retail merchandising | door to door Brand promotion Agency in Badlapur East, mumbai

Everything our door to door Brand promotion agency in Badlapur East, mumbai does is aimed at helping brands connect with their markets and, most importantly, at getting results for our clients. On average we achieve a 25% uplift in sales on brand campaigns. This is driven through brand activations, promotions, retail merchandising , experiential events and brand love campaigns, and all aspects of field marketing and retail merchandising.

We use mobile apps that enable real-time reporting and feedback from the field and get the highest level of responses from the market.

Let us add value to your below the line marketing activities. We will source and brand a large variety of promotional team, give you ideas, plan and project manage your corporate gift campaign. We deliver door-to-door to anywhere in Badlapur East, mumbai

Promotions company that builds brand loyalty with customers

We are a professional retail merchandising and promotions company in Badlapur East , mumbai trust us for your Marketing, Promotion Campaigns which are results driven.

Brand representation and understanding is key and we set out to represent our clients’ brands in the best possible way. Also, our attention to detail and exceptional service is what sets us apart from our standards of service delivery. Our approach will leave your customers with a memorable experience.

 

Brand Activation
BTL Activation
In-Shop Activation
Mall & Market Activities
In-shop Activities
Kiosk Activities
Product Launch Activities
Corporate Image Building

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

Product launches
Product sampling
Rural Area Activities
Free Sampling Activities
Demonstration Activities
Society Activities
Data Collection Activity
Retail Branding
Merchandising

Promotions company is a dynamic and brand passionate below the line promotions and events company in Badlapur East, mumbai.  Our business is about securing brand loyalty and recognition amongst your customer target market on a one-on-one and uplift sales through brand promotion. This is achieved through door to door Brand promotion and brand activationspromotionsretail merchandising & experiential events and all aspects of the marketing field.

Our clients get brand strategy and crafted solutions, from concept development through to production, execution, and ability to meet tight deadlines without compromising.

Promotions treats a brand as a living being and can be seen in the way we use our concepts in improving the probability of a successful brand activation campaign, Also we understand all the requirements of every brand activation, we activate and deliver to your targeted audience. We can tailor-make any campaign to suit the needs of both brand and audience.

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corporate contact programs
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Brand Promotions
Brand Strategy
Brand Activation Services
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STREET TEAMS
Demonstration Activities
Kiosk Activities
Mall Marketing
Corporate Contact programs
Corporate Image Building
Free Sampling Activities
In-Shop Activation
In-shop Activities
Product Launch Activities
Brand Promotion Services
Brand Promotions
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Stall Operations
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Product Sampling
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We treat brands like living beings and the evidence is in the way we use out concepts to improve the probability of successful brand activations.

As specialists with an energetic life force, we offer creative promotions campaign solutions. These solutions extend across concept development and strategy to execution on a national level.

At Fulcrum Promotions, we understand all the requirements of every activation as well as we activate when infusing energy into our client’s project to drive their businesses forward. We can also tailor make any campaign to suit the needs of both brand and audience.

 

 Activations & Promotions

Fulcrum will take care of the entire activation or promotion – from concept to planning to execution. We will also be using our innovative, online field reporting tools to provide measureable responses, return on investment numbers and other eye-opening market insights.

Experiential Marketing

Fulcrum’s experiential marketing events and brand love campaigns are focused on building long-term loyalty by providing unforgettable, feel-good experiences. Consumers can ‘fall in love’ with your brand and share the news with the world via word of mouth and social media..

Field Marketing

Fulcrum conducts various field marketing activities, providing market insights and tangible support for your brand in the field so that your marketing efforts reach new levels of effectiveness. Services include market research, mystery shopping, lead generation, incentive launches, staff training, store audits and other merchandising support activities.

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We infuse our tailor-made promotions solutions are with a thorough understanding of the target audience. This includes, but not limits, their shopping habits, behaviours, and the path to buy.

Our operational ability, real-time digital campaign management, and reporting systems ensure effective execution and feedback.

