Contact External Moves
Re-engage lost deals and churned customers
Sales Stage
Post-Sales
Difficulty
Intermediate
Impact
High
Channels
Overview
Personnel changes create great prospecting opportunities. For example, when a new executive is hired, they typically look to make their mark in the first 90 days, including evaluating existing technology and services and buying new ones. Getting in front of these new hires early gives you the chance to influence their agenda and increase your odds of winning a deal. Plus, a new job is a natural conversation starter, since people are already fielding plenty of congratulations from their extended networks. Personnel moves can also reveal strategic changes at a company. For example, knowing which companies are hiring new executives in data science or corporate finance can tell you a lot about where they’re headed in the near future.
Key Features
Data Types
Triggers
- Identify Scoop signals with specific scoop types and within specific departments at a company within your ICP (ideal customer profile),- Identify tracked contacts which recently moved companies (tracked by a specific user with a specific origin tag)
Actions
- Discover a set number of ZoomInfo contacts which meet your contact filters
- Export
- Send records to your business system (CRM, MAT, SEP, CSV)
- Assign to a User
- Then enroll in a Campaign (optional)
- Export
- Send records to your business system (CRM, MAT, SEP, CSV)
- Assign to a User
- Then enroll in a Campaign (optional)
Default Natural Language Configuration
When there are select scoops types related to any departments for any company then discover up to 20 ZoomInfo contacts which select criteria then export to select system as record type and select campaign and assign to select user
Standard Operating Procedure
1. Monitor for Personnel Changes
- Set up alerts for executive moves, new hires, and promotions
- Configure system to track specific departments and company types
2. Define Target Criteria
- Establish filters for company size, industry, and relevance
- Set contact criteria (e.g., management level, department)
3. Automated Contact Discovery
- Trigger contact discovery in ZoomInfo when personnel changes occur
- Limit discovery to a set number of contacts (e.g., up to 20)
4. Data Export and Enrichment
- Export discovered contacts to CRM/MAT/SEP
- Enrich contact data with relevant company information
5. Lead Assignment
- Automatically assign new leads to appropriate sales team members
6. Campaign Enrollment
- Create personalized email campaign acknowledging the contact's new role
- Enroll discovered contacts into the campaign
7. Multi-Channel Engagement
- Implement outreach across email, phone, and targeted ads
- Tailor messaging to highlight relevance to new role
8. Follow-up Scheduling
- Set reminders for timely follow-ups (e.g., within 90 days of new hire)
- Schedule personalized touchpoints throughout the engagement process
9. Performance Tracking
- Monitor engagement rates and conversion metrics
- Analyze success rates based on personnel change types
10. Continuous Refinement
- Regularly review and adjust target criteria and messaging
- Update playbook based on successful engagement patterns
Yield Model
Yield in $ Formula
Potential Yield = (VO * ADMER * CR / 10,000) * ADSKey Drivers
Driver Definitions
Champion Replacement Rate (CRR) This metric measures the success rate of identifying and establishing a new champion within an account when the original deal champion leaves the organization. The CRR is expressed as a percentage - a higher CRR suggests a more effective strategy in maintaining and strengthening relationships within the account despite changes in personnel.
Average Deal Size (ADS) This refers to the average revenue generated from each successful deal. Maximizing the average deal size is essential for increasing overall revenue, especially when the number of conversions is limited.
Target Account Volume (TAV) This is the total number of target accounts that are identified for this strategy.
Conversion Rate (CR) This metric indicates the proportion of leads that convert into customers. A higher conversion rate suggests a more effective engagement and follow-up strategy.
AI Agent Prompt Template
I. Prompt Instructions - Overview
This email targets contacts who have recently moved to a new company or taken on a new role. The goal is to engage with these key stakeholders, offering our services and leveraging the opportunity created by their recent career change.
II. Information Included
The email will include personalized information between <context></context> for proper dynamic insertion:
- Contact Move Information: Details about the contact's new role and company.
- Company Information: Insight into the prospect's new company, including identified pain points and behavior from engagement history.
- Signals & Behavior: Details on the account's engagement history and recent intent signals.
- Account History: Includes documented CRM account history along with a complete history of conversation data recorded via Chorus Conversational Intelligence.
- Contact Information: The primary contact who moved, along with a group of contacts across the buying committee at the new company.
