70: The Wheel of Value: What Ingredients are Needed to Realise Growth w/ Liesbeth de Rooij

February 12, 2020 00:21:21
70: The Wheel of Value:  What Ingredients are Needed to Realise Growth w/ Liesbeth de Rooij
B2B Revenue Acceleration
70: The Wheel of Value: What Ingredients are Needed to Realise Growth w/ Liesbeth de Rooij

Feb 12 2020 | 00:21:21

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Growth lies at the foundation of every one of our business goals.

Whether we aim to grow our employees, our customers, or our bottom lines, the focus on growth is paramount.

On a recent episode of B2B Revenue Acceleration, we got to hear from Liesbeth de Rooij, Manager Go-to-Markets & Customer Engagement at Proact, which helps customers with their IT roadmap. 

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WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.040 --> 00:00:04.400 It is strongly connected to your culture, to competence. Has Few people the 2 00:00:04.519 --> 00:00:09.230 excellence are your emplease, happy, happy, and please is happy. Customers. 3 00:00:12.349 --> 00:00:17.910 You were listening to bb revenue acceleration, a podcast dedicated helping software executive 4 00:00:17.949 --> 00:00:21.780 stay on the cutting edge of sales and marketing in their industry. Let's give 5 00:00:21.820 --> 00:00:26.460 into the show. Hi, welcome to be, to be revenue acceleration. 6 00:00:26.780 --> 00:00:30.019 My name is onion. With you and I'm yet today with Lis Best, 7 00:00:30.059 --> 00:00:34.020 or Roy, manager global compaigns at product. How are you today? These 8 00:00:34.060 --> 00:00:38.729 best? Thank you. I I'm marry goods. Today, actually, I'm 9 00:00:39.049 --> 00:00:45.090 in a new role, changing from clobal campaigns to focus on Beneluxer or accusiation, 10 00:00:45.329 --> 00:00:50.399 with response for areas as go to markets and customer engagements. You. 11 00:00:51.039 --> 00:00:54.679 Yeah, very nice challenge for the new actually, so I think. I 12 00:00:54.759 --> 00:00:57.640 think your new role actually makes sense. This best, because today we're about 13 00:00:57.679 --> 00:01:02.359 to talk about the wheel of value and what ingredients are needed to realize growth. 14 00:01:02.759 --> 00:01:04.189 But before we get into that conversation is best. You would be good, 15 00:01:04.189 --> 00:01:08.670 ificunt hope, actually introduce yourself a little bit more, but also explain 16 00:01:10.189 --> 00:01:12.670 what's entitled in the new role that you're just about to take them at product? 17 00:01:14.269 --> 00:01:18.620 Yes, so, I'm working for an IT company coverage in Europe and 18 00:01:18.980 --> 00:01:23.340 we help our customers with our it rope net and we actually delivered this agility 19 00:01:23.780 --> 00:01:30.620 with cloud, out and data center services. And along my own journey, 20 00:01:30.859 --> 00:01:37.969 I actually have been developing myself from execution to more strategic level, and in 21 00:01:38.170 --> 00:01:46.450 that journey I discovered that are as actually more needed than only targets, processes 22 00:01:46.650 --> 00:01:53.159 and well performing departments to realize growth. And actually they're okay. My whole 23 00:01:53.680 --> 00:01:57.799 idea around creating the will of value. Okay. And what about product as 24 00:01:57.840 --> 00:02:00.909 an organization? What was the rule of product as an organization? So, 25 00:02:01.269 --> 00:02:07.909 as a business, we help our customers with their it road map and we 26 00:02:07.030 --> 00:02:13.030 want to deliver business agility because at the end it should help the business in 27 00:02:13.110 --> 00:02:17.300 their goals and road and we do that with cloud and data center services. 28 00:02:17.860 --> 00:02:22.500 In a nutshell, okay, that makes perfects and so so this is bes. 29 00:02:22.580 --> 00:02:27.060 When we talk about growth, there is a number of element that needs 30 00:02:27.099 --> 00:02:30.849 to be aligned and in motion to drive the business growth. From we'll perspective. 