SALES DEVELOPMENT PLAYBOOK
Lead Generation Program Success Begins with a Sales Development Playbook
Lead generation program playbooks are important. Read about the importance of clear, concise messaging tactics for your overall communication strategy.
Shawn Harrington
PROGRAM MANAGER
“A professional football team would not set foot on the field without a playbook filled with plays, stats, strategy, competitive information, and more. Yet, far too often, sales teams pick up a phone before a plan is created, then question why they are not successful. So, a sales development playbook provides the framework to achieve success. Simultaneously, the playbook aligns your processes with the needs of the market and your buyer’s journey.”
Want Repeatable Lead Generation Success? It All Starts with a Sales Development Playbook.
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Laying the Foundation For Success
Foundationally, a Sales Development Playbook is the strategic base for building a repeatable, scalable lead generation process. Whenever a playbook is deployed you have a better chance of accelerating your revenue growth. Also called a lead generation program playbook, it is the core tool that supports all other selling activities. The playbook is not a call script. Instead, it’s a guide to matching needs to your products and services. Moreover, a playbook becomes the centerpiece for your sales strategy, positioning, messaging, competition, value proposition, and more.
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The Sales Development Playbook – the Ultimate Sales Guide
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A Guide to Qualified Sales Leads
Sales is a process, and the Sales Development Playbook is the ultimate guide to that process. We begin your playbook development with a comprehensive review of your industry. Next, we define your Ideal Customer Profile (ICP). Finally, we segment your audience into the specific personas interested in your product or service. After all, it’s advantageous to understand your unique buyer personas’ specific challenges. Additionally, mapping customer buying processes is essential to creating an effective sales development playbook. As a result, we can treat the buyer as the centerpiece.
So, the playbook provides the tools and information needed to guide sellers through a consistent, repeatable process. When followed, this process helps to create more meaningful, personalized interactions. It helps sales development reps focus on uncovering specific pain points. Consequently leading to valuable insights and more, higher-quality leads.
The Components of Success - Sales Development Playbook
A Unique, Living Document with 6 Essential Elements
Although every sales development playbook is unique, there are 6 essential elements all sales development playbooks should address:
- Strategy: What strategy will the team implement to outperform your competitors?
- Market: How do you comprehensively define your total addressable market and all the relevant segments and sub-segments?
- Buyer: Who is the ideal buyer, and what are their challenges, thought processes, conflicts, and success criteria?
- Messaging: What insight can you provide the market, and how can you relate your company’s story to properly position your company?
- Execution: What are the specific tactics and strategies to be deployed to ensure success?
- Performance Management: How do you define and manage to success?
The sales development playbook must be a living document. So, it must be kept current. We maintain playbooks by keeping abreast of changes in the market, strategies, tactics, qualification criteria, and competitors.
Why a Sales Development Playbook Matters
Sales Success Achieved through Structure
When lead generation is performed in an unstructured, undisciplined way, it just doesn’t work. Thus, a “good” playbook provides structure to ensure success and:
- Standardization – All the information a sales team needs for success is in one place..
- Repeatability – The playbook serves as a guide to best practices. Without this guide reps struggle to repeat success.
- Measurement – By utilizing the same messaging, management can evaluate and analyze what messaging is most effective.
- Goal alignment – Ultimately, a playbook brings together the strategic vision of leadership and operations. It aligns goals throughout the organization.
- Decrease ramp time – By starting with a playbook you will have a lot of the information needed to onboard a new SDR, thus decreasing ramp-up time and improving productivity.
- Team motivation – In other words, success builds on success. By providing a roadmap to achieve success, it motivates sales teams to achieve and exceed their goals.
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