- Content Library: Relevant resources or offers to share as part of the follow-up (e.g., upcoming webinars, whitepapers).
- Messaging: Tailored messaging that acknowledges the contact's new role and highlights how our services can support their objectives in the new position.
- Copilot AI Account Summary: A summary that merges ZoomInfo data, customer CRM data, email communications, and call recordings, offering a clear overview of the account's pain points and strategic goals, along with actionable next steps.
III. Email Structure
<email> <subject>{{Personalized Subject Line}}</subject> <body> <p>Hi {{Contact.FirstName}},</p> <p>Congratulations on your new role as <strong>{{Contact.NewRole}}</strong> at <strong>{{CompanyName}}</strong>! I hope you're settling in well and excited about the opportunities ahead.</p> <p>I wanted to reach out because {{Sender.Company}} has been supporting professionals like yourself in {{Contact.Industry}} with {{Sender.Company.ValueProposition}}. Given your new position, I thought you might be interested in how we could help you make an impact in your first 90 days and beyond.</p> <p>Some key ways we've helped other {{Contact.Role}} at {{CompanyName.Size}} companies include:</p> <ul> <li>{{ValuePoint1}}</li> <li>{{ValuePoint2}}</li> <li>{{ValuePoint3}}</li> </ul> <p>I'd love to schedule a brief call to discuss how we might be able to support your objectives in your new role. Would you have 15 minutes this week for a quick chat?</p> <p>In the meantime, I thought you might find this resource helpful: {{ContentLibrary.RelevantResource}}</p> <p>Looking forward to connecting!</p> <p>Best regards,</p> <p>{{Sender.Name}}</p> <p>{{Sender.Title}}, {{Sender.Company}}</p> <p>{{Sender.ContactDetails}}</p> </body> </email>IV. Context
<context> <Contact Move Information> **`{{Contact Move Information}}`** </Contact Move Information> --- <Company Information> **`{{Company Information}}`** </Company Information> --- <Signals & Behavior> **`{{Signals & Behavior}}`** </Signals & Behavior> --- <Account History> **`{{Account History}}`** </Account History> --- <Contact Information> **`{{Contact Information}}`** </Contact Information> --- <Content Library> **`{{Content Library}}`** </Content Library> --- <Messaging> `{{Messaging}}` </Messaging> --- <Copilot AI Account Summary> **`{{Copilot AI Account Summary}}`** </Copilot AI Account Summary> </context>V. Optimizations
- Subject Line Personalization: E.g., "Congratulations on Your New Role at {{CompanyName}}, {{Contact.FirstName}}!"
- Engaging Opening: Recognize the contact's recent career move right at the beginning to capture attention.
- Value-Driven Content: Highlight specific ways your company can help the contact succeed in their new role.
- Call to Action: Suggest a brief call to discuss how you can support their objectives in the new position.
- Relevant Resource: Offer a valuable resource tailored to their new role or industry to provide immediate value.
- Polished Close: Keep the tone congratulatory and forward-looking to establish a positive connection.
Merge Tokens Used
{{Personalized.SubjectLine}}{{Contact.FirstName}}{{Contact.NewRole}}{{CompanyName}}{{Contact.Industry}}{{Sender.Company}}{{ValueProposition}}{{Contact.Role}}{{Company.Size}}{{ContentLibrary.Resource}}{{Sender.Name}}{{Sender.Title}}{{Sender.ContactDetails}}Play Description for LLM
<play> **PLAY NAME** Contact External Moves --- **🔁 Triggers** - Identify Scoop signals with specific scoop types and within specific departments at a company within your ICP (ideal customer profile),- Identify tracked contacts which recently moved companies (tracked by a specific user with a specific origin tag) --- **⚡️ Actions** - Discover a set number of ZoomInfo contacts which meet your contact filters - Export - Send records to your business system (CRM, MAT, SEP, CSV) - Assign to a User - Then enroll in a Campaign (optional) - Export - Send records to your business system (CRM, MAT, SEP, CSV) - Assign to a User - Then enroll in a Campaign (optional) --- **✅ Goal / Problem to Solve** ⏪ Winback --- **➡️ Channels** ✉️ Email, 📞 Phone, 📢 Ads --- **✏️ Summary** Personnel changes create great prospecting opportunities. For example, when a new executive is hired, they typically look to make their mark in the first 90 days, including evaluating existing technology and services and buying new ones. Getting in front of these new hires early gives you the chance to influence their agenda and increase your odds of winning a deal. Plus, a new job is a natural conversation starter, since people are already fielding plenty of congratulations