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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

Feet On Street
Door To Door Marketing
Face to Face Marketing
Street Marketing
Field Marketing
Direct To Retailer Sales
Strategic Field Marketing
Marketing Strategy
Trade Marketing
Marketing Team
Sales & merchandising
Shopper  & Retail Marketing 
Direct sales 
Sales promotion
Consumer sales promotions
Trade sales promotions
Promotions team
Handbill distribution
Leaflet distribution
Flyer distribution
Telemarketing
Database Marketing
Direct 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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“Singin’ In The Rain”

Last week in Scottsdale it was 98 degrees and sunny for 98 percent of the time. The 2 percent of time when it wasn’t bright and broiling happened sometime between 8:30 and nine on Tuesday morning. That’s when the clouds swept in and the rain started falling, the lightning flashed and the thunder rolled…and one man in a yellow rain coat didn’t seem to mind it a bit.

Like the great Gene Kelly, Tim Riesterer was “singin’ in the rain.” See Tim’s full keynote here:

Tim asked the audience to consider some questions about that Hollywood icon: What made Kelly so dynamic as a performer? Why do we remember him today? What made him different?

Well for one, he had a repertoire of skills that few of his peers could match. The man could act, dance and sing, and he could do all three at a high level. The combination of talents cemented Kelly’s legacy as one of Hollywood’s original “triple threats.”

Just as Kelly’s triple threat status distinguished him in show business, your ability to mold yourself into a sales triple threat could set you apart in your line of work. Because if you think about it, there’s a set of performance skills that you, as salespeople, need to master to make the impact you need across the buying cycle.

What does it take to create a team full of sales triple threats? As Tim emphasized at #CTW16, it comes down to three pillars that will help you break away from old training formulas that are holding your customer conversations back:

Competency Models, instead of a generic role- or responsibilities-based curriculum—Base your competency model around the three “value conversations” salespeople need to master to articulate value across the buying cycle (creating pipeline, building compelling executive proposals, and protecting margins as pricing pressure builds). Learn more about these critical moments here.

Custom Learning Paths based on performance indicators, instead of arbitrary learning paths—With a competency model in place, you can replace outdated learning paths with custom learning paths designed to up-skill salespeople in the areas where they actually need performance improvements.

Flexible Learning Modalities, relying only on less nimble training and skills reinforcement concepts — Time out of the field is the biggest enemy of a great training program, as 56 percent of companies who experience a training shortfall indicated in a recent Corporate Visions survey. That’s why being able to push virtual, modular content to each of your reps as soon as an acute performance challenge is identified is so important. You can keep your reps sharp on the skills most vital to their success, without removing them from the field.

Learn about some of the biggest training challenges companies are up against—and how you can overcome them—in our infographic.

 

 

 

 

 

door to door selling company in Pune

door to door selling company in mumbai

Loyalty Card Solutions , Mall Advertisement, Product sampling, retail sales,

B 2 C Activation, Local Marketing, Connected Marketing Solutions

 

door to door Marketing Outsourcing firm in Pune

Face to Face Marketing and Door to Door Marketing 

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

Marketing

Feet On Street
Door To Door Marketing
Face to Face Marketing
Street Marketing
Field Marketing
Direct To Retailer Sales
Strategic Field Marketing
Marketing Strategy
Trade Marketing
Marketing Team
Sales & merchandising
Shopper  & Retail Marketing 
Direct sales 
Sales promotion
Consumer sales promotions
Trade sales promotions
Promotions team
Handbill distribution
Leaflet distribution
Flyer distribution
Telemarketing
Database Marketing
Direct 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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Corporate Philanthropy and Direct Marketing

What is Corporate Philanthropy?

Corporate philanthropy is the act of donating money to social causes. In these times, when corporate social responsibility is the buzzword what with governments specifying the terms under law, corporate philanthropy is no longer the earlier scenario where employees pool together money with matching contribution from the organization and then they decide to donate it to charitable and social causes. On the other hand, corporate philanthropy in recent years has taken on a dimension that is equal in scale and scope to a separate organization by itself. Further, corporate philanthropy is not limited to interactions between the corporate communications teams and individual NGO’s but instead, it operates on a vastly larger scale.

What is Direct Marketing?

Direct Marketing is the act of reaching out to the people by sending mailers and promotional messages with the intent of persuading them for a specific purpose. Typically, direct marketing is handled by the corporate communications teams since they have the expertise and the bandwidth to send mass mailers and promotional materials directly to the target audience.

