door to door Marketing organizations in mumbai

Face to Face Marketing and Door to Door Marketing 

Professional Qualified Sales Experts present products and services, calling on companies using our proven door to door Marketing organizations , door-to-door sales technique and door to door Marketing organizations in mumbai.

We convert potential customers to sustainable clients in the shortest space of time( door to door sales, door to door Marketing organizations ). Our professional teams interact with customers, educating them on our clients’ products/services, as well as generating immediate sales or leads with interested customers.

Marketing and advertising budgets have come under increasing pressure. door to door Marketing organizations and Door-to-door sales is a low cost distribution channel, and is an effective way to gain more return on investment. It secures increased value with minimum spend, allowing access to a customer base which is not always reached by existing marketing strategies.

Through Door to Door sales, customers can choose the most suitable deals, especially because they have a chance to ask questions and have the offering clarified by our qualified sales experts in mumbai

Door to Door Sales Agency 

We believe our experience, our sales ability and the detailed processes we have in place ensure we successfully launch new products to the market. Our sector experience and data insights ensure we are calling on the right outlets to maximise return on investment during the critical launch phase.

We have proven experience in launching challenger brands to the market along with well-established range extensions and completely new products.

We believe Fulcrum is the door-to-door-sales agency in pune best suited to owning the responsibility of launching your new product – why not give us a call to find out if we can help you?

Marketing

Sales & merchandising
Shopper  & Retail Marketing 
Direct sales 
Sales promotion
Consumer sales promotions
Trade sales promotions
Promotions team

Product launches
Product sampling
Free Sampling Activities
Demonstration Activities
Merchandising

I did door-to-door sales for nine years, in hundreds of different cities and towns all across the india. Through long, hard, agonizing trial and error, I eventually developed enough skill that I could take any product into any area on any day and make sales.

In the beginning, I struggled. But when I was about to give up on myself and quit (like 99.9% of people that try door-to-door sales do within their first few days),  experienced salesperson to give me a chance to get on track.

What I saw that day changed my life forever.

I watched as the experienced salesperson drove to an area where he had previous sales success, and listened as he explained to me why he parked his car in the exact spot he did to start his day and laid out his exact plan of attack.
Within the first 10 minutes, I learned a valuable lesson that not only made my door-to-door sales career much easier, but has also been the key to bringing in millions of dollars in revenue for my own companies, and those of thousands of others I’ve consulted to:

A current customer is the easiest person to make a sale to – many, many times easier (and less expensive) than trying to get new customers.

Most business owners operate a risky, day-to-day, transactional business, believing that the reason for getting a customer is to make a sale. That’s their biggest problem: making nothing more than “a” sale to a customer. After that initial transaction, they simply hope that their product or service or location is good enough that they will get a repeat visit from that customer.

On the other hand, sharp business owners (and door-to-door salespeople!) know that the point to making a sale is to get a customer. We have systems put together to maximize the value of that customer by making future offers to them, so that they buy more of the same product or service, or a different version, or even an entirely different product or service.

In other words, we recognize that a current customer is the easiest person to sell to, and a prospect is the hardest and most-expensive person to sell to. Therefore, we concentrate on maximizing the value of every new customer we get.

If you want to grow your business during these challenging economic times (and even during boom times), your time and effort should be invested in working to turn prospects into customers and retain them to market to in the future.
While your marketing is doing its job to get you prospects, you need to be working on turning those prospects into customers. There are a few key ways to draw them in and seal the deal. You need to be:

Inviting
Informative
Enjoyable

The biggest fear of most new customers is the dreaded “buyer’s remorse.” You want to minimize this as best you can, and if you’ve provided a quality product or service that delivers on the marketing claims you’ve made, the risk will be lower.

However, returns can still occur. Here are the two most effective ways to deal with this:

Offer to refund money — no questions asked
Offer a bonus they can keep even if they return the product

These offers alone will also lessen the impact of buyer’s remorse, because the customer will trust you more just because you showed the confidence in your product or service to offer these options in the first place.

There are number of other ways to turn a prospect into a customer:

Offer a special price as an opportunity for them to test the market.
Offer a lower price with a legitimate reason, such as clearing out inventory to pay a tax bill, for your kid’s braces, or another tangible reason. (Added bonus: Customers love you for doing this, because it makes you so much more human to them.)
Offer a referral incentive.
Offer a smaller, less expensive entry-level product to build trust.
Offer package deals.
Offer to charge less for their first purchase if they become a repeat customer.
Offer extra incentives, such as longer warranties or free bonuses, if they order by a certain date.
Offer financing options, if applicable.
Offer a bonus if they pay in full.
Offer special packaging or delivery.
Offer “name-your-own-price” incentives.
Offer comparative data or other comparison tools.
Offer to let them trade up or upgrade to something better if they want.
Offer additional, educational information to help them make the decision.

The options are really only limited by your imagination and marketing skill. You can use these or other ideas to discover what works the best for your specific business, with your specific products, services and target market.

Even if you ever find yourself doing door-to-door sales.

 

Marketing business in Viman Nagar

Building Community: 8 Hot Event Best Practices Inspired by Burning Man

Imagine standing in the middle of an expansive desert. Walking among fellow dwellers, you arrive at a 14-foot wooden structure shaped like an Owl. There’s no sign or explanation, only an open invitation for curious visitors to come inside and explore. Adjacent to the Owl sits a man at a typewriter tapping out impromptu poetry from passersby suggestions. Behind him a woman plays a hand drum and offers you a gratis grilled cheese. Welcome to Burning Man.

Held in the seemingly inhospitable blank slate of the Black Rock Desert in northwest Nevada, this beloved festival becomes a magical pop-up city built by 70,000 global attendees. Affectionately referred to as “home,” Burning Man holds the philosophy that every attendee or “Burner” is a participant and citizen of Black Rock City; there are no spectators. Each event is different (no professional acts or entertainment are booked), as citizens are encouraged to create the inclusive spaces, events, and art themselves.

Part of creating a personalized, memorable brand experience is making sure the experience is immersive — Burning Man embraces this best practice to the delight of enthusiastic repeat attendees. Whether it’s a festival in the desert or your industry’s annual conference, if the experience speaks to the intellect, imagination, and heart of your target audience, they’ll return year after year.

Burning Man runs on ten main principles that draw in attendees:

  • Radical Inclusion
  • Radical Self-reliance
  • Radical Self-expression
  • Communal Effort
  • Civic Responsibility
  • Gifting (it’s a no-cash zone!)
  • Decommodification
  • Participation
  • Immediacy
  • Leave No Trace (go green!)

In addition to its abundance of personal inspiration and self-discovery, Burning Man offers some key professional insights — namely, what event managers can learn from this festival to gain (and retain!) their own loyal community. Check out these eight themes to inspire your next event.

1. Lead with the heart to create emotional bonds

Think back to the last concert you attended. Did the singer engage with the audience, or did they just stand there and play songs? The best musicians know that for live shows, playing tunes is only part of the job. They also need to entertain: evoke an uplifting mood and create a strong connection with the audience. Entertainers who truly perform are the ones who bring in loyal crowds.

Creating connections is also key to Burning Man’s success. Everybody who attends is there to help, be part of the experience, and connect with others, whether they’re sharing resources or lending an ear to a fellow Burner. By fostering that environment, Burning Man nurtures the creation of deep emotional bonds. People come away feeling like they learned, but also that they’ve made a difference.

2. Take chances and unleash the imagination

To create a truly immersive experience, you need to get creative. By offering unique, interesting, and interactive features, you make visitors part of the event, not just passive spectators. This connected environment is created entirely by the community, with people sharing their own visions.

People love beautiful visuals and a chance to express their own creativity. Give them the space and materials to do so and you may wind up inspiring each other.

3. Seek opportunities for new insight

If you go to an event and don’t discover anything new, you probably won’t return. At Burning Man, there is always something new to discover. The events that generate fandom are those that provoke new ideas, thoughts, and insights. When you have the opportunity to learn from a wide range of people, and to contribute your own thoughts and expertise, you can spark moments where ideas fly like fireworks.

4. Speak to the inner child

Yes, we’re all professionals, but there’s no reason why professionalism and play have to be mutually exclusive. The benefits of play for adults have been well-documented, helping us be less stressed, more creative, and more open to learning. And by incorporating play into events, we get more out of the experience. The poet at Burning Man who set up his typewriter by the owl understood the value of play and engagement. His spontaneous poetry was a huge draw, sparking the creativity of everybody involved. At your own events, look over the activities planned and ask yourself if people are likely to have fun with them. It’s an important goal, but easy to overlook.

5. Embrace FOMO

Fear of missing out is a powerful human force (the struggle is real!). If your event experience can’t be recreated at home, and you can’t get the same benefits from dialing in, you’re on the right track. Burning Man accomplishes this feat with a sense of impermanence: By embracing change and rejuvenation in its events, no two Burning Mans are exactly alike. The result? Nobody wants to sit out a year, in case they miss something amazing. The event sells out each year; this year the main sale tickets sold out in 35 minutes!

6. Make it sustainable

Burning Man is the largest Leave No Trace event in the world. Being a green event means every attendee must do their part to remove all Matter Out of Place (MOOP). It is an honor to live in this protected desert for the event and the community takes pride in leaving no physical trace after exodus — that practice shows respect to the land and preserves it for coming years and generations. This ethical philosophy is a major part of the event’s brand appeal.

You can also help people create an emotional connection with your event by being environmentally responsible. The event industry can generate excessive waste. By examining your footprint throughout the life cycle of the event and thinking of ways to offset it during the event, you can show leadership and generate considerable goodwill.

7. Maximize engagement and build community

By engaging in literal community building, complete with a city name (Black Rock City), nicknames for the locale (“The City” or “The Playa”), a demonym (“Burner”), and a set of societal mores, Burning Man becomes more than an event — it’s a creative exchange between like-minded people. It’s built entirely for that community who shares their resources, art, ideas, and energy.

It takes a village to create a successful event. By practicing “radical inclusion” and thinking of every person involved in your event as part of one cohesive group, you set the stage for engagement. Come up with ways in which you can make exhibitors, sponsors, event staff, and attendees all feel like they’re part of one big community creating something amazing, helping each other learn and grow.

8. Sit with what you’ve learned

After a big event, it can be tempting to debrief immediately so you don’t forget anything. Taking notes so you remember all of the details is important, but as far as digesting and making sense of them? Give yourself a few days. After a high-adrenaline experience, it’s important to let the dust settle (and at Burning Man that’s literal!), absorb everything you’ve experienced and learned, and note what patterns might be forming. Stepping back allows you to view what worked well and how you can make next year’s event an entirely new and better experience.

 

 

 

 

 

door to door Marketing organizations in Pune

door to door Marketing organizations in mumbai

Door To Door Marketing , Advertising, retail merchandising, brand engagement,

1to1 Branding, Advertising in malls& multiplexes, Analysis

 

door to door Marketing organizations in mumbai

Face to Face Marketing and Door to Door Marketing 

Professional Qualified Sales Experts present products and services, calling on companies using our proven door to door Marketing organizations , door-to-door sales technique and door to door Marketing organizations in mumbai.

We convert potential customers to sustainable clients in the shortest space of time( door to door sales, door to door Marketing organizations ). Our professional teams interact with customers, educating them on our clients’ products/services, as well as generating immediate sales or leads with interested customers.

Marketing and advertising budgets have come under increasing pressure. door to door Marketing organizations and Door-to-door sales is a low cost distribution channel, and is an effective way to gain more return on investment. It secures increased value with minimum spend, allowing access to a customer base which is not always reached by existing marketing strategies.

Through Door to Door sales, customers can choose the most suitable deals, especially because they have a chance to ask questions and have the offering clarified by our qualified sales experts in mumbai

Door to Door Sales Agency 

We believe our experience, our sales ability and the detailed processes we have in place ensure we successfully launch new products to the market. Our sector experience and data insights ensure we are calling on the right outlets to maximise return on investment during the critical launch phase.

We have proven experience in launching challenger brands to the market along with well-established range extensions and completely new products.

We believe Fulcrum is the door-to-door-sales agency in pune best suited to owning the responsibility of launching your new product – why not give us a call to find out if we can help you?

Marketing

Sales & merchandising
Shopper  & Retail Marketing 
Direct sales 
Sales promotion
Consumer sales promotions
Trade sales promotions
Promotions team

Product launches
Product sampling
Free Sampling Activities
Demonstration Activities
Merchandising

I did door-to-door sales for nine years, in hundreds of different cities and towns all across the india. Through long, hard, agonizing trial and error, I eventually developed enough skill that I could take any product into any area on any day and make sales.

