Prospecting to Closing the deal.

1. Project: Prospecting, Pre-approach and Call
Planning, Different Presentation Styles, Various
Objection Handling & Closing Techniques
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2. 2
Ingenico International India Pvt Ltd Company

3. 3Ingenico International India Pvt Ltd Company
Ingenico Group offers the right, secure, smart and seamless
payment solutions whatever the channel: in-store, online
and mobile
They provide merchants with an unrivalled cross-channel
offer, covering the entire payment value chain

4. 4Ingenico International India Pvt Ltd Company
 Ingenico operates in a B2B market scenario. Their main clients fall under
the following three categories:
Payment Service Providers (PineLabs, Innovati, MRL etc.)
Integrators (Prizm Payment Solution, Atos Worldline etc.)
Banks (SBI, Bank of Baroda, ICICI, HDFC, Axis etc)

5. Prospecting, Pre-approach and Call Planning
 The prospect list contains all the banks in India and all the
Payment Service Providers.
 Integrators are not major buyers of the POS terminals but
they act as influencers for the major clients such as the
banks.
 Payment Service Providers provide solutions to the
merchants directly and buy directly from Ingenico (PineLabs
have exclusive contract)
 Ingenico mainly responds to the Request for Proposals
which are proposed by the banks in newspapers and online
medium to get their clients.
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6. Type of Sales Presentation Used
 Lead Generation Presentations:
 Keeps the banks and other clients updated
about their new products and technology
incorporated
 Major role in getting new deals from their
established clients
 Not used for new clients/prospects
 Sent through mails to their existing client base
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7. Type of Sales Presentation Used
 Business Overview Presentation:
 Exclusively used for new clients
 Basic overview of the company and its product portfolio and services
provided by them
 Testimonials of past clients and awards won by the company to establish
credibility
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8. Type of Sales Presentation Used
 Customized Presentation:
 Similar to Business Overview Presentations but they
customize it according to the Clients
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9. Type of Sales Presentation Used
 Solution Presentation:
 Most important presentations and usually it is about
the proposal
 Mentions the details about the agreement which
includes the AMC too
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10. Type of Sales Presentation Used
 Leave Behind Presentations:
 Shared with the clients so that they can share it internally for
information sharing purpose
 Usually these presentations are very detailed
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11. Gaining a new client or deal from existing client
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Request for proposal by
the clients
Proposal provided by
Ingenico
If clients are satisfied,
meetings are fixed and
the proposal is
presented in front of the
decision makers
All the Payment solution
providers who meet the
client's requires are
selected for the final
round
In the final round all the
qualifying payment
solution providers are
invited for the REVERSE
auction
Based on the auction
the contract is provided

12. Objections
 Service Objections
 Do you provide with the software also along with
the products?
 In how many days can you provide us with the POS
terminals?
 Can you explain us in details about the AMC and
warranty on the products?
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13. Objections
 Product Objections
 What are the various ways by which the terminals
can connect with the servers?
 How is the connectivity of the terminals?
 Can you elaborate on the other terminals which is
part of your product line?
 Company Objections
 How are your terminals different from VeriFone's ?
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14. Objection Handling Methods
 LAARC/LAIR- Listen, Acknowledge, Assess, Respond,
Confirm
 These techniques used by sales team of Ingenico in
response to the objections raised by client
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15. Closing the Sale
 Once the proposal is accepted by the clients the
deal is closed
 The selling of the terminals is a continuous
process so they believe in maintaining a long
term relationship with the clients
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16. INTELLISWIFT COMPANY
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17.  Founded in 2001 & led by technocrats
 Offices in USA (CA, AZ & NJ) & India
 3000+ employees globally
 Industry Expertise – Retail, Hi-Tech, BFSI, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Telecom,
Travel, Hospitality, Media & Education
17INTELLISWIFT COMPANY OVERVIEW

18.  Second largest private IT company
 Top 5 in minority-owned businesses
 Top 10 fastest growing companies
 Strong focus on community, employees & green values
18INTELLISWIFT COMPANY OVERVIEW

