How to Close More Local Sales

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If you’re a national company with lots of local agents, stores or franchises, how do you coach all those sales teams to close more business or book more appointments over the phone? Especially if you don’t know what’s happening on the phone calls to begin with and what opportunities are being missed. In this informational webinar, McKay Allen from LogMyCalls will share 15 eye-opening metrics they learned from analyzing millions of call segments across dozens of industries.

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How to Close More Local Sales16 Eye-Openers

We Discovered from Analyzing Millions of Calls

About Me- Written for Search Engine Journal, DMN, Mobile

Marketer, Technorati- Spoken at SMX, LeadsCon, SMSS, SES Conference- Host of marketing webinar interview series

- LogMyCalls.com/webinar

- Former TV news anchor and reporter- Manage the content strategy for LogMyCalls

McKay AllenContent Marketing Manager

I. BackgroundII. The Eye-Openers

Today’s Agenda

Part I.

What is LogMyCalls?- Business intelligence and call analytics- Lead scoring and deep analytics for the phone- Conversation Analytics

Global Start-Up Grand Prize Winner- 2500 companies competed- LogMyCalls selected

A Deluge of Phone Calls

Phone calls from mobile search will top 73B in 2018

$73B spend on advertising in 2013 to drive phone calls

64% of direct marketing/local businesses say calls are the best leads they receive

of mobile searchers call a business directly from mobile search results. 70%

Google AdWords drives 40 million calls each month.

Mobile Search = Calls

40 million40 million

TraditionalCall Tracking

Raw # of CallsReferring Source

Keywords (Maybe)Call Duration

Call Recording

Call tracking

STOPS

after the phone rings.

420words spoken each day on business phone calls.

A lot happensafter the phone rings.

BILLION

Conversation AnalyticsLaunched Q1 of 2014

Conversation AnalyticsConversation Analytics tells you what happens ON the call.

Part II.

The Q2 Call Report- Millions of call segments

analyzed in Q2 – every single call

- Dozens of industries- Data analyzed by Conversation

Analytics engine- Compiled by the LogMyCalls

data team

1. Conversion Rate- Conversion:

Appointment Set, Sale Made, Reservation Made, Commitment to Buy

- On 29% of the calls analyzed, one of these things occurred

- No change from Q1

2. Lead Scoring- Calls analyzed for lead

quality- Lead scoring for phone

calls- Assigned scores from

0-100- ‘Great’ Leads – 80-

100- ‘Good’ Leads – 60-80- Great leads dropped

from Q1

4. Ask for the Business

- A direct invitation for the caller to become a customer

- Examples:- ‘We have an opening at 2:00. Can we get you set

up?’

5. Call Length

- Accuracy of Conversation Analytics - Average phone call - 514 words- Average Siri inquiry – 6 words

Which Factors Impact Phone Conversion Rate

- Millions of call segments analyzed in Q1 and Q2 – every single call

- Dozens of industries- Data analyzed by Conversation

Analytics engine- Compiled by the LogMyCalls

data team

5. - 16. Conversion Rate

Remember what a conversion rate is? (Appointment Set, Commitment to Buy, Sale Made, Reservation Made)

Bonus

• Calls evaluated on a 0-100 scale. As scores go up, so do conversion rates.

• For example: Calls with a lead score between 90-100 have a conversion rate of 65%. Calls with a lead score between 0-29 have a conversion rate of 9%.

Bonus

• Calls evaluated on a 0-100 scale. As scores go up, so do conversion rates.

• For example: Calls where the agent determined needs effectively (90-100) convert at 58%. In calls where they didn’t (0-59), the conversion rate was 23%.

Bonus

• Certain events either did, or did not happen on the call• For example: Calls where the agent acquired the name of the caller

convert at 46%. Calls in which the agent did not, convert at 19%.

Conversation Analytics: Use Cases- Receive alerts for Missed

Opportunities- Append lead scores to CRM

records- Create nurture campaigns

based on conversion- Track conversion rate- Track sales performance- Webhooks and API

Calls: A Fertile Field of Data45 Cool Analytics We Extract from Phone Calls

- A comprehensive of list of every piece of data we can extract from phone calls

- Data that will improve your conversion and close rates

- mallen@logmycalls.com- Twitter: @mckaysallen- Webinar Series

LogMyCalls.com/webinar

Contact Me

McKay AllenContent Marketing Manager