In the beginning, I struggled. But when I was about to give up on myself and quit (like 99.9% of people that try door-to-door sales do within their first few days),  experienced salesperson to give me a chance to get on track.

What I saw that day changed my life forever.

I watched as the experienced salesperson drove to an area where he had previous sales success, and listened as he explained to me why he parked his car in the exact spot he did to start his day and laid out his exact plan of attack.
Within the first 10 minutes, I learned a valuable lesson that not only made my door-to-door sales career much easier, but has also been the key to bringing in millions of dollars in revenue for my own companies, and those of thousands of others I’ve consulted to:

A current customer is the easiest person to make a sale to – many, many times easier (and less expensive) than trying to get new customers.

Most business owners operate a risky, day-to-day, transactional business, believing that the reason for getting a customer is to make a sale. That’s their biggest problem: making nothing more than “a” sale to a customer. After that initial transaction, they simply hope that their product or service or location is good enough that they will get a repeat visit from that customer.

On the other hand, sharp business owners (and door-to-door salespeople!) know that the point to making a sale is to get a customer. We have systems put together to maximize the value of that customer by making future offers to them, so that they buy more of the same product or service, or a different version, or even an entirely different product or service.

In other words, we recognize that a current customer is the easiest person to sell to, and a prospect is the hardest and most-expensive person to sell to. Therefore, we concentrate on maximizing the value of every new customer we get.

If you want to grow your business during these challenging economic times (and even during boom times), your time and effort should be invested in working to turn prospects into customers and retain them to market to in the future.
While your marketing is doing its job to get you prospects, you need to be working on turning those prospects into customers. There are a few key ways to draw them in and seal the deal. You need to be:

Inviting
Informative
Enjoyable

The biggest fear of most new customers is the dreaded “buyer’s remorse.” You want to minimize this as best you can, and if you’ve provided a quality product or service that delivers on the marketing claims you’ve made, the risk will be lower.

However, returns can still occur. Here are the two most effective ways to deal with this:

Offer to refund money — no questions asked
Offer a bonus they can keep even if they return the product

These offers alone will also lessen the impact of buyer’s remorse, because the customer will trust you more just because you showed the confidence in your product or service to offer these options in the first place.

There are number of other ways to turn a prospect into a customer:

Offer a special price as an opportunity for them to test the market.
Offer a lower price with a legitimate reason, such as clearing out inventory to pay a tax bill, for your kid’s braces, or another tangible reason. (Added bonus: Customers love you for doing this, because it makes you so much more human to them.)
Offer a referral incentive.
Offer a smaller, less expensive entry-level product to build trust.
Offer package deals.
Offer to charge less for their first purchase if they become a repeat customer.
Offer extra incentives, such as longer warranties or free bonuses, if they order by a certain date.
Offer financing options, if applicable.
Offer a bonus if they pay in full.
Offer special packaging or delivery.
Offer “name-your-own-price” incentives.
Offer comparative data or other comparison tools.
Offer to let them trade up or upgrade to something better if they want.
Offer additional, educational information to help them make the decision.

The options are really only limited by your imagination and marketing skill. You can use these or other ideas to discover what works the best for your specific business, with your specific products, services and target market.

Even if you ever find yourself doing door-to-door sales.

 

Marketing company in Magarpatta

The Corporatization of the Media

In the earlier decades of the 20th century, there was a clear distinction between the corporates and the media houses with each existing in a symbiotic relationship with other. In other words, corporate houses were content with advertising in the newspapers and the TV channels and the media houses were happy with the advertising revenues as long as they retained editorial autonomy. However, things began to change from the 1970s onwards wherein the media houses started to resemble corporate entities both in the way they were managed and run and in the way, they added spin to their stories. It was no longer the case that media houses would criticize the corporates and still get advertising revenue. On the other hand, most media houses entered into partnerships with leading corporates wherein they published stories that were friendly to the advertisers.

The other parallel trend from this period to the present is that media houses became corporates themselves in the way they approached the business of news reporting.

Each media house aligned themselves to a particular corporate among the leading companies and thus, competition between the media houses ensured that the different groupings among industry in all countries could find sympathetic reporting from each media house. Moreover, the revenues of the media houses started to grow by leaps and bounds and in this trend, media houses were no longer the independent entities that they were earlier. This can be seen in the way media conglomerates like NewsCorp (owned by Rupert Murdoch) and other companies transformed themselves from being mere reporting of the news to agenda setting behavior. No wonder that many leading media house owners are more powerful than many politicians are as the old adage that the pen is mightier than the sword became a truism.

In India, media conglomerates like the Times Group have risen in prominence in the last few decades thanks to the corporatization of the media. In the UK and the US, NewsCorp and Time Warner have come to symbolize big business and corporate media in all its glory. The point here is that the media is no longer content with just reporting the news but instead, it has morphed into entities that set the agenda and entities that play a prominent role in shaping the public discourse. In addition, the media houses entered into strategic partnerships with the leading corporates so that they get friendly press coverage. While the ethics of these trends can be debated, it is clear that media, the conception of what makes news has been altered, and the current media landscape is symbolic of corporatization of the industry.

Finally, media houses in these times are not just purveyors of news but more importantly, they have become entities, which are solely concerned with making money. Even this can be debated and as we shall discuss in subsequent articles, this has a bearing on their behavior and whether this trend is good for society. It would suffice here to state that the corporatization of the media is now complete and it would be a trend that would accelerate in the coming years.

 

 

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Articales from http://www.managementstudyguide.com

 

 

Sales and Marketing Recruiters

Our marketing and sales recruiters are recognized for utilizing an unparalleled staffing knowledge to assist all types of hiring and job search parties in sales and marketing executive search.

 Our recruiters have been a leader in doing so for the past decade.
 For the past decade our marketing and sales recruiters have been clear-cut leaders in executive search for everything from account management to marketing jobs.
 Regardless of size or scope and without exception, our marketing and sales recruiters provide an unrelenting work ethic for both fulcrum’s employers and job seekers.

Our sales headhunters are known to complete complex business development recruitment mandates providing career changing results for hiring companies and individual job seekers.

By working with some of the best names across 100 industries, our recruiters have propelled sales and marketing recruiting efforts by pairing career seekers with both national and global hiring companies that provide solid career growth, compensation as well as a progressive work atmosphere.

 

Beyond the Classroom: Matching Skills Training to the Selling Moment

 

B2B sales training could be nearing a tipping point. Investment in classroom-based training is set to remain flat in the years ahead, while investment in virtual training is poised to rise, according to a Corporate Visions survey of sales leaders. As companies struggle with challenges around training access, the increased interest in virtual training suggests sales leaders believe some training is better than no training. But what features should a modern skills training program include as companies make the shift “beyond the classroom,” relying less on scheduled training events, and more on a just-in-time, situational model? That’s what Tim Riesterer, Chief Strategy Officer at Corporate Visions, discusses in this interview with Jonathan Farrington of Top Sales World Magazine.

Q: You are co-author of “The Three Value Conversations,” a book we named top sales and marketing book last year. Can you first explain what the three value conversations are?

Tim: In show business, top performers are often praised for being the “triple threat,” meaning they can act, sing and dance. In selling there’s a triple threat skillset your salespeople must master to be a top performer – Pipeline, Proposals and Profits. And, each of these is driven by one of the three value conversations we wrote about:

Create value, where salespeople must be able to tell a story that overcomes their prospects’ status quo bias and differentiates you from the competition in a way that builds more pipeline.

Elevate value that requires them to build proposals connecting external factors and strategic initiatives to your solutions in a business case that passes muster with executive-level decision makers.

Capture value by avoiding profit leaks that occur throughout the buying process and managing the tension during negotiations to protect your margins.

These three skills can form the foundation of a competency-based training model tied to actual, measurable outcomes.

Q: What in your mind is the biggest skills training challenge B2B companies face today?

Tim: Time out of field is the first obvious challenge. In a recent survey we conducted, four out of five companies said they are not able to train as many salespeople on the skills they need each year. And, the top reason was the pressure to not take salespeople out of the field. It came in 20 percent higher than budget as a limiting factor.

Arbitrary learning paths is the second challenge. In the same survey, companies said they rely on managers to choose the training for their reps, which may have some correlation to the time-out-of-field challenge since managers feel the pressure to keep salespeople in the field. And, they rely most often on generic training paths based on rep tenure and role versus any type of performance indicators or needs assessment.

Q: Time out of the field is a valid concern for sales leaders. What can companies do to limit time out of the field without sacrificing necessary training?

Tim: The market appears to be showing increased interest in virtual training formats, but it’s conflicted, according to our survey. We found that 65 percent of companies plan to increase spending on virtual skills training, while classroom training investments will be flat.

However, those same respondents said they believe classroom training to be the most effective at changing behaviors and virtual training to be significantly less effective. It’s hard for anyone to argue this. Which means people are having to choose efficiency over effectiveness. The big breakthrough will be if companies can find a way to more effectively deploy virtual training so you can get the desired time savings and uptick in performance.

Q: What does more effective virtual training look like?

I will be the first to grant you that workshop-based training, which includes role play, stand and deliver, coaching and feedback experiences, has tremendous advantages for creating behavior change.

Virtual training is not going to be a 1-1 replacement. So, you have to think differently when it comes to applying online training for increased impact. It starts with replacing arbitrary learning paths such as rep tenure and role and manager training choice with custom learning paths.

Here we see four possibilities for using the efficiency of virtual training to gain effectiveness advantages:

Performance-based training – This starts with available data from your sales systems. The information exists to help you identify reps who are struggling in each triple threat area, such as those who are not creating enough pipeline; the reps whose pipelines are constipated with unapproved proposals stuck in the middle of the funnel; and those sellers who are unscrupulously discounting and leaking profits. Now, that you know who is struggling with either pipeline, proposals or profits, imagine being able to push them targeted, online training modules with competencies designed to improve their specific performance challenges.

Needs-based training – Relying on manager or even sales rep intuition regarding which training is most necessary can be very subjective and can now be replaced with a fluency assessment. Imagine a behavioral outcomes survey that can identify the strengths and weaknesses of salespeople across the triple threat skills and match that to specific competency modules that can be “kitted up” for a personalized learning journey tailored to their needs.

Integrated Play-based training – As you launch products and promote go-to-market strategies in sales “plays,” you create a tremendous opportunity for something we call embedded skills training. In addition to the sales messages and assets and tools in a sales play, imagine the appropriate skills training modules included right there in the play. Each play may require different selling skills. For example, you may be trying to sell a disruptive solution in one play, which requires unique skills to overcome the status quo. Or, you may have a play to sell a highly complex, integrated solution that requires executive and financial acumen skills as well as consensus-building skills. Or, you may have a play for a commoditized portfolio where your salespeople need the skills to differentiate and protect margins.

Each of these four is only made possible with the availability of flexible, virtual training modules. And, each of these four scenarios offers ways to make virtual training more effective. This becomes even more powerful if the online library is based on a tested and proven competency library.

Check out Corporate Visions’ State of the Conversation Report, “Beyond the Classroom: Trends in B2b Sales Training,” to learn more about what’s next for skills training.

 

 

door to door Marketing organizations in Pune

door to door Marketing organizations in mumbai

Door To Door Marketing , Advertising, retail merchandising, brand engagement,

1to1 Branding, Advertising in malls& multiplexes, Analysis

 

door to door Marketing organizations in mumbai

Face to Face Marketing and Door to Door Marketing 

Professional Qualified Sales Experts present products and services, calling on companies using our proven door to door Marketing organizations , door-to-door sales technique and door to door Marketing organizations in mumbai.

We convert potential customers to sustainable clients in the shortest space of time( door to door sales, door to door Marketing organizations ). Our professional teams interact with customers, educating them on our clients’ products/services, as well as generating immediate sales or leads with interested customers.

Marketing and advertising budgets have come under increasing pressure. door to door Marketing organizations and Door-to-door sales is a low cost distribution channel, and is an effective way to gain more return on investment. It secures increased value with minimum spend, allowing access to a customer base which is not always reached by existing marketing strategies.

Through Door to Door sales, customers can choose the most suitable deals, especially because they have a chance to ask questions and have the offering clarified by our qualified sales experts in mumbai

Door to Door Sales Agency 

We believe our experience, our sales ability and the detailed processes we have in place ensure we successfully launch new products to the market. Our sector experience and data insights ensure we are calling on the right outlets to maximise return on investment during the critical launch phase.

We have proven experience in launching challenger brands to the market along with well-established range extensions and completely new products.

We believe Fulcrum is the door-to-door-sales agency in pune best suited to owning the responsibility of launching your new product – why not give us a call to find out if we can help you?