19. Prospecting, Pre-approach and Call Planning
 The sales team use various third party tools for
lead generation
 Cross sell their products and services to their
existing clients
 They have separate one pagers for the USA and
the Indian market
 There are a very few clients who respond to these
mailers
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20. Prospecting, Pre-approach and Call Planning
 They respond to Request for proposal published by companies in
online medium as well as newspapers
 There are few customers who directly approach the company also
 These customers usually are the ones who want website
development for their companies
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21. Type of Sales Presentation Used
 Business Overview Presentation:
 It is mainly used to showcase their capabilities,
resources and credibility in the market
 Snapshot of their presentation
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22. Type of sales presentation used 22

23. INTELLISWIFT DIFFERENCE (Snapshot from Business Overview Presentation)
Strategic geographical location enables 24X7
service offering and reduction in turn-around
time due to time zone differences
Offering full life-cycle
software development
and solutions to deliver a
wide spectrum of
projects
Diversified talent pool
and local availability of
skilled experts to provide
immediate scalability
Meticulous planning
and open
communication with
client thereby
mitigating risks
Vast experience with
international offshore
projects
Offering optimized designs, on-
time delivery, cost efficiency and
customized solutions
Huge Talent Pool of
700+ employees
across
North America and
Asia
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24. Acknowledge, understand
and clarify requirements
Source resumes from
Intelliswift database,
job boards, social networks,
etc.
Match technical skills
experience and
responsibility
Meet or call candidate to
discuss position, confirm
availability, and evaluate
Schedule a meeting for
the client and the
candidate
Present candidate
profile to client
Shortlist candidate
based on feedback
Check professional references
on LinkedIn as well as by
calling managers in previous
projects
Conduct background checks
(drugs test where needed) for
selected candidates
Check W2 information and
other employability criteria
and sign contract
Greet candidate on start
date with a quick start
welcome kit
Conduct regular
evaluations and follow-up
about performance
SCREEN RECRUIT CLOSE
Our team ensures seamless, flexible and customized staffing solutions
STAFFING SERVICES: METHODOLOGY (Snapshot from Business Overview Presentation)
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25. “Intelliswift’s extensive experience and deep expertise in Web Crawling and
SEO/SCM ensured that our customers meet the mandated compliance
levels and innovatively grow our revenue through partners and retailers .
As one of CSC preferred vendors Intelliswift continually delivers a high
quality of service. The response time to requests are outstanding and a
dotted professional relationship has been built between the two
companies. Intelliswift is a prime example of having a can-do attitude and
always stepping up to any challenge.
“
”
”
Example of TESTIMONIALS used in the presentations 25

26. “Contrary to prevalent practices in the industry it was a
pleasant surprise that Intelliswift takes such good care of it's
people who in turn are satisfied and productive.
Intelliswift has been transparent and forthright throughout
our engagements. Their team has accepted new challenges
and exceeded our expectations. We highly recommend them
as a trusted long term partner.
“
”
”
Example of TESTIMONIALS used in the presentations 26

27. Type of Sales Presentation Used
 Solution Presentations:
 Usually used as a response to the RFP as Proposals
 Presented by the technical leads who are part of the sales team
 Intelliswift also have a staffing division
 In that division presentations are presented by the marketing head in the sales
team
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28. Objections
 Service Objections
 Do you provide with the maintenance after the
deployment of the solution?
 How do you recruit the engineers and what is your bench
strength?
 Product Objections
 Apart from website development, what are the other
solutions you provide?
 What are the technologies who have expertise in?
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29. Objection Handling
 Company Objections
 How do you differentiate your company from the giants such as Infosys,
Accenture and IBM ?
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30. Objection Handling Methods
 LAARC/LAIR- Listen, Acknowledge, Assess,
Respond, Confirm
 These techniques used by sales team of
Intelliswift in response to the objections raised by
client.
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31. Closing the Sale
 Once the proposal is accepted by the clients the
deal is closed
 The development of the solution has time frame
of 3 months to over 1 years
 During the development period the sales team do
communicate with the clients to check satisfaction
of the clients based on the phased deliverables
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32. Bharti Airtel

33.  An Indian multinational telecommunications services company headquartered in
New Delhi, India
 Operates in 20 countries across South Asia, Africa, and the Channel Islands
 Airtel has a GSM network in all countries in which it operates,
providing 2G, 3G and 4G services depending upon the country of operation
Bharti Airtel

