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Groove: Best Practices for Sales Development Representatives 

 

Sales Development Representatives (SDRs) are the driving force behind business revenue generation. They are the tigers in the jungle discovering new paths to the river of opportunity. Groove is the solution that fuels SDRs with the fierceness needed to hunt down prospects and turn them into lifelong relationships and customers. In this article, SDRs can find the best practices for using Groove to enable them to become better tiger sellers 🐯.

 

 

You can collaborate on account lists to drive more high-quality opportunities and expand within accounts.

 

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Collaborating with your Account Executive (AE) and your manager is essential for an SDR - getting on the same page allows for far more productive conversations for attacking those key accounts. This article's first topic is how you can collaborate with your AE or Manager to lock down a game plan on what kind of prospects you target when you target them and how you can finally get them to convert into opportunities.

 

Kick Spreadsheets to the Curb!

 

  • Collaborate in real-time on account lists with your AE's and Manager

  • Prioritize your week based on Inferred Account Status and Last Activity.

 

As an SDR, it can feel overwhelming when you're trying to figure out the best way to stay organized, prioritize your accounts, and share your progress with the Account Executive. With Groove's Spaces, you can organize target accounts with specific AE's and have an interactive view into how it's going with setting meetings or how engaged they are.

 

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You can have a top 10 workspace with your AE Diana in this example. You can handpick the accounts in your top ten and the specific territory you're trying to break into, or if you want to collaborate with a specific AE, you can upload a Salesforce report into workspaces. 

 

You can prioritize your week based on Inferred Account Status and Last Activity. Use the tabs to sort your accounts in ascending or descending to see which accounts in this space you haven't touched so you can target this week or which ones you haven't touched in a while.

 

View Effort vs. Engagement

 

  • Get a real-time view of prospecting effort vs. engagement to understand which accounts are more highly engaged.

     

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    You can use the Effort Vs. You can use the engagement tab to quickly see which accounts are opening, clicking, or replying to what you're sending. By sorting it, you can view your account list sorted by hottest to most excellent.

     

    Assign and Update Tasks

     

    • Assign and update SFDC Tasks without having to log into Salesforce

    Loop in your AE and combine forces by assigning them tasks to help book a meeting. For example, assigning a task to your AE that says 'Sendoso Albert a bottle of wine' can make a difference in ultimately booking that meeting.

     

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    Instantly Log Account Notes

     

    • You can capture notes from your planning meetings and instantly update Salesforce with learnings from prospecting activity.

       

    The Account Notes as a tab in Spaces helps with that birds-eye view approach to having an account list for easily accessible insight into the progress made so far. If you catch someone on the phone who isn't the decision-maker at an account but provides a lot of helpful info, it's essential to take those learnings down in the Account notes. Then you and your AE can see what you know so far at a glance and use that to your advantage instead of fogging around for that info in SFDC.

     


     

    Research accounts and prospects in LinkedIn, ZoomInfo, and Salesforce before dropping into Flows

     

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    • View account and contact history from Salesforce wherever you are researching

    Learning about the ins and outs of Salesforce takes a lot. Groove's Omnibar helps lighten the load by showing you what you need to be seeing and cutting down on the time you spend navigating the CRM. Use the Omnibar to quickly access the history of an account or contact and make edits that automatically update into your Salesforce.

     

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    For example, suppose you're researching an account on LinkedIn and find a new contract that looks like a tremendous prospect. In that case, you can view what interactions people at your company have already had with the account. Check if they use one of your competitors or how engaged they have been in the past with their open and reply rates.

     

    Linkedin Sales Navigator Integration

    Connect on LinkedIn and send an InMail directly via Omnibar or within a Flow. Automatically save new Leads to Salesforce.

     

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    It is beneficial to connect with prospects on LinkedIn right off the bat and being able to do so from Omnibar is excellent because it's so effortless to connect, save as a lead, and send a quick note.

     

    Use ZoomInfo or LeadIQ to find Contact Details.

     

    • Sync contact information to Salesforce and instantly drop into a Flow from Groove Omnibar.

       

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    If you are 'hunting' for prospects via Linkedin Sales Nav and then use the ZoomInfo sidebar to pull their contact information up automatically - you can easily search for their name in the Groove Omnibar search bar and drop them into a Flow. Dropping your prospect into a Flow right then can help you guarantee you are reaching out and getting complete success from your hunting endeavor.

     

    Groove Notes

     

    • You can use Groove notes to capture valuable details while researching to use in personalized emails or calls later in your process.

       

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      Use Groove Notes when prospecting and researching accounts because

       

      1. It kills two birds with one stone and helps you save time. So, when you are focusing on writing those first touches, you have some great info about them right within Groove, and you can easily recall things you've previously learned about someone.

      2. It allows other people in your Org to reference the information you've found, and it's not just trapped on a sticky note on your desk.

         


       

    Best practices for mass prospecting, using personalization in 1:1 prospecting, and increasing response rates with Flows

     

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    Prospect Multiple Accounts Simultaneously

     

    • Create multi-step, multi-channel campaigns that can be personalized using any field or attribute in Salesforce A/B Test subject lines and templates.

       

    Groove makes it easy to build different kinds of templates and put them together in a multi-step, multi-channel Flow. A/B Test subject lines and template because trying new things and evolving as a rep is good. You can try new things and see what is working by using A/B testing.