31 00:02:30.889 --> 00:02:34.930 What are these elements? Yes, so. Well, first of all, 32 00:02:35.050 --> 00:02:39.129 I did discover that we need much more than only setting the targets and 33 00:02:39.250 --> 00:02:45.479 the right processes and having her well performing partments, having those in place. 34 00:02:46.280 --> 00:02:51.039 So die really the deeper or analyzing how the business should look. I can 35 00:02:51.120 --> 00:02:58.000 also what we implement in the strategy. I actually discovered that people major role 36 00:02:58.629 --> 00:03:04.110 in actually in growth. And when I talk about people in my strategy it's 37 00:03:04.189 --> 00:03:08.310 of course customers and empoyees, but if we take it brother we also talk 38 00:03:08.389 --> 00:03:14.979 about other partnerships, ECO partners, of endors, investors. So people is 39 00:03:15.099 --> 00:03:21.460 broader than only employees and customer experience. But but in this model I focus 40 00:03:21.620 --> 00:03:27.020 on employees and customer experience. And not to forget the third one, and 41 00:03:27.210 --> 00:03:30.889 that is revenue engine. Okay, that makes perfect sense. So can you, 42 00:03:31.009 --> 00:03:34.569 can you tell us a little bit more about what is the revenue engine, 43 00:03:34.689 --> 00:03:38.530 because I think you know employees and customers. That makes perfect sense. 44 00:03:38.009 --> 00:03:42.439 Everybody knows what it is. But what is your definition of revenue engine? 45 00:03:42.960 --> 00:03:46.639 Yes, so, if you look at refue engine, you need to have 46 00:03:46.319 --> 00:03:51.080 several things in place and of course, you know, we all think immediately 47 00:03:51.120 --> 00:03:54.199 about setting the targets and having, you know, the processes in place, 48 00:03:54.520 --> 00:03:59.629 but there are so much more to it. An example, so in terms 49 00:03:59.629 --> 00:04:05.509 of buying and retention what's to customers buy from us. Also, in terms 50 00:04:05.550 --> 00:04:10.659 of ups all cross cell. How high is the retention? What can we 51 00:04:10.740 --> 00:04:15.939 get more out of it? If we build proper customer life cite Framework Works 52 00:04:15.139 --> 00:04:20.459 Umble, that could influence a retention higher, up to five percent high or 53 00:04:20.819 --> 00:04:27.250 five times higher. Sorry, then if you don't put effort into that customer 54 00:04:27.290 --> 00:04:31.410 life cycle managements. So that is one. Except at one example that and 55 00:04:31.569 --> 00:04:39.639 I have actually I have five sub ingredients connected to the refue engine to to 56 00:04:39.720 --> 00:04:45.639 address the needs actually to contribute to growth. That around that if you like. 57 00:04:46.000 --> 00:04:47.600 Yeah, that absolutely, it would be great. Yes. So the 58 00:04:47.720 --> 00:04:54.589 second one is commercial alignments. If the commercial teams were working silo, so 59 00:04:54.750 --> 00:04:59.550 they are aligned but still inside those their own targets, their own way of 60 00:04:59.750 --> 00:05:05.149 working, you will never be that successful than when you're one team or a 61 00:05:05.230 --> 00:05:13.139 team with shared goals and targets. Yeah, and the third one is to 62 00:05:13.180 --> 00:05:16.500 go to market approach. So actually, how do we bring your offerings to 63 00:05:16.620 --> 00:05:21.610 the market? And it's not only how, but also is the market waiting 64 00:05:21.810 --> 00:05:27.610 for your product or service? So how are you going to do that? 65 00:05:27.810 --> 00:05:33.410 Mapping, and that shouldn't be based on assumptions but based on proper market insights. 