Marketing

Sales & merchandising
Shopper  & Retail Marketing 
Direct sales 
Sales promotion
Consumer sales promotions
Trade sales promotions
Promotions team

Product launches
Product sampling
Free Sampling Activities
Demonstration Activities
Merchandising

I did door-to-door sales for nine years, in hundreds of different cities and towns all across the india. Through long, hard, agonizing trial and error, I eventually developed enough skill that I could take any product into any area on any day and make sales.

In the beginning, I struggled. But when I was about to give up on myself and quit (like 99.9% of people that try door-to-door sales do within their first few days),  experienced salesperson to give me a chance to get on track.

What I saw that day changed my life forever.

I watched as the experienced salesperson drove to an area where he had previous sales success, and listened as he explained to me why he parked his car in the exact spot he did to start his day and laid out his exact plan of attack.
Within the first 10 minutes, I learned a valuable lesson that not only made my door-to-door sales career much easier, but has also been the key to bringing in millions of dollars in revenue for my own companies, and those of thousands of others I’ve consulted to:

A current customer is the easiest person to make a sale to – many, many times easier (and less expensive) than trying to get new customers.

Most business owners operate a risky, day-to-day, transactional business, believing that the reason for getting a customer is to make a sale. That’s their biggest problem: making nothing more than “a” sale to a customer. After that initial transaction, they simply hope that their product or service or location is good enough that they will get a repeat visit from that customer.

On the other hand, sharp business owners (and door-to-door salespeople!) know that the point to making a sale is to get a customer. We have systems put together to maximize the value of that customer by making future offers to them, so that they buy more of the same product or service, or a different version, or even an entirely different product or service.

In other words, we recognize that a current customer is the easiest person to sell to, and a prospect is the hardest and most-expensive person to sell to. Therefore, we concentrate on maximizing the value of every new customer we get.

If you want to grow your business during these challenging economic times (and even during boom times), your time and effort should be invested in working to turn prospects into customers and retain them to market to in the future.
While your marketing is doing its job to get you prospects, you need to be working on turning those prospects into customers. There are a few key ways to draw them in and seal the deal. You need to be:

Inviting
Informative
Enjoyable

The biggest fear of most new customers is the dreaded “buyer’s remorse.” You want to minimize this as best you can, and if you’ve provided a quality product or service that delivers on the marketing claims you’ve made, the risk will be lower.

However, returns can still occur. Here are the two most effective ways to deal with this:

Offer to refund money — no questions asked
Offer a bonus they can keep even if they return the product

These offers alone will also lessen the impact of buyer’s remorse, because the customer will trust you more just because you showed the confidence in your product or service to offer these options in the first place.

There are number of other ways to turn a prospect into a customer:

Offer a special price as an opportunity for them to test the market.
Offer a lower price with a legitimate reason, such as clearing out inventory to pay a tax bill, for your kid’s braces, or another tangible reason. (Added bonus: Customers love you for doing this, because it makes you so much more human to them.)
Offer a referral incentive.
Offer a smaller, less expensive entry-level product to build trust.
Offer package deals.
Offer to charge less for their first purchase if they become a repeat customer.
Offer extra incentives, such as longer warranties or free bonuses, if they order by a certain date.
Offer financing options, if applicable.
Offer a bonus if they pay in full.
Offer special packaging or delivery.
Offer “name-your-own-price” incentives.
Offer comparative data or other comparison tools.
Offer to let them trade up or upgrade to something better if they want.
Offer additional, educational information to help them make the decision.

The options are really only limited by your imagination and marketing skill. You can use these or other ideas to discover what works the best for your specific business, with your specific products, services and target market.

Even if you ever find yourself doing door-to-door sales.

 

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B2B selling

The hardest thing about B2B selling today is that customers don’t need you the way they used to. In recent decades sales reps have become adept at discovering customers’ needs and selling them “solutions”—generally, complex combinations of products and services. This worked because customers didn’t know how to solve their own problems, even though they often had a good understanding of what their problems were. But now, owing to increasingly sophisticated procurement teams and purchasing consultants armed with troves of data, companies can readily define solutions for themselves.

In fact, a recent Corporate Executive Board study of more than 1,400 B2B customers found that those customers completed, on average, nearly 60% of a typical purchasing decision—researching solutions, ranking options, setting requirements, benchmarking pricing, and so on—before even having a conversation with a supplier. In this world the celebrated “solution sales rep” can be more of an annoyance than an asset. Customers in an array of industries, from IT to insurance to business process outsourcing, are often way ahead of the salespeople who are “helping” them.

But the news is not all bad. Although traditional reps are at a distinct disadvantage in this environment, a select group of high performers are flourishing. These superior reps have abandoned much of the conventional wisdom taught in sales organizations. They:

  • evaluate prospects according to criteria different from those used by other reps, targeting agile organizations in a state of flux rather than ones with a clear understanding of their needs
  • seek out a very different set of stakeholders, preferring skeptical change agents over friendly informants
  • coach those change agents on how to buy, instead of quizzing them about their company’s purchasing process

These sales professionals don’t just sell more effectively—they sell differently. This means that boosting the performance of average salespeople isn’t a matter of improving how they currently sell; it involves altogether changing how they sell. To accomplish this, organizations need to fundamentally rethink the training and support provided to their reps.

Coming Up Short

Under the conventional solution-selling method that has prevailed since the 1980s, salespeople are trained to align a solution with an acknowledged customer need and demonstrate why it is better than the competition’s. This translates into a very practical approach: A rep begins by identifying customers who recognize a problem that the supplier can solve, and gives priority to those who are ready to act. Then, by asking questions, she surfaces a “hook” that enables her to attach her company’s solution to that problem. Part and parcel of this approach is her ability to find and nurture somebody within the customer organization—an advocate, or coach—who can help her navigate the company and drive the deal to completion.

But customers have radically departed from the old ways of buying, and sales leaders are increasingly finding that their staffs are relegated to price-driven bake-offs. One CSO at a high-tech organization told us, “Our customers are coming to the table armed to the teeth with a deep understanding of their problem and a well-scoped RFP for a solution. It’s turning many of our sales conversations into fulfillment conversations.” Reps must learn to engage customers much earlier, well before customers fully understand their own needs. In many ways, this is a strategy as old as sales itself: To win a deal, you’ve got to get ahead of the RFP. But our research shows that although that’s more important than ever, it’s no longer sufficient.

To find out what high-performing sales professionals (defined as those in the top 20% in terms of quota attainment) do differently from other reps, Corporate Executive Board conducted three studies. In the first, we surveyed more than 6,000 reps from 83 companies, spanning every major industry, about how they prioritize opportunities, target and engage stakeholders, and execute the sales process. In the second, we examined complex purchasing scenarios in nearly 600 companies in a variety of industries to understand the various structures and influences of formal and informal buying teams. In the third, we studied more than 700 individual customer stakeholders involved in complex B2B purchases to determine the impact specific kinds of stakeholders can have on organizational buying decisions.

Our key finding: The top-performing reps have abandoned the traditional playbook and devised a novel, even radical, sales approach built on the three strategies outlined above. Let’s take a close look at each.

Strategy #1: Avoid the Trap of “Established Demand”

Most organizations tell their salespeople to give priority to customers whose senior management meets three criteria: It has an acknowledged need for change, a clear vision of its goals, and well-established processes for making purchasing decisions. These criteria are easily observable, for the most part, and both reps and their leaders habitually rely on them to predict the likelihood and progress of potential deals. Indeed, many companies capture them in a scorecard designed to help reps and managers optimize how they spend their time, allocate specialist support, stage proposals, and improve their forecasts.

Our data, however, show that star performers place little value on such traditional predictors. Instead, they emphasize two nontraditional criteria. First, they put a premium on customer agility: Can a customer act quickly and decisively when presented with a compelling case, or is it hamstrung by structures and relationships that stifle change? Second, they pursue customers that have an emerging need or are in a state of organizational flux, whether because of external pressures, such as regulatory reform, or because of internal pressures, such as a recent acquisition, a leadership turnover, or widespread dissatisfaction with current practices. Since they’re already reexamining the status quo, these customers are looking for insights and are naturally more receptive to the disruptive ideas that star performers bring to the table. (See the sidebar “How to Upend Your Customers’ Ways of Thinking.”) Stars, in other words, place more emphasis on a customer’s potential to change than on its potential to buy. They’re able to get in early and advance a disruptive solution because they target accounts where demand is emerging, not established—accounts that are primed for change but haven’t yet generated the necessary consensus, let alone settled on a course of action.

One consequence of this orientation is that star performers treat requests for sales presentations very differently than average performers do. Whereas the latter perceive an invitation to present as the best sign of a promising opportunity, the former recognize it for what it is—an invitation to bid for a contract that is probably destined to be awarded to a favored vendor. The star sales rep uses the occasion to reframe the discussion and turn a customer with clearly defined requirements into one with emerging needs. Even when he’s invited in late, he tries to rewind the purchasing decision to a much earlier stage.

A sales leader at a business services company recently told us about one of the firm’s top sellers, who, asked to give an RFP presentation, quickly commandeered the meeting to his own ends. “Here is our full response to your RFP—everything you were looking for,” he told the assembled executives. “However, because we have only 60 minutes together, I’m going to let you read that on your own. I’d like to use our time to walk you through the three things we believe should have been in the RFP but weren’t, and to explain why they matter so much.” At the end of the meeting the customer sent home the two vendors who were still waiting for their turn, canceled the RFP process, and started over: The rep had made it clear to the executives that they were asking the wrong questions. He reshaped the deal to align with his company’s core capabilities and ultimately landed it. Like other star performers, he knew that the way in was not to try to meet the customer’s existing needs but to redefine them. Instead of taking a conventional solution-sales approach, he used an “insight selling” strategy, revealing to the customer needs it didn’t know it had.

Research in practice.

Drawing on data that include interviews with nearly 100 high performers worldwide, we developed a new scorecard that managers can use to coach their reps and help them adopt the criteria and approaches that star performers focus on. (See the exhibit “Prioritizing Your Opportunities.”) One industrial automation company we’ve worked with has effectively employed it, with a few tweaks to account for industry idiosyncrasies. When its managers sit down with reps to prioritize activity and assess opportunities, the scorecard gives them a concrete way to redirect average performers toward opportunities they might otherwise overlook or underpursue and to steer the conversation naturally toward seeking out emerging demand. (A word of caution: Formal scorecards can give rise to bureaucratic, overengineered processes for evaluating prospects. Sales leaders should use them as conversation starters and coaching guides, not inviolable checklists.)

Strategy #2: Target Mobilizers, Not Advocates

As we noted earlier, in conventional sales training reps are taught to find an advocate, or coach, within the customer organization to help them get the deal done. They’re given a laundry list of attributes to look for. The description below, compiled from dozens of companies’ training materials, suggests that the ideal advocate:

  • is accessible and willing to meet when asked
  • provides valuable information that’s typically unavailable to outside suppliers
  • is predisposed to support the supplier’s solution
  • is good at influencing others
  • speaks the truth
  • is considered credible by colleagues
  • conveys new ideas to colleagues in savvy, persuasive ways
  • delivers on commitments
  • stands to personally gain from the sale
  • will help reps network and connect with other stakeholders

We heard the same list, or a variation on it, from sales leaders and trainers the world over. It turns out, though, that this idealized advocate doesn’t actually exist. Each attribute can probably be found somewhere in a customer organization, but our research shows that the traits rarely all come together in one person. So reps find themselves settling for someone who has some of them. And when choosing an advocate, we’ve found, most reps walk right past the very people who could help them get the deal done—the people star performers have learned to recognize and rely on.

In our survey of customer stakeholders, we asked them to assess themselves according to 135 attributes and perspectives. Our analysis revealed seven distinct stakeholder profiles and measured the relative ability of individuals of each type to build consensus and drive action around a large corporate purchase or initiative. The profiles aren’t mutually exclusive; most people have attributes of more than one. Still, the data clearly show that virtually every stakeholder has a primary posture when it comes to working with suppliers and spearheading organizational change.

Here are the seven profiles we identified.

1. Go-Getters.

Motivated by organizational improvement and constantly looking for good ideas, Go-Getters champion action around great insights wherever they find them.

2. Teachers.

Passionate about sharing insights, Teachers are sought out by colleagues for their input. They’re especially good at persuading others to take a specific course of action.

3. Skeptics.

Wary of large, complicated projects, Skeptics push back on almost everything. Even when championing a new idea, they counsel careful, measured implementation.

4. Guides.

Willing to share the organization’s latest gossip, Guides furnish information that’s typically unavailable to outsiders.