However, in recent years, because of the sheer volume of material that is being sent out as well as the large numbers of people in the target market, separate departments have been setup to handle this activity. Further, there is coordination between corporate communications team and the direct marketing team to ensure that the message is lucid, clear, and catchy.

Dedicated Teams or Part of Corporate Communications

We have discussed how more and more business leaders are giving away a large portion of their wealth to philanthropy. Wealthy businesspersons like Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, NR Narayana Murthy, and Azim Premji, have been in the news recently because of their humungous contributions to social causes. In this context, the debate over whether corporate philanthropy must be part of the functions of the corporate communications teams or whether it must be separate and a specific department setup for it has arisen. The bottom line for this debate and the conclusive answer is that if the organization is large, then there can be a foundation that caters to the specific purpose of philanthropic activities. The examples of the Infosys Foundation and the Azim Premji Foundation are among the well-known cases where separate foundations have been setup. On the other hand, if corporate philanthropy is done on a smaller and individual scale where the corporates reach out to initiatives rather than causes, then the function can be part of the corporate communications function.

Closing Thoughts

Though corporate philanthropy and direct marketing are as different as chalk and cheese, nonetheless the commonality between the two has to do with corporate communications handling both these activities. This is because essentially both entail reaching out to the external world and since this is the function of corporate communications, it is included in their list of activities. Finally, with increasing complexity as well as large numbers of activities being part of these two functions, many organizations either are outsourcing these activities or are setting up exclusive departments to handle them.

 

 

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Articales from http://www.managementstudyguide.com

 

 

Are you a Sales Manager or a Sales Leader?

In a post on the HBR Blog network, Vineet Nayar proposes as one of the criteria to distinguish managers from leaders their attitude towards value. Managers count value. Leaders create value.

How does someone in a management function in sales determine whether he/she counts or creates value?

In most B2B Sales organizations I know, there is a list of ”top deals”. The kind of deals listed thereon, and the questions asked in “cadence calls” to review the list, will indicate whether you count or create value.

You count value….

…when your list contains the biggest deals to be closed on short term. You will have made sure that everyone throughout your organization is aware that these are “must win deals” as they are essential for your organization to make the number on short term (e.g. end of current quarter.) Your standard questions in “cadence calls” are then:

  • Are you sure the deal will close as forecast?
  • How can I help to close the deal?

You create value…

…when your list contains the deals with the highest potential value that are in a very early stage in the customer journey. You communicate to your people that you appreciate their willingness to reveal potential deals very early, and you want to help them to spend their time as wisely as possible on deals that will allow them to be successful. Your standard questions in “cadence calls” are then:

  • Do you need my help to get to the right people in the customer organization?
  • How can I help you to assess whether this deal has a high likelihood of being winnable?

Why is this so?

Unless you are ready to give an additional discount hoping that this will stimulate the closing of the deal, there is little else you can control at this late stage in the process. Actually with your eagerness for closing the deal you risk destroying value for your company by granting discounts.

When you get involved early in the deals, you can provide guidance on the qualification, on the approach that will increase the likelihood of winning well qualified deals and you can accelerate the deal in an early stage by helping your people gaining appropriate entry into the customer organization. Being early in the deal and moving purposefully in early stages of the customer journey also increases your chance to win against competitors and avoid deals that end up with no decision by the customer.

Conclusion

Applying these criteria, I see many more Sales Managers than Sales Leaders. As long as this remains so, I am not very confident that the performance of sales organizations will improve anytime soon.

How do you assess the situation?

 

Transforming B2B Customer Conversations

 

I had the good fortune of spending some quality time recently with several of our customers at our annual Conversations That Win conference. I wanted to hear firsthand from them how they are transforming their B2B customer conversations through the work they are doing with Corporate Visions. I am grateful for the insight they shared with me, and the opportunity they’ve given us to share their stories.

These leaders are doing the tremendously important work of helping their businesses differentiate and win. They are developing breakthrough messages, and equipping their marketing and sales teams to present a unified voice at every step in the customer journey. It is our honor to serve and support these leaders every day.

Hear how our customers are transforming their organizations with Conversations That Win.