66 00:05:34.089 --> 00:05:38.720 So that is an important one. I already mentioned the aligned measurements, 67 00:05:39.000 --> 00:05:45.160 so that is really a critical one as well. And some, some thing 68 00:05:45.319 --> 00:05:51.149 that's sometimes forget is marked innovation and market innovation. Yet of Facion. Yes, 69 00:05:51.310 --> 00:05:55.949 so most of the Times they look at you know, what are we 70 00:05:56.029 --> 00:06:00.829 doing in terms of innovation for our customers? But at the same time, 71 00:06:00.189 --> 00:06:04.980 what are you doing internally to Inno face, also in terms of drink your 72 00:06:05.019 --> 00:06:10.379 own champagne or eat your own dog foods for doing your own champagne. But 73 00:06:12.180 --> 00:06:15.180 yeah, exactly. So this, yeah, this digital transformation, but also 74 00:06:15.379 --> 00:06:20.129 innovation in general, should be high on the agenda and part of not only 75 00:06:20.209 --> 00:06:24.889 a three year strategy plan but also, after the of the yearly planning of 76 00:06:25.089 --> 00:06:29.889 low countries to keep that on the agenda or keep read on the agenda and 77 00:06:30.089 --> 00:06:33.360 create plans around it and also see that not from a cost perspective but from 78 00:06:33.399 --> 00:06:41.079 an investments perspective. So yeah, so this revenue engine covers five elements. 79 00:06:41.120 --> 00:06:45.279 Yeah, of course you can connect it to the empery part as well, 80 00:06:45.720 --> 00:06:48.790 because it is strongly connected to your culture. Two, competence. Has Few 81 00:06:48.829 --> 00:06:55.310 people the excellence. Are Your employees happy? Happy empoyees is happy customers. 82 00:06:55.750 --> 00:06:59.949 That's what I say and I that's where I believe in. So that is 83 00:07:00.470 --> 00:07:03.939 well, actually, we already had two third of the pie covering growth, 84 00:07:04.220 --> 00:07:09.740 or is a very high level a point of view. But yeah, so 85 00:07:09.819 --> 00:07:13.019 that makes sense. So, you know, we always have, we always 86 00:07:13.139 --> 00:07:17.129 tend to hear or see some sort of graphics or infographic on linked Tienos or 87 00:07:17.209 --> 00:07:24.290 social media about is much more difficult to acquire our client and much more constly 88 00:07:24.410 --> 00:07:28.410 to an organization to acquire a client then it is to keep one. What 89 00:07:28.569 --> 00:07:31.079 are your spots on that? Yes, so, if you're in terms of 90 00:07:31.759 --> 00:07:39.360 acquire new logos, new customers, it's very important that you targets the right 91 00:07:39.480 --> 00:07:42.720 ones. Shooting in the wealth. Well, you know, you spend a 92 00:07:42.759 --> 00:07:47.910 lot of money and resources and the result will be poor, at least worse 93 00:07:48.230 --> 00:07:54.550 than when you are really targets or focusing on the right targets. So, 94 00:07:54.750 --> 00:07:58.779 based on this market knowledge and what you have to offer and how we also 95 00:07:58.860 --> 00:08:03.579 difficiate in the market, it's very important that you create your ideal customer profile 96 00:08:05.180 --> 00:08:11.019 and setting that up starting that way. So really going through this checklist. 97 00:08:11.259 --> 00:08:16.209 How how high are they scoring on that, and are are we going after 98 00:08:16.329 --> 00:08:20.370 that customer to add that noelling to them. That makes a big difference in 99 00:08:20.490 --> 00:08:26.889 that approach and also not only from handing it out from marketing to sales, 100 00:08:26.319 --> 00:08:33.519 but really working closely together that down the demon to waterfall, working together to 101 00:08:35.360 --> 00:08:41.399 actually not pushing but nurture elite or contact through that funnel and take them in 102 00:08:41.470 --> 00:08:46.669 the journey and at the end, hopefully closing the deal. so that is 103 00:08:46.909 --> 00:08:52.470 the acquiring part. If you talk about me taking I strongly believe in relationship. 104 00:08:54.590 --> 00:08:58.419 How do you turn a customer into a fan or it's a cut? 105 00:08:58.980 --> 00:09:03.779 That is very critical here, and that is not something that happens overnight. 