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		<title>Getting to VITO</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the book &#8220;Getting to VITO (The Very Important Top Officer)&#8220;, Anthony Parinello describes the 10 steps to get the attention of key decision makers. Awhile back, I created a demand generation campaign to get the attention of 50 decision makers at 50 insurance companies. Here is what I did  [view here]: I called the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Getting-VITO-Very-Important-Officer/dp/0471675199"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-436" style="margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;" title="getting-to-vito" src="http://www.nickezzo.com/wp-content/uploads/getting-to-vito.png" alt="getting-to-vito" width="150" height="208" /></a>In the book &#8220;<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Getting-VITO-Very-Important-Officer/dp/0471675199" target="_blank">Getting to VITO (The Very Important Top Officer)</a>&#8220;, Anthony Parinello describes the 10 steps to get the attention of key decision makers.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Awhile back, I created a demand generation campaign to get the attention of 50 decision makers at 50 insurance companies.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Here is what I did  <a href="http://www.tuvox.com/application/insurance/" target="_blank">[view here]</a>:</strong></p>
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<li>I called the 50 top property and casualty insurance companies in the US and recorded what the caller experience sounded like.  As you can imagine, many of these were pretty bad.</li>
<li>I posted all 50 recordings on a <a title="Nick Ezzo Insurance Campaign" href="http://www.tuvox.com/application/insurance/" target="_blank">landing page</a>, and sent the link to 50 VITOs at 50 companies.</li>
<li>I watched the fireworks as these CEOs and VPs clicked &#8212; first on their own recordings, then on their competitors recordings.</li>
<li>Once I knew who their top competitors were, the inside sales team sent  emails and made phone follow-ups:  &#8220;you want to sound better than X and Y, don&#8217;t you?&#8221;</li>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>The results:</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Once we qualified out some of the smaller accounts, we booked more than a dozen meetings with insurance companies in North America.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Let&#8217;s hear it for VITO!</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.tuvox.com/application/insurance/" target="_blank">[view here]</a></p>

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