier apps • Bug tracking software TRIGGERS

19. Buyer Personae Who is involved in the buying process? Champion Economic Buyer / Decision Maker IT required for sign off

20. Getting to know your Buyer Personae • Identifying Characteristics • Company Profile (your ICP) • Any special characteristics relevant to this purchase • E.g. Developers: • Don't have a budget • Prefer Open Source, and don't like to pay for software • Professional Role • What does a day in their life look like? • Key business goals? • What does their Boss expect of them? • How does our product help them achieve those? • Motivations / Aspirations? • What would make their job easier?

21. Getting to know your Buyer Personae • What pain do they have that we address? • Is it latent pain, or obvious pain? • How do they describe the pain and what they are looking for? • (Helpful for messaging) • Is solving this pain a high priority for them? • If not, what features would make it a higher priority? • What are the triggers that cause them to buy?

22. Getting to know your Buyer Personae • Are they searching for a solution? • If yes, how do they go about doing that? • Who influences them? (Sites, organizations, and people) • (Helps us figure out how to market to them) • Most important features? Decision criteria? • What are their reactions to our product/company? • What will they like? • What will they not like? • What are the main questions and concerns they have? • What competitors will they also evaluate? • What will they like or dislike about each of those?

23. FUNNEL DESIGN GET INSIDE YOUR BUYERS HEAD

24. Designing a Growth Process to match Buyer’s Journey Strangers VisitorsAttract CustomersCloseLeadsConvert PromotersDelight Awareness PurchaseInterest Post Purchase

25. Top of Funnel Drive the right traffic that matches your ICP and convert to raw leads Middle of Funnel Convert raw leads into MQLs Sales Convert MQLs into closed deals Customer Success Onboard, support and ensure customer success as measured by a customer KPI Designing a Growth Process to match Buyer’s Journey Strangers VisitorsAttract CustomersCloseLeadsConvert PromotersDelight Credit: HubSpot Awareness PurchaseInterest Post Purchase

26. Top of Funnel Inbound Marketing Paid Marketing Website Strangers Conversion Event Raw Lead Outbound SDR’s Account-based Mktg Targeted Strangers Mktg Qualified Lead Qualify?

27. Account Based Marketing • ICP powers all marketing • Ideal Customer Profile • Build lists of matching accounts • Discover.org, Lead Fox, ZoomInfo, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, etc. • Track who is in buying cycles • Visiting G2 Crowd, Bombora • Track which companies are on your website • Targeted outreach • Aircover from Ads Thanks to Eric Spett, Terminus

28. Middle of Funnel Raw Lead Lead Scoring Lead Nurturing Database High Low Nurture Webinars, events, newsletters, etc. Enrich Use software like ClearBit to enrich the email address to identify company, job title, etc. Segment Identify interesting segments based on attributes (verticals, job functions, etc.) or actions Mktg Qualified Lead Yes No Qualify?

29. Mktg Qualified Lead Sales – Lead Stages Qualify Sales Qualified Lead CustomerClose Discovery Call Opportunity Ready to buy? Sales interaction Note: Your process will likely be different, and there will be more Opportunity stages in your CRM pipeline

30. Initial Guess at Growth Process Website Free Trial

31. Map Buyers Process to Your Steps Research Shortlist Vendors Check Review Sites Evaluation Website Free Trial BUYER VENDOR ROI & Justification

32. GET INSIDE YOUR BUYERS HEAD How are they reacting as they go through our funnel steps? What are they thinking as they go through their process? Research Shortlist Vendors Check Review Sites Evaluation Website Free Trial BUYER VENDOR ROI & Justification

33. Optimize Your Steps to Fit Research Shortlist Vendors Check Review Sites Evaluation Website BUYER VENDOR ROI & Justification Free Trial ROI Calculator Competitive Features Matrix

34. Optimize Your growth process to Fit Research Shortlist Vendors Check Review Sites Evaluation Website BUYER VENDOR ROI & Justification Free Trial ROI Calculator Competitive Features Matrix Incent customers to do reviews

35. ADDRESS ALL DECISION CRITERIA Address Security Concerns 3rd Party Security Audit & Whitepaper BUYER Is this a safe vendor to choose? • Customer Stories • Safe Channel Partners

36. Choosing a Go-to-Market Model Freemium Viral No Touch Self- Service Light Touch Inside Sales High Touch Inside Sales Field Sales Field Sales with SE’s