5. Friends.

Just as nice as the name suggests, Friends are readily accessible and will happily help reps network with other stakeholders in the organization.

6. Climbers.

Focused primarily on personal gain, Climbers back projects that will raise their own profiles, and they expect to be rewarded when those projects succeed.

7. Blockers.

Perhaps better described as “anti-stakeholders,” Blockers are strongly oriented toward the status quo. They have little interest in speaking with outside vendors.

Our research also reveals that average reps gravitate toward three stakeholder profiles, and star reps gravitate toward three others. Average reps typically connect with Guides, Friends, and Climbers—types that we group together as Talkers. These people are personable and accessible and they share company information freely, all of which makes them very appealing. But if your goal is to close a deal, not just have a chat, Talkers won’t get you very far: They’re often poor at building the consensus necessary for complex purchasing decisions. Ironically, traditional sales training pushes reps into the arms of Talkers—thus reinforcing the very underperformance companies seek to improve.

The profiles that star reps pursue—Go-Getters, Teachers, and Skeptics—are far better at generating consensus. We refer to them as Mobilizers. A conversation with a Mobilizer isn’t necessarily easy. Because Mobilizers are focused first and foremost on driving productive change for their company, that’s what they want to talk about— their company, not yours. In fact, in many ways Mobilizers are deeply supplier-agnostic. They’re less likely to get behind a particular supplier than behind a particular insight. Reps who rely on a traditional features-and-benefits sales approach will probably fail to engage Mobilizers.

Endless questioning and needs diagnosis are of no value to Mobilizers. They don’t want to be asked what keeps them awake at night; they’re looking for outside experts to share insights about what their company should do, and they’re engaged by big, disruptive ideas. Yet upon hearing those ideas, Mobilizers ask a lot of tough questions—Go-Getters because they want to do, Teachers because they want to share, and Skeptics because they want to test. Skeptics are especially likely to pick apart an insight before moving forward. That can be intimidating for most reps, who are apt to mistake the Skeptic’s interrogation for hostility rather than engagement. But star performers live for this kind of conversation. We spoke with one who said, “If the customer isn’t skeptical and doesn’t push me, then either I’ve done something wrong or she just isn’t serious.”

Research in practice.

We worked with star reps around the world to develop a practical guide to identifying Mobilizers. (See the exhibit “Finding the Right Allies.”) The first step is to gauge a customer’s reaction to a provocative insight. (For instance, reps at the industrial supply company Grainger start their conversations by citing data showing that a shockingly high share—40%—of companies’ spend on maintenance, repair, and operations goes to unplanned purchases.) Does the customer dismiss the insight out of hand, accept it at face value, or test it with hard questions? Contrary to conventional wisdom, hard questions are a good sign; they suggest that the contact has the healthy skepticism of a Mobilizer. If the customer accepts the assertion without question, you’ve got a Talker or a Blocker—the difference being that a Talker will at least offer useful information about his organization, whereas a Blocker will not engage in dialogue at all.

Next, the rep must listen carefully to howthe customer discusses the insight as the conversation progresses. Watch out for the customer who says something like “You’re preaching to the converted. I’ve been lobbying for this sort of thing for years!” If he sees the idea as a means of advancing his personal agenda—speaking mainly in terms of “me” versus “we”—that’s a strong signal that he’s a Climber. And Climbers can be dangerous. A number of star reps told us that Climbers aren’t obvious just to them; they’re obvious to colleagues and often cause widespread resentment and distrust.

Star performers never assume they’ve identified a Mobilizer until that person has proved it with her actions. Stars usually ask stakeholders they believe might be Mobilizers to set up a meeting with key decision makers or to provide information obtainable only by actively investigating an issue or conferring with colleagues. One star performer from a global telecommunications company explained to us that she always tests what her customer contacts tell her they can do. In particular, she asks them to invite senior decision makers, often from other functions, to follow-on meetings. If they fail to get the right people to attend, she knows that although they may aspire to mobilize, they probably lack the connections or the clout to actually do so.

Strategy #3: Coach Customers on How to Buy

Sales leaders often overlook the fact that as hard as it is for most suppliers to sell complex solutions, it’s even harder for most customers to buy them. This is especially true when Mobilizers take the lead, because they’re “idea people” who tend to be far less familiar than Talkers with the ins and outs of internal purchasing processes.

Having watched similar deals go off the rails in other organizations, suppliers are frequently better positioned than the customer to steer a purchase through the organization. Suppliers can foresee likely objections. They can anticipate cross-silo politicking. And in many cases they can head off problems before they arise. The process is part of the overarching strategy of providing insight rather than extracting it. Whereas most reps rely on a customer to coach them through a sale, stars coach the customer.

Most reps rely on a customer to coach them through a sale; star reps coach the customer.

In light of this fact, it’s instructive to reflect on how much time and effort sales organizations invest in equipping their reps to “discover” the customer’s purchasing process. Most carefully train them to ask a host of questions about how decisions are made and how the deal is likely to progress, assuming that the customer will have accurate answers. That’s a poor strategy.

Sales leaders find this notion deeply unsettling. How can a rep guide a customer through the purchasing process when he probably doesn’t understand the idiosyncrasies of the customer’s organization? Isn’t each customer’s buying process unique? In a word, no. One star rep we interviewed explained, “I don’t waste a lot of time asking my customers about who has to be involved in the vetting process, whose buy-in we need to obtain, or who holds the purse strings. The customers won’t know—they’re new to this kind of purchase. In the majority of my deals, I know more about how the purchase will unfold than the customers do. I let them champion the vision internally, but it’s my job to help them get the deal done.”

Research in practice.

Automatic Data Processing (ADP), a global leader in business outsourcing solutions, recently introduced a methodology designed to reorient its sales reps—and the entire company—around its customers’ purchasing processes. It’s called Buying Made Easy.

The goal is to reduce the burden on the customer by having sales reps follow prescribed steps, each with its own tools and documents to support customers throughout the process. Instead of representing a set of sales activities, as in traditional programs, the steps represent a set of buying activities (“recognize need,” “evaluate options,” “validate and select a solution”) along with recommended actions that will help salespeople guide the customer. Any conversation at ADP about the status of a deal takes into account what the customer has to do next and how ADP can help make that happen.

In addition, ADP has created verification steps to ensure that reps can accurately and fully document the customer’s purchasing progress. One verifier, for example, is the customer’s written commitment to run a presales diagnostic assessing the company’s exposure to risk and its readiness to move to an outsourced solution. Each verifier is a clear, objective indicator of exactly where a customer is in the purchasing process. It’s the end of traditional solution selling. Customers are increasingly circumventing reps; they’re using publicly available information to diagnose their own needs and turning to sophisticated procurement departments and third-party purchasing consultants to help them extract the best possible deals from suppliers. The trend will only accelerate. For sales, this isn’t just another long, hot summer; it’s wholesale climate change.

 

Many reps will simply ignore the upheaval and stick with solution selling, and their customers will increasingly rebuff them. But adaptive reps, who seek out customers that are primed for change, challenge them with provocative insights, and coach them on how to buy, will become indispensable. They may still be selling solutions—but more broadly, they’re selling insights. And in this new world, that makes the difference between a pitch that goes nowhere and one that secures the customer’s business.

 

Newsletters, Press Releases, and Writing for the Press

Press Releases and their Importance

The previous articles discussed the various aspects of media and the role of media in shaping public opinion. We had also discussed how press conferences and press meets are to be organized and listed some points for the successful media management strategies. Continuing in the same vein, this article discusses how newsletters, press releases, and writing for the press have to be done especially in the context of the digital revolution and the advent of electronic media. To start with, press releases form an integral component of media management strategies and are considered the interfacing point between the stakeholders and the press. As discussed earlier, press releases are preludes to press conferences as well as substitutes to press meets. If an individual, institution, or organization does not have the time to hold a press meet or if the matter is not weighty enough to have a press conference, a press release can take the place of the formal interaction. Apart from this, whenever press conferences have to be called, there has to be a press release that precedes it as the mediapersons must know the topic and the content to be discussed in the press meet. This is the reason why press releases are usually drafted by professionals who have experience in media management and public relations.

Writing for the Press

The second aspect of writing for the press is important for those in the writing profession, as they must know whom to approach and how to approach to begin a working relationship with media houses. For instance, not all media houses advertise regularly for positions and hence, the writers must know the points of contact in the media houses and approach them with their credentials in order to be considered for a position with them. They can also freelance which means that they take work on an ad hoc basis and not on a continuous basis. Writers must have their portfolios ready so that they can send it to the media contacts to be considered for writing work. The portfolio can consist of the resume, sample articles, and any other information that the writers feel would add value to their candidature.

Newsletters

In this electronic media driven environment, newsletters are an important component of ensuring the dissemination of information to the people. Hence, many organizations have full time employees working on producing newsletters that serve as a window to the external world and publicize the achievements of the organization. Taken together with pamphlets and other promotional material, newsletters form an integral component of the media management strategies.

Final Thoughts

Finally, one needs to be astute and savvy when dealing with the media as communication is important and the right message has to be sent out. There is no point in either overextending the message or underwhelming the message. The key to successful media management is to draft the right message and ensure that it reaches the targeted audience without noise or leakage creeping in.

 

 

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How Do You Know Your Sales Effectiveness Initiative Is Successful?

 

To determine the success of a sales effectiveness initiative, you need to define measurable objectives and a baseline where you currently stand relative to these objectives. The most common objective use to measure success is a revenue objective. It can easily be measured. So can the base line easily be established. Yet judging the success of the initiative by the attainment of the revenue objective, can lead to much debate. According to “The Complete Guide to Accelerating Sales Force Performance” by Andris A. Zoltners et al. the degree to which a sales force can influence revenue varies widely. This source also warns about using only one indicator (e.g. revenue per sales person) to measure performance.
Donal Daily in a recent post on the Sales 2.0 Network blog, has suggested to also include ‘non revenue objectives’ when judging the success of sales effectiveness initiatives. Examples given for such objectives were among others : Better qualification or common sales language across the organization.. The reasons given for this suggestions are very plausible. Revenue is a lagging indicator. Especially when your revenue creation requires long sales cycles, it is too late for corrective actions with short term effect when you notice a deviation from the revenue objective. Tracking the behavior of the sales people through ‘non-revenue’ objectives along the sales cycle has a bigger chance for corrective actions impacting the outcome on short term..
Yet, I doubt that result oriented sales leaders would buy into this concept. They believe in outcome based sales force control systems. You recognize this type of leader by their actions They try to push sales people to higher performance by aggressive quota setting, lucrative incentives and tough and frequent forecast reviews.
Even with sales leaders seeing the value of the alternative use of behavioral based sales force control systems, I would not recommend the objectives as stated. As the objectives are not measurable, the success of an initiative is solely determined how these leaders judge ‘better qualification’ and ‘common language’. of the cited ‘non-revenue’ objectives.
What is needed is the transformation of these qualitative objectives into measurable leading indicators that sales leaders can accept as being unambiguous with respect to their impact on productivity. Presenting a logic how these productivity indicators can lead to higher revenue, might further help with their acceptance. To stay with the example of ‘a common language’; establishing a common language shortens the time sales managers need for example for deal reviews. Reports adhering to a standard template can be interpreted faster than reports structured as every salespersons feels best. Salespeople also profit from this gain in time. They spend less time in review meetings explaining their deals they are working on to sales management.
How this time (productivity) gain influences revenue is though up to managers and sales people. If managers use the freed up time for coaching and salespeople use the extra time for meaningful interactions with clients, it is plausible that at term this will lead to higher revenue. There are also many studies demonstrating the higher impact on performance of behavioral based sales force control systems compared to outcome based systems. Sales leader adhering to this type of systems should now be able to accept this additional objectives.
For people primarily adhering to outcome based sales force control systems, an extra effort is needed. They will first have to accept results of such studies and include at least some behavioral elements into their control systems before they will be able to better track the success of their sales effectiveness initiatives.
I am curious what practitioners have to say on this topic.

 

 

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Face to Face Marketing and Door to Door Marketing 

Nothing beats the reality that one gets when you can interact with potential clients face to face physically moving from door to door within a community or household to household, face to face field marketing is also called personal selling or door to door marketing, customers are met directly in order to sell their products, using this method of field marketing we rely on our skills and persuasive abilities. During the period where we get to interact with the client face to face we get more chance to pass across edible information which would be useful to all our customers at that time and it’s also an opportunity for us to get feedback and to gauge your opinion about our business.

Marketing

I did door-to-door sales for nine years, in hundreds of different cities and towns all across the india. Through long, hard, agonizing trial and error, I eventually developed enough skill that I could take any product into any area on any day and make sales.