     

    1:1 Prospecting

     

    • Use notes from your account research to personalize 1:1 communications

    • Use video to increase engagement and response rates

    Using Groove notes to pull the info you've already found easily makes sending a personalized touch much more efficient. Sometimes, it takes more than just looking at their LinkedIn page. You can also use Vidyard proper from your Groove email steps. It's a great way to personalize a touch and put a face with a name.

     

     

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    Push Engaged Contacts into New Flows

     

    • Use Automated Actions to move contacts with high engagement into new flows automatically.

       

    Automated Action is an excellent customizable feature based on results that can trigger actions for you automatically. A great way to use Automated Actions is like this: You can see here that the first command is Open 3+ times, so when someone opens one of my emails three or more times, you can have them automatically added to a Dial Flow. Then you can use that Dial Flow to call into, knowing those prospects are a bit warmer since they have opened your emails a few times and are potentially more interested.

 

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Save time cold calling and have more impactful conversations with Groove Dialer.

 

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Dialing

 

  • Seamlessly switch between your local presence and your Direct Dial

  • Use SMS or Voicemail. Drop if you reach a contact's voicemail

     

If you are an SDR that's making a lot of calls, we recommend using voicemail drop. Think of voicemails as another channel of communication. While they can certainly be personalized, using VM drop to add another touch, using your voice and assigning a voice with a name, and relaying a message about your company allows you to do all that at scale.

 

Some of you may be in a specific industry that is receptive to texting, for example, Real Estate. SMS is a part of Groove's Dialer and can be easily incorporated as another kind of communication so that you can cover all your bases.

 

Have Killer Conversations

 

  • Reference everything you need to know about a company in the Omnibar

Make sure you do everything you can to prevent any prospect from being rightfully upset when you call them! Part of that is by referencing the Omnibar as you dial. All the info about the person, the company, and any research you've already done is on your screen.

 

Call Logging Options

 

  • Groove prompts you to add the call outcome and any notes to make your records more accurate and valuable.

It's helpful to log what happened in the call from the Dialer quickly. Sometimes, it's easier to remember the outcome of a call if you had to go back and do this all manually after a call block.

 

Conversational Intelligence Integration

 

  • Groove integrates Gong, Chorus, and Avoma to auto-log recordings and call transcripts to Salesforce.

Groove built a recording feature to ensure all your recordings log back into Salesforce. They are also accessible in Groove to listen to as well. LisIt'steningo, listen back to you. It is essential to call if you need to remember something or for training purposes. We have made a culture here at Groove of sharing call recordings, good or bad, with teammates for learning and feedback.

 

Accelerate Inbound lead response times and increase the percentage of meetings booked.

 

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  • Leads are responded to instantaneously. Catch them while they're hot and provide a link where they can pick a convenient time to meet with you.

     

Auto-import is your assistant in Flows and can save you the effort of manually finding the leads and responding to them. And since we are all human, there would be times you would miss out on those hot leads if you did it manually without Auto-import.

 

Prioritize using Actions

 

  • Could you bring the hottest leads above the noise so you can call and convert the hottest leads first?

     

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    Using Actions, you can quickly sort through the calls you have due today and one. That way, you can quickly call down your list of East Coast prospects, for instance, even if they are all in different flows. Likewise, you can sort by engagement to see all the most engaged people in a particular flow or time zone.


    Account Inferred Status

    • If a meeting is booked, Groove utilizes Automated Actions to automatically change the Lead Status to Meeting Scheduled.

    Team-based Scheduling

    • You can instantly book meetings for your AE and other team members without going back and forth to find a time that works for you.

       

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      A lot of back and forth comes into play when you are trying to book a meeting with a prospect. Using team-based scheduling allows you to give someone a view of your calendar, AE's, or both. You can also copy and paste the link into any template in your Flows.


       

      Use analytics to understand the most effective messaging and channels and how to drive optimal conversion.

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      Activity Log

       

      • Get real-time insights into activities as they are completed, including calls, emails, tasks, and meetings.

      It's good to track your KPIs and see your progress over time. Being able to trust that all of your activities are accurately synced back to Salesforce since Groove is native to Salesforce, you never have to worry about having made 100 dials and only 50 logging into SFDC.

       

      Flow and Template Performance

       

      • Understand how email and call scripts are performing and optimize for the most excellent response

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        You may have used many templates, call scripts, and Flows as SDRs. It's great to see what has worked for you and what may beo good n,ot just for optimizing your Flows but for your knowledge. Dissecting why something is doing well through analytics helps you write better templates and make better calls.

         

        Don't be bold. See what's working for your peers or who is doing well, and ask them for advice or check out their messaging. We share everything at Groove because what's suitable for your peer is suitable for the company, and we encourage new Reps to go check out which templates or Flows have done the best and use them to their advantage.

         

        Call Stats

         

        • Identify which days and times have the highest connect rates.

       

       

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      You can go into the call analytics tab to see what times and days of the week you're connecting with people and having conversations. For instance, you can see that maybe on Wednesday at 10:00 am, you had the most connections, which gives you insight into good times to schedule call blocks.

       

      You can even listen to the recordings of your calls and your team's calls that had conversations. Maybe you want to listen to the calls that all had positive outcomes to learn what they are saying to have booked that meeting,

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