 

 

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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

Feet On Street
Door To Door Marketing
Face to Face Marketing
Street Marketing
Field Marketing
Direct To Retailer Sales
Strategic Field Marketing
Marketing Strategy
Trade Marketing
Marketing Team
Sales & merchandising
Shopper  & Retail Marketing 
Direct sales 
Sales promotion
Consumer sales promotions
Trade sales promotions
Promotions team
Handbill distribution
Leaflet distribution
Flyer distribution
Telemarketing
Database Marketing
Direct 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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Geographic Segmentation

Definition: Geographic Segmentation

Geographic segmentation in marketing is dividing the market on the basis of regions or geographies. Geographic segmentation can be classified by parameters like countries, states, cities, villages, urban / rural, climatic conditions, density of population. This type of segmentation helps to reach out to customers living in a similar region or area and have identical needs.

Importance of geographic segmentation

People living in the same area or region often have similar needs and requirements. Certain products are made specifically for a purpose best suited to needs of the people living in a certain region. Hence, geographic segmentation helps identify those set of customers who are living in a particular region or area or place and also have similar features like weather, climate etc.

Geographic segmentation is one of the four types of market segmentation. The other three are demographic segmentation, behavioral segmentation and psychographic segmentation

Geographic segmentation parameters

Since this type of segmentation depends upon the region or areas, below are the parameters related to geographic segmentation:

1. Country- Certain companies make products or services which are specific to only a country. This type of geographic segmentation helps target people from a specific country

2. City- Cities offer a huge potential market to companies. Hence companies often select specific cities for their products or services

3. Villages- Some villages can be identified by companies which give the best set of customers to companies to their business with.

4. Urban/ Rural- Certain products or services can be offered only to the urban population and certain products are rural area specific

5. Climate and weather- Companies use this type of geographic segmentation and identify customers of a region with similar climatic conditions. Areas based on climate can be hot, cold, humid etc and based on weather can be snowfall, rainfall, desert etc regions

6. Population density- Depending upon the number of people in an area or region, companies can use density of population as a parameter to effectively segment the market.

Geographic segmentation parameters

The above image shows the various parameters used in geographic segmentation.

Advantages of geographic segmentation

The benefits of segmenting the market on the basis of geography, areas and regions are:

1. It helps identify people living in a similar region who mostly have similar needs and wants

2. Geographic segmentation means companies can concentrate their spending in a particular region which can enhance brand visibility significantly

3. Since geographies are well defined through borders, climate, topography etc it becomes easier for companies to identify them and find out potential customers

4. Densely populated areas can lead to huge market potential for a company to offers its products or services

Disadvantages of geographic segmentation

The certain drawbacks of segmenting on the basis of geography are:

1. This does not highlight the buying behavior, needs or wants of a customer. People living in the same region can have different requirements

2. Weather in a region keeps on changing and there have been climatic changes also. Hence simply having geographic segmentation will not be a good solution for a marketing company.

Geographic segmentation examples

There can be several way in which this topic can be understood. Certain examples of geographic segmentation are:

1. Country- Sarees are sold in countries like India, flags are sold only in their respective country etc

2. Cities- Replicas of Eiffel Tower will be sold in Paris, products depicting Taj Mahal will do well in Agra etc

3. Villages- Companies doing sugar business can target villages growing sugarcane, tea manufacturing companies can target tea farms etc

4. Urban/ Rural- Hand pumps are required in rural areas, stores of premium watch or car brands can be opened in urban areas etc

5. Climate and weather- Beachwear can be sold in areas close to the sea, sweaters in cold regions, raincoats in areas receiving high rainfall, ice-creams in hot regions etc

Hence all these above examples help to understand the concept of geographic segmentation.

 

Brand Equity – Meaning and Measuring Brand Equity

Returns to the Share-Holders.

Evaluating the Brand Image for various parameters that are considered significant.

Evaluating the Brand’s earning potential in long run.

By evaluating the increased volume of sales created by the brand compared to other brands in the same class.

The price premium charged by the brand over non-branded products.

From the prices of the shares that an organization commands in the market (specifically if the brand name is identical to the corporate name or the consumers can easily co-relate the performance of all the individual brands of the organization with the organizational financial performance.

OR, An amalgamation of all the above methods.

