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Executives
I’m reading a book called Selling to the C-Suite: What Every Executive Wants You To Know About Successfully Selling To the Top, which suggests that executives often find themselves unable to get access to the information they need to solve problems.
When executives recognize a problem, they usually begin by doing research. Unfortunately, marketers and salespeople often focus their solutions on their product instead of on the challenges their prospects are facing.
Addressing their challenges requires a deeper level of understanding and thinking, and a deeper level of research.
We must share the content the executives want.
What and why
One executive in the book suggested getting involved in the what and the why rather than the how.
Most executives are focused on the future of the business. They are looking for partners who can help them do the same.
It’s difficult to accurately predict the future of a company on your own, but with the help of industry partners, it becomes easier.
Help those in your industry by being a forward thinker. Build a relationship with executives by connecting with them and helping them focus on the future of their businesses.
Decision makers
Studies show that 80 percent of decision makers get involved in the buying process early.
When they recognize a problem, they often hand the issue off to a lower-level teammate to help research it. That person will read blogs, search the Internet, listen to podcasts, and look for answers to the problem.
That means that many times, you’ll be interacting with a team member who isn’t a decision maker. He won’t be able to sign off on the deal; he’ll just want you to provide a demonstration so he can gather information.
Your job is to share your demonstration and your expertise as well as your current customers with that person.
You can best do that by providing information that will be helpful to the company during the research stage.
- Create a video about the top three things holding small tech companies back from increasing revenue.
- Offer a download addressing the five things every executive needs to know about growing a small tech company.
Help executives think of challenges they weren’t even aware of. When you do, you bring more to the table than just a product or service.
RFP
When you reply to an RFP, your request may be a formality. In many cases, a customer already has a vendor in mind that he’d like to work with. Your bid is simply an effort to see if any cheaper bids exist.
In many cases, the competitor may have helped create the RFP, giving the customer feedback about what information to include in it.
Uncovering challenges
Begin by talking with your current customers to find out what their concerns are. Ask what they’d most like to learn about over the next 5-10 years.
Once you have an idea, go to LinkedIn and create articles or videos answering some of those questions.
Since these are the challenges executives in our industry will be focused on, we’ll create content that will help them during the research stage. As we do, we’re aligning ourselves as trusted advisors and forward thinkers who can help the decision makers get where they want to be.
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