In the beginning, I struggled. But when I was about to give up on myself and quit (like 99.9% of people that try door-to-door sales do within their first few days),  experienced salesperson to give me a chance to get on track.

What I saw that day changed my life forever.

I watched as the experienced salesperson drove to an area where he had previous sales success, and listened as he explained to me why he parked his car in the exact spot he did to start his day and laid out his exact plan of attack.
Within the first 10 minutes, I learned a valuable lesson that not only made my door-to-door sales career much easier, but has also been the key to bringing in millions of dollars in revenue for my own companies, and those of thousands of others I’ve consulted to:

A current customer is the easiest person to make a sale to – many, many times easier (and less expensive) than trying to get new customers.

Most business owners operate a risky, day-to-day, transactional business, believing that the reason for getting a customer is to make a sale. That’s their biggest problem: making nothing more than “a” sale to a customer. After that initial transaction, they simply hope that their product or service or location is good enough that they will get a repeat visit from that customer.

On the other hand, sharp business owners (and door-to-door salespeople!) know that the point to making a sale is to get a customer. We have systems put together to maximize the value of that customer by making future offers to them, so that they buy more of the same product or service, or a different version, or even an entirely different product or service.

In other words, we recognize that a current customer is the easiest person to sell to, and a prospect is the hardest and most-expensive person to sell to. Therefore, we concentrate on maximizing the value of every new customer we get.

If you want to grow your business during these challenging economic times (and even during boom times), your time and effort should be invested in working to turn prospects into customers and retain them to market to in the future.
While your marketing is doing its job to get you prospects, you need to be working on turning those prospects into customers. There are a few key ways to draw them in and seal the deal. You need to be:

Inviting
Informative
Enjoyable

The biggest fear of most new customers is the dreaded “buyer’s remorse.” You want to minimize this as best you can, and if you’ve provided a quality product or service that delivers on the marketing claims you’ve made, the risk will be lower.

However, returns can still occur. Here are the two most effective ways to deal with this:

Offer to refund money — no questions asked
Offer a bonus they can keep even if they return the product

These offers alone will also lessen the impact of buyer’s remorse, because the customer will trust you more just because you showed the confidence in your product or service to offer these options in the first place.

There are number of other ways to turn a prospect into a customer:

Offer a special price as an opportunity for them to test the market.
Offer a lower price with a legitimate reason, such as clearing out inventory to pay a tax bill, for your kid’s braces, or another tangible reason. (Added bonus: Customers love you for doing this, because it makes you so much more human to them.)
Offer a referral incentive.
Offer a smaller, less expensive entry-level product to build trust.
Offer package deals.
Offer to charge less for their first purchase if they become a repeat customer.
Offer extra incentives, such as longer warranties or free bonuses, if they order by a certain date.
Offer financing options, if applicable.
Offer a bonus if they pay in full.
Offer special packaging or delivery.
Offer “name-your-own-price” incentives.
Offer comparative data or other comparison tools.
Offer to let them trade up or upgrade to something better if they want.
Offer additional, educational information to help them make the decision.

The options are really only limited by your imagination and marketing skill. You can use these or other ideas to discover what works the best for your specific business, with your specific products, services and target market.

Even if you ever find yourself doing door-to-door sales.

 

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Building Community: 8 Hot Event Best Practices Inspired by Burning Man

Imagine standing in the middle of an expansive desert. Walking among fellow dwellers, you arrive at a 14-foot wooden structure shaped like an Owl. There’s no sign or explanation, only an open invitation for curious visitors to come inside and explore. Adjacent to the Owl sits a man at a typewriter tapping out impromptu poetry from passersby suggestions. Behind him a woman plays a hand drum and offers you a gratis grilled cheese. Welcome to Burning Man.

Held in the seemingly inhospitable blank slate of the Black Rock Desert in northwest Nevada, this beloved festival becomes a magical pop-up city built by 70,000 global attendees. Affectionately referred to as “home,” Burning Man holds the philosophy that every attendee or “Burner” is a participant and citizen of Black Rock City; there are no spectators. Each event is different (no professional acts or entertainment are booked), as citizens are encouraged to create the inclusive spaces, events, and art themselves.

Part of creating a personalized, memorable brand experience is making sure the experience is immersive — Burning Man embraces this best practice to the delight of enthusiastic repeat attendees. Whether it’s a festival in the desert or your industry’s annual conference, if the experience speaks to the intellect, imagination, and heart of your target audience, they’ll return year after year.

Burning Man runs on ten main principles that draw in attendees:

  • Radical Inclusion
  • Radical Self-reliance
  • Radical Self-expression
  • Communal Effort
  • Civic Responsibility
  • Gifting (it’s a no-cash zone!)
  • Decommodification
  • Participation
  • Immediacy
  • Leave No Trace (go green!)

In addition to its abundance of personal inspiration and self-discovery, Burning Man offers some key professional insights — namely, what event managers can learn from this festival to gain (and retain!) their own loyal community. Check out these eight themes to inspire your next event.

1. Lead with the heart to create emotional bonds

Think back to the last concert you attended. Did the singer engage with the audience, or did they just stand there and play songs? The best musicians know that for live shows, playing tunes is only part of the job. They also need to entertain: evoke an uplifting mood and create a strong connection with the audience. Entertainers who truly perform are the ones who bring in loyal crowds.

Creating connections is also key to Burning Man’s success. Everybody who attends is there to help, be part of the experience, and connect with others, whether they’re sharing resources or lending an ear to a fellow Burner. By fostering that environment, Burning Man nurtures the creation of deep emotional bonds. People come away feeling like they learned, but also that they’ve made a difference.

2. Take chances and unleash the imagination

To create a truly immersive experience, you need to get creative. By offering unique, interesting, and interactive features, you make visitors part of the event, not just passive spectators. This connected environment is created entirely by the community, with people sharing their own visions.

People love beautiful visuals and a chance to express their own creativity. Give them the space and materials to do so and you may wind up inspiring each other.

3. Seek opportunities for new insight

If you go to an event and don’t discover anything new, you probably won’t return. At Burning Man, there is always something new to discover. The events that generate fandom are those that provoke new ideas, thoughts, and insights. When you have the opportunity to learn from a wide range of people, and to contribute your own thoughts and expertise, you can spark moments where ideas fly like fireworks.

4. Speak to the inner child

Yes, we’re all professionals, but there’s no reason why professionalism and play have to be mutually exclusive. The benefits of play for adults have been well-documented, helping us be less stressed, more creative, and more open to learning. And by incorporating play into events, we get more out of the experience. The poet at Burning Man who set up his typewriter by the owl understood the value of play and engagement. His spontaneous poetry was a huge draw, sparking the creativity of everybody involved. At your own events, look over the activities planned and ask yourself if people are likely to have fun with them. It’s an important goal, but easy to overlook.

5. Embrace FOMO

Fear of missing out is a powerful human force (the struggle is real!). If your event experience can’t be recreated at home, and you can’t get the same benefits from dialing in, you’re on the right track. Burning Man accomplishes this feat with a sense of impermanence: By embracing change and rejuvenation in its events, no two Burning Mans are exactly alike. The result? Nobody wants to sit out a year, in case they miss something amazing. The event sells out each year; this year the main sale tickets sold out in 35 minutes!

6. Make it sustainable

Burning Man is the largest Leave No Trace event in the world. Being a green event means every attendee must do their part to remove all Matter Out of Place (MOOP). It is an honor to live in this protected desert for the event and the community takes pride in leaving no physical trace after exodus — that practice shows respect to the land and preserves it for coming years and generations. This ethical philosophy is a major part of the event’s brand appeal.

You can also help people create an emotional connection with your event by being environmentally responsible. The event industry can generate excessive waste. By examining your footprint throughout the life cycle of the event and thinking of ways to offset it during the event, you can show leadership and generate considerable goodwill.

7. Maximize engagement and build community

By engaging in literal community building, complete with a city name (Black Rock City), nicknames for the locale (“The City” or “The Playa”), a demonym (“Burner”), and a set of societal mores, Burning Man becomes more than an event — it’s a creative exchange between like-minded people. It’s built entirely for that community who shares their resources, art, ideas, and energy.

It takes a village to create a successful event. By practicing “radical inclusion” and thinking of every person involved in your event as part of one cohesive group, you set the stage for engagement. Come up with ways in which you can make exhibitors, sponsors, event staff, and attendees all feel like they’re part of one big community creating something amazing, helping each other learn and grow.

8. Sit with what you’ve learned

After a big event, it can be tempting to debrief immediately so you don’t forget anything. Taking notes so you remember all of the details is important, but as far as digesting and making sense of them? Give yourself a few days. After a high-adrenaline experience, it’s important to let the dust settle (and at Burning Man that’s literal!), absorb everything you’ve experienced and learned, and note what patterns might be forming. Stepping back allows you to view what worked well and how you can make next year’s event an entirely new and better experience.

 

 

 

 

 

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Face to Face Marketing and Door to Door Marketing 

Nothing beats the reality that one gets when you can interact with potential clients face to face physically moving from door to door within a community or household to household, face to face field marketing is also called personal selling or door to door marketing, customers are met directly in order to sell their products, using this method of field marketing we rely on our skills and persuasive abilities. During the period where we get to interact with the client face to face we get more chance to pass across edible information which would be useful to all our customers at that time and it’s also an opportunity for us to get feedback and to gauge your opinion about our business.

Marketing

I did door-to-door sales for nine years, in hundreds of different cities and towns all across the india. Through long, hard, agonizing trial and error, I eventually developed enough skill that I could take any product into any area on any day and make sales.

In the beginning, I struggled. But when I was about to give up on myself and quit (like 99.9% of people that try door-to-door sales do within their first few days),  experienced salesperson to give me a chance to get on track.

What I saw that day changed my life forever.

I watched as the experienced salesperson drove to an area where he had previous sales success, and listened as he explained to me why he parked his car in the exact spot he did to start his day and laid out his exact plan of attack.
Within the first 10 minutes, I learned a valuable lesson that not only made my door-to-door sales career much easier, but has also been the key to bringing in millions of dollars in revenue for my own companies, and those of thousands of others I’ve consulted to:

A current customer is the easiest person to make a sale to – many, many times easier (and less expensive) than trying to get new customers.

Most business owners operate a risky, day-to-day, transactional business, believing that the reason for getting a customer is to make a sale. That’s their biggest problem: making nothing more than “a” sale to a customer. After that initial transaction, they simply hope that their product or service or location is good enough that they will get a repeat visit from that customer.

On the other hand, sharp business owners (and door-to-door salespeople!) know that the point to making a sale is to get a customer. We have systems put together to maximize the value of that customer by making future offers to them, so that they buy more of the same product or service, or a different version, or even an entirely different product or service.

In other words, we recognize that a current customer is the easiest person to sell to, and a prospect is the hardest and most-expensive person to sell to. Therefore, we concentrate on maximizing the value of every new customer we get.

If you want to grow your business during these challenging economic times (and even during boom times), your time and effort should be invested in working to turn prospects into customers and retain them to market to in the future.
While your marketing is doing its job to get you prospects, you need to be working on turning those prospects into customers. There are a few key ways to draw them in and seal the deal. You need to be:

Inviting
Informative
Enjoyable

The biggest fear of most new customers is the dreaded “buyer’s remorse.” You want to minimize this as best you can, and if you’ve provided a quality product or service that delivers on the marketing claims you’ve made, the risk will be lower.

However, returns can still occur. Here are the two most effective ways to deal with this:

Offer to refund money — no questions asked
Offer a bonus they can keep even if they return the product

These offers alone will also lessen the impact of buyer’s remorse, because the customer will trust you more just because you showed the confidence in your product or service to offer these options in the first place.

There are number of other ways to turn a prospect into a customer:

Offer a special price as an opportunity for them to test the market.
Offer a lower price with a legitimate reason, such as clearing out inventory to pay a tax bill, for your kid’s braces, or another tangible reason. (Added bonus: Customers love you for doing this, because it makes you so much more human to them.)
Offer a referral incentive.
Offer a smaller, less expensive entry-level product to build trust.
Offer package deals.
Offer to charge less for their first purchase if they become a repeat customer.
Offer extra incentives, such as longer warranties or free bonuses, if they order by a certain date.
Offer financing options, if applicable.
Offer a bonus if they pay in full.
Offer special packaging or delivery.
Offer “name-your-own-price” incentives.
Offer comparative data or other comparison tools.
Offer to let them trade up or upgrade to something better if they want.
Offer additional, educational information to help them make the decision.

The options are really only limited by your imagination and marketing skill. You can use these or other ideas to discover what works the best for your specific business, with your specific products, services and target market.

