Acquisition project | Nektar-Accelerate your revenue
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Acquisition project | Nektar-Accelerate your revenue

What is Nektar?

Nektar at its core is a data capture platform, that captures & creates contacts, and activities from inboxes, calendars, zoom, etc, and provides actionable insights. Say goodbye to manual data entry and siloed data. Nektar seamlessly integrates with your mailing system and salesforce, to ensure complete and accurate data. This unified data across GTM teams ensures you get the right signals on pipeline health.


Key capabilities of Nektar:

  • Complete customer interaction data integration in your CRM
  • AI-driven auto-association of data to Opportunities in CRM
  • Unleashing dynamic buying committee intelligence
  • Tracking buying committee engagement
  • Monitoring job changes and company transitions


The best part? It requires Zero User Adoption.


ICP:


ICP 1

ICP 2

ICP 3

ICP 4

ICP 5

ICP 6

ICP 7

ICP Name

SACG - RevOpsSACG - SalesMM - RevOpsMM - SalesENT - RevOpsENT - SalesENT - CS

Job Title

RevOps Director

Vp/Director of Sales

RevOps Director

Vp/Director of Sales

RevOps Director

Vp/Director of Sales

Vp/Director of Sales

Org Size

>250 Employees

>250 Employees

250-1000 Employees

250-1000 Employees

>1000 Employees

>1000 Employees

>1000 Employees

Org Industry

SaaS

SaaS

SaaS

SaaS

SaaS

SaaS

SaaS

Size of Sales Team

>20

>20

>20

>20

>20

>20

>20

Org Revenue

>10mn

>10mn






Growth Type

Sales Lead

Sales Lead

Sales Lead

Sales Lead

Sales Lead

Sales Lead

Sales Lead

Geography

North America

North America

North America

North America

North America

North America

North America

Technology Present

Salesforce, Gmail, Outlook, EAC,

Salesforce Inbox, Yesware,

Lightning sync

Salesforce, Gmail, Outlook, EAC,

Salesforce Inbox, Yesware,

Lightning sync

Salesforce, Gmail, Outlook,

Salesforce, Gmail, Outlook,

Salesforce, Gmail, Outlook,

Salesforce, Gmail, Outlook,

Salesforce, Gmail, Outlook,

Technology Absent

Outreach, Salesloft, Groove,

Chorus, Clari, Boostup, Gong

​Outreach, Salesloft, Groove,

Chorus, Clari, Boostup, Gong

​Outreach, Salesloft,

​Outreach, Salesloft,

Outreach, Salesloft,

​Outreach, Salesloft,

Outreach, Salesloft,

Gainsight

Role Priorities

1. Maintaining Data Reports

2. Technology & System Monitoring

1. Revenue Generation
2. Building Scalable Engines

1. Maintaining Data Reports

2. Technology & System Monitoring

1. Revenue Generation
2. Building Scalable Engines

1. Process Compliance

2. Maintaining Data Reports

3. Technology & System Monitoring

1. Maintaining Revenue Growth Rate
2. Region Expansion
1. Account Expansion

Role in Buying Group

High

High

High

High

High

High

Medium

Reports into

VP of Revops, Salesops or Sales

CRO/CEO/SVP

VP of Revops, Salesops or Sales

CRO/CEO/SVP

VP of Revops, Salesops or Sales

CRO/CEO/SVP

CRO/CCO/CBO

Preferred Communication Channel

Email

Email

Email

Email

Email

Email

Email

Where do they spend time at Work?