106 00:09:03.460 --> 00:09:07.620 It's as what do you think the company should put that investment? But when 107 00:09:07.659 --> 00:09:11.769 do you think is the most expensive or maybe the most complicated, is it? 108 00:09:11.970 --> 00:09:16.409 It is acquiring a few customers with making sure to keep them. alls 109 00:09:16.490 --> 00:09:18.210 you've got the wheels of gross kind of going, because you can, of 110 00:09:18.289 --> 00:09:22.169 added adapt in time of proven us is here, so must I guess I'm 111 00:09:22.250 --> 00:09:26.240 picturing in my head right now some sort of shoo graphic or you see like 112 00:09:26.279 --> 00:09:31.159 a staircase proven new growth, because you keep customers and and as you keep 113 00:09:31.240 --> 00:09:33.320 them, you add new customers every months, every quilter, and you see 114 00:09:33.360 --> 00:09:37.360 your ron new growing. So I guess my question was more on the from 115 00:09:37.480 --> 00:09:41.190 your perspective and your experience in working with your clients, where do you think? 116 00:09:41.750 --> 00:09:45.870 I would you spread the focus? So if you've got hundred percent of 117 00:09:45.909 --> 00:09:48.149 a cell steam or the person of the human capital of a company, on 118 00:09:48.309 --> 00:09:52.940 the positive, the employee in cells or in customer attention, no matter what 119 00:09:52.059 --> 00:09:56.580 they're doing, but a client facing tape of roll, would you put certain 120 00:09:56.620 --> 00:10:01.019 post of your I thought, to a quay acquisition and seventy percent of your 121 00:10:01.059 --> 00:10:05.379 effort in retention. Would you do at fifty? Is it something that you 122 00:10:05.419 --> 00:10:09.809 would adapt based on the life cycle of the organization the market, and you 123 00:10:09.889 --> 00:10:15.889 may Stut with actually sixty percent acquisition, forty percent retention and then they've been 124 00:10:15.889 --> 00:10:18.049 at evil for what time? Is Smoking of the you know, we are 125 00:10:18.049 --> 00:10:22.399 speaking about the wins of value and bears and kind of thinking something that is 126 00:10:22.480 --> 00:10:26.399 progressing over time as well. Want you to get your soul surrounds. Yes, 127 00:10:26.919 --> 00:10:31.559 so I think it's depends a little bit the company and their portfolio. 128 00:10:33.039 --> 00:10:37.909 So let's say you have a broad portfolio like product for example. It's very 129 00:10:37.950 --> 00:10:43.509 important to to to analyze which part of the portfolio you're selling to your customers. 130 00:10:45.110 --> 00:10:48.429 So if you know that, for example, your they only take ten 131 00:10:48.549 --> 00:10:54.019 percent, but they are willing to base on survey and there's an opportunity for 132 00:10:54.220 --> 00:11:00.139 thirty percent, so then I would say wilfully, folks, for seventy percent 133 00:11:00.259 --> 00:11:05.049 or eighty percent your current customers. But then I'm talking about UPSL CROSSOL perspective. 134 00:11:05.409 --> 00:11:09.649 And then, of course you always want to Brun in some some new 135 00:11:09.730 --> 00:11:13.730 customers, new logos, because it can happen. That doesn't matter whatever you 136 00:11:13.809 --> 00:11:18.600 put into it, that you know a coustomers going to leave. So you 137 00:11:18.720 --> 00:11:22.240 can't ignore it. But there you can go, at least for a year, 138 00:11:22.759 --> 00:11:26.559 for the full focus that you get yet most out of it in terms 139 00:11:26.600 --> 00:11:31.950 of across so but at the end on for the long term, it's not 140 00:11:33.110 --> 00:11:39.269 only about that. It is how do you become actually trusted as fire sir? 141 00:11:39.549 --> 00:11:43.669 How are you going to build up that relationship that's you know whatever they 142 00:11:43.750 --> 00:11:46.740 want to buy or what they have on the road, that you are a 143 00:11:48.460 --> 00:11:52.980 spokesperson to them, and that is more important. Well, it's important as 144 00:11:52.059 --> 00:11:58.940 well because you really have to start working on the long term relationship with your 145 00:11:58.980 --> 00:12:03.970 customers, because if you do and they turn into evocut they will actually sell 146 00:12:05.169 --> 00:12:09.009 the portfolio for you. Yeah, and I think there's a big win and 147 00:12:09.090 --> 00:12:15.250 I think a lot of companies don't focus enough on this customer life cycle parts. 