Through many strategic stakeholder relationships, we provide inclusive and interactive activations. We ignite the light that will light the way for people to find your product and align with your purpose.

In addition, we are able to ease executions through solid trade relationships.

Reach your target audience

Reaching the right audience at the right moment in ways that it speaks to them

Highly trained promoters

We provide you with an enthusiastic, professional and well-trained team of promoters

Brand Identification

Dare us to bring out the personality of your brand

Brand Interaction

We tailor your brand activations to deliver the desired brand interaction.

Brand activations are about coming to your audience and letting them know in a memorable way, who you are and why they should support you.

Ideally, it generates enthusiasm beyond the moment and leads to action on behalf of your consumers. It’s a matter of reaching the right audience at the right moment in a way that speaks to them.

Our Promotions Company has the ability to use a wide range of out-of-home media platforms and, thus offer synergistic 360-degree brand executions.

Our Promoters and Promotional Models are best in class. In essence, their impact and ability to execute is important to us and is evident in the expertise and rigorous programs offered by our team of experts.

 

Come talk to us, we build relationships and achieve business goals.

 We want to share our ideas to help your brand promotions,

We operate across the entire mumbai and have staff in all major towns and cities  to  Badlapur East.

If you are a staff member wanting to join our nationwide team, head over to our staff hub pages.

Contact us for a FREE consultation

Email:- info@fulcrumresources.in

 

 

Badlapur East, mumbai

Badlapur East is a part of the city of Badlapur, which falls under the Mumbai Metropolitan Region. It is a fast-growing locality, aided by its proximity to other important areas in the state. Literally translated, the word ‘Badla’ means ‘change’ and ‘pur’ means ‘town’.

Badlapur East is a part of the city of Badlapur, which falls under the Mumbai Metropolitan Region. It is a fast-growing locality, aided by its proximity to other important areas in the state. Literally translated, the word ‘Badla’ means ‘change’ and ‘pur’ means ‘town’.

Located at a distance of 68 km from Mumbai, Badlapur East has seen tremendous progress in the past three decades. Surrounded on two sides by mountainous terrain, it serves as a peaceful residential locality for hundreds of professionals working in nearby areas. The locality lies close to river Ulhas, which flows through Badlapur and divides it into east and west Badlapur.

Badlapur East enjoys the presence of robust social infrastructure, including reputed institutions like Leelavati Awhad Institute of Technology, Management Studies & Research, Balasaheb Mhatre Polytechnic College, Presidency English School, Fatima High School, and Don Bosco English High School.

While Badlapur West has a more balanced mix of commercial and residential pockets, Badlapur East is primarily a residential locality. The Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC) is responsible for the supply of water to the area, and the electricity is supplied by the Maharashtra State Electricity Board (MSEB).

Key Projects in Badlapur East :

Godrej Vihaa

Connectivity and Transit Points

Badlapur East is dotted with clusters of residential areas like Badlapur Gaon, Eranjad, and Sonivali. These residential areas are extremely well connected through excellent roads. SH-80 passes through the northern part of Badlapur East, bridging it with Badlapur West and SH-76 on one side, and NH-222 on the other. This allows for convenient travel to neighbouring areas. NMMT buses are also available from the region to Vashi and CBD Belapur/Turbhe station.

Trains are another preferred mode of transport. The railway station in Badlapur West is easily reachable via road from Badlapur East. Serving as a terminal station for a number of suburban local trains, it is a redeeming factor for most working-class residents in the locality.

When it comes to air travel, Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport is the nearest, located at a distance of 57 km.

Major Landmarks

Carmel Convent High School

BA Talreja College

Spandan Hospital

Shri Trimbakeshwar Mandir

Balasaheb Mhatre Polytechnic

Sadguru Shankar Narayan Satam Maharaj Math

Factors for Growth in the Past

The development of an industrial area, set up by the Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation, played an important role in attracting early investors to the region. The locality’s proximity to the scenic Ulhas River Valley also cajoled the interest of many investors and potential buyers or sellers who were looking to invest in second homes to get away from the otherwise crowded and cramped streets of Mumbai.

