Jeb Blount

Jeb Blount is the CEO at Sales Gravy Inc. He is a sales acceleration specialist who helps organizations reach peak performance fast, and his flagship website SalesGravy.com is the most visited sales-specific website on the planet.

He’s also a bestselling author of eight books and among the world’s most respected thought leaders on sales leadership and customer experience.

Expert session

Tactic that has had the biggest impact on Jeb’s success

Cadence outreach

Result if you follow the steps in Jeb’s session

Have a balanced prospecting methodology

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Transcript

One thing that I’m seeing with my clients, and these are the people that I consult with and help and give advice to is, is getting them away from being one dimensional.

What I mean about one dimensional is that, I’ve got clients who run just Google AdWords, that’s all they do to generate leads, and they try to get people to call them. I’ve got clients who only work online so they get all their leads off the online process.

Some of them were trying to get people to come directly to the shopping cart. And in my book, fanatical prospecting, we talk about a balanced prospecting methodology. And what I mean about balance is that you’re using every tool available to you and the right measure.

So for example, you may be doing inbound marketing through content marketing through social media, and when you pair that with a telephone call, with an email outreach, with text messaging, where it makes sense, you know.

In a small form of small business standpoint, networking in your local community and being out with people, and using all the tools you have available to you to bring people in and convert them into sales.

Excellent. And there was one specific word I think that you were mentioning, and that was
very important to you, and that was cadence.

The key with cadence is that you take this balance, right? So you take all these different prospecting methodologies, and then you build them into a regular cadence.

So it begins with, you know, building your lead lists and a lot of your lead list is either you’re going to build it by going out to tools like discover org, or zoom info, or you’re going to be building it your own bit through your capture pages, through your you know, through social media, through anything that you’re doing to bring the leads in.

Once you get the leads in, the first move that we typically do, we’re going to either call them or send an email depending on the lead. So we have particular capture pages, for example, like we have a sales interview guide.

And on the sales interview guide, it’s a pretty intense piece of work. It’s something that we could charge a lot of money for, we give it away, but we asked for some additional information, it reduces the number of leads we get, so we get fewer leads, but we get better leads because there’s a phone number attached to it.

So we get those, and the very first thing we do is we call them. We call them immediately after they download it, because we know that point there, by their computer and followed by their phone, we call, leave a voicemail, then we load them into a tool that we use, called tell wiser, some outreach, there’s a whole bunch of products out there that you can use.

We load them into an email client, and we set them up so that an email will go back out the next morning. So we call, we either talk to them on telephone, we talk about telephone, we get to know them, we add them into another email campaign, but if we leave a voicemail, most of the time, we pop them into another email campaign.

And then that goes out the next morning, we make that phone call. We add to that, you know, when we go to trade shows, and we do networking events, when I’m on an airplane and someone hands me a business card, we apply the same type of process to those particular leads. And we have different processes for different leads.

We also do social media campaigns. So we got particular leads where we will, in fact, do a voicemail block. We will do nothing but leave voicemails, we’ll do it at night.

Then we’ll send an email in the morning and we’ll look at our opens and we’ll, and I’ve got one more little piece of that, the wall I’ll talk about in a moment.

Then we’ll go out on social medias, and social media for us because we’re typically business to business, will be going to LinkedIn, going to their to the pages of the people that we’re trying to get in touch with.

We’ve got a lot of connections out there either someone on my team probably has a connection. If we don’t, then we’ll use an email and we’ll ping them there and then we may go to say, Twitter or Facebook, and like something that they did, then we’ll start the process again.