34.  Airtel is the world's fourth largest mobile telecommunications company by
subscribers, with over 275 million subscribers across 20 countries as of July 2013
 It is the largest cellular service provider in India, with 192.22 million subscribers as
of August 2013 Airtel is the Second largest in-country mobile operator by
subscriber base, behind China Mobile
Bharti Airtel

35. Prospecting
 The top 500 corporates in India are their suspects but they have a
predefined set of customers whom they call Listed Customers as they
call their regular Targets.
 The QFD(Qualifying Definition Filter) they use for converting suspects to
prospects are the following whose actual limit depends upon the sector
in which the suspect is operating, external factors and varies from client
to client and is maintained confidential to the company :
 Revenue
 Market Size
 Profitability
 Past Transactions or relations held in the Past
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36. Pre-Approach
 Cold Calls Method:
 Who makes this cold call depends upon the size of the business (of the
potential customer )which is at stake
 If the prospect is a multinational, The call can be made by the CEO himself else
in all other cases the Business Development Manager (BDO ) calls
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37. Pre-Approach
 Response to Requirement (RPF) Method:
 The RPFs can be sent directly to the company along with the other competitors
 It becomes Visible from the newspapers and ads placed on Portals
 Impanelled Vendors Method:
 Who sit on the board of the customers
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38. Presentation Styles
 Customized Solution Presentation:
 First three slides are dedicated to Airtel’s Credentials
 Connections:
 Information about its strength, its position in Indian as well as Foreign Market
 Market share in different states
 Solutions of Top 5 Clients:
 They give a broad view of the problems faced and solution provided by them
to their present 5 Top clients
 This is done within the purview of the disclosure agreement. This is done to
establish credibility
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39. Presentation Styles
 Customized Solution Presentation:
 Infrastructure:
 Numbers of Towers owned by them, no. of mobile sites, power network etc
 Next 2 slides deal with their understanding of the customer requirement
 Solutions:
 what are Airtel’s Proposal ? technical descriptions, protocols or mediums, commercial
part, cost calculations
 Next few slides give the timeline-when they propose to give the first few then 50 % , then
rest and a tentative timeframe of when the project will be completed
 Next comes the Terms and Conditions for services given out by Airtel
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40. Typical Process 40
Approach Prospect
Get REPF
Meeting of Account Manager
with the CIO of the customer
Sales Presentation Approval from customer
Signing of Contract with the
client
Purchase order received

