Article | 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.
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!
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Collaborate in real-time on account lists with your AE's and Manager
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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.
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
Save time cold calling and have more impactful conversations with Groove Dialer.
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Seamlessly switch between your local presence and your Direct Dial
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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Could you bring the hottest leads above the noise so you can call and convert the hottest leads first?
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.
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If a meeting is booked, Groove utilizes Automated Actions to automatically change the Lead Status to Meeting Scheduled.
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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.
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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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
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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.
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Identify which days and times have the highest connect rates.
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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