The construction of Badlapur Gaon Road, forming a bridge over river Ulhas, has also significantly contributed to the growth of the locality by improving connectivity between Badlapur East and Badlapur West. The development of this road facilitated commercial trade between the two regions and provided quick access to the commodities available in Badlapur West.

Residential and Commercial Market

Major Challenges

The only challenges that the residents of Badlapur East face are the occasional power failure and the decreasing quality of drinking water. The local government has taken measures to avoid these problems, and is also working on several projects to accommodate the growing population.

Factors for Growth in the Future

The proposed Shirgaon-Padgha-Titwala-Badlapur Link Road is expected to play a major role in the development of Badlapur East. Passing through Badlapur, it is expected to reduce to a large extent the time taken to travel from the locality to its neighbouring areas. This improvement in accessibility would serve as a motivation for the working class in surrounding areas to buy property in Badlapur East, and would consecutively invite more residential projects to be set up here.

The residential market in Badlapur East has already tasted success in the form of residential projects like Panvelkar Sankul, Mohan Valley, Panvelkar Park, Panvelkar Royal Square, Manav Park, and Stalwart Ushakiran Residency. With the completion of ongoing and upcoming residential complexes like Mohan Palms, Podar Evergreens, Mohan Highlands, 50 Kalp City, Thanekar Hill Crest, and Panvelkar Optima, the real estate market of the region will see an upsurge in both the residential and commercial sector.

 

direct Brand promotion | Theater Experiential Marketing Revenue Colony, Pune

Welcome to Fulcrum Theater Experiential Marketing Revenue Colony, Pune. One of the best integrated marketing companies Pune has to offer, located within prestigious offices at Revenue Colony.

We offer a wide range of direct Brand promotion And marketing services including direct Brand promotion , Street Guerilla Brand promotion , Theater Experiential Marketing , door2door Interactive marketing, local Brand promotion.

As one of the best marketing companies Pune has to offer we also provide marketing solutions to optimise the sales pipeline to maximise conversion and optimise lifetime value.

We believe in providing an amazing service, at a fair cost, with clear transparent quotations. If you are looking for a small team of promo staff or looking to find promotional staff for a long term campaign, talk to us.

Connect With Your Customers

We understand that consumer decision making is a largely emotional, subconscious process, so building an authentic connection with your customer is key. Utilising the tangible insights gained from our research, we then craft brand experiences that will connect fully with your consumer and influence their subconscious decision making.

FOR YOUR POTENTIAL CUSTOMERS, A GREAT EXPERIENCE ISN’T JUST A PIECE OF MARKETING.

Fulcrum is a Theater Experiential Marketing Revenue Colony, Pune. We create, deliver and support experiential marketing campaigns, converting live attention to Brand Devotion for the  small to biggest brands.

We believe the key to unlocking value is building truly meaningful relationships. We work collaboratively with brands and businesses, using data and insights to develop customer loyalty and engagement programmes, strategic partnerships and brand creation to build, mend or maintain strong relationship bonds between brands and people.

EXPERIENCES
People, meet brand.
Strategic campaigns to shape opinion and build brand affinity.
TRIAL
People, meet product.
Tactical campaigns to boost penetration and promote sales.
STAFFING
People, meet people.
Providing the people who’ll be the real world face of your brand.

Live Experience

Immersive experiential marketing campaigns to create Brand Devotion

Product Sampling

Campaigns to drive trial, change perceptions, boost awareness & sales

Promotional Staffing

Brand ambassadors & hospitality staff to be the face of your brand

We provide three core services each strategically tailored to your brand’s goals

Type of Theater Experiential Marketing is useful for:
The answer to this is pretty much anything, however we have listed some common direct Brand promotion, Theater Experiential Marketing , event types below.

+ High Street Promotion
+ High Street Promotion
+ Competition Signup
+ Exhibitions
+ Festivals
+ Club Promotion
+ Sporting Events
+ In Store Promotion
+ Business Promo Offers

Where do we cover?
We cover the whole of the Pune and that means more than just the major cities. We have locally based staff in all towns and villages across the Pune. We also have local division which features locally based staff in countries.