 

 

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Articales from http://www.managementstudyguide.com

 

 

Sales Management End of Year Checklist

 

Sales Management End of Year Checklist

 

While I was working on ideas for the next few blogs it occurred to prepare a series based upon the end of the year and the start to 2017. Depending upon the person and the conditions in their sales organization each article may or may not be pertinent. I decided to start with a Sales Management End of Year Checklist.  The following checklist is not in any priority format, but simply a quick read list and a set of recommended actions for any executive or sales leader as they plan for 2017. I have attempted to provide a list of resources, downloads or offers to assist in providing value and support for all of our readers. If you have other ideas or suggestions please comment within the blog so that all of our readers can benefit.

?       Evaluate your sales team.  What does each salesperson need to enhance their productivity in 2017?  Who are keepers, who are laggards?  I like to recommend that Sales Managers create a Personal Development Plan for each person, if you need a template Ken@AcumenMgmt.com

?       Is your compensation plan working?  Did it achieve your goals for 2016? In 2017 are the strategic goals of the company changing? Do I have to alter the sales compensation plan to help achieve the new goals? Take our online Sales Compensation Audit   to determine any weak points or check out our blog for new ideas and select Sales Compensation category.

?       Is your 2017 overall Business Planning in progress?  Assess your entire business and develop a score by department using our online Business Assessment.

?       Need to prepare a 2017 Sales Business Plan? Ask me for a template Ken@AcumenMgmt.com

?       Concerned about 2016’s tendency to not achieve quota each month or your inability to Predict Revenues? Download our List of the Top 40 Actions Sales Managers must activate to build a high performance sales team.

?       How many new salespeople do you need to hire during 2017?  Do you have a recruiting marketing plan in place? How strong is your interviewing process and skills?  Watch a video on recruiting and interviewing to help improve your organization.

?       If you are hiring, then you must tighten up your new hire on-boarding process, this must be a priority for any sales organization, you can find a template on our Sales Managers Tool Kit. There are over 40 robust tools located in the tool kit.

?       Time to plan your 2017 Sales Kick Off event; you need to have a theme for the year, make it fun, motivational and educational.  Set the tone for your team at your kick off meeting, my blog has many ideas for this kind of event or ask for ideas or speakers for the meeting, select Sales Kick Off Ideas category

?       Does your sales team need new formal sales training? Check out two sites for an online video training courses that offer low cost, mobile access and adult training methodology. www.ChannelEQ.co or Sales Gravy University

?       HINT: at your 2017 Sales Kick Off Meeting you should have your entire Quarterly Sales Training Plan ready to hand out, topics must include: Sales Training, Product/Services Training and Sales Operations.

If you have questions on any if these ideas let me know.

This is the time of the year to evaluate your successes, determine what issues must be changed or improved, and finish planning for the new year and also by the way…… exceed your 2016 quotas!

Have fun and go sell something!

 

Ken Thoreson “operationalizes” sales management systems and processes that pull revenue out of the doldrums into the fresh zone. During the past 19 years, our consulting, advisory, and platform services have illuminated, motivated, and rejuvenated the sales efforts for organizations throughout the world.

 

 

door to door selling company in Pune

door to door selling company in mumbai

Loyalty Card Solutions , Mall Advertisement, Product sampling, retail sales,

B 2 C Activation, Local Marketing, Connected Marketing Solutions

 

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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.

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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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Weekly Sales Meetings Matter

Weekly Sales Meetings Matter
As a salesperson, I did not always appreciate the value of a weekly sales meeting with my boss.  I was always prepared; my boss rarely was. I spent most of my time answering questions whose answers were available in my report or defending my integrity against an onslaught of skepticism.  Although my supervisor would imply that these meetings were to assist me, they were a “check the box function,” except when the overall numbers for the firm were down.  If the sales team was behind, the questions became more insistent and more accusatory.

It doesn’t have to be that way.  A decent weekly sales meeting can be painless, helpful and productive for your sales representatives.  It requires a bit of a change in three things that HBS believes have the highest leverage:  Mindset, Mechanics and Magic.

Mindset

This is not a team sport.  I am opposed to team meetings in which every salesperson reports out on the previous week’s activities.  Don’t waste time in-group meetings. Sales is golf, not football.
It is not the manager’s meeting.This is your sales representative’s meeting, and the agenda items, updates, and outcomes are his or her responsibility.
You BOTH need to be prepared.Manager and representative alike needs to be prepared, having reviewed the same information and with a clear idea of what you each want to get out of your time together.