148 00:12:16.559 --> 00:12:20.320 That makes sense. So coming back to the spernament that you mentioned early 149 00:12:20.440 --> 00:12:26.559 on, so the employed revenue engine and the customer experience say that they will 150 00:12:26.639 --> 00:12:31.429 play an equal part of would you say that there is one particular one particular 151 00:12:31.470 --> 00:12:35.470 element of that will that is most more important often than another? Yeah, 152 00:12:35.549 --> 00:12:39.590 that was a good question because I have when I I related it together with 153 00:12:39.750 --> 00:12:43.419 the colleague I was I didn't think in that way about it. Is more 154 00:12:43.500 --> 00:12:48.299 about the things that they made rule in, but the question was very felt 155 00:12:48.419 --> 00:12:54.019 because when I was thinking about it, it's at the end it's employees, 156 00:12:54.860 --> 00:13:00.009 because if you look at employees, they are the one who you know, 157 00:13:00.129 --> 00:13:03.889 if they have the right competences and if they are happy, emplas and so 158 00:13:03.090 --> 00:13:09.570 on, they are able to build up the right revenue engine and together with 159 00:13:09.049 --> 00:13:15.879 the right culture within the empery part of high building off the right processes, 160 00:13:16.159 --> 00:13:20.320 align, school, Setix and so on, you can really work towards the 161 00:13:20.440 --> 00:13:24.240 perfect customer experience. So if I have to choose one, it will be 162 00:13:24.360 --> 00:13:30.029 emplease. Okay. And I think employees are, you know, your most 163 00:13:30.110 --> 00:13:33.870 fellow do asset as well. It's yeah, I agree with you, Great 164 00:13:33.950 --> 00:13:37.789 Your Company. Yeah, so employees are if you look at the companies. 165 00:13:39.029 --> 00:13:43.460 No, it's more like a kind of well and as it and negative words. 166 00:13:43.860 --> 00:13:46.220 You know, the job needs to get done, instead of really seeing 167 00:13:46.259 --> 00:13:52.299 the value of which can get out of it if you have answer a high 168 00:13:52.340 --> 00:13:58.129 potential ones, having a very good eye on what modern leadership means instead of 169 00:13:58.330 --> 00:14:03.690 traditional management. So these things are, you know, dependencies, of course, 170 00:14:03.370 --> 00:14:09.370 but yeah, I absolutely go for and Preee, absolutely agree with you. 171 00:14:09.450 --> 00:14:11.919 And Miss a big thing for US employee on Blue, your retention, 172 00:14:13.279 --> 00:14:18.559 on Blue Development, you know, great people from within, offering people opportunities 173 00:14:18.600 --> 00:14:22.960 to grow internally within the business so you can give them back the loyalty that 174 00:14:24.039 --> 00:14:26.549 they've been giving you in the first place by doing a good job in the 175 00:14:26.669 --> 00:14:30.509 current fall. So all the all the things around promotion, helping people to 176 00:14:30.669 --> 00:14:33.269 grow their carrier grow there. That experience is a big thing for so we 177 00:14:33.509 --> 00:14:39.460 would definitely agree with you that employees really important and being a company that has 178 00:14:39.500 --> 00:14:43.539 been investing a lot in its employees and developing on plays actually in our business. 179 00:14:43.659 --> 00:14:46.419 If you think about it, absolutely hundred percent of the people that have 180 00:14:46.539 --> 00:14:52.059 been that have been promoted are are in position of management, apart from a 181 00:14:52.179 --> 00:14:54.769 finance function, which is very specialist, and obviously we need to have people 182 00:14:54.769 --> 00:14:58.450 who are we could qualification on that side. are coming from the bottom. 183 00:14:58.450 --> 00:15:03.090 They're coming from working in the team and making all their way up to where 184 00:15:03.090 --> 00:15:07.720 they are right now. And while I think it's relatively painful because you need 185 00:15:07.759 --> 00:15:11.799 to you need to sometimes give someone's three amounds six months to adapt to a 186 00:15:11.879 --> 00:15:16.919 new role because they've never done it before and maybe it would be easier to 187 00:15:16.559 --> 00:15:22.549 to recruit someone from the outside that's got an NBA or PhD on that specific 188 00:15:22.669 --> 00:15:26.230 topic or, yeah, experience and come up with new ideas. I think 189 00:15:26.309 --> 00:15:31.750 what you get is really a loyalty and in the long term, it's culture. 