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Refining Playbooks Through Setup and Guided Selling within Opportunities

Objective

After completing this lesson, you will be able to configure Playbooks while applying guided selling in Opportunities

Advanced Playbooks with Introduction, Setup, and Guided Selling in Opportunities

Use Playbooks to Progress Opportunities

Let's explore in more depth how to use playbooks and how sales representatives advance in their opportunities.

The flowchart shows the sales process steps, highlighting the Playbooks for opportunities, where sales representatives qualify opportunities and develop a value proposition.

Playbook for Opportunities

Let's explore the example of a Playbook created for Opportunities.

The General Opportunity Playbook page shows that this Playbook is active. It also shows the activities and actions tab with the opportunity titles and options to create activities and actions.

Let's structure an example of a Playbook for Opportunities:

  • Identify Opportunity: This step involves researching online, attending industry events, or networking with contacts.
  • Qualify Opportunity: After identifying potential customers, it's essential to qualify them to guarantee they align with products or services. Do it by exploring their needs, understanding their budget, and discussing their timeline through targeted questions.
  • Develop Value Proposition:
    • Understand the customer's needs: What are they trying to achieve?, What are their pain points?
    • Demonstrate how products or services solve their problems by offering case studies, white papers, or demos.
    • Convince the customer to buy. You need to quantify the benefits of products or services by calculating the ROI, savings, or other measurable benefits.
  • Quotation:
    • Once you clearly defined the value proposition, the next step is to craft a comprehensive quotation. It includes the price of products or services, and also any terms and conditions.
    • After drafting a quotation, you need to discuss it with the customer to reach a mutual agreement. This process involves discussing and adjusting the price, terms, or other key aspects of the quotation.
  • Decision: Following the quotation discussions, the next step is to complete the customer's decision. This step involves following up, offering further information, and addressing any questions they potentially have.
  • Close: Closing the sale involves sending an order confirmation, invoicing the customer, and setting up a payment plan.

Rules for Playbook Assignments

The Playbook page for opportunities more than 100K USD highlights the rules tab to match all amounts greater than 100K.

Assign opportunities in this Playbook based on expected revenue exceeding 100,000 USD. As a result, the Playbook automatically suggests actions for any newly created Opportunity with expected revenue above 100,000 USD.

How to Progress Opportunities Using the Playbook Guidelines

The following demonstration shows how to progress Opportunities using the Playbook guidelines.

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Monitor the Progress of Opportunities

Let’s watch this video to discover how sales representatives use the Guided Selling app to review KPIs for opportunities and track progress.

Summary

This lesson covered the following:

  • Opportunity Playbooks Overview: Structured playbooks guide sales reps through stages such as identifying, qualifying, and progressing opportunities, guaranteeing a consistent and effective sales process.
  • Step-by-Step Sales Process: The typical playbook phases include identifying prospects, qualifying needs, and budget. It also includes developing a value proposition, drafting quotations, securing decisions, and closing deals.
  • Value Proposition Development: Sales representatives align solutions to customer pain points using tools such as case studies, ROI calculations, and demos to demonstrate measurable value.
  • Playbook Assignment Rules: Trigger Playbooks automatically, for example, applied to opportunities with expected revenue over $100,000. Offer relevant guidance to guarantee effectiveness.
  • Guided Selling Support: Sales representatives use the Playbook to receive tailored recommendations, suggested actions, and structured workflows to move deals forward effectively.
  • Progress Monitoring: The Guided Selling app allows representatives to track KPIs, view opportunity progress, and guarantee alignment with strategic sales goals.
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