Even if you ever find yourself doing door-to-door sales.

 

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The Corporatization of the Media

In the earlier decades of the 20th century, there was a clear distinction between the corporates and the media houses with each existing in a symbiotic relationship with other. In other words, corporate houses were content with advertising in the newspapers and the TV channels and the media houses were happy with the advertising revenues as long as they retained editorial autonomy. However, things began to change from the 1970s onwards wherein the media houses started to resemble corporate entities both in the way they were managed and run and in the way, they added spin to their stories. It was no longer the case that media houses would criticize the corporates and still get advertising revenue. On the other hand, most media houses entered into partnerships with leading corporates wherein they published stories that were friendly to the advertisers.

The other parallel trend from this period to the present is that media houses became corporates themselves in the way they approached the business of news reporting.

Each media house aligned themselves to a particular corporate among the leading companies and thus, competition between the media houses ensured that the different groupings among industry in all countries could find sympathetic reporting from each media house. Moreover, the revenues of the media houses started to grow by leaps and bounds and in this trend, media houses were no longer the independent entities that they were earlier. This can be seen in the way media conglomerates like NewsCorp (owned by Rupert Murdoch) and other companies transformed themselves from being mere reporting of the news to agenda setting behavior. No wonder that many leading media house owners are more powerful than many politicians are as the old adage that the pen is mightier than the sword became a truism.

In India, media conglomerates like the Times Group have risen in prominence in the last few decades thanks to the corporatization of the media. In the UK and the US, NewsCorp and Time Warner have come to symbolize big business and corporate media in all its glory. The point here is that the media is no longer content with just reporting the news but instead, it has morphed into entities that set the agenda and entities that play a prominent role in shaping the public discourse. In addition, the media houses entered into strategic partnerships with the leading corporates so that they get friendly press coverage. While the ethics of these trends can be debated, it is clear that media, the conception of what makes news has been altered, and the current media landscape is symbolic of corporatization of the industry.

Finally, media houses in these times are not just purveyors of news but more importantly, they have become entities, which are solely concerned with making money. Even this can be debated and as we shall discuss in subsequent articles, this has a bearing on their behavior and whether this trend is good for society. It would suffice here to state that the corporatization of the media is now complete and it would be a trend that would accelerate in the coming years.

 

 

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Our sales headhunters are known to complete complex business development recruitment mandates providing career changing results for hiring companies and individual job seekers.

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Beyond the Classroom: Matching Skills Training to the Selling Moment

 

B2B sales training could be nearing a tipping point. Investment in classroom-based training is set to remain flat in the years ahead, while investment in virtual training is poised to rise, according to a Corporate Visions survey of sales leaders. As companies struggle with challenges around training access, the increased interest in virtual training suggests sales leaders believe some training is better than no training. But what features should a modern skills training program include as companies make the shift “beyond the classroom,” relying less on scheduled training events, and more on a just-in-time, situational model? That’s what Tim Riesterer, Chief Strategy Officer at Corporate Visions, discusses in this interview with Jonathan Farrington of Top Sales World Magazine.

Q: You are co-author of “The Three Value Conversations,” a book we named top sales and marketing book last year. Can you first explain what the three value conversations are?

Tim: In show business, top performers are often praised for being the “triple threat,” meaning they can act, sing and dance. In selling there’s a triple threat skillset your salespeople must master to be a top performer – Pipeline, Proposals and Profits. And, each of these is driven by one of the three value conversations we wrote about:

Create value, where salespeople must be able to tell a story that overcomes their prospects’ status quo bias and differentiates you from the competition in a way that builds more pipeline.

Elevate value that requires them to build proposals connecting external factors and strategic initiatives to your solutions in a business case that passes muster with executive-level decision makers.

Capture value by avoiding profit leaks that occur throughout the buying process and managing the tension during negotiations to protect your margins.

These three skills can form the foundation of a competency-based training model tied to actual, measurable outcomes.

Q: What in your mind is the biggest skills training challenge B2B companies face today?

Tim: Time out of field is the first obvious challenge. In a recent survey we conducted, four out of five companies said they are not able to train as many salespeople on the skills they need each year. And, the top reason was the pressure to not take salespeople out of the field. It came in 20 percent higher than budget as a limiting factor.

Arbitrary learning paths is the second challenge. In the same survey, companies said they rely on managers to choose the training for their reps, which may have some correlation to the time-out-of-field challenge since managers feel the pressure to keep salespeople in the field. And, they rely most often on generic training paths based on rep tenure and role versus any type of performance indicators or needs assessment.

Q: Time out of the field is a valid concern for sales leaders. What can companies do to limit time out of the field without sacrificing necessary training?

Tim: The market appears to be showing increased interest in virtual training formats, but it’s conflicted, according to our survey. We found that 65 percent of companies plan to increase spending on virtual skills training, while classroom training investments will be flat.

However, those same respondents said they believe classroom training to be the most effective at changing behaviors and virtual training to be significantly less effective. It’s hard for anyone to argue this. Which means people are having to choose efficiency over effectiveness. The big breakthrough will be if companies can find a way to more effectively deploy virtual training so you can get the desired time savings and uptick in performance.

Q: What does more effective virtual training look like?

I will be the first to grant you that workshop-based training, which includes role play, stand and deliver, coaching and feedback experiences, has tremendous advantages for creating behavior change.

Virtual training is not going to be a 1-1 replacement. So, you have to think differently when it comes to applying online training for increased impact. It starts with replacing arbitrary learning paths such as rep tenure and role and manager training choice with custom learning paths.

Here we see four possibilities for using the efficiency of virtual training to gain effectiveness advantages:

Performance-based training – This starts with available data from your sales systems. The information exists to help you identify reps who are struggling in each triple threat area, such as those who are not creating enough pipeline; the reps whose pipelines are constipated with unapproved proposals stuck in the middle of the funnel; and those sellers who are unscrupulously discounting and leaking profits. Now, that you know who is struggling with either pipeline, proposals or profits, imagine being able to push them targeted, online training modules with competencies designed to improve their specific performance challenges.

Needs-based training – Relying on manager or even sales rep intuition regarding which training is most necessary can be very subjective and can now be replaced with a fluency assessment. Imagine a behavioral outcomes survey that can identify the strengths and weaknesses of salespeople across the triple threat skills and match that to specific competency modules that can be “kitted up” for a personalized learning journey tailored to their needs.

Integrated Play-based training – As you launch products and promote go-to-market strategies in sales “plays,” you create a tremendous opportunity for something we call embedded skills training. In addition to the sales messages and assets and tools in a sales play, imagine the appropriate skills training modules included right there in the play. Each play may require different selling skills. For example, you may be trying to sell a disruptive solution in one play, which requires unique skills to overcome the status quo. Or, you may have a play to sell a highly complex, integrated solution that requires executive and financial acumen skills as well as consensus-building skills. Or, you may have a play for a commoditized portfolio where your salespeople need the skills to differentiate and protect margins.

Each of these four is only made possible with the availability of flexible, virtual training modules. And, each of these four scenarios offers ways to make virtual training more effective. This becomes even more powerful if the online library is based on a tested and proven competency library.

Check out Corporate Visions’ State of the Conversation Report, “Beyond the Classroom: Trends in B2b Sales Training,” to learn more about what’s next for skills training.

 

 

door to door Marketing organizations in Pune

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Door To Door Marketing , Advertising, retail merchandising, brand engagement,

1to1 Branding, Advertising in malls& multiplexes, Analysis

 

door to door Marketing organizations in Pune

Face to Face Marketing and Door to Door Marketing 

Nothing beats the reality that one gets when you can interact with potential clients face to face physically moving from door to door within a community or household to household, face to face field marketing is also called personal selling or door to door marketing, customers are met directly in order to sell their products, using this method of field marketing we rely on our skills and persuasive abilities. During the period where we get to interact with the client face to face we get more chance to pass across edible information which would be useful to all our customers at that time and it’s also an opportunity for us to get feedback and to gauge your opinion about our business.

Marketing

I did door-to-door sales for nine years, in hundreds of different cities and towns all across the india. Through long, hard, agonizing trial and error, I eventually developed enough skill that I could take any product into any area on any day and make sales.

In the beginning, I struggled. But when I was about to give up on myself and quit (like 99.9% of people that try door-to-door sales do within their first few days),  experienced salesperson to give me a chance to get on track.

What I saw that day changed my life forever.

I watched as the experienced salesperson drove to an area where he had previous sales success, and listened as he explained to me why he parked his car in the exact spot he did to start his day and laid out his exact plan of attack.
Within the first 10 minutes, I learned a valuable lesson that not only made my door-to-door sales career much easier, but has also been the key to bringing in millions of dollars in revenue for my own companies, and those of thousands of others I’ve consulted to:

A current customer is the easiest person to make a sale to – many, many times easier (and less expensive) than trying to get new customers.

Most business owners operate a risky, day-to-day, transactional business, believing that the reason for getting a customer is to make a sale. That’s their biggest problem: making nothing more than “a” sale to a customer. After that initial transaction, they simply hope that their product or service or location is good enough that they will get a repeat visit from that customer.

On the other hand, sharp business owners (and door-to-door salespeople!) know that the point to making a sale is to get a customer. We have systems put together to maximize the value of that customer by making future offers to them, so that they buy more of the same product or service, or a different version, or even an entirely different product or service.

In other words, we recognize that a current customer is the easiest person to sell to, and a prospect is the hardest and most-expensive person to sell to. Therefore, we concentrate on maximizing the value of every new customer we get.

If you want to grow your business during these challenging economic times (and even during boom times), your time and effort should be invested in working to turn prospects into customers and retain them to market to in the future.
While your marketing is doing its job to get you prospects, you need to be working on turning those prospects into customers. There are a few key ways to draw them in and seal the deal. You need to be:

Inviting
Informative
Enjoyable

The biggest fear of most new customers is the dreaded “buyer’s remorse.” You want to minimize this as best you can, and if you’ve provided a quality product or service that delivers on the marketing claims you’ve made, the risk will be lower.

However, returns can still occur. Here are the two most effective ways to deal with this:

Offer to refund money — no questions asked
Offer a bonus they can keep even if they return the product

These offers alone will also lessen the impact of buyer’s remorse, because the customer will trust you more just because you showed the confidence in your product or service to offer these options in the first place.

There are number of other ways to turn a prospect into a customer:

Offer a special price as an opportunity for them to test the market.
Offer a lower price with a legitimate reason, such as clearing out inventory to pay a tax bill, for your kid’s braces, or another tangible reason. (Added bonus: Customers love you for doing this, because it makes you so much more human to them.)
Offer a referral incentive.
Offer a smaller, less expensive entry-level product to build trust.
Offer package deals.
Offer to charge less for their first purchase if they become a repeat customer.
Offer extra incentives, such as longer warranties or free bonuses, if they order by a certain date.
Offer financing options, if applicable.
Offer a bonus if they pay in full.
Offer special packaging or delivery.
Offer “name-your-own-price” incentives.
Offer comparative data or other comparison tools.
Offer to let them trade up or upgrade to something better if they want.
Offer additional, educational information to help them make the decision.

The options are really only limited by your imagination and marketing skill. You can use these or other ideas to discover what works the best for your specific business, with your specific products, services and target market.

Even if you ever find yourself doing door-to-door sales.

 

marketing business in pune

B2B selling

The hardest thing about B2B selling today is that customers don’t need you the way they used to. In recent decades sales reps have become adept at discovering customers’ needs and selling them “solutions”—generally, complex combinations of products and services. This worked because customers didn’t know how to solve their own problems, even though they often had a good understanding of what their problems were. But now, owing to increasingly sophisticated procurement teams and purchasing consultants armed with troves of data, companies can readily define solutions for themselves.

In fact, a recent Corporate Executive Board study of more than 1,400 B2B customers found that those customers completed, on average, nearly 60% of a typical purchasing decision—researching solutions, ranking options, setting requirements, benchmarking pricing, and so on—before even having a conversation with a supplier. In this world the celebrated “solution sales rep” can be more of an annoyance than an asset. Customers in an array of industries, from IT to insurance to business process outsourcing, are often way ahead of the salespeople who are “helping” them.

But the news is not all bad. Although traditional reps are at a distinct disadvantage in this environment, a select group of high performers are flourishing. These superior reps have abandoned much of the conventional wisdom taught in sales organizations. They:

  • evaluate prospects according to criteria different from those used by other reps, targeting agile organizations in a state of flux rather than ones with a clear understanding of their needs
  • seek out a very different set of stakeholders, preferring skeptical change agents over friendly informants
  • coach those change agents on how to buy, instead of quizzing them about their company’s purchasing process

These sales professionals don’t just sell more effectively—they sell differently. This means that boosting the performance of average salespeople isn’t a matter of improving how they currently sell; it involves altogether changing how they sell. To accomplish this, organizations need to fundamentally rethink the training and support provided to their reps.

