3 Ways to 10x Your Number of Sales Conversations Per Week
Overview: Chad Burmeister CEO and Founder of ScaleX.ai shares 3 keys to increasing sales conversations.
About the speaker: Chad’s fundamental belief is that “it takes a village” to train the greatest sales professionals in the world. This is why he launched ScaleX.ai to provide sales professionals with the toolkit to crush their quotas and Salesclass.ai to provide sales professionals with the mindset and skill set to go along with the toolkit.
While Chad enjoys working directly with companies who want to deploy AI for Sales technology, Chad is passionate about creating systems that empower people from all walks of life (including women in sales, people of color, high-school and university students, and anyone who wants to make an above average living being a sales professional!)
Transcript
Hi, and thank you for attending the demand Gen summit 2020. My name is Chad Burmeister. I’m the CEO of scale x.ai. I’m also the co-founder of salesclass.ai. And today, I’m going to talk to you about the three things that anyone can do to 5 – 10 X the number of sales conversations that they have every week. And I’m not going to share with you how to leverage AI, assisted dialing technology, because that would be cheating. What I am going to share with you are three ways that anyone can 5 to 10 X the number of sales conversations that they have every single week without using expensive dialing technology.
Hi, and welcome to demand Gen summit 2020. My name is Chad Burmeister. I’m the CEO of ScaleX.ai. I’m also the co-founder of salesclass.ai. Today, we’re going to be covering the three things that anyone can do to 5 to 10 X or sales conversations about me, my background is about 25 years of sales, I started right out of college with a little transportation company moved over to FedEx received three to four weeks of hands on training with both of those organizations. I’ve worked very, very hard over the last 25 years to continue to take sales to the next level of professionalism and performance. And with the advent of AI for sales.
I literally wrote the book last year in 2019 into 2020. On AI for sales to talk about how artificial intelligence is changing sales. So, you can buy the book on amazon.com. Or you can also visit at ChadBurmeister.com and download the eBook.
Alright, let’s get started. I’m going to play a very short video to frame the conversation today because data plays a huge role in the ability to talk to people at scale. So, check this out, and then I’ll get going forward with the presentation. If you put the wrong ICP in the tank, if you put data that doesn’t have a valid LinkedIn URL or doesn’t have a mobile number, if you have bad gas in the tank, it leads to downstream expensive repairs. So, you might think, Hey, I can buy this $99 data set, it’s $99 a month, it’s unlimited access.
Awesome. This saved me so much money, yeah, until you must take the BMW to the shop and it costs you 2 to $3,000. Or worse yet, you just ruined your entire car. So, the same thing holds true with data. If you put bad gas in the tank, you’re going to get pings you’re going to get not the right amount of pipeline, it leads to a bad dial to connect the machine does not work if you do not have good gas in the tank. And when I say good gas, it’s 10 to one dial to connect 20 to one worst case scenario. I’ve seen people float to 100 to one 200 to one, and it’s absurd. They’re throwing money out the window.
Right? Why is that important? Because there’s artificial intelligence now, that lets you improve your dial to connect. So, think about this for a moment, I’m going to go off data I’m going to talk about AI as it relates to scheme. You can buy a boot a plug into your boot called carve. And it’ll tell you your balance your edging your rotary your pressure and help you up level your skill set. Absolutely amazing. You can also sign up for athlete’s AI. And you can have it track your tennis stroke. And you can upload two hours of video. You can filter by stroke type by player ball speed estimation for $200 a month, you can upload 45 hours of video upload and have all of that analyzed.
So, think about how if AI can help you in your sports, then how can I help you when it comes to getting 5 to 10 times more sales conversations. That’s what we’re going to talk about next. If you haven’t visited the AI for sales conversations podcast on C suite radio, I encourage you to check it out. It’s available on all major podcasting platforms. So, check it out. It’s on Apple Store. It’s on every Radio Podcast show you can imagine. Another good friend of mine Victor Antonio hosts an AI and sales show his contents amazing too.
So, if you’re not part of that, I highly encourage it. It said that within the next 15 years. 15 percent of white-collar jobs will be highly disrupted by artificial intelligence. So, if you’re not staying abreast of what that means for sales conversations, then you’re probably missing the boat. So, check those out. Alright, let’s get into the content data, digital dials equal domination, five to 10 times more sales conversations ready to go.
So, here’s what we’re going to talk about. It all starts with data. Then we’re going to talk about how to leverage your LinkedIn network to generate introductions, warm introductions, and then we’re going to talk about how to have more sales conversations through the phone at a higher quality.