41. Objections
 Service Objections:
 The objection they face from the client is when the servers
are down or the link doesn’t work for say five days at stretch
which are basically service objections
 In the standard cases these objections are raised to the
Service Manager
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42. Objection Handling Techniques
Ticketing Method
They handle objections by issuing Tickets and the tickets are taken up in
the order of first comes first basis with the exception of major cases
where immediate connectivity issue needs to be resolved and the people
involved are in thousands
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43. Tata Consultancy Services Limited
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44. Tata Consultancy Services Limited Overview
 Multinational information technology (IT) service, consulting and business solutions
company headquartered in India
 TCS operates in 46 countries
 It is a subsidiary of the Tata Group and is listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange and
the National Stock Exchange of India
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45. Tata Consultancy Services Limited Overview
 Largest Indian company by market capitalization
 Largest India-based IT services company by 2013 revenues
 TCS is now placed among the ‘Big 4’ most valuable IT services brands
worldwide.
 Ranked 40th overall in the Forbes World's Most Innovative Companies
ranking, making it both the highest-ranked IT services company and the
top Indian company.
 It is the world's 10th largest IT services provider, measured by revenues
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46. Prospecting
 A list of suspects is created by identifying all the insurance
companies; region wise
 This is typically done by the Business Relationship Manager
(BRM) who works at the client location
 There is also a role of Client Partner who has all the data
 They identify the major applications used by the client
 The changes that need to be made
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47. Prospecting
 Prospects are those insurance companies that go through the Qualifying Definition
Filter (QFD)
 Such as all the Insurance companies that are using the traditional mainframe
computers become ideal prospects where TCS can intervene and provide Windows
Communication Services to make them more sufficient
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48. Prospecting
 The QFD varies from company to company but the basic parameters
that go into designing the QFD are
 Market structure of the Company
 Position of the company in the sector in which it is serving
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49. Pre-Approach
 RPF Method:
 The Business relationship manager talks with the delivery Manager, who
is responsible for delivery technology, There he identifies the RFP,
usually the RFP is submitted by various vendors
 The various factors to be considered in this stage are:
 The technology to be used
 Resources required for coming up with a feasible solution
 Costs involved are identified
 Consultants and support
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50. RFP is obtained
Wait for Approval
Bidding Starts
Team Structuring
Interaction of Business users on
client side with business analyst
of TCS
Sent for approval to
business unit Heads
Wait for Approval
Once approval is passed-
they become client
Team structuring happens to
determine the number of
employees that need to be
taken from the onsite and the
offsite location
It includes building teams for
loading. Handling. To Do s, logs,
letters, documents, pre
appraisal, Investigation and
recovering, and segregating
them into modules.
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51. Objections
 Most of the objections are related to the services related
to
 Time Complexities
 Service Objects
 Loading
 If there is 100 % efficiency then what would be the idle
time
 Memory Usage of Applications
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52. Objection Handling Method
 Issues are raised to the solution architect team,
defects are usually uploaded on TFS (Team
Foundation Server), the central portal
 The service problems also go to the solution architect
who resolves them through performance tuning
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53. Name of Organisation: Phoenix Education
Person Contacted : Mr. Nitin Singh
Designation: Sales Head
Overview:
Phoenix Education is a company based out of Delhi. It was started to cater to
the education sector especially to schools and colleges. The company IT
solutions to schools and colleges which enables brings technology to the
classrooms. The company has various competitors, one of the major
competitors is Educomp. The solutions provided by this company and
Educomp are somewhat similar and hence the company faces stiff
competition from this large player. It operates in the Delhi – NCR regions
mainly.

54.  Prospecting: The company has various criterion for selecting a prospect. The
company has the limitation that it can serve to customers only in the Dehi –
NCR region. Hence location of the prospect becomes an important criterion.
 The company divides the institutes in four categories – viz. Category A+,
Category A, Category B and Category C. The criterion behind segregating the
institutes in these categories is the fees charged by the institute.
 The company believes that the higher the fees charged by an institute, the
higher will be the willingness of the institute to pay for the solutions offered by
the company. The Sales Team of the company then selects the institutes that
fall under the categories – A and B. It excludes the category A+ because these
institutes would want highly customized packages for them which are high in
technological innovation.
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55. 55
Ability to Pay
Decision
making power
of the authority
Need for the
company's
products

