Steve Paul, Vice President of Sales and Commercial Operations at Breg is the featured guest on episode 191. Breg is a manufacturer of sports rehabilitation products and solutions. Steve is responsible for a global team that drives customer acquisition and retention. My conversation with Steve is focused on a business challenge that all businesses face – winning and keeping customers for long-term sustainable value. We all want to win and retain customers. On this episode, Steve explains how the customer segmentation and customer mapping process have enabled Breg to increase from 50% to 70% of customers being on a retained solution program.
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Strategizing Around the Business Challenge
Steve has been in this role at Breg for five years and has noticed how the markets shift, and the customer landscape continually evolves. He says everyone calls on the same customers within the industry and offers what looks like similar offerings. Breg wanted to figure out how to differentiate between the traditional brand proposition and value-added solutions.
Their approach started with looking at their existing customer base and competitive capture. They now look at business solutions that are tailored to customer needs. Breg segments based on revenue tied to a solution. Steve says some customers purchase products a la carte and others make purchases through a reciprocal business relationship. Tune in to learn about Breg’s customer workflow and how it helps them to understand customer challenges and drive long-term, sustainable customer value.
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Customer Mapping to Win and Keep Customers
Breg’s customer mapping begins with segmentation. Steve notes that there’s a difference between the a la carte purchases and purchases made through a platform. Next, detailed segmentation allows an understanding of your position in the account, their willingness to collaborate with you, and willingness to build on the relationship.
In mid-2015, Breg began using customer mapping. At the time, about 50% of customers mapped to one of their two customer solutions. One solution is focused on helping their customer drive revenue, and the other is focused on helping their customer cut costs out of the system. Today, more than 70% of their total business is mapped to a solution. Mapping customers to your most valuable solution offerings is a valuable exercise to develop sustained long-term value in customer relationships.
Breg encourages everyone to work together internally as “one team.” They connect the marketing team with the sales team to get things done. Steve says the collaborative nature and the teamwork are visible in the business results.
Steve Paul says, 'The collaborative nature of joining #marketing with the #sales team is visible in business results.' @sbengine @bernieborgesClick To TweetIdentifying resources for customer relationship building and driving revenue growth is essential. Resources in this context are headcount and budget. If you don’t know the size of the opportunity along with the competitive landscape in each opportunity, you can’t confidently predict what resources are needed to achieve your customer growth and retention goals. Listen to our conversation to find out what drivers determine how Breg allocates their commercial resources.
Once you know what you need to do, Steve says to lean into it, and get it done! You shouldn’t hesitate to make the moves. Steve notes that not all customers are created equal, and you have to build a strategy to maximize customer relationships. On episode 191, you’ll learn how Breg segments customers and strategizes to build customer relationships for long-term sustainable value.
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10 thoughts on “15 LinkedIn Profile Optimization Tips to Get Found This 2023”
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Thanks for sharing. The number of times you mention a word or phrase is still a factor for sure.
We love hearing tips as well as questions our reader, so keep them coming!
Should I change keywords overtime based on what’s popular on the internet?
There is a lot of value in this article, especially for those looking to improve their visibility on LinkedIn. My favorite of the fifteen tips shared in this article is number nine. I’ve observed that people with custom profile links, seem to get more attention than those who haven’t customized their LinkedIn profile URL. Interesting article, thank you for taking the time to put it together.
Customizing LinkedIn URLs create more visibility for sure! Thank you, Bret.
I agree with the recommendations, they are a very important part of our strategy on LinkedIn, it can give confidence to potential customers (or leaders when someone is looking for a job).
People shouldn’t underestimate keywords on their LinkedIn profile! This helped potential buyers to find me on LinkedIn more easily when they searched for certain products and/or services. Thanks Viveka!
Thank you for another great blog post. For the alt text and/or naming images, do you mean two to three different keyword phrases as a maximum, like this?
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Or can you add more keyword phrases than this?
Hey David – I honestly don’t know the efficacy of adding more keywords than that. I would stick with what you have above.
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