Can you design and make up leaflets for us?
Yes we certainly can. We have our very own creative designer in house who can put together all styles of flyers, banners and posters. We can also print these for you and offer very competitive prices.

 

Helping brands build powerful front lines in the real world.

Design, Develop or Activate Your Event Marketing

Planning ======= Activation =======Reporting

Full independent direct Brand promotion Agency, specialising in field and direct Brand promotion , Street Guerilla Brand promotion , Theater Experiential Marketing , door2door Interactive marketing, local Brand promotion….  field and experiential marketing that is tailored specifically to you and your brand. …. Join us for a Cup  of  coffee on the roof at our ‘Revenue Colony, Pune office

Brand Activation
BTL Activation
In-Shop Activation
Mall & Market Activities
In-shop Activities
Kiosk Activities
Product Launch Activities
Corporate Image Building

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

Product launches
Product sampling
Rural Area Activities
Free Sampling Activities
Demonstration Activities
Society Activities
Data Collection Activity
Retail Branding
Merchandising

 

Fulcrum has a proven track record for delivering first-class campaigns and events, setting the benchmark for excellence and best practice in experiential marketing. With offices in the Revenue Colony and Pune and a mumbai network of affiliate partners around the India, our experience and capabilities are truly Local. Our thinking is innovation, our creativity is fresh, our operations are strong and our relationships are everything.

We love experiential marketing and we love what we do.

guerrilla marketing
brand activations
pop-up events
retail and in-store marketing
mobile marketing tours
campus marketing
app launches promotion
festival marketing
human banner
lookwalker

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street teams
demonstration activities
kiosk activities
mall marketing
corporate contact programs
corporate image building
free sampling activities
in-shop activation
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product launch activities

Brand Promotions
Brand Strategy
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Demonstration Activities
Kiosk Activities
Mall Marketing
Corporate Contact programs
Corporate Image Building
Free Sampling Activities
In-Shop Activation
In-shop Activities
Product Launch Activities

One of the best integrated marketing companies Pune has to offer, … We create strategic and creative corporate branding propositions.

If you have any questions or queries, just ask. Our dedicated team will be happy to help.

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Brand Promotions
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Stall Operations
Retail Branding
Product Sampling
Shopper Marketing
Merchandising
In-Store Promotion
Product Launches
App Launches Promotion
Leaflet Distribution
Door to Door Flyering
Trade Show Activation

We can promote your brand or product

As a leading Sales Promotion Agency in Baramati, Pune, we provide end to end  solutions to our clients

We operate across the entire Pune and we have staff in all major towns Revenue Colony and cities Pune .

If you are a staff member wanting to join our nationwide team, head over to our staff hub pages.

Contact us for a FREE consultation

Email:- info@fulcrumresources.in

direct Brand promotion | Theater Experiential Marketing Revenue Colony, Pune

 

Revenue Colony , Pune

Revenue Colony, situated in the centre of Pune city is an upcoming locality. It comes under the jurisdiction of Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC). AH 114 is passing through the locality which further links the locality with Mumbai Highway or NH 60. There are some prominent localities situated close to Revenue Colony are Shivaji Nagar, Model Colony, Ganeshwadi, Deccan Gymkhana, Raviwar Peth, Budhwar Peth, PMC Colony, Modi Colony, Gokhale Nagar among others. It is well connected to the other parts of the city via roads, rails, and National Highway. The area is home to many central, state and local government offices as well as educational establishments. It has close proximity to Pune which is located about 2.7 km via Omkareshwar Path while Mumbai is about 147 km via Bengaluru-Mumbai Highway. The presence of Banks, ATM’s, Schools, Hospitals and retail stores etc. at a stone throw away distance makes Revenue Colony a self-sustained locality. Some of the key residential projects in Revenue Colony are Nisarg Rajyog Residency, Tara 55 Sukhniwas, Samrat Green Republic, Nisarg Vatika, Sai Sanskar Residency, Panchavati Nest among others.

