There’s little doubt that corporations should turn into extra data-driven to remain related available in the market. Nonetheless, in actuality, that information sits in silos whereas the info staff and advertising or gross sales groups hardly ever talk. Subsequently, corporations should bridge the hole between these departments by enabling groups to entry and use information of their most well-liked instruments.

On this episode of Gross sales Hacker, we welcome Kashish Gupta, the co-founder and co-CEO of Hightouch, a easy software enabling companies to switch buyer information from warehouses to their instruments of selection.

Kashish discusses the mission and imaginative and prescient of his firm and why they determined to be an inbound-driven enterprise, not less than on the early stage. He additionally shares his tackle AI and whether or not groups, particularly gross sales groups, ought to use instruments like ChatGPT. Lastly, Kashish explains how his groups use Hightouch internally and the gross sales staff’s position as consultants in offering worth, constructing belief, and sustaining long-term buyer relationships.

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💡 Title: Kashish Gupta

💡 What he does: Kashish is the co-founder and co-CEO of Hightouch.

💡 Firm: Hightouch

💡 Noteworthy: Alongside together with his staff, Kashish is on a mission to assist companies switch buyer information simply from their information warehouses to their chosen instruments.

💡 The place to search out Kashish: LinkedIn

Key Insights

⚡We need to bridge the hole between the info staff and the gross sales/advertising staff.

That’s why Hightouch is constructed to serve technical and non-technical customers equally. It additionally goals to allow clients to make use of information of their most well-liked instruments and on their very own phrases. ”The most important factor for us is that individuals ought to reside the place they need. So information folks like dwelling within the database, and gross sales of us like dwelling in Salesforce and Outreach. We don’t need to pressure anybody to undertake a brand new UI they don’t like or don’t need to be in day-to-day. And so, the secret is information entry; we name it information activation. So getting that information lively within the palms of enterprise customers.”

⚡In case you present context and practice it correctly, ChatGPT is usually a worthwhile ally.

We’re removed from reaching a consensus concerning using AI and instruments like ChatGPT in gross sales. Can we substitute folks, and as an alternative of asking a salesman to put in writing a chilly e mail, can ChatGPT do it? Kashish’s take is predicated on two colleges of thought. The primary is about sending the best message to the best buyer on the proper time. The second is about personalization and the way important it nonetheless is. He believes AI will help you on the draft stage, however you’ll all the time want a human to guide the software and polish the content material. ”ChatGPT is just not educated in your buyer information. It’s educated on the broader web, but when I have been to provide it my buyer information and say, Hey, right here’s the whole lot I learn about my clients. Take that as your context now. Assist me write some emails to assist me take into consideration timing. In actual fact, let me train you about timing. You then begin educating ChatGPT about timing and when to achieve out to a buyer versus not, and also you inform them, ‘Hey, these occasions signify worth for my buyer. These occasions signify a flip for my buyer.’ In case you construct the best context, I believe there’s an opportunity that this works.”

⚡Lengthy-term relationships vs. gross sales in any respect prices.

Hightouch nurtures a tradition of open, two-way communication between gross sales and product groups. As gross sales reps are speaking to clients instantly, they will be taught firsthand how customers really feel in regards to the product, what they like and don’t like, and the way they consider it might be improved. Such data is important for engineers to use the modifications correctly. In such a constellation, Hightouch acts like an extension of its clients’ enterprise operations and allows them to take part within the product’s development. As well as, the gross sales staff at Hightouch additionally supplies consultancy to clients. Their enterprise philosophy is about delivering worth and constructing belief. ”Each name we’ve ever joined for Hightouch, it’s by no means been about, like, ‘Can we earn cash off of a sale?’ The one factor we take into consideration is can we assist this particular person? And if not, let’s cease promoting them our factor. Let’s assist them determine easy methods to remedy their downside. And each single a type of relationships we construct in six to 12 months ultimately comes again and says, ‘Thanks for serving to me again then. I couldn’t use Hightouch again then as a result of I used to be nonetheless establishing my information warehouse, however since you helped me do this, I belief you, and might you assist me with this subsequent factor?’”

Episode Highlights

Hightouch Helps You Switch Knowledge Simply

”Hightouch is a straightforward software that will get information from any database into any SaaS software. We accomplice with Outreach, and we’re a simple solution to get information out of your database into Outreach.

So of us will get personalised details about their clients. What number of instances is that buyer logging? What merchandise are they clicking on the web site, and once they just lately logged in?

And utilizing that data in Outreach, they will personalize their outbound emails to their clients. And we accomplice with all of the completely different activity instruments. So we accomplice with all of the CRMs (like Salesforce), and advertising and advert instruments, like Fb, Google, TikTok, and Snapchat.”

Utilizing Knowledge to Upsell Intelligently

”For instance, chances are you’ll not have a metric in your database that claims, ‘Inform me what product my buyer’s gonna use.’ However for those who did, you could possibly use that data to market or e mail the shopper about that and upsell them.

So a standard factor folks do with Hightouch is, ‘What information can I exploit to upsell my buyer intelligently? Are you able to inform me after I ought to attain out to them and what I ought to inform them about to be able to upsell them?’”

How Hightouch Groups Use Their Product Internally

”We’re energy customers at Hightouch. So all of our onboarding emails are powered robotically by Hightouch. Our billing is even automated through Hightouch. Our CRM is powered by Hightouch, and our outreach emails are powered by Hightouch.

So we’re an Outreach buyer. We use it for e mail automation. And virtually each single activity software we use in our enterprise is powered by Hightouch, together with Intercom, Outreach, and Salesforce. And the cool factor is as a result of now we have customers that use our product earlier than they pay for it, we wanna see that for utilization.”

We Have been Very Intentional About Constructing an Inbound-Pushed Enterprise

”We couldn’t think about constructing a enterprise that will develop quick sufficient in any other case. After all, at a later stage, we would be capable to construct a enterprise that’s outbound, and we will nonetheless develop as rapidly. However you want a number of money to try this, to rent gross sales reps, outbound gross sales reps; there’s a lot extra course of you want in place to go outbound.

So our choice standards was, ‘Let’s construct one thing that individuals come to us asking us for.’ […] We created this time period referred to as Knowledge Activation. And other people would come to us, they usually’ll be like, ‘Hey, I wanna activate my information. I don’t have entry to my information. Are you able to assist me get entry to my information?’ And for technical customers, we created this time period referred to as Reverse ETL. It’s an odd time period, nevertheless it merely means getting information out of your database. […]

That controversial kind of messaging caught, and other people remembered it. It was a method like, simply get folks to speak about this factor, be the primary on search engine optimisation for that factor. And that was our demand within the early days.”

A Surplus Mentality Results in Sustainable Development

”There are companies who solely have 100 clients they will go after, they usually do have worry about dropping these hundred clients as a result of that’s just like the market measurement.

With a enterprise like Hightouch, we’re fortunate as a result of, sooner or later, everybody needs to make use of information for gross sales and advertising. It’s like a truism. So you already know that, sooner or later in time, you may shut each firm on the planet, so that you don’t should be frightened of dropping one or two accounts or making an attempt to promote them now versus later. So folks can concentrate on the long-term.”