B2B Marketing consultant in pune

About The Client

Our client is a global leading manufacturer of commercial trucks, buses, defense vehicles and engines.

The Challenge

Our client recognized the value in implementing a full Strategic Meeting Management (SMM) program and chose Creative Group to support the initiative. Like many companies, key stakeholders had some visibility into overall global meeting spend, but the picture was incomplete. A greater understanding of meeting data, including overall volume, costs, and ROI was desired.

The goals were:

• To identify and consolidate all meeting activity and data
• To ensure scalability
• To identify enterprise-wide spend
• To devise internal policies and controls
• To improve risk management related to contracting
• To outline a single global meeting strategy for the company

Our role in solving  these business challenges included SMM program development, sourcing, meeting planning, logistical support, group air travel and on-site management services.

The Solution

We analyzed the current state of their program and outlined milestones that would move them to their desired state, through several phases.

Discovery
Comprehensive discovery took place to isolate goals and objectives, determine where work was being duplicated and where the company was most at risk. We conducted an audit of meeting activity (with an estimated % increase for unknown spend), and reviewed their meeting registration technology. As a critical step in successful change management, functional experts and department stakeholders were identified, and their input was woven into the overall strategy. Our teams worked closely together to ensure smooth communications during the onboarding and continued execution phases.

Design
With a better understanding of meeting activity and spend, we created an enterprise-wide system of policies, processes, and tools to align all meeting stakeholders with the corporate initiative. A specific meeting and registration policy was created. Forms and templates were designed to streamline the new processes and facilitate training. This included an event request form, event estimator calculator, change order, full event management scope of work and a contract approval form.

Deploy
A client advocacy board was activated to ensure that corporate executives and department heads were in alignment with, and could actively promote the initiative and support compliance. A communication and training protocol was established and deployed in waves to hundreds of employees, both in-person and via remote sessions. We additionally supported our client with “help desk” assistance for ongoing training needs, as new employees joined the company.

The Outcome

After the initial relationship kicked-off, quarterly business reviews were established to review trends and share the aggregated data from predetermined spend categories. Both the C-suite and procurement teams were pleased to have clearer visibility into meeting and event spend, which enabled greater accuracy in corporate budgeting. Through our buying power, streamlined hotel contracting processes, and continuous negotiating practices, our client realized an overall savings of 19% in the first year.

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.