Account-Based Enablement: How We’re Going to Win, Protect and Expand Key Accounts Together

Account Profiles for Your Tier 1 Must Wins

Most go-to-market teams lack account-based insights so teams fall back on “persona” messaging, generalized pain points, and product messaging. They continue to tell “everyone’s story” in content, messaging and in live conversations even though a key Challenger element is to increase your relevance across all levels.

When selling to larger companies you must come to every social, email and live conversation with a point of view about their business. With our account intelligence, your go-to-market teams will know what their future and existing customers are focused on as those strategic initiatives for the business will trickle down to every department across the organization. They’ll be able to clearly show key decision makers the role they can play in the prospect’s strategic initiatives and the impact they will have so they are not just another item on their list of things to do eventually.

Personal Relevancy Across All Channels (Website, Social, Email, Live Conversations)

Most sales and marketing teams are not speaking to and with the human buyers within target accounts that they want to win, protect and expand. With our account-based enablement program, your teams will be able to go directly to key decision-makers and influencers with insights that are specific to their gaps and impacts. Your prospects and existing customers will have content that speaks to them specifically.

With our account-based enablement program, we put a focus on each and every single interaction and touchpoint that go-to-market teams have with the human buyers and how your teams are relevant at the industry, company, rank, division, operational, financial, personal, and customer levels. We’ll give sales and revenue teams LinkedIn profile makeovers and a foundation to make connections with key decisions and influencers. As Matthew Dixon and Brent Adamson mention in their book, “The Challenger Sale,” in most cases, buyer unresponsiveness is not because you failed to make a logical argument. It’s because you failed to make an emotional connection. It’s not that buyers didn’t believe your story. It’s because they didn’t see it as “their” story.

Content That Meets Specific Buyer Expectations

In today’s digital environment where sales and marketing is pushing out more messaging and content, Gartner found that additional customer research and learning does not lead to greater clarity but rather deeper uncertainty. More often than not, today’s customers are left with no clear means for evaluating trade-offs or moving forward with sufficient certainty to justify an expensive, potentially disruptive purchase. In fact, Gartner’s research shows that customers struggle to make sense of all the low and high-quality information that is pushed out, they are significantly more likely to settle for a course of action that is smaller or less disruptive than originally planned.

With our account-based enablement program, your go-to-market teams will be able to provide key decision makers with the right information through the right channels in a way that helps buyers buy. Sales will build trust, dramatically increase confidence and reduce skepticism while prospecting and nurturing by helping buyers evaluate information, prioritize various sources, quantify trade-offs and reconcile conflicting information — all while helping customers arrive at their own understanding.

Content for Specific Selling Conversations and the Internal Conversations That Sales Is Not Privy Too.

In most cases, content is designed to support campaigns vs. the “selling conversations” and “interactions” sales need to close accounts. With our account-based enablement program, sales teams will not be left to their own devices to reframe thoughts and ideas, demonstrate relevance, make an emotional connection. build the business case, teach for differentiation, and move the prospects through the funnel to the close.

Sales and revenue teams will have the content they need to penetrate target accounts, VPs across divisions/business units and the C-suite. The teams will have the content they need to influence a buying consensus and win the internal conversation that many teams are losing.

Account-Specific Buyer Messaging

With our account-based enablement program, the messaging will be customer-led. Value props will be designed for specific customer needs — not what’s available in solution stable to sell. Value props will be custom designed to the unique opportunity in each account. And, messaging will speak to and with the human buyers as each interaction will be treated as a mini sales and marketing conversation. This is the only way that your teams will build the connection they need with the status quo C-suite and become a priority. Templated messaging that sales teams run through Outreach, SalesLoft or other sales technology where you blast thousands of product-focused emails to buyers will not work with the 60% of the market that sees solutions like yours as “nice to have” vs. must-have.

Account-Based Conversation Support

Sales teams are consistently losing accounts to the status quo as teams are not equipped to overcome customer resistance to changing their current approach for solving a problem. With our account-based enablement program, sales and revenue teams will engage in a two-way conversation that helps future customers understand the gaps and the costs/risks of their current approach. Teams will stop responding to pre-defined needs and actually create a need and a specific buying vision.

Ongoing RevOps and Marketing Ops Support

It’s not just about the accounts you are targeting or the campaign you’ve built for them, but the process you are going to move them through. We can help your marketing, sales or revenue operations teams outline and audit an account-based routing process to augment your existing lead routing. As you scale, we can help to replace the lead routing process entirely– should you move to account-based only. Personal ABM has experience with the full technology stack and can help you to audit the systems you have, their integrations and how to optimize your workflows.
In addition, no campaign will work without measurement in place– so Personal ABM can help you to identify the KPIs for your account-based efforts, build those into your systems and begin to measure them. Our team can augment your operations teams, allowing for accountability and transparency through the customer lifecycle.

Continuous ABM Improvement

While we need to fix overall sales challenges with sales enablement, it’s time that companies go one step further. It’s time that we focus on targeted accounts that went silent, are slowly progressing in the buyer’s journey or are stuck. It’s time we focus on existing accounts where teams are unable to penetrate business units. And, it’s time we change the interactions we’re having with these accounts and the experiences go-to-market revenue teams are delivering.

We focus on the 1:1 interactions that your go-to-market teams are having with the 20% of accounts that can deliver 80% of your revenue growth. Because we put each interaction under a microscope to see why different responses and actions were created, we’ll be able to effectively optimize your 1:few and 1: many programs and help you design a prospect and customer experience that drives revenue growth.