56. Pre Approach
Before a call is made to the prospect by the sales officer, important
information about the prospect is gathered. This includes, the number of
students in the institute, the reputation of the institute etc.
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57. Call Planning
The sales team after the Pre-approach work, groups the
prospects into a list based on approachability. The ones
who are situated closely are grouped together. After the
grouping is done, the sales team calls the institutes and
tries to fix appointments with the institutes. They try to fix
the appointment of all the prospects who are in the same
group.
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58. Different Presentation Styles
 Product Overview Presentation: Once an appointment is fixed the sales
person goes to the institute in which the appointment has been booked.
Sometimes it happens that the requisite person is not available in the
institute or the person might not have sufficient time for a complete
presentation. In that case the sales person introduces the company and the
products of the company in some detail depending on the time available
to the sales person. The sales person also leaves his card and a written
document about the company and the products offered by the company
with the person whom he meets and asks for any other possible time in
which he would be able to show a detailed presentation to the institute. .
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59.  Complete Presentation: Once a final meeting for the presentation is fixed
with someone who has good authority in the institute such as the institute
principal or the dean or the governing bodies. They are given a complete
presentation regarding the company and the products that are provided
by the company. In the presentation the benefits of the products and the
ways in which the products will bring value addition to the client are
emphasized. The pricing and the techniques of delivery once the
presentation is made. After the presentation is over, a round of
negotiations generally occur in which objection handling is performed.
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60. Types of Objections
 Product Objections:
 What is the need of the product for the institute?
 The product is not required by the institute.
 We do not see good benefit in the product.
 Price Objections:
 We have tight budgets and cannot afford your products
 Your products are priced very high
 Company Objections:
 We cannot trust a new company.
 What is the guarantee that you will give us what is promised.
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61. Techniques used by the Salesperson
 LAARC/LAIR- Listen, Acknowledge, Assess, Respond, Confirm
 This technique was used by the Salesperson to respond to
the objections of the client.
 Price reduction – Special discounts were given by the
salesperson to the client if the client is objecting to the price
of the product.
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62. Closing the Sale
 After the negotiation is completed, the salesperson requests
for the adequate time on which the technical time would
come to deliver the product. As per the terms of the clause,
the payments would have to be made either before the
delivery or after the delivery. This was left upto the discretion
of the client as per his convenience.
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63.  Name of Organisation: Somany Ceramics
 Person Contacted: Mr. Amit Gupta
 Designation: Area Sales Manager
 Overview
 Somany Ceramics is one of India’s Top ceramics tiles, sanitary, bathroom and
kitchen fittings provider.
 The company has a pan India base and serves a large number of clients both
commercial and retail.
 The company has an extensive sales network and has been winning large
contracts through the sales team.
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64. Prospecting
 The company has divided the complete region in which it has
presence into various Territories. Each such territory comes under
sales managers. The sales person considers every Architect, Builder,
Contractor, Turn Key Contractor present in the territory as the
prospects.
 The sales manager stays in touch with the existing builders,
architects to know about the new builders and contractors coming
up in the region. Some contractors of the company in the Delhi
region are – Ahuja Builders, Kashyap Builders. Also any interior
designer present in the area is also a prospect of the sales manager.
 The sales manager keeps a track of any building which is under
construction be it a school, a hospital, a township, flats or office
complex.
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65.  Pre Approach- After a prospective construction site is identified, it is
important to know about the type of contract of the building. It can either
be a Builder owned, a contractor or a turn-key contactor or an individual
owned site. In case of each type of ownership, different persons need to be
contacted who have the authority to take the decision.
 For a builder owned site – the Architect is the most important person to be
approached.
 For a contractor owned site – the Contactor himself is the most important
person to be approached.
 For an Individual Site – the Individual himself needs to be approached.
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66. Call Planning
 After the right person to be contacted is identified, appointment is taken
from the requisite person regarding the meeting. In the call, the sales
person introduces the company, tells about the Brand Value of the
company and the willingness is expressed to introduce the products of the
company for the new project of the client. Generally in most of the cases,
time is provided to the sales person as the client itself is willing to see the
products offered by the client.
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67. Different Presentation Styles:
 Known Architect/Contractor: In case the architect is known to the sales person then the
presentation is not given, rather the products are introduced through an informal conversation.
The architect is asked to put the name of the company as one of the company to be considered for
consideration in the Information of Records. The estimated quantity requirements, type of tiles
requirements, and other specifications are mentioned in the Information of Records.
 Domain Specific Presentation: This presentation is specific to a particular line of products. This
presentation is given in case the builder/architect is new in the area or in case a known
architect/builder/contractor asks for the presentation specifically. The sales manager himself goes