from their extended networks. Personnel moves can also reveal strategic changes at a company. For example, knowing which companies are hiring new executives in data science or corporate finance can tell you a lot about where they’re headed in the near future. --- **✏️ Default Natural Language** When there are **select scoops types** related to **any departments** for **any company** then discover **up to 20** ZoomInfo contacts which **select criteria** then export to **select system** as **record type** and **select campaign** and assign to **select user** --- **Explainer-Video-Script** Want to get in touch with a prospect when they move to a new company? Use the prospect external move play! When prospects change jobs, new opportunities are created for you to win business. When new executives are hired, they’re typically looking to make their mark early on, and that includes evaluating existing technology and services — and buying new ones. And often, they bring with them certain technologies they’ve previously used. Track existing customers and set up a campaign to automatically reach out when they change jobs to say congrats and pitch your solution as part of their initial effort. Getting in front of these individuals right away gives you the chance to influence their purchasing decisions and increase your odds of being the chosen vendor! --- **🏷Features)** Contact Tracking, ABM Audiences --- **🏷️ZoomInfo Data Types)** Scoops, Contact Data, Company Data --- **📁 Sales Stage** Post-Sales --- **🚦 Difficulty** 🟦 - Intermediate --- **🧪Standard Operating Procedure (SOP)** ## 1. Monitor for Personnel Changes - Set up alerts for executive moves, new hires, and promotions - Configure system to track specific departments and company types ## 2. Define Target Criteria - Establish filters for company size, industry, and relevance - Set contact criteria (e.g., management level, department) ## 3. Automated Contact Discovery - Trigger contact discovery in ZoomInfo when personnel changes occur - Limit discovery to a set number of contacts (e.g., up to 20) ## 4. Data Export and Enrichment - Export discovered contacts to CRM/MAT/SEP - Enrich contact data with relevant company information ## 5. Lead Assignment - Automatically assign new leads to appropriate sales team members ## 6. Campaign Enrollment - Create personalized email campaign acknowledging the contact's new role - Enroll discovered contacts into the campaign ## 7. Multi-Channel Engagement - Implement outreach across email, phone, and targeted ads - Tailor messaging to highlight relevance to new role ## 8. Follow-up Scheduling - Set reminders for timely follow-ups (e.g., within 90 days of new hire) - Schedule personalized touchpoints throughout the engagement process ## 9. Performance Tracking - Monitor engagement rates and conversion metrics - Analyze success rates based on personnel change types ## 10. Continuous Refinement - Regularly review and adjust target criteria and messaging - Update playbook based on successful engagement patterns --- **🪙 RAG Inputs Used (Broad)** Contact Information, Company Information, Signals & Behavior, Account Data, Content Library, Messaging, Copilot AI Account Summary --- **🪙 Email tokens Used** Personalized.SubjectLine, Contact.FirstName, Contact.NewRole, CompanyName, Contact.Industry, Sender.Company, ValueProposition, Contact.Role, Company.Size, ContentLibrary.Resource, Sender.Name, Sender.Title, Sender.ContactDetails --- **🟨 Yield in $ Formula** Potential Yield = (VO * ADMER * CR / 10,000) * ADS --- **🟨 Yield Key Drivers** Champion Replacement Rate (CRR), Average Deal Size (ADS), Target Account Volume (TAV), Conversion Rate (CR) --- **🟨 Yield Driver Definitions** Champion Replacement Rate (CRR) This metric measures the success rate of identifying and establishing a new champion within an account when the original deal champion leaves the organization. The CRR is expressed as a percentage - a higher CRR suggests a more effective strategy in maintaining and strengthening relationships within the account despite changes in personnel. Average Deal Size (ADS) This refers to the average revenue generated from each successful deal. Maximizing the average deal size is essential for increasing overall revenue, especially when the number of conversions is limited. Target Account Volume (TAV) This is the total number of target accounts that are identified for this strategy. Conversion Rate (CR) This metric indicates the proportion of leads that convert into customers. A higher conversion rate suggests a more effective engagement and follow-up strategy. --- </play>