1. Stop assuming that people spend a lot of time thinking about your brand. They don’t. Many consumers wouldn’t care if brands disappeared from their lives. So, in order to create a lasting impression and connection, experiences need to be easy to understand. Simple. In particular, with uncluttered recognizable visual elements of a brand’s identity. Simplicity makes it easy to remember and increases the likelihood that what people take away and share are clear and consistent.

2. Remember: humans can be irrational and tend to make decisions emotionally. What people feel about a brand is as important, if not more so, than what they think. So, we must move them. Moving experiences are also relatable. Force your audience to pay attention by demanding an emotional interaction with your experience. Emotions are also tied to memory, so creating work that moves people can add to its impact, memorability and share-ability. Ninety-five percent (95%) of our purchase decisions, according to research by Harvard Business School professor Gerald Zaltman, take place unconsciously. And another professor at Harvard Business School, Francesca Gino, who studies emotion, focuses specifically on how simple, seemingly irrelevant, factors can have a significant impact on the choices we make every day.

3. Brands need to challenge themselves and not be afraid to do the “never been done before”. Make it original. While it’s important to take cues from pop culture – make sure to create something that is truly unique. Brands who are willing to do bold things that haven’t been done before tend to get better results, particularly when the objective is to create awareness, engagement and earned media. On the contrary though, brands that don’t embrace originality end up as “plain vanilla” – and I don’t mean the ice cream. When it is original, people are inclined to share it, and that is how we get an Instagram feed full of life-sized desserts.

Together, these three characteristics help ensure that an execution will be memorable. Drawing inspiration from these two recent activations—and beyond is a great starting point.  We don’t need to recreate the yellow ball pit but we should challenge ourselves to create experiences that are equally or more memorable. Because with all of the change in the world, one truth remains constant: while the experience itself may be short lived, it brings a story to life and it’s the stories we live to tell.

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.