to deliver the presentation at the client’s end and takes a catalogue of the product in which the
designs and specifications of the tiles are shown. The sales manager also informs about the price of
the product to the client.
 Division wise presentation: This presentation type is given in the case where a client requires tiles as
well as some other products of the company for example the client may be interested in tiles as
well as bathroom and sanitary fittings. This type of presentation is given by a person from
corporate sales department who has knowledge of all the product belonging to the different
verticals of the company.
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68. Various Objections:
 Product is not available: The client raises the objection that the
product that he wants is not available with the company at
present.
 Price Objections: The client raises the concern that he is
getting similar products at better prices from other
competitors.
 Quality of the product: The tiles sometimes might have
breakages, bend or some rupture.
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69. Objection Handling Techniques:
 Product Objections: The product objections are handled by showing an alternate
range of product to the client and getting approval for the same.
 Price Objections: In most of the cases, to avoid price objections from the
Builders, the architect is paid an advance commission so that the architect
himself recommends the products of the company.
 Product Quality Objections: These are handled in two ways
 Pre-laying: If a defect is detected in the client before it is laid on the floor, then the
defective pieces are replaced by the company. Replacement is allowed only within one
month of the delivery of the product.
 Post-laying: If defect is detected after laying of the tiles then in that case the sales
person tries to resolve the situation amicably and offers the client the amount
difference that he suffered in the defective tiles. If still the client doesn’t agrees, then
the client is asked to take the legal route and matter is taken to the court.
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70. Closing of Sale:
 After the products are decided by the client, he asks for the
budget of the total delivery. The budget is given to the client
and he gives a Post-dated cheque to the sales person for the
delivery of the product. The products are then shipped to the
client and payment is exercised. In some cases, the clients are
also given some credit depending on the relationship of the
client with the company.
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71. Connecting Dots Technology Systems Pvt. Ltd
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72. Company Overview
 Connecting Dots is a Full Service Ecommerce and Web Development Company
 These are also one of the Magento Partners and have done some awesome work on e-Commerce
globally
 The strength of the company lies in conceptualization and innovative solutions to complex needs
 It has vast experience of developing complex scalable e-Commerce portals, Market places, B2B
stores, stores with deep customizations and back end ERP integrations
 The company works in a B2B market scenario and its main clients include:
 The Beirre Club (Bangalore, India)
 Christy Towels, Part of Welspun Group (London, UK)
 Win Shape (Atlanta, US)
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73. Prospecting
 The prospective list is formed from personal contacts and
the INC 500 list in which the company has the annual
revenue ranging from ($5 - $20) million
 These companies includes mostly web-development
companies, e-commerce websites and start-ups from
India, U.K. and U.S.
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74. Pre-Approach
 Cold Calls Method:
 Depending upon the size of the organization and the industry of the potential
customer cold calls are done by different person
 If the organization is very big then the CEO himself does the cold call otherwise
someone who has better knowledge about the prospect’s industry or the required
sector where the problem lies (for e.g. related to web development, e-commerce
portals, consulting etc.)
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75. Pre-Approach
 Statistics and Survey Results:
 For the companies seeking digital marketing various survey results and
statistics are provided to the prospective companies using various online
tools
 These results and statistics are sent to these companies in the form of a
report showing their positive points, where they lack, what are its negative
effects on their company and suggesting various methods and schemes by
which they can improve with the help of Connecting Dots
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76. Pre-Approach
 Website referrals:
 Referrals are great because you don’t have to work so hard or spend so
much to make the sale
 The new prospect comes ready-primed knowing that you do a good
job and are trustworthy
 The best business usually comes from the existing clients who have
mentioned company’s name or passed on details to their friends or
colleagues because they are happy with the service
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77. Presentation Styles
The sales presentation is mostly done by the CEO itself unless a particular problem in any technical
area is supposed to be addressed
 Problem Solving Presentation:
 This is a two-step presentation method
 The first stage is to study the individual prospect’s needs and the second is suggesting a
proposition
 Thus helping the prospect to solve the problem
 The CEO asks the prospect about the requirements and accordingly, he proposes a specific
policy, its advantages and benefits
 Similar methods are also used in web development and management consultancy
assignments relating to all functions or customized products
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78. Presentation Styles
The sales presentation is mostly done by the CEO itself unless a particular problem in any technical
area is supposed to be addressed
 Planned presentation:
 The training and technical department provides a format and the CEO then writes
explanations, descriptions and illustrations
 The advantage of this presentation method is that it appears more conversational and less
formal, as the CEO is using his own wordings
 As a result, in this presentation method the prospect also gets involved and his doubts and
questions can be carefully handled.
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79. Most of the objections are related to:
 Services
 Time complexities
 Benefits
 Price
Objections 79