So, data first, this is probably the most important thing, if you picture a pyramid, and at the very bottom of the pyramid, data is super, super important. So, we did a study in early March of 2020. And you can think back to what was going on at that time, we were just entering lockdowns and all kinds of interesting times for the country. And what we did is we called into switchboards, and we got a 59 to one dial to connect rate.
So that means it would take 59 dials manually, that would take an entire day of dials, and you’ll talk to one person. The interesting part is that when we loaded direct dial numbers into the dialer, it took 73 dials, because we were getting people at their office, but they weren’t there, and they didn’t have an auto forward at the time to their cell phones. In fact, many still do not.
What we did find is that by adding a mobile number, and if you look at tools like zoom info, which now is owned and merged with discover org, you look like at tools like sales, Intel, which is where we did this study, sales, Intel has a work mobile number. This is something entirely unique to sales Intel. And we found that by putting in work mobile numbers, we’re able to get a 10 to $1 Connect. So, imagine 59 manual dials in a day? Would you rather talk to one person for those dials? Or would rather I’ve have talked to six? I’d rather talk to six simple discussion.
All right, next up digital outreach. So, there’s tools that help you automate this kind of discovery. But you can also do this very manually, and it works fine. Think about on the far left is a lead list. And you can go to events, although with the country lockdown, not as many events as you used to be able to you run an email campaign, you do LinkedIn outreach, you do webinars, everything on the far left is what traditional sellers do, you get to the far right, and you’re able to ask someone in your network for a warm referral, your 181 times more likely to close that opportunity than by reaching out to a cold list.
So, think about what that means for you. Instead of doing everything that you’ve traditionally done, that’s fine. That’s all well and good, you probably should continue to do it. But what if you could identify who those people are, that have the best chance of getting a meeting with Adidas, Dell Tesla or your other 500 or 1000 target accounts. This is exactly what you can do.
So, the way to do it is log into your LinkedIn network, see who these folks are connected to. Again, there is an AI that helps you do this. But a lot of salespeople that I’ve managed over the years do this outreach on their own manually. And then all you do is you send a note to the person that’s in the middle. Hey, Scott, I hope this finds you. Well, I see you’re connected to Doug at Charles Schwab, I could use your help with an introduction.
You want to first open with something very polite, then ideally, you would say, hey, my VP of Sales Aaron, and I’ve been working with companies like this that look like Schwab. That’s why we’re trying to reach out do you know him well enough to facilitate it intro ideally, in your message to the influencer, you’re always going to leave some level of value proposition. Why is it that you’re reaching out to the influencer to ask for meeting?
Now just to give you an idea of some of the stats and metrics around this, most customers look like this. So, this, I believe, was in a month. And we were able to work with the company to activate 119 advocates. And then of those advocates 114 introductions were made to the end prospects and 11 meetings were booked. So, don’t think that when someone says they’ll introduce you to one of their contacts, that 100% of the time that will turn out.
It’s more like a 10 to one ratio 10% of the time. So, you’d have to get 100 introductions to get 10 meetings. But guess what, remember that stat 181 times more likely to close an opportunity when it’s through referral. So, I always say revenue equals frequency times competency. In this case, with social selling, you really must do both. You must have a lot of advocates 100 and a month, asking for a lot of appointments with a lot of your time. prospects and that will yield about a 10% to 15% conversion rate to meeting.
All right, last up dials. So, check this out, I’m going to play a short video. This is the latest and greatest in technology that once you get your volume up and you’re able with better data, or through the art of social selling and reference base selling, this is how you get your quality up. So, check this short video up.
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Thanks for watching really have an amazing, so more conversations, more meetings. That’s the end premise of the entire presentation today. I also want to introduce you to salesclass.ai. So, think about the modern seller and the attributes of the modern seller.
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So, I’ve really enjoyed the discussion today. I thank everybody for attending 5 to 10 extra sales conversations. That’s what’s required in the complex digital selling world that we’re in today. Remember, revenue equals frequency times competency. Focus on getting the frequency up, and the competency will come along with it. So, thanks for attending the presentation today. If you’d like to get a hold of me, my email address is Chad@scalex.ai. You can also visit Chad burmeister.com And I’d love to have a conversation with you, always open to collaborate. And I will catch you on the flip side. Thank you, Demand Gen Summit. I appreciate you having me. Thank you for attending this session.