1. Those who fit your target demographic

Ensuring your target demographic is mirrored in your BAs is essential. The consumer will feel comfortable to speak with the BA right away, and will be more likely to take the time to consider what they have to say because people connect with similar people.

2. The social butterflies

People connect with people, especially when they are authentic, genuine, and relatable. Find BAs that spark conversation with ease and can charm just about anyone. Friendly, kind, and charismatic are qualities that are mandatory to have when it comes to representation. People trust recommendations and opinions of people that they connect with.

3. People with reach and resonance

People with a natural ability to influence their peers are the kind of people you’ll want to hire. Social media influencers are often good options to reach out to if you desire more digital traffic. Otherwise, people that have held leadership positions elsewhere, had marketing or advertising related work, or simply persuasive personalities are traits that are important to look for in a potential BA.

4. Quick learners with deep understanding

Your BAs need to know the product or service like the back of their hand. BAs are providing potential customers a valuable experience by allowing them to connect with someone that can answer all questions that may arise, thus creating a greater chance to turn a potential customer into a lifelong customer. Make sure your BAs are armed with as much information as possible, then some, so they are ready to educate your new customers.

5. People with a passion for your brand

The best brand ambassador you can have is someone that already has a passion for your brand. It’s hard to fake excitement, so having someone with true and genuine passion for your product will only benefit your company’s sales. Plus, the brand ambassador will be more likely to talk up your products because of their excitement about being a part of your team.

Our Senior Vice President, Drew McCartt says “Brand ambassadors are imperative to bringing a brand to life and creating a dialogue in a way no other type of marketing can achieve in an honest and authentic way. Nothing compares to one-on-one, face-to-face engagement to drive results.” For more information about how to create a dialogue about your company using brand ambassadors, check out Drew’s interview with Smart Business.

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.