Linkedin, communities & Events

Linkedin, communities & Events

Linkedin, communities & Events

Linkedin, communities & Events

Linkedin, communities & Events

Linkedin, communities & Events

Linkedin, communities & Events

How do they upskill or be informed

1. Peer Network,

2. Community Newsletters

(Salesforce Ben, MSP, RevOps Co-op),

3. Community Events,

4. Linkedin Influencers,

5. Podcasts

1. Peer Network,

2. Community Newsletters

(Salesforce Ben, MSP, RevOps Co-op),

3. Community Events,

4. Linkedin Influencers,

5. Podcasts

1. Peer Network,

2. Community Newsletters

(Salesforce Ben, MSP, RevOps Co-op),

3. Community Events,

4. Linkedin Influencers,

5. Podcasts

1. Peer Network,

2. Community Newsletters

(Salesforce Ben, MSP, RevOps Co-op),

3. Community Events,

4. Linkedin Influencers,

5. Podcasts

1. Peer Network,

2. Community Newsletters

(Salesforce Ben, MSP, RevOps Co-op),

3. Community Events,

4. Linkedin Influencers,

5. Podcasts

1. Peer Network,

2. Community Newsletters

(Salesforce Ben, MSP, RevOps Co-op),

3. Community Events,

4. Linkedin Influencers,

5. Podcasts


Pain Points

1. Inaccurate or incomplete data capture leading to inaccurate forecasts

1. Unable to track individual sales performance

2. Low understanding of whether their sales reps are spending time on right accounts

3. Unable to build repeatable playbooks/Coach Sales reps properly

1. Inaccurate or incomplete data capture leading to inaccurate forecasts

1. Unable to track individual sales performance

2. Low understanding of whether their sales reps are spending time on right accounts

3. Unable to build repeatable playbooks/Coach Sales reps properly

1. Inaccurate or incomplete data capture leading to inaccurate forecasts

2. No Data points to understand process gaps

1. Unable to track individual sales performance

2. Low understanding of whether their sales reps are spending time on right accounts

3. Unable to build repeatable playbooks/Coach Sales reps properly

1. Track engagement within accounts/customers

2. Churn prediction

Current solution

1. Partial Manual data capture by chasing sales teams

2. Partial Data entry with tools like EAC, etc

1. Manual Deal Reviews

2. Reliance on Sales Ops/ RevOps

1. Chasing Reps for Data Enrichment

1. Manual Deal Reviews

2. Reliance on Sales Ops/ RevOps

1. Chasing Reps for Data Enrichment

1. Manual Deal Reviews

1. Tools like Gainsight, or excel

Influencers

Growth Teams,

VP/Director of Sales, CROs

RevOps, SalesOps, CEO/CRO

Growth Teams,

VP/Director of Sales, CROs

RevOps, SalesOps, CEO/CRO

Growth Teams,

VP/Director of Sales, CROs

RevOps, SalesOps, CEO/CRO

CRO, CCO, etc

Blockers

1. InfoSec Team

2. Finance Controllers (CFO, Finance Officer)

1. InfoSec Team

2. Finance Controllers (CFO, Finance Officer)

1. InfoSec Team

2. Finance Controllers (CFO, Finance Officer)

1. InfoSec Team

2. Finance Controllers (CFO, Finance Officer)

1. InfoSec Team

2. Finance Controllers (CFO, Finance Officer)

1. InfoSec Team

2. Finance Controllers (CFO, Finance Officer)

1. InfoSec Team

2. Finance Controllers (CFO, Finance Officer)





Market Sizing

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How did we arrive at this:

TAM:

Total # of salesforce customer = 229000

TAM $ value = Total # of salesforce customer * Nektar ACV ($25000)


SAM:

Total # of ICP Salesforce customers ( Geo: NA & Sales Team > 20) = 17,000 )

SAM $ Value = Total # of ICP Salesforce customers * Nektar ACV ($25000)

SOM:

Assumed a 5% market capture in SAM.


Source of the data: Amplemarket - Tool for prospecting & Reachouts {Nektar internal tool}



Acquisition Experiments:

Our ICP is at a status quo wrt data accuracy in Salesforce. We need to educate the market on the business impact of data inaccuracy, like bad opportunity health signals, missed opportunities due lack of multithreading etc.

The acquisition cycle is not going to be very simple like, a website visit → Demo booked → Customer, unless the prospect is already problem aware and solution aware like the ICP SACG.

And since our ICP spends most of the time on Communities & Linkedin, I think these two would be the perfect channels to experiment at this point, along with Partnership as the ecosystem is relied on partners.


Experiment #1: Community Sponsored Events:

Goal: Educate the ICP & Create doubt in their minds about their data!

Acquisition Cycle:
Community Sponsored Event → SDR Reachouts → Demo Booked → Sales Cycle → Customer


Which community event should we sponsor?

Modern Sales Pros

Why MSP?

  • Members include a mix of both personas RevOps & Sales - Faster Experiments within both
  • Our Core competitors - People.ai, SetSail.co, Rattle are sponsors of various MSP events
  • Our Peer companies (companies targeting similar ICPs) - Everstage is sponsoring 1 event every month

Audience Breakdown:

Screenshot 2024-02-12 at 6.45.50 PM.png



Potential Topics:

  1. Is your GTM data ready for AI?
  2. What’s the $ impact of CRM <> Data status quo?
  3. Maximizing Sales Productivity → Impact of Buyer Engagement Data
  4. Driving revenue predictability to the T with buyer engagement data


What do we get?