190 00:15:31.909 --> 00:15:35.940 It's about developing a culture of the company exactly exactly we really pride ourselves 191 00:15:37.059 --> 00:15:41.179 that actually not only is great for the customers, because we've got customers that 192 00:15:41.340 --> 00:15:43.139 go for one year, two years doing some other stuff and then they come 193 00:15:43.179 --> 00:15:46.580 back and it's well. You still have the same team in place. I'm 194 00:15:46.620 --> 00:15:50.570 still speaking to the same people. This is wonderful, but also is great 195 00:15:50.649 --> 00:15:54.009 when we are trying to attract new talents. So when we will get exactly 196 00:15:54.250 --> 00:15:56.289 to an interview, the people were sitting on the other side of the table, 197 00:15:58.129 --> 00:16:02.250 people that were in their shoes maybe one year to your three years ago, 198 00:16:02.809 --> 00:16:07.440 and they can speak about the experience. They are like example of the 199 00:16:07.519 --> 00:16:11.000 success of the company and I think that that's that's so important. And people 200 00:16:11.200 --> 00:16:15.000 sometimes, and I think is also employee, sometimes, some pray, don't 201 00:16:15.120 --> 00:16:19.590 tend to look at the progression internally and they believe that maybe doing one year 202 00:16:19.669 --> 00:16:25.230 here another you're there, and moving ship every eighteen months is a good thing 203 00:16:25.309 --> 00:16:29.909 for that carrier when you could be. But I think the way I, 204 00:16:30.190 --> 00:16:33.259 at least the way I tend to recruit, is always look at our own 205 00:16:33.299 --> 00:16:36.980 people have been staying in the company that I've they've been promotes it have they've 206 00:16:36.980 --> 00:16:40.100 been showing loyalty, and that loyalty is important because if they are loyal to 207 00:16:40.179 --> 00:16:44.580 you, they will be loyal to the currents and exactly it's growth. So 208 00:16:45.019 --> 00:16:48.129 my next question is more about the fact that have a bit of a number 209 00:16:48.129 --> 00:16:52.090 of free can forbody to business. I like to merge our stuff and I 210 00:16:52.169 --> 00:16:56.330 like to like to under some what success mean and you know, take the 211 00:16:56.409 --> 00:17:00.610 white board over and then put some kpis in place and all that. So 212 00:17:00.970 --> 00:17:04.000 you probably already feel one going. But in regards to measuring growth, there 213 00:17:04.119 --> 00:17:08.440 is some obvious apis that you know where then you gross profit growth and all 214 00:17:08.559 --> 00:17:11.720 that. But from your perspective, what other KPI is that needs to be 215 00:17:11.920 --> 00:17:17.990 measured to wander somewhat success look like from Cross perspective? Yes, so I 216 00:17:18.069 --> 00:17:21.630 can mention a few. So actually, in the Indus Model I connect also 217 00:17:21.710 --> 00:17:25.430 in the sub ingredients I connect at Matrix to it, because if you can 218 00:17:25.549 --> 00:17:29.349 measure anything, you know it's becomes a kind of Nice to have. So 219 00:17:30.059 --> 00:17:34.940 absolutely right. How important metrics are in this? And I think that I 220 00:17:34.980 --> 00:17:40.539 won't say the most simple one, but you're not promote score grand PS. 221 00:17:40.980 --> 00:17:44.569 That is a very important one. I would say. If you talk about 222 00:17:44.730 --> 00:17:48.690 growth, what is your share a share wallet? How big is your retention? 223 00:17:48.289 --> 00:17:52.170 If you look at the customer side, or retention is of course also 224 00:17:52.250 --> 00:17:56.730 customer sites, but also how many customers turn in the end into advocates. 225 00:17:59.279 --> 00:18:03.880 And how does the High Potential Employe score looks like? And Yeah, and 226 00:18:04.039 --> 00:18:07.000 of course, very simple one. Are you hitting the refue targets? But 227 00:18:07.400 --> 00:18:14.589 that can be challenged as well. But also one among empryees. Do we 228 00:18:14.670 --> 00:18:18.670 have a five star ranking of the press best place to work, and what 229 00:18:18.829 --> 00:18:22.390 I effort are you putting into that to be to get that five star ranking? 