This document outlines the discovery meeting process for Level180's deal management, including verbal agenda, discovery questions, impact questions, and closing steps. The follow-up email includes a summary of challenges, examples of clients, ideal client profile, and target personas. It is the role of the BDR to follow these processes
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Table of Contents
Education and Selection
Discovery meeting - set by SDR/BDR
Verbal agenda
- Intro to Level180
- Understand more about your business
- Agree on the next steps, if there are any
Discovery questions (the goal is to have a conversation with the prospect)
- Ask about the company’s history
- Why did you join the call today?
- Do you have any goals/targets when it comes to sales? What? By When?
- Tell me about your sales process, from MQL to deal won.
- How do your deals convert from stage to stage?
- What volume are you dealing with?
- Where do you think your biggest struggle lies? Why?
- What have you done to resolve it?
- ICP questions:
- Locations of Ideal Clients:
- Typical size of business in terms of employees:
- Specific technology they currently use:
- What industries would you like us to target:
- What are their titles within the company:
- Can you also provide some examples of your existing clients:
Impact questions (through the call):
- What impact would it have if we took care of that for you, and booked meetings in your diary?
- What happens if you don’t make those goals?
- What happens if this isn’t resolved?
- How would it impact your business if leads came to you?
- How much, on average, is a client worth to you?
Closing:
- Confirm issue and ensure that we can solve them (if we can)
- Discuss next steps:
- We’ll send some questions regarding their target market
- They respond
- We send some suggestions
- We meet to discuss the suggestions
- Book next meeting
Send follow-up email:
- Summarise challenges (1-2 max)
- Give examples of clients we’ve recently helped with similar challenges
- Ideal Client Profile:
- What is the size of the target market in terms of employees?
- What location/s are they based in?
- What industry/ies do they operate in?
- Do they use any technology that will make them easy to identify?
- Target personas:
- What are their roles in the company (CEO/Operations, etc.)
- Seniority
- What are their goals?
- What stops them from achieving those goals?
- Example email
Send the director’s email:
For prospects that look promising, get the director to send a follow-up / introductory email to the client. Sample found here.
Prepare proposal
- Create a client folder on the Level180 clients folder in Google Drive
- Research the target market to determine if there are enough prospects.
- Develop Return on Investment (ROI). (This is based on info received in discovery call)
- Assumptions (conservative):
- 6 new clients a year
- Increased billing of R 60,000 per month
- ROI: 300%
- Develop the proposal on Canva
- Send proposal via email
- Include how we think we can help them and include the ROI on the email body.
- Attach the proposal to the email body.
- Save the email proposal to the client folder in Google Drive.
Follow up meeting
- Discuss proposal
- Address any concerns
- Push for close: Is anything stopping you from moving forward with this proposal?