37. How I assumed the two would relate

38. A rough estimate of CAC versus Sales Complexity Freemium No Touch Self- Service Light Touch Inside Sales High Touch Inside Sales Field Sales Field Sales with SE’s $0- $10 $50 – $200 $1,000 - $2,000 $3,000 - $8,000 $25,000 – $75,000 $75,000 – $200,000 Rough Estimates of Cost of Customer Acquisition (CAC)

39. The relationship is roughly exponential Clearly adding Human Touch dramatically increases costs

40. Sales Complexity CAC (logarithmic) 10x 10x 10x

41. The Obvious Take-away • Do everything you can to remove human touch from sales and onboarding

42. What creates Sales Complexity • High Price point • Complicated to evaluate? • Integration needed with other systems? • Multiple people involved in purchase decision? • Risk to business of a bad buying decision? • E.g. loss of data, business unable to operate if system is down, etc. • Requires purchase of other products / services to complete the solution? Freemium Viral No Touch Self- Service Light Touch Inside Sales High Touch Inside Sales Field Sales Field Sales with SE’s

43. Start with the buyer Understand the Complexity of your Sale • Price point • Larger investments need greater justification, & more levels of sign off • How complicated to evaluate? • Single person, or multiple people? • Integration needed with other systems? • How many people involved in the purchase decision? • Risk to their business of a bad buying decision? • E.g. loss of data, business unable to operate if system is down, etc. • Does it require other products or services to be purchased to complete the solution? Freemium Viral No Touch Self- Service Light Touch Inside Sales High Touch Inside Sales Field Sales Field Sales with SE’s

44. Land & Expand Much easier to get a large order once the product is proven

45. Product-Led Growth Models $1 $10 $100 $1,000 $10,000 $100,000 $1,000,000 Freemium No Touch Inside Sales Channel Field Sales Sales Complexity  CAC Logarithmic

46. Fixing broken funnels by getting inside your buyer’s head

47. FRICTION CONCERNS Find the worst blockage point in your funnel

48. MOTIVATIONS FRICTION CONCERNS Re-design, or try to use what motivates them

49. EXAMPLE BLOCKAGE POINT WEB SITE EMAIL CAPTURE FORM Typically a low conversion step

50. FRICTION CONCERNS Problem: Buyer’s fear Email Overload and Spam

51. MOTIVATIONS FRICTION CONCERNS We try to motivate with good content But frequently irritate the buyer with the barrier that stops them from getting at the content, and lose them at that step

52. Drift Redesign

53. OUTBOUND COLD CALLING

54. Outbound Cold Calling Cold Call Arrange Meeting with Sales Rep

55. FRICTION CONCERNS Problem: No Buyer wants a cold call from a salesperson

56. MOTIVATIONS FRICTION CONCERNS Get inside your buyers head – look for a suitable motivation

57. Redesign Cold Outreach Invitation to… (something of value) • Educational Event • Meet their peers • See data that is of value • See their own data in a new way • Etc. Build Relationship Build Trust

58. Use publicly accessible Data to build personalized assessments Hi Barbara, In doing a bit of research on fortinet.com, I noticed that you’ve lost a significant amount of traffic to the site (4,400 visits) over the past month. Is this something the team is aware of or have any idea what could have contributed to it? I also noticed while you folks dropped off the 1stpage of Google in 11 searches, there are tons of opportunities for your team (916 search opportunities!) See below:

59. USING CHROME EXTENSIONS

60. CLEARBIT LEADS + DATA ENRICHMENT New Leads Enrich Existing Leads

61. CLEARBIT • Data Quality • Highly skeptical • Seen lots of products like this before • Enrichment data wasn’t good • Data Coverage • Skeptical • What % of our leads would be covered in this database? Buyer’s Key Concerns

62. I have to go through IT to get Salesforce connected FREE TRIAL BLOCKAGE POINT Connect to Salesforce

63. SOLUTION: CHROME EXTENSION Browser connection to Salesforce See enriched data in Salesforce UI Judge quality of data Report shows data coverage % Chrome Extension

64. CHROME EXTENSION • Easy to install • Low buyer concern • Re-write the page’s HTML

65. CLEARBIT CHROME EXTENSION - ENLARGED

66. ELIMINATE STEPS THAT HAVE DEPENDENCIES ON OTHER PEOPLE

67. Freemium, Free Trials, Open Source The Product is your sales person

68. WHAT IS YOUR TIME TO WOW! ? Thanks to Gail Goodman of Constant Contact

69. DEFINING WOW! Thanks to Gail Goodman of Constant Contact A moment where your buyer sees something cool and exciting • Motivates them to continue exploring The moment when your buyer gets excited enough to want to buy Mini Wow! Full Wow!

