BuyerMovement Step-By-Step Guide

People Move Companies - Here’s Our Step-By-Step Process to Find Past Clients and Sign Them Again

The Best Inbound Lead You’ll Receive

How it usually plays out.

An inbound lead comes in.

You send them an email to schedule a time to meet.

Do a little prep to figure out who you are talking to and the company they work for.

Then you see it...Jackpot!

This person worked at a client of yours six months ago. And is now in a new role at the new company.

Is there a better lead in the world? They have to be reaching out because they liked
your product or service at their past company.

Of all the different types of leads you can get, the lead that has experience with your
company at a past employer is one of the best.

Why?

We're seeing 50-75% open rates targeting these people.

We're seeing 30-50% click-through rates.

We're seeing 5-10X meeting rates.

You are probably thinking. How do I find more of these leads?

WHAT YOU’LL FIND IN THIS STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE

1) how to find new clients who used your product/service in the past.

2) what client data to capture.

3) how to validate contact info.

4) who should do the research.

5) how long does the research take.

6) how manage This Process ongoing.

7) how to do outreach.

1. how to find new clients who used your product/service in the past

Some people get hung up on this part - if you have questions just Reach Out

How to find new clients who’ve used your products/service in the past

Once you’ve exhausted internal data and resources it’s time to look externally.

For B2B, LinkedIn is the best place to do this.

If you are following along above you should have everything you need.

You will need the following:

Sales Navigator Example

In this example, Salesforce is an existing client and our company sells sales training software.

Note- we are trying to track down anyone who has worked at Salesforce in the past, not now, that-

You’ll set up a Sales Navigator that looks like the following.

When Did They Leave

Your customer Ex: Salesforce - left in 2001. It’s definitely not as relevant as if they left in the past couple of years.

Decide How Far Back

We recommended going back at least three years but for some businesses, it may make sense to go back further.

Analyze The Results

To determine how broad you want to go with your job title search - With LinkedIn, the job title search is not always exact so you’ll have to try a bunch of variations

2. what client data to capture

Willam Smith

Sales Department Representative
Dell

Dell.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/willsmith

Austin, TX
1 Dell Way, Round Rock, TX 78664

Now that you have your LinkedIn search setup you’ll need to run through this search for every existing customer.

You’ll also need to find a way to extract this information from LinkedIn.
For most organizations, this is going to end up being thousands of leads you need to research. There are data extraction tools off of Linkedin but most of those are against LinkedIn’s terms.

I always get asked so if you’re curious just shoot me a direct message on Linkedin

For now, let’s assume you are going to do this manually which means you are copying and pasting all this info from LinkedIn into Excel.

Example: Excel Export With Critical Fields

3. how to validate contact info

How We Find Call And Email Data

There are a lot of different tools to help capture email, phone, and contact address information.

Typically we find organizations start to get really cheap at this point in the project.

They spend all this time finding the right contacts to target then refuse to spend a realistic amount of money finding and validating contact information.

For some background on contact information:

Typically emails are fairly easy to find
Corporate phone numbers are widely available
Direct phone numbers are more difficult
Corporate addresses are typically readily available
Individual addresses are pretty challenging

Enhancing Existing Lists

In an ideal world, you subscribe to some type of contact databases like Zoominfo, DiscoverOrg or LeadIQ.

These tools allow you to take CSVs that have missing contact information and they will fill in the gaps.

So you upload your list of leads that have missing email/phone/address information and when the database has that specific information it will automatically add that information to your sheet.

From our experience, this typically gets you 50-60% of the way there, depending on the types of targets you are going after.

For the other 40%-50%, manual research is necessary or outsource to a service provider like OutboundView.

Cleansing Your Data

Now that you have all your contact information we would recommend taking a second level of cleansing to ensure you have the right information.

Once again, these are extremely quality leads - do everything in your power to get accurate info for these people.

By cleansing, I mean to ensure that the emails don’t bounce. Ensure that if you try to call the corporate or direct phone number that the person you are trying to reach can actually be found.

It’s also very helpful to go contact by contact and see if they are active on social media platforms. If you see them posting or interacting on LinkedIn regularly you can assume that this may be the easiest channel to go after these people on.

Run All Emails Through An Email Bounce Tool

Once you have all the email addresses run them through Zero Bounce.

This is a very inexpensive way to determine if any of these emails are going to bounce.

You should be doing this with every lead list you have.

Tools like Zero Bounce still aren’t full email validation, but they are a step in the right direction.

Validate All Phone Numbers

At OutboundView we have teams that call through all phone numbers before they get to our inside sales teams.

You can easily figure out if the individuals on your list can actually be reached via phone.

You can get direct phone numbers, extensions, and info such as whether there is an administrative assistant attempting to block you.

Getting Valid Contact Info

You have thousands of contacts, now what?

You most likely have hundreds or possibly thousands of contacts in an excel sheet.
You know their past job title, their current job title, and when they left your current client.

It’s very critical to note, these are extremely valuable leads.

Don’t just find email addresses and throw these contacts into Outreach or Salesloft.

These are some of the best leads you will have access to so you need to think outside of the box.

Before we get into outreach ideas, let’s discuss how we should properly find and cleanse the contact information for these leads.

OutboundCheck

We have developed a software tool call OutboundCheck to speed up the research process.

We take our list of thousands of leads and upload them into OutboundCheck.

Our system will help us identify where these individuals have gone (if anywhere), their current job title, current company, and when they left their previous organization.

4. Who Should Do The Research

For most companies, this type of research is going to take hundreds of hours.

There are very few scenarios where this will make sense to do on-shore out of the US.

At OutboundView we’ve built a team in the Philippines that is doing this work.

Using sites like Upwork or Fiverr you can find overseas research of this kind.

You will need to equip, train and project manage these resources but at an overall cost of $5-15/hour the savings is significant using overseas help.

Planning to outsource? I’ll give you the template we use on how to evaluate outsourced help Just Send Us A Message

5. how long does the research take (Client Example)

Sales Training Company With 300 Customers

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6.How to Manage Movement Ongoing

Option One: Create Custom LinkedIn Searches

Your team needs to have a process in place for tracking individuals as they leave.

Your sales or marketing team needs to run a search similar to the one below where you have all existing customers and target ICPs tracked.

You can easily see who’s moved in the last 90 days with this type of report.

Option Two: Salesforce plug-in with UserGems

We’ve partnered with a company called User Gems, a Salesforce plug-in to automatically transform job changes into warm leads.

Specifically, whenever any of your customer contacts changes their job, UserGems will create a new lead along with their new work email address, LinkedIn profile, and alert sales reps so you can sell into their new organization.

The advantage of this option is that everything is automated: you don't need to type in existing customer accounts or target ICP; you don't need to use another tool to enhance the new leads; you also don't need to upload the new leads into Salesforce - they're already there.

7. how to do outreach

What's the Message & How to Connect

Now that you have a fully validated quality list it’s time to start thinking about outbound cadences your team can use to try and set meetings.

Please don’t just throw these leads into Salesloft or Outreach and run templated cadences. All of these leads should get the highest level of customization.

Some of our favorite mediums for outreach on these lists including LinkedIn video direct messages and voicemails, integrating custom mailers and swag, customized Vidyard or Loom videos, and highly custom email/call sequences.

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