At this year’s MTV Video Music Awards with official sponsor CoverGirl we saw how they engaged their consumers via a multi-faceted approach: their #Covermoment campaign, pre-show TV advertising, mentions in celebrity messaging and a targeted social media contest. Winners of the social media consumer promotion contest won a fly away VIP experience to attend the VMAs in LA.

Consumers aged 12 to 34 submitted, via Twitter and Instagram, their ideal looks if given the opportunity to attend the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards. Their choice in make-up application, hair styling and wardrobe were evaluated by a beauty panel, which made final cuts and ultimately the selections for the grand prize.

The social media contest was a huge success attracting thousands of submissions. The campaign encouraged people to engage with the brand by being creative with CoverGirl products. Interaction over social media increased brand exposure; amplified through each entrant’s own social media network. The result reinforced that attending the MTV VMAs is on the wish list of their target market, but also the effectiveness of a campaign that allows the virtual and physical worlds to meet.

Brands have recognized that millennials seek experiences and with growing competition there has been a surge of creativity to increase sponsorship ROI. CoverGirl effectively used social media to increase their engagement in and around the VMAs. There were 14 CoverGirl consumers who were given the once in a lifetime experience to attend the MTV Video Music Awards and be pampered like celebrities. And while #Covermoment is the official stamp for the campaign, we’re certain the activation will be stamped in the memory of the winners.

Door-to-door marketing is a canvassing technique that is generally used for sales, marketing, advertising, or campaigning, in which the person or persons walk from the door of one house to the door of another, trying to sell or advertise a product or service to the general public or gather information. People who use this sales approach are often called traveling salesmen, or the archaic name drummer, to “drum up” business. This technique is also sometimes called direct sales. A variant of this involves cold calling first, when another sales representative attempts to gain agreement that a salesperson should visit.

With the realization of telephone “Do Not Call” lists it is becoming increasingly more difficult to connect with consumers and business people. An emerging trend is the deployment of very professional, highly skilled door-to-door canvassers to drive product sales and brand awareness.

Coordinating, training and motivating these teams to produce results are at the very core of Fulcrum’s proven capabilities. Fulcrum has the knowledge and experience required to implement these programs, such as best days and times to canvass, who will sell the most product; male, female, young or mature and what geographics and demographics respond best to door-to-door marketing. Put Fulcrum’s experience to work for you and avoid the costly mistakes of trying to manage these programs in-house.

Hire and Train Door-to-Door Marketing Team

If you’re in charge of hiring people, that typically means that you’ve found success in Door To Door Marketing yourself. You know what it takes to be great, but now you’re stuck with an entirely new problem. How do you find others who will be just as good (if not better) and will stick around and grow into important influencers invested in the long term growth of the company? A great D2D sales company is a great recruiting company. So what does that greatness look like?

First off, you need to realize that you’re not going to hire a superstar every time. If you think you have found one, be careful. It’s not hard for someone to seem golden during one interview and you don’t want to be fooled.

Even if you think the candidate does have a lot of great experience working in the field for other companies, you have to realize that success doesn’t always translate. What worked for them at previous companies probably won’t work as well for you. In fact, their success will probably make them stubborn; after all, what reason do they have to follow your approach when they’ve figured out their own?

It’s also possible that the rep’s previous company might have had much better-developed training and selling systems than you do, and that system was the key reason they killed it. If you’re not developing a competitive system, what does that communicate about your company? The more dialed-in you are about a rep’s success, the more likely you are to attract and keep strong performers.