Connectivity

The locality of Revenue Colony is surrounded by FC Road, Ganeshkhind Road, Modern Engineering College Road, and AH 114. It is well connected to the other parts of the city via road, rail and National Highway.

It enjoys excellent connectivity to Pune International Airport which is located at a driving distance of 18 kms via Lohegaon Road/Pune Nagar Road/Samrat Ashok Road.

Shivajinagar, Pune Junction, Khadki and Ghorpadi are the nearby railway stations. However, Shivajinagar is the nearest railway station to Revenue Colony located at a distance of 800 mtrs via Ganeshkhind Road and Gharpure Lane. Pune Junction is the another important railway station from where one can avail the facilities of interstate trains.

Employment hubs near Revenue Colony
Pune IT Park
Nano Space IT Park
Thube Park
Software Technology Parks of India
Commerzone IT Park
Teerth Technospace

Factors for past growth
Its proximity to Pune International Airport, Pune Junction along with major technology parks such as Pune IT Park, Commerzone IT Park, Teerth Technospace, Nano Space IT Park, and Software Technology Parks of India, have been a plus point for Revenue Colony, has also increased employment opportunities, aided development and boosted real estate development in this region. As a result, the region has seen considerable rental demands for 1 BHK apartments for rent in Revenue Colony.

Infrastructural Development (Social & Physical)
Revenue Colony offers best in class infrastructure to its residents. Pune Police Public School, Bharat English School, Modern High School, Arrista School of Finesse, St. Francis High School, AISSMS Shri Shivaji Preparatory Military School and Samvit School of Infrastructure Business are some of the prominent educational institutions in the locality. It also houses some good colleges and educational institutions nearby. These are Pragnya College, Modern College of Arts, Science & Commerce, Modern College of Education for Ladies, P.E.S. Modern College of Engineering, Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University, Sancheti College of Physiotherapy to name a few.
Healthcare facilities are also good in the locality. Deccan Multispeciality Hardikar Hospital, Dr. Shailesh Puntambekar, Tembe Hospital, National Institute of Ophthalmology, Deendayal Memorial Hospital, Sancheti Hospital, Department of Hand and Microvascular Reconstructive Surgery are the renowned hospital which provides the health care facility to the residents of Revenue Colony.
Shopping needs of the people are catered by nearby malls. The Pavillion, R Deccan Mall, E Square Mall, S MAll and Pune Central mall are few malls in and around the locality which serves the daily needs of the residents of Revenue Colony. It also houses retail outlets of famous national and international brands like Shoppers Stop, My Jio Store, Louis Philippe, Arvind Fashion among others.

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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?

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Promotions team

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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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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

 

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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 sales consultant , door-to-door sales technique and door to door sales consultant in mumbai.

We convert potential customers to sustainable clients in the shortest space of time( door to door sales, door to door sales consultant ). 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 sales consultant 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 agencies in Hinjewadi

Committing to Executive Conversations

Business impact through business outcomes—that’s the core of the new, executive-level messaging Cisco Systems wanted to take to the market. To make that message resonate with executive buyers, they knew it needed to elevate the conversation and make their sales interactions CXO relevant. And that’s how the Sales Masters program became engraved in Cisco Systems’ culture.

Each year, 2,400 salespeople go through the Sales Masters session, according to Rica Lieberman, director, sales acceleration at Cisco Systems. Engaging Corporate Visions’ to teach executive selling skills was a big part of making the Sales Masters program a training reality. Lieberman said Corporate Visions’ instructors understood Cisco culture and had a strong grasp of what was top of mind for them, particularly the company’s strategic initiatives.

Another factor that helped make Sales Masters a success: Continuity. Cisco took advantage of a standard set of Corporate Visions instructors, which helped build consistency and rigor into the company’s training initiatives.

 

 

 

 

 

door to door sales consultant in Pune

door to door sales consultant in mumbai

Neighbourhood Marketing , btl advertising, Branding, retail merchandising,

Airports selling, Corporate Retail Branding, Compensation

 

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 sales consultant 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 sales consultant , door-to-door sales technique and door to door sales consultant in mumbai.