  1. Confirmed registrations from ICP = 125
    1. ICP = Director & above titles ; Companies > 1000 employees
  2. High Discoverability
    1. Place at the MSP sponsors table, right next to core competitors like “People.ai, Rattle, etc”
    2. Promotion in MSP newsletters
    3. Shout out from MSP social


How can we make this a success:

  1. Post-event cadence needs to be tailored with what we spoke about
  2. Commitment from the SDR team on # of meetings booked
  3. Post-event gifting campaign for super enterprise leads eg. Atrium


Screenshot 2024-06-07 at 9.19.54 PM.png

Cost:

$6000/event

CPL: $48

CPMQL: $150

CPDemo: $600

CPOpp: $1500 (Assuming 10% MQL→ Opp conversion rate)



Experiment #2: LinkedIn Ads


Goal: Generate 1 New Business Meeting from named account



ROI Calculations:

LTV for Nektar = $25000(ACV) x 2(Min Contract Tenure) = $50000

Affordable CAC = $5000 (to get at least an ROI of 10)

Which ICP: ENT - RevOps & ENT - Sales

Why: With recent customer acquisitions we realised our PMF is strongest in enterprise companies and they have a high propensity to pay.


Approach:

Educate ICP with TOFU ads (Video) → Share thought leadership lead magnets (Ebook) → Conversational Ads to generate new meetings →SDR Reachouts to engaged accounts → Demo → Customer


Audience:

  1. Upload list of strategic/named accounts on LI - Build a company-match audience
  2. Narrow down the audience with the following attributes:

Screenshot 2024-05-07 at 7.11.56 PM.png


Campaigns:


Campaign Type

Goal

Budget

TOFU - Video Ads

Video Views

$500

MOFU - Single image ads

Ebook Downloads

$1000

BOFU - Conversational Ads

1. Meeting

2. Website Visits

$1500

Ad Copies:



TOFU Ads

Ad1: Deal Health

Headline: Why 100% of your deals looks healthier than the reality!

Description/Caption:

Don't Gamble with Your Forecasts!

Let's be real, our sales tech has limits, and we're all feeling the pinch. The crux? Reps often miss attaching the right people to opportunities. Seems small, but it warps our entire account understanding.

Hear from Mark Kosglow, ex-CRO of Catalyst, as he unveils actionable strategies for your reps to navigate intricate buying committees.

Unlock insights at lightning speed!

Subscribe to #TheRevenueLounge today. Don't miss out!

CTA: Learn More

Video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_YPMg8TGsQcUjxURKdbscNxRFknjhC8M/view?usp=drive_link


Ad2: Forecast Accuracy

Headline: Improve Forecast Accuracy with RevOps

Caption:

Stop Gambling with your Forecasts!

Rev Ops is enhancing sales forecasts by diving deep into performance data. It's not just about knowing your numbers, it's about understanding what's truly winnable. Let's unpack what that means in today's competitive landscape.

Listen to Kevin Mulrane, VP of Sales at Biocentury as he shares insights on driving forecast accuracy in our latest Revenue Lounge Podcast.

Unlock insights at lightning speed!

Subscribe to #TheRevenueLounge today. Don't miss out!

CTA: Subscribe

Video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gHaWXk7HRbtW1K5ildq8nrStxHaXdv_1/view?usp=drive_link


MOFU Ads

Creative:

Screenshot 2024-05-09 at 11.05.42 AM.png

Headlines:

  • Help Your Sales Reps Tackle Complex Buying Committees
  • Mark Kosoglow's 6-Step Plan for Winning Over Buying Groups
  • Mark Kosoglow's Secrets to Gain Consensus in Buying Groups
  • Help your Reps Engage Executives in Buying Groups
  • Boost your Win Rate with these 8 Expert Tips
  • Learn How to Engage Key Stakeholders Throughout the Sales Process
  • Learn How to Identify the Right Stakeholders with Buying Influence.
  • Master Stakeholder Engagement in Enterprise Deals

BOFU Ads
  • Ad1 - Tracking Buyer Engagement/OCR mapping
    Sub: Trapped in False Opportunity Signals?

    Hi {Firstname},

    You might be experiencing the increasing complexity of Buying groups, with atleast 10 buyers in an opportunity. And the way SFDC is adopted at <company name>, there’s only 1 contact added in an opportunity, making it hard to understand deal health or run attribution reporting.

    You don’t want reps spending time on this and tools like Clari, Gong, Outreach have gaps in accurately adding this data, especially when there are multiple open opportunities in an account.