230 00:18:23.509 --> 00:18:26.460 Of course, that next perfect sense. Just a few ones and talk 231 00:18:26.500 --> 00:18:30.940 about that. I can talk hours about this and also how to measure it. 232 00:18:30.220 --> 00:18:36.619 But but I think these are very well simple things to measure. But 233 00:18:36.819 --> 00:18:42.450 also when seller becomes a customer, having the right surface in place and actually 234 00:18:42.450 --> 00:18:47.730 act upon those surface surface. So they oh, we get a self and 235 00:18:47.769 --> 00:18:51.250 out. That's fine, but what actions are actions? Are you going to 236 00:18:51.410 --> 00:18:56.400 connect or are you going to change your strategy to become a nine set of 237 00:18:56.519 --> 00:19:00.799 a set? These are very simple things to do, but the risk is 238 00:19:00.039 --> 00:19:07.119 that everyone goes over in their their daily responsibilities and forget about bigger whole and 239 00:19:07.559 --> 00:19:12.990 more strategic keeping the strategic point view in your minds and, you know, 240 00:19:14.190 --> 00:19:17.910 kind of having that as a feedback look loop all the time. Okay, 241 00:19:17.990 --> 00:19:19.589 this is how we create a strategy, how does it look like? How 242 00:19:19.750 --> 00:19:26.059 is evolving? We have to change things here in our approach. You know, 243 00:19:26.500 --> 00:19:30.380 that is something that needs to stay alive from my perspective, otherwise it 244 00:19:30.500 --> 00:19:36.380 becomes a kind of bad documents. That is a big risk. Yeah, 245 00:19:36.900 --> 00:19:40.450 okay, we'll thank you very much for insighted. That's a big really enjoy 246 00:19:40.490 --> 00:19:44.930 the conversation to then some interesting sorts that that you brought to the table. 247 00:19:45.130 --> 00:19:48.730 So if anyone wants to carry on the conversational or get in touch with you 248 00:19:48.930 --> 00:19:52.690 or engage with pride, what would be the best way to engage with really 249 00:19:52.809 --> 00:19:57.000 best? I think probably Linkedin'. I don't know if that is possible to 250 00:19:57.079 --> 00:20:03.799 share that and I would be very happy to connect with people to that they 251 00:20:03.880 --> 00:20:07.190 share their huts or the challenges, because I really like to talk about this 252 00:20:07.430 --> 00:20:12.470 topic and also from a peer to peer perspective, helping your colleagues in a 253 00:20:12.549 --> 00:20:18.390 fields with their challenges. That's something I really like. Okay, perfect, 254 00:20:18.470 --> 00:20:21.779 what we we so? So what we will do? We will show the 255 00:20:22.259 --> 00:20:25.619 podcast anyone on Linkedin page. So I'm sure people will be able to find 256 00:20:25.700 --> 00:20:29.539 you and and add you to to get started from there. So once again, 257 00:20:29.579 --> 00:20:30.619 I wanted to thank you for your time. His bethy was great to 258 00:20:30.660 --> 00:20:34.019 a younger show today. No, thanks for having me. It was pushing. 259 00:20:36.289 --> 00:20:41.930 operatics has redefined the meaning of revenue generation for technology companies worldwide. While 260 00:20:41.970 --> 00:20:48.369 the traditional concepts of building and managing inside sales teams inhouse has existed for many 261 00:20:48.410 --> 00:20:52.839 years, companies are struggling with a lack of focus, agility and scale required 262 00:20:52.960 --> 00:21:00.039 in today's fast and complex world of enterprise technology sales. See How operatics can 263 00:21:00.160 --> 00:21:06.910 help your company accelerate pipeline at operatics dotnet. You've been listening to BEDB revenue 264 00:21:06.910 --> 00:21:11.230 acceleration. To ensure that you never miss an episode, subscribe to the show 265 00:21:11.309 --> 00:21:15.349 in your favorite podcast player. Thank you so much for listening. Until next 266 00:21:15.390 --> time.

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