We convert potential customers to sustainable clients in the shortest space of time( door to door sales, door to door sales consultant ). 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 sales consultant 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 sales training in pune

Sales Management

Definition: Sales Management

Sales management is a business discipline which is management of a firm’s sales operations and focused on practical applications of techniques used in sales. This is a crucial aspect of the business as net sales of products and services draw profit of the business. Sales manager is hired to look after the sales and to manage them.

It is attainment of sales in an efficient and effective manner and all the activities involved in sales are managed. Sales Management’s ultimate goal is to attain sales objectives of company.

Sales Management involves various activities like-

• Formulation of sales strategies like account management policies, sales force compensation policies, sales revenue forecasts, and sales plan

• Implementation of those strategies

• Sales Research, Price fixation, Establishing sales territories and co-ordination of sales

• Sales techniques required

• Hiring staff, setting goals, regular monitoring

 

Sales Management is the most crucial and determining factor in any business enterprise. It is important to meet competition and to make efficient and economic distribution system to reduce costs. It is also important when new product to be launched and when distribution costs to be reduced.

 

 

What is Brand Awareness ?

Brand awareness is the probability that consumers are familiar about the life and availability of the product. It is the degree to which consumers precisely associate the brand with the specific product. It is measured as ratio of niche market that has former knowledge of brand. Brand awareness includes both brand recognition as well as brand recall. Brand recognition is the ability of consumer to recognize prior knowledge of brand when they are asked questions about that brand or when they are shown that specific brand, i.e., the consumers can clearly differentiate the brand as having being earlier noticed or heard. While brand recall is the potential of customer to recover a brand from his memory when given the product class/category, needs satisfied by that category or buying scenario as a signal. In other words, it refers that consumers should correctly recover brand from the memory when given a clue or he can recall the specific brand when the product category is mentioned. It is generally easier to recognize a brand rather than recall it from the memory.

Brand awareness is improved to the extent to which brand names are selected that is simple and easy to pronounce or spell; known and expressive; and unique as well as distinct. For instance – Coca Cola has come to be known as Coke.

There are two types of brand awareness:

1. Aided awareness- This means that on mentioning the product category, the customers recognize your brand from the lists of brands shown.

2. Top of mind awareness (Immediate brand recall)- This means that on mentioning the product category, the first brand that customer recalls from his mind is your brand.

The relative importance of brand recall and recognition will rely on the degree to which consumers make product-related decisions with the brand present or not. For instance – In a store, brand recognition is more crucial as the brand will be physically present. In a scenario where brands are not physically present, brand recall is more significant (as in case of services and online brands).

Building brand awareness is essential for building brand equity. It includes use of various renowned channels of promotion such as advertising, word of mouth publicity, social media like blogs, sponsorships, launching events, etc. To create brand awareness, it is important to create reliable brand image, slogans and taglines. The brand message to be communicated should also be consistent. Strong brand awareness leads to high sales and high market share. Brand awareness can be regarded as a means through which consumers become acquainted and familiar with a brand and recognize that brand.

 

 

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A Friendly Reminder: Salespeople are Knowledge Workers?

 

Why do I bother you with a seemingly philosophical question at a time where things get tough and you need to stretch yourself more than ever to make your numbers? Because it is about your people. Your most valuable assets. It is through them that you will get the results. But in tough business conditions managers tend to focus on the results and put people second. I hope to make the case that your ability to improve the productivity of your sales teams depends a lot on how you see your people and treat them accordingly.

What is a knowledge Worker?

From “The Definitive Drucker” by Elizabeth Haas Edersheim we learn that the late Peter F. Drucker coined the term “Knowledge Worker” in the late 1950s. This was his term to describe white collar workers whose primary task is interpretation, translation and problem solving; so using gray matter, rather than muscles..

Does this definition apply to Sales People?

