TeamLink covers your own team well. Rudy scores four more networks against your ICP and brings you the route.
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Where the 11 paths come from
Try it. Open any name to see the routes in.
What he has been saying
He writes about the problem you sell into, and he has already engaged with someone in your network. That is a warm opening, not a cold one.
Three routes in
Why Elena can reach Marcus
How the ask reaches Elena
Customer asks route through the CSM who owns the account. Never direct.
Why Gail can reach Marcus
How the ask reaches Gail
Board asks route through the CEO. Always, and only above the deal gate.
Why Devon can reach Marcus
How the ask reaches Devon
Partner asks route through the Alliances lead. Never direct to a partner.
RudyAgent
I read the CRM before touching your board. Every meeting on BMC has been with Sara Kim and her team. Nobody here has ever met Marcus Hale. Is that right?
Alex TranAE, owns this account
That is right. We have never got above the director line at BMC.
RudyAgent
Then the ask has to come from outside the deal team. I have written the account up so whoever makes the introduction knows what they are walking into. Does this look right to you?
Alex TranAE, owns this account
One fix. It says $80K because I under-quote at stage one. It is a $250K deal.
RudyAgent
Updated, and flagged for your confirmation. That also clears the board gate, which opens at $250K.
Written to the CRM
Pre-read ready. Who should Rudy approach?
Gail Whitmore is on your board and a partner at Ardent Lane. She co-invested with BMC’s chair twice and sat on the Corvia board with him. She is the shortest route to Marcus Hale. I have written it.
Gail, quick one.
My rep is working BMC Software with their Director of Security Engineering. The person I need is their CSO, Marcus Hale, and we have no way to him.
You and their chair have been in two rounds together and sat on the Corvia board. Can you broker the introduction to Marcus through him? No pitch, just the intro.
Nora
Illustrative walkthrough. BMC Software is a real company; every person and every figure shown here is invented for the example.
The two are not substitutes. Most customers keep a handful of Sales Nav seats for prospecting and put everyone else on Rudy.
People your team has actually worked with, across every account you have won.
Outside what any seat can seeReps and colleagues. TeamLink covers their connections, and covers them well.
Covered by TeamLinkTheir prior companies, their prior teams, the people who reported to them.
Outside what any seat can seeWho they sold into last quarter, and who signed it.
Outside what any seat can seeIncluding the other companies their funds are invested in.
Outside what any seat can seeIllustrative, not a customer figure. TeamLink does the first one properly. The other four sit outside any seat, and none of the five is scored against your ICP or ranked by who would actually say yes.
| Sales NavigatorProfessional network | BoomerangRelationship agent | |
|---|---|---|
| FINDING THE PATH IN | ||
| Whose network it can see | Everyone holding a seat, via TeamLink | Team, customers, partners, board |
| How many of your five networks | Your own team | All five |
| Scored against your ICP | ||
| What counts as a relationship | A connection request accepted | Calendar, Slack, email, engagement, history |
| Relationship strength scored | ||
| Willingness to help, not just connected | ||
| Routes through your board and its funds | ||
| Routes through your customers’ champions | ||
| Names who internally should ask | ||
| Remembers every prior ask of that person | ||
| Drafts the ask and follows up | ||
| KEEPING THE BUYING COMMITTEE CURRENT | ||
| New hires surfaced for you | Search again yourself | In Slack, same day |
| Promotion separated from a sideways move | ||
| Departing champion tracked to where they went | Flags the new account | |
| Post and comment engagement read for you | You open every thread | |
| Written back to the CRM | You type it in | |
| HOW IT REACHES YOU | ||
| Where it lives | Its own tab | Slack, the CRM record, MCP and API |
| Comes to you, or you go to it | You go to it | It comes to you |
| WHAT IT COSTS YOU | ||
| Seats needed to prospect | One per rep | A handful of power users |
| Everyone else on the team | Needs a seat to take part | Works in Slack and the CRM |
| Time spent keeping accounts current | Every rep, every month | 1,400 hours returned at Armis |
No. Sales Navigator is the best professional network there is and it is very good at finding who exists where. Boomerang scores the relationships your company already has and turns them into a route in. Most customers run both.
Your customer and champion network, your own team, your VPs and directors, your partners, and your executives, board and investors. All of them scored against your ICP, not just the connections held by reps with a seat.
TeamLink does your own team properly and we would keep using it. It does not reach your customers’ champions, your partners or your board, and it does not score any connection for strength, willingness or fit against your ICP.
Calendar, Slack and Teams including shared customer channels, email threads, LinkedIn engagement, shared history such as working or studying together, and every prior introduction asked of that person.
About thirty minutes. Connect your CRM, calendar and Slack, and the graph you already own shows up.
Watch one account for a week and see what you were missing.
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