1. Show not tell

People are less brand-loyal and companies need to focus on their purpose. In the wake of economic recession and lost trust in big business, it’s the “why” that matters. Back in 2012 P&G’s former global marketing officer Jim Stengel published Grow: How Ideals Power Growth and Profit at the World’s Greatest Companies. His 10-year study conducted with WPP’s Millward Brown Optimor across 50,000 brands proved a direct correlation between brand purpose and financial performance.

2. Coherence and consistency across decision-making

Take Nestlé: its 2014 Creating Shared Value report underlines a belief that for a company to prosper long-term and create value for shareholders, it must create value for society at the same time.

In 2014, Nestlé retained equal lead ranking in Oxfam’s Behind the Brands scorecard with Unilever and was placed second in its industry globally by The Dow Jones sustainability indices. It also remains in FTSE4Good, which measures the performance of companies that meet globally-recognised corporate responsibility standards.

3. Power to the people

Help people to get by and they will survive, make them part of a joint future and they produce and thrive.

Coca-Cola’s Rain for Sale campaign shed light on the lack of clean drinking water in Lloró, Colombia. People were encouraged to collect rainwater in Coca-Cola glass bottles and sell to affluent company CEOs. As a result a water treatment plant was built in town.

Another great example, from the Fortune list: Cisco has pioneered an outsourcing collaboration between its Israel office and Palestinians with tech skills. It’s helped the West Bank’s IT outsourcing sector to grow 64% between 2010 to 2014 and has helped build the local economy.

4. Shared value is not a band-aid

It’s not a quick fix. Dove’s Campaign for Real Beauty, now 11-years-old, recently extended its aim to create a world where beauty is about confidence, not anxiety with Ad Makeover, using an app that outbids ads with negative keywords, ensuring that space would be won by messages that make women feel beautiful instead.

What’s more, companies are powering through even where there may be financial impact. In May, Emirates SkyCargo – in a move to protect wildlife – banned loading hunting trophies of lions, rhinos, elephants and tigers.

5. New technologies can accelerate the force for good

It’s well known that traditional diabetes treatments need patients to stick to a regime of medication and monitoring, demanding strict discipline and regular visits to the doctors.

Vodafone has created the technology to help launch the world’s first remote wireless glucometer, allowing people to proactively monitor their blood sugar levels.

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

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

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

Hire and Train Door-to-Door Marketing Team

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

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

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

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