Are salespeople not interpreting a customer situation, translate this into a solution based on their offerings and thus solving customer problems? Do we not also recommend to sales people to work smarter by using gray matter, instead of working harder. If we can agree on this, then the next question to ask is:

How do you manage Knowledge Workers?

You don’t; you lead them. According to Haas Edersheim, Peter Drucker was a strong advocate that Knowledge Workers should be given autonomy rather than control.They need to be given guidance and perspective. Then one best goes out of their way letting them to asses and direct their own efforts to take responsibility for their results, unless they ask for help. Getting out of the way does though not mean that the Knowledge Worker’s autonomous behavior does not needs to be closely monitored. Drucker also gives us some hints what to monitor. Knowledge Workers should not be measured on efficiency but on effectiveness. If we need a definition for those two terms: Efficiency is doing the things right, whereas effectiveness is doing the right things. How this relates to sales is well explained in “Sales Force Performance” by “Andris A Zoltners et al.

Is this the way salespeople are managed?

Chances are high that is not. Over the last years, CRM systems were introduced, forcing people to follow a rigid sales process. These systems are also more focused on measuring efficiency. Activity Management as an example is one of the core elements of CRM systems and it plays into the hands of those who believe that you can only manage what you can measure. I am an engineer by profession and I remember Einstein’s quote: “Not everything that can be counted counts and not everything that counts can be counted”. Now this is true for physics but I think it also applies to management.

Is your CRM systems hindering you to treat salespeople as Knowledge Workers?

Not really, if you understand it as an instrument helping you to inspect what you expect. You don’t even have to initiate a major technology overhaul for your system to support this philosophy. Some tweaking by a system administrator and some new rules on how to handle the sales process will do the job with most systems.

Sales Management needs an overhaul?

I probably have angered many result oriented command and control managers with what I said. The facts though seem to speak against keeping status quo. If you follow CSO Insights work over the years, not much progress has been made in sales effectiveness. Maybe we should therefore accept that expecting different results from continuing doing the same thing is irrational to put it mildly.

Especially in harsh times with dried up pipelines it is probably better to accept that there are momentarily fewer buyers and to find ways to get more out of what you have. This means focusing on effectiveness instead of thinking about efficiency measures how your people can get more actions into a day. Look at your stars or eagles or whatever else you call your best sales people. Aren’t they usually exceeding their quota with fewer opportunities in the pipeline than your average performers.

In his research carried out in the late 1980s, observing sales people involved in major sales, Neil Rackham also did not find a strong correlation between activity and results. . The focus on effectiveness is thus nothing particularly new. So why are we still struggling to accept this? In “Managing Major Sales” Rackham is telling about the harsh reaction he caused by his findings with the sales trainers of the time. Given the number of managers still focusing on measuring activities and other efficiency metrics, I cannot help to think that opponents to Rackham must still be numerous and active spreading the opinion hat “Selling is Selling” irregardless of the context.

To conclude, I would like to recommend to you to consult the post ‘The “Blue Collar” Sales Person’ by Will Fultz, a fellow Blogger I appreciate very much for his effort giving us first hand views directly from the front line.

 

 

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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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Committing to Executive Conversations

Business impact through business outcomes—that’s the core of the new, executive-level messaging Cisco Systems wanted to take to the market. To make that message resonate with executive buyers, they knew it needed to elevate the conversation and make their sales interactions CXO relevant. And that’s how the Sales Masters program became engraved in Cisco Systems’ culture.

Each year, 2,400 salespeople go through the Sales Masters session, according to Rica Lieberman, director, sales acceleration at Cisco Systems. Engaging Corporate Visions’ to teach executive selling skills was a big part of making the Sales Masters program a training reality. Lieberman said Corporate Visions’ instructors understood Cisco culture and had a strong grasp of what was top of mind for them, particularly the company’s strategic initiatives.

Another factor that helped make Sales Masters a success: Continuity. Cisco took advantage of a standard set of Corporate Visions instructors, which helped build consistency and rigor into the company’s training initiatives.

 

 

 

 

 

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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.

 

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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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.

 

 

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