Coming Up Short

Under the conventional solution-selling method that has prevailed since the 1980s, salespeople are trained to align a solution with an acknowledged customer need and demonstrate why it is better than the competition’s. This translates into a very practical approach: A rep begins by identifying customers who recognize a problem that the supplier can solve, and gives priority to those who are ready to act. Then, by asking questions, she surfaces a “hook” that enables her to attach her company’s solution to that problem. Part and parcel of this approach is her ability to find and nurture somebody within the customer organization—an advocate, or coach—who can help her navigate the company and drive the deal to completion.

But customers have radically departed from the old ways of buying, and sales leaders are increasingly finding that their staffs are relegated to price-driven bake-offs. One CSO at a high-tech organization told us, “Our customers are coming to the table armed to the teeth with a deep understanding of their problem and a well-scoped RFP for a solution. It’s turning many of our sales conversations into fulfillment conversations.” Reps must learn to engage customers much earlier, well before customers fully understand their own needs. In many ways, this is a strategy as old as sales itself: To win a deal, you’ve got to get ahead of the RFP. But our research shows that although that’s more important than ever, it’s no longer sufficient.

To find out what high-performing sales professionals (defined as those in the top 20% in terms of quota attainment) do differently from other reps, Corporate Executive Board conducted three studies. In the first, we surveyed more than 6,000 reps from 83 companies, spanning every major industry, about how they prioritize opportunities, target and engage stakeholders, and execute the sales process. In the second, we examined complex purchasing scenarios in nearly 600 companies in a variety of industries to understand the various structures and influences of formal and informal buying teams. In the third, we studied more than 700 individual customer stakeholders involved in complex B2B purchases to determine the impact specific kinds of stakeholders can have on organizational buying decisions.

Our key finding: The top-performing reps have abandoned the traditional playbook and devised a novel, even radical, sales approach built on the three strategies outlined above. Let’s take a close look at each.

Strategy #1: Avoid the Trap of “Established Demand”

Most organizations tell their salespeople to give priority to customers whose senior management meets three criteria: It has an acknowledged need for change, a clear vision of its goals, and well-established processes for making purchasing decisions. These criteria are easily observable, for the most part, and both reps and their leaders habitually rely on them to predict the likelihood and progress of potential deals. Indeed, many companies capture them in a scorecard designed to help reps and managers optimize how they spend their time, allocate specialist support, stage proposals, and improve their forecasts.

Our data, however, show that star performers place little value on such traditional predictors. Instead, they emphasize two nontraditional criteria. First, they put a premium on customer agility: Can a customer act quickly and decisively when presented with a compelling case, or is it hamstrung by structures and relationships that stifle change? Second, they pursue customers that have an emerging need or are in a state of organizational flux, whether because of external pressures, such as regulatory reform, or because of internal pressures, such as a recent acquisition, a leadership turnover, or widespread dissatisfaction with current practices. Since they’re already reexamining the status quo, these customers are looking for insights and are naturally more receptive to the disruptive ideas that star performers bring to the table. (See the sidebar “How to Upend Your Customers’ Ways of Thinking.”) Stars, in other words, place more emphasis on a customer’s potential to change than on its potential to buy. They’re able to get in early and advance a disruptive solution because they target accounts where demand is emerging, not established—accounts that are primed for change but haven’t yet generated the necessary consensus, let alone settled on a course of action.

One consequence of this orientation is that star performers treat requests for sales presentations very differently than average performers do. Whereas the latter perceive an invitation to present as the best sign of a promising opportunity, the former recognize it for what it is—an invitation to bid for a contract that is probably destined to be awarded to a favored vendor. The star sales rep uses the occasion to reframe the discussion and turn a customer with clearly defined requirements into one with emerging needs. Even when he’s invited in late, he tries to rewind the purchasing decision to a much earlier stage.

A sales leader at a business services company recently told us about one of the firm’s top sellers, who, asked to give an RFP presentation, quickly commandeered the meeting to his own ends. “Here is our full response to your RFP—everything you were looking for,” he told the assembled executives. “However, because we have only 60 minutes together, I’m going to let you read that on your own. I’d like to use our time to walk you through the three things we believe should have been in the RFP but weren’t, and to explain why they matter so much.” At the end of the meeting the customer sent home the two vendors who were still waiting for their turn, canceled the RFP process, and started over: The rep had made it clear to the executives that they were asking the wrong questions. He reshaped the deal to align with his company’s core capabilities and ultimately landed it. Like other star performers, he knew that the way in was not to try to meet the customer’s existing needs but to redefine them. Instead of taking a conventional solution-sales approach, he used an “insight selling” strategy, revealing to the customer needs it didn’t know it had.

Research in practice.

Drawing on data that include interviews with nearly 100 high performers worldwide, we developed a new scorecard that managers can use to coach their reps and help them adopt the criteria and approaches that star performers focus on. (See the exhibit “Prioritizing Your Opportunities.”) One industrial automation company we’ve worked with has effectively employed it, with a few tweaks to account for industry idiosyncrasies. When its managers sit down with reps to prioritize activity and assess opportunities, the scorecard gives them a concrete way to redirect average performers toward opportunities they might otherwise overlook or underpursue and to steer the conversation naturally toward seeking out emerging demand. (A word of caution: Formal scorecards can give rise to bureaucratic, overengineered processes for evaluating prospects. Sales leaders should use them as conversation starters and coaching guides, not inviolable checklists.)

Strategy #2: Target Mobilizers, Not Advocates

As we noted earlier, in conventional sales training reps are taught to find an advocate, or coach, within the customer organization to help them get the deal done. They’re given a laundry list of attributes to look for. The description below, compiled from dozens of companies’ training materials, suggests that the ideal advocate:

  • is accessible and willing to meet when asked
  • provides valuable information that’s typically unavailable to outside suppliers
  • is predisposed to support the supplier’s solution
  • is good at influencing others
  • speaks the truth
  • is considered credible by colleagues
  • conveys new ideas to colleagues in savvy, persuasive ways
  • delivers on commitments
  • stands to personally gain from the sale
  • will help reps network and connect with other stakeholders

We heard the same list, or a variation on it, from sales leaders and trainers the world over. It turns out, though, that this idealized advocate doesn’t actually exist. Each attribute can probably be found somewhere in a customer organization, but our research shows that the traits rarely all come together in one person. So reps find themselves settling for someone who has some of them. And when choosing an advocate, we’ve found, most reps walk right past the very people who could help them get the deal done—the people star performers have learned to recognize and rely on.

In our survey of customer stakeholders, we asked them to assess themselves according to 135 attributes and perspectives. Our analysis revealed seven distinct stakeholder profiles and measured the relative ability of individuals of each type to build consensus and drive action around a large corporate purchase or initiative. The profiles aren’t mutually exclusive; most people have attributes of more than one. Still, the data clearly show that virtually every stakeholder has a primary posture when it comes to working with suppliers and spearheading organizational change.

Here are the seven profiles we identified.

1. Go-Getters.

Motivated by organizational improvement and constantly looking for good ideas, Go-Getters champion action around great insights wherever they find them.

2. Teachers.

Passionate about sharing insights, Teachers are sought out by colleagues for their input. They’re especially good at persuading others to take a specific course of action.

3. Skeptics.

Wary of large, complicated projects, Skeptics push back on almost everything. Even when championing a new idea, they counsel careful, measured implementation.

4. Guides.

Willing to share the organization’s latest gossip, Guides furnish information that’s typically unavailable to outsiders.

5. Friends.

Just as nice as the name suggests, Friends are readily accessible and will happily help reps network with other stakeholders in the organization.

6. Climbers.

Focused primarily on personal gain, Climbers back projects that will raise their own profiles, and they expect to be rewarded when those projects succeed.

7. Blockers.

Perhaps better described as “anti-stakeholders,” Blockers are strongly oriented toward the status quo. They have little interest in speaking with outside vendors.

Our research also reveals that average reps gravitate toward three stakeholder profiles, and star reps gravitate toward three others. Average reps typically connect with Guides, Friends, and Climbers—types that we group together as Talkers. These people are personable and accessible and they share company information freely, all of which makes them very appealing. But if your goal is to close a deal, not just have a chat, Talkers won’t get you very far: They’re often poor at building the consensus necessary for complex purchasing decisions. Ironically, traditional sales training pushes reps into the arms of Talkers—thus reinforcing the very underperformance companies seek to improve.

The profiles that star reps pursue—Go-Getters, Teachers, and Skeptics—are far better at generating consensus. We refer to them as Mobilizers. A conversation with a Mobilizer isn’t necessarily easy. Because Mobilizers are focused first and foremost on driving productive change for their company, that’s what they want to talk about— their company, not yours. In fact, in many ways Mobilizers are deeply supplier-agnostic. They’re less likely to get behind a particular supplier than behind a particular insight. Reps who rely on a traditional features-and-benefits sales approach will probably fail to engage Mobilizers.

Endless questioning and needs diagnosis are of no value to Mobilizers. They don’t want to be asked what keeps them awake at night; they’re looking for outside experts to share insights about what their company should do, and they’re engaged by big, disruptive ideas. Yet upon hearing those ideas, Mobilizers ask a lot of tough questions—Go-Getters because they want to do, Teachers because they want to share, and Skeptics because they want to test. Skeptics are especially likely to pick apart an insight before moving forward. That can be intimidating for most reps, who are apt to mistake the Skeptic’s interrogation for hostility rather than engagement. But star performers live for this kind of conversation. We spoke with one who said, “If the customer isn’t skeptical and doesn’t push me, then either I’ve done something wrong or she just isn’t serious.”

Research in practice.

We worked with star reps around the world to develop a practical guide to identifying Mobilizers. (See the exhibit “Finding the Right Allies.”) The first step is to gauge a customer’s reaction to a provocative insight. (For instance, reps at the industrial supply company Grainger start their conversations by citing data showing that a shockingly high share—40%—of companies’ spend on maintenance, repair, and operations goes to unplanned purchases.) Does the customer dismiss the insight out of hand, accept it at face value, or test it with hard questions? Contrary to conventional wisdom, hard questions are a good sign; they suggest that the contact has the healthy skepticism of a Mobilizer. If the customer accepts the assertion without question, you’ve got a Talker or a Blocker—the difference being that a Talker will at least offer useful information about his organization, whereas a Blocker will not engage in dialogue at all.

Next, the rep must listen carefully to howthe customer discusses the insight as the conversation progresses. Watch out for the customer who says something like “You’re preaching to the converted. I’ve been lobbying for this sort of thing for years!” If he sees the idea as a means of advancing his personal agenda—speaking mainly in terms of “me” versus “we”—that’s a strong signal that he’s a Climber. And Climbers can be dangerous. A number of star reps told us that Climbers aren’t obvious just to them; they’re obvious to colleagues and often cause widespread resentment and distrust.

Star performers never assume they’ve identified a Mobilizer until that person has proved it with her actions. Stars usually ask stakeholders they believe might be Mobilizers to set up a meeting with key decision makers or to provide information obtainable only by actively investigating an issue or conferring with colleagues. One star performer from a global telecommunications company explained to us that she always tests what her customer contacts tell her they can do. In particular, she asks them to invite senior decision makers, often from other functions, to follow-on meetings. If they fail to get the right people to attend, she knows that although they may aspire to mobilize, they probably lack the connections or the clout to actually do so.

Strategy #3: Coach Customers on How to Buy

Sales leaders often overlook the fact that as hard as it is for most suppliers to sell complex solutions, it’s even harder for most customers to buy them. This is especially true when Mobilizers take the lead, because they’re “idea people” who tend to be far less familiar than Talkers with the ins and outs of internal purchasing processes.

Having watched similar deals go off the rails in other organizations, suppliers are frequently better positioned than the customer to steer a purchase through the organization. Suppliers can foresee likely objections. They can anticipate cross-silo politicking. And in many cases they can head off problems before they arise. The process is part of the overarching strategy of providing insight rather than extracting it. Whereas most reps rely on a customer to coach them through a sale, stars coach the customer.

Most reps rely on a customer to coach them through a sale; star reps coach the customer.

In light of this fact, it’s instructive to reflect on how much time and effort sales organizations invest in equipping their reps to “discover” the customer’s purchasing process. Most carefully train them to ask a host of questions about how decisions are made and how the deal is likely to progress, assuming that the customer will have accurate answers. That’s a poor strategy.