Mechanics

Preparation: Insist each representative provides an advanced report including all movements since last meeting.  Important issues and information must be presented in the format of an agenda with a clear outcome that defines success.
Brevity: Meetings should last no more than 30 minutes.  More than 30 minutes usually devolves into storytelling and a focus on motion versus actual movement within the pipeline.
Structure:  Break the meeting into three 10-minute segments:
1. Good News: review of last week’s accomplishments and movements with the targeted accounts.
2. Anticipated Movement: discuss the coming week’s anticipated movements and the necessary steps that will be taken.
3. Broader Updates:  Discuss updates from the company in policy; deal with agenda items that either party has which do not fall into a “movement” category, and to address strategy on accounts that are large, complex or require more or different company resources.

Magic

Strategy versus tactics:Sales leadership is much more about the strategy to win a “whale” sized piece of business than the tactical movements of accounts working their way towards a finish line.  You lead by about anticipating what can happen with a large account and helping your sales representative use process, system and creative ideas to navigate.
Training versus coaching:  Weekly sales meeting are primarily a coaching function. You are not building new skills, but rather increasing your representatives’ efficiency and effectiveness.

Your goal in sales meetings is to keep the workflow moving at optimum speed with minimum friction. This steady cadence of accountability will instill confidence in your salespeople individually and demonstrate both respect for their efforts and their time.  In short, weekly meetings will stop feeling like a game that no one can possibly win.

 

Understanding Brand – What is a Brand ?

Brands are different from products in a way that brands are “what the consumers buy”, while products are “what concern/companies make”. Brand is an accumulation of emotional and functional associations. Brand is a promise that the product will perform as per customer’s expectations. It shapes customer’s expectations about the product. Brands usually have a trademark which protects them from use by others. A brand gives particular information about the organization, good or service, differentiating it from others in marketplace. Brand carries an assurance about the characteristics that make the product or service unique. A strong brand is a means of making people aware of what the company represents and what are it’s offerings.

To a consumer, brand means and signifies:

Source of product

Delegating responsibility to the manufacturer of product

Lower risk

Less search cost

Quality symbol

Deal or pact with the product manufacturer

Symbolic device

Brands simplify consumers purchase decision. Over a period of time, consumers discover the brands which satisfy their need. If the consumers recognize a particular brand and have knowledge about it, they make quick purchase decision and save lot of time. Also, they save search costs for product. Consumers remain committed and loyal to a brand as long as they believe and have an implicit understanding that the brand will continue meeting their expectations and perform in the desired manner consistently. As long as the consumers get benefits and satisfaction from consumption of the product, they will more likely continue to buy that brand. Brands also play a crucial role in signifying certain product features to consumers.

To a seller, brand means and signifies:

Basis of competitive advantage

Way of bestowing products with unique associations

Way of identification to easy handling

Way of legal protection of products’ unique traits/features

Sign of quality to satisfied customer

Means of financial returns

A brand, in short, can be defined as a seller’s promise to provide consistently a unique set of characteristics, advantages, and services to the buyers/consumers. It is a name, term, sign, symbol or a combination of all these planned to differentiate the goods/services of one seller or group of sellers from those of competitors. Some examples of well known brands are Mc Donald’s’, Mercedes-Benz, Sony, Coca Cola, Kingfisher, etc.

A brand connects the four crucial elements of an enterprise- customers, employees, management and shareholders. Brand is nothing but an assortment of memories in customers mind. Brand represents values, ideas and even personality. It is a set of functional, emotional and rational associations and benefits which have occupied target market’s mind. Associations are nothing but the images and symbols associated with the brand or brand benefits, such as, The Nike Swoosh, The Nokia sound, etc. Benefits are the basis for purchase decision.

 

 

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Contradicting opinions on who generates leads

 

There are studies out there telling us that in the web 2.0 world up to 90 % of purchases today start with an internet search.

This searches will end on someones landing page and can be interpreted as a lead generated by unaddressed attraction. As landing pages are usually owned by the marketing department of the respective organization, these leads can therefore be considered to be generated by marketing.

In contrast to this, CSO Insights in their Sales Performance Optimization – 2009 Survey and Analyzes, report that about 52% of the leads salespeople are working on, are self generated by the salespeople. This figure actually has risen over recent years. In 2006 only 40% of the leads were self generated.

How can we reconcile these two views?

