3. Every business has to
become a digital business
or it will cease to exist.
What are YOU doing to digitize?
5.4People involved in
the average B2B
buying decision
29%
Sales reps that are
well prepared to
engage with buyers
67%
Buying journeys that
are digital
interactions vs.
traditional sales calls
4. Benefits of Digital Selling
B2B Buyers Connecting with Sellers
via Social Networks
Trust Relationships
thru virtual face-to-face interactions
Learn to Love Small Dots
shrinking deal sizes and increasing deal volumes
Smarketing
revenue growth through strong sales and marketing alignment
Sales Information Overload
rationalize high volume of digital customer signals
6. Sales Digitization Strategy
Actionable
Insights
Knowledge,
Relationship &
Interaction
Leverage Your Digital Network
• Find content anytime, anywhere on SalesConnect
• Use social selling for an up to 9% sales uplift
• Interact with customers through digital collaboration tools
to significantly increase sales
Cut Through the Noise
• Improve install base data quality
• Increase lead relevance (MQL -> SQL)
• Leverage predictive scoring engine for a 20% faster sales
cycle
7. Transform the Buying Journey
• Transform pricing and discount process
• XaaS/Software subscriptions
• Renewal acceleration
Sales Digitization Strategy
Buying
Experience
Winning
Patterns
Tie Actions to Results
• Replicate winning patterns
• Speed to insights (measure every initiative)
• Engaging and mobile-friendly experience for sales
14. More Chances to Present at Dreamforce
Develop Your Reputation as an Expert to Get More Business
Build Your Brand to Gain More Followers
Make More Connections to Help You Grow Your Career
15. Drop me a note of one thing you do to digitize – thwinter@cisco.com
Get Started!
Digitize Sales
DigitizeYourTeam
DigitizeYourself
• Address ONE sales pain point E2E (Policy, Process, System, EXPERIENCE)
• Build a plan to turn data into actionable insights
• Scale a social selling strategy
• Adopt business messaging platform
• UseVideo to strengthen connections
• Connect
• Share
16. Other Cisco Presentations at Dreamforce
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Speaker: Patrick Piwowarczyk, Sr. Director, Global Market Capabilities
Work in Sync with Premier Enterprise Content Platform - Salesforce Files
Speakers: Duncan Glover, Operations Manager & Jeremy Woodfin, IT Engineer
Learn How to Run Your Sales Organization with Wave Analytics
Speakers: Luca Felli, Practice Lead – Digital Selling Innovation
The New Era of Analytics: Moving from Legacy BI to Wave Analytics
Speaker: David deMilo, Chief Architect & Jeremy Woodfin, IT Engineer
17. Survey
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Thomas Winter – DEI
My team ensured the GTM projects get the right digital tool in place to be successful.
We ensure the ensure that digital platforms in the company meet sales needs.
Drive a digital sales acceleration roadmap for sales
Exiting times to be in digital
Digital is everywhere
Digital innovation is accelerating at unbelievable speed
Digital is also scary
Digital is expected
4 out of 10 business will cease to exist because they fail to digitize
We’re dealing with the best informed and connected customer ever and with that it becomes harder and harder for a sales person to deliver value
Digital revolution will transform you and your job
What are you doing to digitize to be ahead of the curve?
What are we doing with the Cisco sales force to be ahead of the curve?
Given that our approach to selling has not fundamentally changed since the 90ties
and that most of our sales tools are not seen as a productivity enhancement, let alone a growth accelerator,
We have a tremendous opportunity in front of us
I’m going to give you a sneak peak on our strategy for sales and a few suggestion for your team and yourself