80.  Objection Handling Methods:
 Pre-empting: Handle them before they happen
 Re-framing: Change their cognitive frame
 LAARC: Listen, Acknowledge, Assess, Respond, Confirm
Objection Handling Methods 80

81. Getting customer’s approval on the written
proposal containing the terms and
conditions and budget is the primary
technique used for closing the sales call
Closing The Sale 81

82. 82
Social Seety

83.  Social Seety is a Mumbai based digital organization
 Specializes in providing social media solutions for brands
 Enhancing consumer experience on digital medium is their key
focus
 Their core expertise lies in Social Media Marketing, Websites,
Applications, Twitter Campaigns and Advertisement
 Within 2 years of time frame they had done more than 80
campaigns.
Company Overview 83

84.  Some of their key clients are :
Company Overview 84

85.  A customers list is formed by the personal contacts and the top corporates in India
 Especially those whose headquarters is located in Mumbai who require Social
Media Marketing or Advertisement related solutions
 These are the suspect list
 These suspects are converted into prospects using the following QFDs whose actual
limit depends upon the sector in which the suspect is operating, external factors
and varies from client to client and is maintained confidential to the company:
 Revenue
 Market Size
 Profitability
 Past Transactions or Relations
Prospecting 85

86.  Cold Calls Method:
 Clients servicing team makes cold calls to the brands which are the
prospective customers and need an agency for advertising and
Digital Marketing
Pre-Approach 86

87.  Call Planning Method:
 The Clients servicing team and the sales team based on customer’s profile prepared during
the pre-approach stage prepares objectives for what discussions to be carried out with the
prospect for sales
 They give them a brief profile and then send them a power point presentation slides of the
company which has the following things:
 The company’s case studies and success stories
 How can they be benefited
 The USP which other companies can't give and their core competencies
Pre-Approach 87

88. Once they get a pitch, the social media or any concerned team along with the
creative team brainstorm on ideas for the brand based on their requirement and
then the presentation given to the customers are as discussed below:
 Customized Presentation:
 If the brand agrees then they give them a sales pitch power point
presentation with the ideas for their brand, how they will carry out it and
the time frame required for the project
 Sometimes they also use aids like charts, video films, prototypes etc. to
gain the attention or explain or demonstrate difficult concepts
Presentation Style 88

89. Once they get a pitch, the social media or any concerned team along with the creative
team brainstorm on ideas for the brand based on their requirement and then the
presentation given to the customers are as discussed below:
 Organized presentations:
 This presentation is done to gain trust and relationship of the customer during
follow-up if the customer seeks more time for the deal
 This involves customized conversations depending the need and requirement of
the customer
Presentation Style 89

90.  Objection Handling:
Most of the objections are related to:
 Budget base
 Awareness
 Launch plans
 Conversion rate
 Brand building
Objections 90

91.  Objection Handling Methods:
 APAC: Acknowledge; Probe; Answer; Close
 LAARC: Listen, Acknowledge, Assess, Respond, Confirm
 LAIR: Listen, Acknowledge, Identify objection, Reverse it
 Pre-empting: Handle them before they happen
Objection Handling Methods 91

92.  Closing the Sale:
 If the customer likes the proposal then a contract is
formed on the basis of time duration viz. 1 month / 3
months/ 6 months / a year or sometimes based on a
project and thus the sales call is closed
Closing the Sale 92

93. Tata Steel Limited

94.  Tata Precision Tubes – for the Auto, Boiler and Engineering segment.
 Tata Precision Tubes has a comprehensive sales and distribution network across the
country
 Clients of Tata Precision Tubes in the automotive sector include market leaders such as
Maruti Suzuki, Hero, Honda, Mahindra, TVS, etc. OEM clients include corporate giants like
Alstorm, BHEL and Thermax
 Some of the actual users of boiler tubes are NTPC, Tata Chemicals, WBPDCL, etc. Tata
Steel Ltd. primarily does a B2B sales to a large number of buyers
Company Overview

