RevOps Co-op Weekly #82 - How to Build a Buyer Journey That Delights Customers & Aligns your Team
Without a Buyer Journey Map, your buyers can get lost. Courtney from CWT Consulting shares how to build a thoughtful and holistic customer journey
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How to Build a Buyer Journey That Delights Customers & Aligns your Team
Here at the RevOps Co-Op, we’ve seen a lot of Buyer Journeys. Today, we’re sharing a guide to building a thoughtful and holistic Buyer Journey that can grow and scale with your business.
The Ultimate Buyer Journey Guide
Revenue teams work each day to delight and entice buyers. In the current attention marketplace, it's getting harder and harder to connect with them at the right time, let alone close a sale. That means having a thoughtful and well documented buyer journey is more vital than ever.
When you know your buyer, you can develop a deeper, more human connection with them. Plus, planning the steps of their journey ahead of time helps your entire go-to-market team get aligned.
From the first marketing touch to the sales cycle and beyond, the buyer journey is the way your customers and prospects experience your brand each day.
So, while your personal day-to-day might center around dials, paid ad adjustments, or mining your CRM for business insights, the buyer’s day is constantly in flux and hard to predict. That said, a bad buyer journey map (or no buyer journey map) could cost you thousands, even millions, in revenue.
Why? Because you will inevitably burn out or alienate your customers if you’re missing key steps in the journey or if you are making those steps too difficult to figure out or complete.
An example of this is a B2B SaaS company relying solely on email marketing to generate all their inbound MQLs for cross-sell.
In addition to the regular email cadences one might expect from a SaaS provider, such as monthly newsletters, product updates, and maintenance announcements, the example company started sending monthly emails targeting current customers.
The purpose? Trying to get customers to take a demo of their add-on features and offering a gift card if they did.
These emails, which were product feature heavy and did not account for the needs of consumers, tanked the overall health of their database. Unsubscribes skyrocketed, and the general consensus of the targeted buyers was that the company only wanted a quick cash grab. Thus, they exhausted one of the most valuable - and low cost - marketing channels: email.
How could a buyer journey map help here? Instead of relying on marketing alone to generate more qualified leads, a holistic analysis of the entire go-to-market process could have uncovered the real issues.
In reality, their sales cycle was too long and involved. If the GTM team had taken a look at the entire buyer journey, they could have found the friction points and solved for success. Instead, they drove up CAC by offering gift cards, exhausted their email lists, angered customers, and increased churn. A lose-lose-lose situation.
Does any of this sound familiar? Are you struggling to craft your buyer journey map? Don’t worry! The RevOps Co-Op is here to help.
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04/26/22: Does anyone have any reads/best practices/guidelines for Accounts rotation/Accounts rules of Engagement? I am currently working on Accounts rules of engagement to make sure that Prospect Accounts get proper attention and to avoid Accounts hoarding behavior where a Sales Rep would own many accounts and thus get all the incoming Leads that are matched to this Account. Would highly appreciate any help on this one. Many thanks! Read 8 Replies
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1. Can someone be suspended for spamming by sending too many emails or do they have to have something they sent tagged as spam?
2. What impact does this have on things like our sender score and domain health?
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04/26/22: Hey everyone. We have an issue with our sales teams where they are not using Outreach for their customer contacts, because they say that they are closing via Whatsapp / Text Messages. We can't pull our reps away from this behavior. This is particularly an issue with our Account Managers, not our SDRs/AEs.Our stack right now is SFDC, Outreach, Gong. Gong is used by BDRs and AEs. I don't have a good answer as to why AMs don't use it (i don't know if that is silly and they could be using it, or if Gong is specific for outbound/topoffunnel activities).
Anyone have suggestions on what are the top vendors that offer phone number / text messaging in app software that we can collect data for, that has integration with sfdc/outreach ? Read 11 Replies
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