Organizing your contact lists
This is especially great In complex sales as you tend to speak with multiple people and don't know the interrelationships (matrixed organization). It gets hard to keep track of who reports to who in the hierarchy, and remembering names of the different people in the organization. I’ve devised a simple technique that’s easy to implement and if looking at your CRM, you can easily identify who each person is. I’ll give you an example (sorry for the editing):
1 - CEO
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2A - VP of IT
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2B - VP of Sales
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2C - VP of Marketing
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3A - Director of IT
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3B - Director of Sales
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3C - Director of Marketing
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4A - IT Manager
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4B - Sales Manager
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4C - Marketing Manager
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5A - Systems Administrator
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5B - Sales Rep
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5C - Intern
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Name Athar Afzal
Title: 3B - Director of Sales
Note: Always place it in the first part of the title and not their name. Name because if you sent them an email through your CRM it would show the tag. First part of the title as you read from left to right and it becomes easier to see it first.
Summary of Market Segmentation
I thoroughly enjoyed talking about the topic of the week on market segmentation. Yes, there is a lot of work to do before prospecting, but I believe there is great value in doing this to work less and achieve more. Look forward to comments!