95. Prospecting
 While prospecting the sales team generates sales lead
constituting of organizations who might purchase the
product
 Tata Steel Ltd. grooms the sales team in such a way that it
is ensured that prospect list has the organizations which
have the potential to buy the product
 They then evaluate the sales leads to determine the true
prospects for their product
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96. Prospecting
 This is usually done by evaluating the lead on three parameters. The following
questions are kept in mind while qualifying a prospect or rejecting the lead:
 Do they have a need of the product?
 Do they have the budget to purchase the product?
 Does the person being contacted has the decision making power for the deal?
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97. Money
Authority
Desire
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98. Pre-Approach
 Tata Steel Ltd. as an organization fosters productivity of employees in all
aspects
 To ensure productivity of sales team, they put a lot of stress on prioritizing the
sales prospects
 Profiling:
 The sales team creates customer profiles for all prospects and then on the
basis of the profitability
 Categorization:
 They are categorized into three catogeries : A+, A, A-
 The sales team is expected to spend more resources on the prospects in
category A+ rather than A-
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99. Pre-Approach
 The product which is being sold by the sales team is used as input
material by the organizations and hence the process further
remains almost same
 Thus, overall in this case the buyers needs are the same
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100. Presentation Styles
 The presentation given to the customers are as discussed below:
 Canned presentations:
 In the very first meeting with the customers the core presentations which is usually
memorized by the sales team is presented
 The sales call is scripted based on the customer profile
 The main intention is to arouse the interest in customer’s mind and heat the
customer
 The primary intent is to close the sales deal in this step
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101. Presentation Styles
 Organized presentations:
 This presentation is done to gain trust and relationship of the
customer during follow-up if the customer seeks more time for
the deal
 This involves customized conversations depending the need and
requirement of the customer
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102. Presentation Styles
 Written Proposal:
 This is the written proposal which contains all the clauses of the sale of the
consignment
 This document contains all information which will answer all the queries of the
customer
 The terms and conditions for sale, the support and maintenance to be provided
after sales and other legal implications of this sale is explained in this document
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103. Objections Handling
 Barrier Objection:
 This is the most common type of objection the organization sales team
faces
 The Tata Steel Ltd. Sales team faced this objection if they were late for
any appointment slightly
 The customer is not ready to confront the team and even refuses to
listen to the sales pitch of the team
 For this type of objection the team is trained to create interest by
offering something unimagined
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104. Objections Handling
 Brush –Off Objection:
 In this type of objection the team faces a situation where in the customer is
delaying taking the decision by making excuses
 The sales team then coaxes the customers and gets at least a commitment of
buying a sample from the customer
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105. Objections Handling
 Price Objection Method:
 In this type of objection the customer is price conscious and raises
similar concerns for the product
 Such a objection is countered by the sales team by convincing the
customer of quality, durability and overall value derived by the product
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106. Closing the Sale
Getting customers approval on the
written proposal is the primary
technique used for closing the sales call
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107. Saint Gobain
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108. Company Overview
 Saint-Gobain Glass India is a subsidiary of Saint Gobain that manufactures
and markets solar control glass, fire resistant glass and other various types
of float glasses in India
 Saint-Gobain Glass India has its manufacturing plant at Sriperumbudur, 40
kilometres (25 mi) from Chennai.
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109. Company Overview
 Main Customers:
 Ceramic industry, Metallurgy – non-ferrous (Copper and Aluminum),
Foundry and Iron & Steel, Energy and Heat treatment
 In the domestic market there are two major manufacturers (including
GNO) for silicon carbide refractories
 The key requirements for success in the industry are technology and
consistency in quality
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110. Prospecting
 The prospecting projects from the point of view of sales is done by
creating a large database of the projects, whether they are
potential or not, and then filtering them afterwards based on the
requirement from project to project
 They name them as 'prospecting Projects'
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111. Pre-Approach
 Saint Gobain does the pre-approach for a sales project by preparing a project
specific presentation for that client and then putting the requirements of the
clients in front of them in the organization's way
 The customers tend to open up by this way and provide the right sales
requirement
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112. Call Planning
 Call Planning is done by putting a prior mail to the client
 The mail explains the agenda of meeting and also
informs about the project which is going to be executed
in future
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113. Presentation Styles
 The primary presentation style used in the organization is as under:
 Planned presentation:
 The training a format is followed and the sales team then writes explanations,
descriptions and illustrations
 The advantage of this presentation method is that it appears more
conversational and less formal, as the sales team uses his own wordings
 As a result, in this presentation method the prospect also gets involved and
his doubts and questions can be tactfully handled
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114. Objection Handling Techniques
 During the presentations to the client , various questions and objections
are raised. As far as competitor are concerned , the sales team avoid taking
the name of competitor directly and gives a generalized answer
 The following tactic is used mainly in handling the objections:
 LAARC: Listen, Acknowledge, Assess, Respond, Confirm
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115. Closing the Sale
 The deal is closed by doing negotiations twice or thrice maximum
 Sometimes the decision makes go along and close the deal after
doing the negotiation considering Cost Benefit Analysis
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116. Thank You !!
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