Sales leaders find this notion deeply unsettling. How can a rep guide a customer through the purchasing process when he probably doesn’t understand the idiosyncrasies of the customer’s organization? Isn’t each customer’s buying process unique? In a word, no. One star rep we interviewed explained, “I don’t waste a lot of time asking my customers about who has to be involved in the vetting process, whose buy-in we need to obtain, or who holds the purse strings. The customers won’t know—they’re new to this kind of purchase. In the majority of my deals, I know more about how the purchase will unfold than the customers do. I let them champion the vision internally, but it’s my job to help them get the deal done.”

Research in practice.

Automatic Data Processing (ADP), a global leader in business outsourcing solutions, recently introduced a methodology designed to reorient its sales reps—and the entire company—around its customers’ purchasing processes. It’s called Buying Made Easy.

The goal is to reduce the burden on the customer by having sales reps follow prescribed steps, each with its own tools and documents to support customers throughout the process. Instead of representing a set of sales activities, as in traditional programs, the steps represent a set of buying activities (“recognize need,” “evaluate options,” “validate and select a solution”) along with recommended actions that will help salespeople guide the customer. Any conversation at ADP about the status of a deal takes into account what the customer has to do next and how ADP can help make that happen.

In addition, ADP has created verification steps to ensure that reps can accurately and fully document the customer’s purchasing progress. One verifier, for example, is the customer’s written commitment to run a presales diagnostic assessing the company’s exposure to risk and its readiness to move to an outsourced solution. Each verifier is a clear, objective indicator of exactly where a customer is in the purchasing process. It’s the end of traditional solution selling. Customers are increasingly circumventing reps; they’re using publicly available information to diagnose their own needs and turning to sophisticated procurement departments and third-party purchasing consultants to help them extract the best possible deals from suppliers. The trend will only accelerate. For sales, this isn’t just another long, hot summer; it’s wholesale climate change.

 

Many reps will simply ignore the upheaval and stick with solution selling, and their customers will increasingly rebuff them. But adaptive reps, who seek out customers that are primed for change, challenge them with provocative insights, and coach them on how to buy, will become indispensable. They may still be selling solutions—but more broadly, they’re selling insights. And in this new world, that makes the difference between a pitch that goes nowhere and one that secures the customer’s business.

 

Newsletters, Press Releases, and Writing for the Press

Press Releases and their Importance

The previous articles discussed the various aspects of media and the role of media in shaping public opinion. We had also discussed how press conferences and press meets are to be organized and listed some points for the successful media management strategies. Continuing in the same vein, this article discusses how newsletters, press releases, and writing for the press have to be done especially in the context of the digital revolution and the advent of electronic media. To start with, press releases form an integral component of media management strategies and are considered the interfacing point between the stakeholders and the press. As discussed earlier, press releases are preludes to press conferences as well as substitutes to press meets. If an individual, institution, or organization does not have the time to hold a press meet or if the matter is not weighty enough to have a press conference, a press release can take the place of the formal interaction. Apart from this, whenever press conferences have to be called, there has to be a press release that precedes it as the mediapersons must know the topic and the content to be discussed in the press meet. This is the reason why press releases are usually drafted by professionals who have experience in media management and public relations.

Writing for the Press

The second aspect of writing for the press is important for those in the writing profession, as they must know whom to approach and how to approach to begin a working relationship with media houses. For instance, not all media houses advertise regularly for positions and hence, the writers must know the points of contact in the media houses and approach them with their credentials in order to be considered for a position with them. They can also freelance which means that they take work on an ad hoc basis and not on a continuous basis. Writers must have their portfolios ready so that they can send it to the media contacts to be considered for writing work. The portfolio can consist of the resume, sample articles, and any other information that the writers feel would add value to their candidature.

Newsletters

In this electronic media driven environment, newsletters are an important component of ensuring the dissemination of information to the people. Hence, many organizations have full time employees working on producing newsletters that serve as a window to the external world and publicize the achievements of the organization. Taken together with pamphlets and other promotional material, newsletters form an integral component of the media management strategies.

Final Thoughts

Finally, one needs to be astute and savvy when dealing with the media as communication is important and the right message has to be sent out. There is no point in either overextending the message or underwhelming the message. The key to successful media management is to draft the right message and ensure that it reaches the targeted audience without noise or leakage creeping in.

 

 

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How Do You Know Your Sales Effectiveness Initiative Is Successful?

 

To determine the success of a sales effectiveness initiative, you need to define measurable objectives and a baseline where you currently stand relative to these objectives. The most common objective use to measure success is a revenue objective. It can easily be measured. So can the base line easily be established. Yet judging the success of the initiative by the attainment of the revenue objective, can lead to much debate. According to “The Complete Guide to Accelerating Sales Force Performance” by Andris A. Zoltners et al. the degree to which a sales force can influence revenue varies widely. This source also warns about using only one indicator (e.g. revenue per sales person) to measure performance.
Donal Daily in a recent post on the Sales 2.0 Network blog, has suggested to also include ‘non revenue objectives’ when judging the success of sales effectiveness initiatives. Examples given for such objectives were among others : Better qualification or common sales language across the organization.. The reasons given for this suggestions are very plausible. Revenue is a lagging indicator. Especially when your revenue creation requires long sales cycles, it is too late for corrective actions with short term effect when you notice a deviation from the revenue objective. Tracking the behavior of the sales people through ‘non-revenue’ objectives along the sales cycle has a bigger chance for corrective actions impacting the outcome on short term..
Yet, I doubt that result oriented sales leaders would buy into this concept. They believe in outcome based sales force control systems. You recognize this type of leader by their actions They try to push sales people to higher performance by aggressive quota setting, lucrative incentives and tough and frequent forecast reviews.
Even with sales leaders seeing the value of the alternative use of behavioral based sales force control systems, I would not recommend the objectives as stated. As the objectives are not measurable, the success of an initiative is solely determined how these leaders judge ‘better qualification’ and ‘common language’. of the cited ‘non-revenue’ objectives.
What is needed is the transformation of these qualitative objectives into measurable leading indicators that sales leaders can accept as being unambiguous with respect to their impact on productivity. Presenting a logic how these productivity indicators can lead to higher revenue, might further help with their acceptance. To stay with the example of ‘a common language’; establishing a common language shortens the time sales managers need for example for deal reviews. Reports adhering to a standard template can be interpreted faster than reports structured as every salespersons feels best. Salespeople also profit from this gain in time. They spend less time in review meetings explaining their deals they are working on to sales management.
How this time (productivity) gain influences revenue is though up to managers and sales people. If managers use the freed up time for coaching and salespeople use the extra time for meaningful interactions with clients, it is plausible that at term this will lead to higher revenue. There are also many studies demonstrating the higher impact on performance of behavioral based sales force control systems compared to outcome based systems. Sales leader adhering to this type of systems should now be able to accept this additional objectives.
For people primarily adhering to outcome based sales force control systems, an extra effort is needed. They will first have to accept results of such studies and include at least some behavioral elements into their control systems before they will be able to better track the success of their sales effectiveness initiatives.
I am curious what practitioners have to say on this topic.

 

 

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Before Your Event

Ramp up awareness and excitement. You need time to prepare an event-specific social media management plan and promote your event.

Hashtag it!

Make sure your event has an easily recognizable hashtag that hasn’t been used before.

Have a visual plan

Great visual content is key for event promotion. Make sure the cameras and photographers are set and ready. Will you have someone on the ground capable of capturing key moments with a smartphone and instantly posting to social? Will you need to send photos out to a remote social media manager? Will you take professional photos at the event and switch out memory cards to get amazing quality photos posted as swiftly as possible? Answer all of these questions BEFORE the event and communicate with your entire team in advance to avoid a social media communication breakdown at your event.

During Your Event

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Prepare giveaways

Drive people to your event- or location at a broader event- by announcing giveaways via social. The best times to do this is at the peak moments of the event, when you want maximum attendance.

After Your Event

Follow up

It’s essential to make sure all of your hard work at the event leaves you with ongoing social engagement and reach.

Don’t drop the ball on social the minute the event is over. Continue to post and engage with the new additions to your audience of followers.

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Global Chief Creative Officer, Jon Hamm, said, “this new look reflects our confidence and aims to capture the magic of the geometric world and bring to life the beauty inherent in it. We have moved away from the defined, rigid representation of our past to a more fluid, curved, organic identity that is representative of our future.”

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Create a brand image, or logo. Widespread brand recognition is your goal, as it will give your business credibility and inspire others to spread the word about your business. Grow your brand by placing your logo in your business stationary, business cards, email signatures, brochures, signs, website and merchandising materials.
 
Network. Meeting professionals from other, related businesses is an effective form of business promotion, as it provides you with opportunities to learn about your competitors, ask for referrals, form mutually beneficial partnerships in complementary industries and spread awareness about your business throughout a group of like-minded people. Network with other professionals in the following ways:
  • Attend networking group meetings. You can find networking groups and clubs on the Internet, in newspapers and in trade publications.
  • Introduce yourself to people at the meetings. Explain what it is your business does, what you offer that makes you stand out from your competition and what you are looking for in business relationships.
  • Ask relevant questions during group discussions. In addition to promoting your business, you can learn a lot at networking meetings. Additionally, asking open-ended questions encourages others to participate in the conversation, and sets you up for more introductions.
  • Hand out your business cards. Set up private meetings with those who express an interest in getting to know more about your business.
 
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    Advertise. Consider these methods for advertising your business:
    • Signs. You may opt for storefront signs, billboards, marquee boards or street-side yard signs.
    • Print. Place print ads in magazines, newspapers, coupon books, trade journals and industry magazines. Choose print mediums that are suited to your business. For example, if you run a technology parts recycling warehouse, then you may consider placing ads in computer classifieds and technology magazines.
    • Commercials. Television and radio commercials are effective ways to promote your business to a broad audience, but they are relatively costly forms of advertising.
    • Advertisements. You may opt to pass out promotional materials at trade shows, at store fronts, in parking lots or in any other highly-populated areas. Some businesses, like nightclubs and entertainment venues, hire street crews to hand out advertisements and attract new customers.
    • Direct mail. You may purchase mailing lists targeted to your segment of the consumer market, then mail out letters, brochures, catalogs or postcards. This method is effective when you want to provide potential customers with paper coupons, vouchers, business cards or promotional merchandising.
    • Public relations (PR) firms. You may hire a PR firm to create publicity for you in the form of news write-ups and press releases.
    • Internet. Promoting a business online involves setting up a business website, participating in industry/trade forum discussions, running a blog , setting up accounts on social networking sites, using pay-per-click and banner ads, listing your business information in business directories and employing search engine optimization (SEO) techniques. Every business, regardless of its size or scope, could benefit from Internet marketing, and many Internet marketing mediums are free to use.
    • AR Advertising. Short for Augmented Reality Advertising. It enriches the user experience by bringing life to the prints, when it’s enhanced with extra layer called a digital layer
     
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    Build business partnerships with other organizations. In effect, piggyback off the success of another business. Taco Bell has recently unveiled the Doritos Locos Taco, which is a branding coup for both Taco Bell and Doritos. Whenever you think of one brand, the other brand comes to mind, and vice versa. Business partnerships can be very effective advertising tools.
    • Note: it’s tough to build a business partnership with an established company when your company isn’t yet established. Businesses understand the value (or lack of value) you’re giving them, and may want something in return or simple avoid business with you in the first place.
     
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    Rely on the power of social networks. Social networks have become the new darling of advertising because much of the legwork is being done by dedicated fans, for free. You could pay someone to advertise for you, or you could establish a social community of fans who advertise by word of mouth, at little or no cost. What’s it going to be?
    • Try harnessing the power of viral media campaigns. Dollar Shave Club did very good business for itself simply by making a (funny, exciting, relatable) music video. It took off on social networks and now has over a million combined subscribers and followers on Facebook and Google+
     
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    Offer freebies. Pass out merchandise with your company’s name and/or logo on it to everyone you meet at networking events, trade shows, client meetings and even personal social gatherings. Things like pens, magnets and calendars are good merchandising ideas, as these tend to stay in use, and within view, for extensive periods of time.
     
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    Develop relationships with your customers. Customers are people — not numbers — and it is important that you put consideration and effort into building personal relationships with them. For example, when you send out Christmas cards each year, you not only gain customer loyalty but you also inspire customers to promote your business to the people they know
     
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    Encourage customers to talk about their experience using your business. There is no tool more powerful than people talking with their family members or friends about your product or the quality of your work. If your customers are fully satisfied then you should ask them to refer you or your product to their family or friends. It is important to realise that your customers may not do so automatically and sometime a little poke requesting them to refer your business may work wonders. Go ahead, be bold and ask for more work
     
     

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