70. TIME TO WOW! • How many steps? • How much time does it take? • How much FRICTION is involved

71. REMOVE STEPS & REMOVE FRICTION

72. EXAMPLE

73. As eCommerce shoppers… … what makes us buy?

74. Photos Feature Summary Recommended Accessories Rich description Video Reviews Detailed Specifications Answer: Rich Product Content

75. Salsify – Product Content Supply Chain Automation Brands Photos Videos Text Specs Etc. Retailer Portal Retailer Portal Retailer Portal Retailer Portal

76. Salsify’s Original Trial Experience Sign up Wait for email with Account Open the App Learn the UI Import Content Locate & Export Content Export to new Retailer Sign up with new Retailer

77. Landing Page Lots of Fields

78. Next, Wait for Email…

79. Sign In… Now What? • Lots of work still required

80. Get Inside your Buyers Head and Analyze for Problems Sign up Wait for email with Account Open the App Learn the UI Import Content Locate & Export Content Export to new Retailer Sign up with new Retailer

81. Redesign Trial Steps for Problems (Friction, Concerns, & Motivations) Sign up Wait for email with Account Open the App Learn the UI Import Content Locate & Export Content Export to new Retailer Sign up with new Retailer Delay causing major drop off

82. First Step in the Redesign Import Content Locate & Export Content Export to new Retailer Sign up with new Retailer Sign up Learn the UI

83. New Landing Page: JUST YOUR EMAIL

84. Motivation: “If these guys are using it, it must be pretty good…”

85. Still leaves a problem: • Locate & Export Content • Then import to Salsify to have something to play with Then: Land directly in App

86. Major Friction + Other people involved = Long Delays Import Content Locate & Export Content Export to new Retailer Sign up with new Retailer Sign up Learn the UI

87. Offer a chance to start with Sample Data Sign up Import Content Locate & Export Content Export to new Retailer Sign up with new Retailer They now have the MOTIVATION to import their own data Play with Sample Data Mini Wow! Learn the UI

88. Eliminate the risk that they won’t find the path to Wow! Learn the UI Import Content Locate & Export Content Export to new Retailer Sign up with new Retailer • High friction • Too much risk they won’t find the path to Wow! Sign up

89. Guided Navigation Human Help available

90. 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 Before After Trial Request -> Logged into App Trial Request -> Product Page Trial Request -> Taking action 3x Overall Improvement Uplift - % Conversion, Before and After

91. Next Problem Area… Sign up Import Content Locate & Export Content Export to new Retailer Sign up with new Retailer Play with Sample Data • High Friction • Long Delay

92. Google Shopping

93. Problem Solved – Export to Google Manufacturer Center Sign up Import Content Locate & Export Content Play with Sample Data Export to Google

94. Last Remaining Problem Area… Sign up Import Content Locate & Export Content Play with Sample Data Export to Google • Huge Friction & Delay • Other People involved

95. Scrape publicly available data from existing retailer’s pages Sign up Play with Sample Data Export to Google No import needed Scrape Content for them • They have my content in here already • They’re showing me all the issues Mini Wow!

96. Eliminates Need for Sample Data Sign up Play with Sample Data Export to Google See their own Data Scrape Content for them

97. Final Redesigned Process • Fast Time to Wow! • High conversion rates Sign up Export to Google See and solve problems with their own Data Scrape Content for them

98. Funnel Optimization Meeting Suspects Suspects Suspects Suspects Suspects Suspects Suspects Suspects Suspects Suspects Suspects Suspects

99. Funnel Whack-a-Mole • Solve for blockage points • As you fix one, the problem will move elsewhere

100. SILOED THINKING MARKETING SALES CUSTOMER SUCCESS PRODUCT

101. THE NEW GROWTH TEAM MARKETING SALES CUSTOMER SUCCESS PRODUCT

102. USE FUNNEL FLOW CHARTS Website Free Trial Handle other questions Proposal High Level Overview xx xx xxx xx xx xxx MicroFunnels where needed

103. Treat your Buyer like a Bank Account Make a deposit before you try to make a withdrawal

104. Selling can be the worst way to sell Build Trust Consult SellFirst Contact First Contact Build Relationship

105. Design a funnel that Delights Entices and Motivates

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Get inside your Buyers Head - Improve Funnel Conversion Rates

David Skok

Get inside your Buyers Head - Improve Funnel Conversion Rates