    Introducing Nektar which is designed to handle activity and contact sync seamlessly, making it perfect for companies with intricate selling cycles like [Company Name].

    Discover how Nektar can help you track buyer engagement and enhance your forecasts.
    • CTA 1: See Nektar in Action-> Link to Calendly
    • CTA 2: Learn More

      Nektar is the only revenue data automation platform that ensures complete, granular, and accurate buyer contact and engagement data in Salesforce and Snowflake with AI and automation and zero user adoption.

      Companies like Alteryx, Docusign, LaunchDarkly and more are improving win rates and generating more pipeline from account-based prospecting, simply by optimizing their engagement strategies with buying committees.Using AI and automation, they have instant visibility into:
      • buying roles across deals
      • job change updates of buying committee members
      • engagement trends with each buying committee member

The best part is that this is also done for historical (closed) deals.

Transform your go-to-market execution with granular and complete buying committee data.


  • Ad2 - GTM Scaling

    Hey <firstname>,

    Like most enterprises, I am assuming <company name> is gearing up for a big year in 2024.

    As you scale with more sellers and products, the complexity grows, and data can become fragmented. This is especially true in enterprise sales, where understanding who’s influencing deals and who’s coming in/out of the deal is crucial.

    Unfortunately, our current sales tech has its limits, and reps often don’t update the data, leaving us with unreliable deal signals.

    That’s where Nektar comes in. Nektar unlocks customer relationship data stuck in siloed tools, helping you build a coverage model that captures all revenue potential, including upsell and expansion opportunities.

    Unlike other solutions, Nektar can go live in less than 3 weeks. That means within a month, your team will have access to a year’s worth of data for retargeting campaigns, persona analysis, win/loss analysis, productivity benchmarks, and more.

    We recently went live with Alteryx (800+ users) in under a month in the US.

    I’d love to chat about how Nektar can enhance your GTM processes and support your scaling efforts.
    • CTA 1: Let’s connect->Link to Calendly
    • CTA 2: Learn More

      Nektar is the only revenue data automation platform that guarantees comprehensive, detailed, and accurate buyer contact and engagement data in Salesforce and Snowflake. Utilizing AI and automation, Nektar achieves this with zero user adoption required.

      By focusing on first-party data, Nektar is trusted by enterprises such as Alteryx, DocuSign, LaunchDarkly, and others to enhance their buying committee engagement strategies.

      Key Capabilities of Nektar:
      • Complete customer data integration in your CRM
      • AI-driven auto-association of data to Opportunities in CRM
      • Unleashing dynamic buying committee intelligence
      • Tracking buying committee engagement
      • Monitoring job changes and company transitions

Experiment #3: Partnerships

Goal: Build a partnership network which can give us consistent new business meetings



Who can be partners for Nektar:

  1. Salesforce implementation agencies/partners
    1. Listed SFDC partners
  2. Individual Salesforce consultants
    1. Vetrans who have spent their careers implementing or working on salesforce



How do we acquire these partners:

  1. Salesforce implementation agencies/partners
    1. List of these partners is available on salesforce exchange
    2. Cold reach-out to them via emails
    3. Salesforce specific events (World Tour, Connect, Dreamforce etc)
  2. Individual Salesforce consultants
    1. Salesforce specific events (World Tour, Connect, Dreamforce etc)



Partnership Model:

There can be 2 models:

  1. Pay per Meeting based model
    1. We pay a flat fee of $1000 per meeting booked with right persona in their client base
  2. Revenue Share per new customer
    1. We pay a revenue share after Nektar is implemented
    2. Current ACV for Salesforce implementation starts at $5000 min for MM & ENT customers, so we will need to atleast work on 10% of Revenue share with them. (We will incur a CAC of $2500 which is still good for us)



How will we drive the volumes?

For Pay per meeting model → The milestone for them is signing one big customer to get revenue share, so they will keep introducing us new customers

For Revenue Share Model:

We can set different monitory milestones:

  1. After first 5 enterprise customers, increase the Revenue share to 12% per new customer
  2. After 10 enterprise customers, increase the revenue share to 15% per new customer

Obviously, we will need to think through the % numbers, based on Ebitda



How will we make them succeed:

  1. Regular Training on TalkTracks for different personas & objectives
  2. Provide them with sales enablement assets
  3. Share common objections and how to handle them
  4. Sales Support from our side



Potential problems:

  1. Partner attribution - We will use Nektar for Nektar to solve this 😅
  2. Customer Churn in short time - Partner can be made accountable for this by sharing only realised revenue on monthly basis or keeping small window to pay partners



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