At Brand Connections, we’ve had one consistent purpose: to solve the problems marketers face today.  We listened to what they wanted and learned what they didn’t. We heard about the inefficiencies of the big agency holding companies and the struggles of working with multiple, boutique agencies. We heard their annoyance with agency “pitch teams” and the challenges of dealing with primarily junior account talent. We asked hundreds of marketers how they would structure an agency, because the best answers usually come straight from the source. Marketers needed a better agency model. They didn’t want MORE agency partners, but quality over quantity.

The mission became clear: Create a truly integrated, cross-discipline agency with solid account teams supported by rock star specialists. Focus on the most-needed tactics, together, to deliver an omni-channel message. Eliminate silos and conflicting agendas that hold traditional agency holding companies back. Stay current by looking forward. Oh, and hire really smart, hard-working, FUN people since we’re going to be spending a lot of time together.

Initiatives

At Brand Connections we believe building a company that embraces and welcomes change is why we’ve become a marketing agency known for innovation.

While we don’t have a giant poster in our lobby touting our mission statement (the work does that for us), we embrace a culture that is embodied by our 4 Pillars of Conduct: Accountability, Consistency, Effectiveness and Harmony.

Our belief in Accountability led us to change how we run meetings; allowing a maximum of 30 minutes and encouraging 15-minute meetings, walking meetings and standing meetings. All while training our employees on how to prepare and focus on action.  We set expectations to assign tasks during meetings and making each employee accountable for their own deliverables.

We promote consistency by sourcing processes from the bottom up. A leadership team of employee volunteers from all levels of the company meets monthly to identify and solve organizational issues that hinder consistency. They determine what challenges need solving and outline processes and best practices to get the job done.

Effectiveness means finding the right solution for a client’s business challenge. We have an industry-leading company education program consisting of company-wide trainings on innovative technology and strategies. This allows us to implement cutting-edge solutions across all divisions.

When we hire, Harmony is one of the most important criteria. We have trained managers at an organizational and departmental level about the value of cultural fit. As a result, harmony has become a major way in which we evaluate potential and current talent.

Our innovative culture has led to transformative moments for our company, resulting in a wide range of new services and products that are helping to reach our dream of Making Marketing Easier for Marketers.

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.