 

One possible explanation for this discrepancy could be that a shift has already occurred how field sales forces are used. They might increasingly be used only for offerings where the customer needs help early on to understand that there is a problem and how it could be solved. It seems plausible that for this scenario, generating leads directly by the sales force might be more effective. The majority of respondents to the CSO Insights study operate in B2B selling environment , whereas it is not so clear whether the studies claiming the percentage of buying cycles started with an internet search are making this distinction between B2C and B2B selling.This could be another reason for the discrepancy of the two trends.

 

 

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ABOUT FIELD MARKETING

WHAT IS FIELD MARKETING? Field marketing and marketing Service Provider Agency in Ballard Estate is becoming more popular for companies in various industries. From food and beverage to consumer goods. It’s a tool that can be used to showcase latest products or services in a face to face environment with consumers. Furthermore companies recognise the importance of having brand ambassadors and reps on the ‘front line’ introducing the public to new innovations or delicious treats. This is done in the ‘field’; around shopping centers and in retail hot spots, expos and events, university campus’ and sport stadiums to name a few. Most campaign activities focus on customer facing roles including product demonstrations, direct selling and street training teams. However not all field marketing is consumer facing such as auditing and merchandising. Goals and outcomes of field marketing will differ from company to company. Some campaigns are designed to increase brand awareness or sales. While others may be to collect data and feedback about the product and its market. At Splatter we have all the tools necessary for the clients desired outcome to be achieved WHAT A FIELD MARKETING TEAM LOOKS LIKE. For successful field marketing campaigns companies might have dedicated teams within their business whose task it is to be creative and manage field marketing initiatives. However agencies are also on hand to support a campaign. By offering staff, management and infrastructure the client can focus on the more creative aspect of the campaign. A field marketing agency and  marketing Service Provider Agency in Ballard Estate tends to work in territories operating with reps within their own regions. Often overlooked by regional or national managers depending on the scale of the team. Although territory management is more important for wide scale national distributing business, smaller brands are recognising the importance of managing promotions on a more local scale using teams to promote, audit and sell in their regions.

WHAT CAN FIELD MARKETING DO FOR YOUR BUSINESS?

1. PRODUCT DEMONSTRATIONS

As mentioned already, demo days are a popular tool of field marketing. These campaigns can stretch from as little as one week to 6 months however some are continuous and full time. For consumer goods this would mean having brand representatives in retail stores and around shopping centers, events or road shows. Finally The Brand Ambassadors are engaging with the consumer and showing them how the product or service works. This is important as it allows a potential buyer to get hands on experience and a feel of ownership of the product; most importantly the rep is also on hand to answers any questions the customer may have. Although a sell is great the main aim of a demo campaign is brand awareness. Food and beverage take a slightly differently approach. By handing out free samples and one off deals of their product around retail and events, consumers are getting a taste of the brands latest delicious treats and at the same time everyone loves free food! Sampling is a fun activation and is effective when bringing new products to the high street. Marketing Training Learn more about product demonstrations by checking out our in depth guide here.

2. DIRECT SELLING

Much like product demonstrations these campaigns have brand reps or ambassadors at the center of them. The difference is it’s more about the selling of the product. Sales rep might have targets to adhere to. Finally these campaigns are super effective during peak times when the difference in a sale or not can be having a knowledgeable brand rep in store. Product Demonstrations Learn more about what direct selling is in our guide here.

3. RETAIL AUDITS AND MERCHANDISING

Auditing takes the reps out off the front line and away from the consumer. Auditing teams are used by marketers to monitor traditional marketing strategies that they put in place across retail. Most of all audits ensure that the brand is represented as it should be on shelves and around retail hot spots. Examples are; checking POS is as it should be across the territories, promotions advertised and running and paid spaces such as gondolas are set up. The data collected from the teams can be useful for the marketers to negotiate better future deals. In addition it also allows for mistakes to be rectified there and then by the reps. Splatter offer a live system that can be monitored by the client in real team meaning that red flags in the field can be dealt with instantaneously .Store Audits and Merchandising To learn more about Audits and merchandising view our guide here.

4. GUERRILLA MARKETING

When it comes to guerrilla marketing the gloves are off. They are usually low budget campaigns but with the right imagination and ideas they offer up some unprecedented results. Furthermore the term ‘Guerrilla Marketing’ itself is used to refer to campaigns that surprise consumers in locations and ways they might not usually expect. For that reason the experience remains with the consumer.

5. PRODUCT SAMPLING

Product Sampling To learn more about sampling work and what that involves view our guide here. WHO DOES WHAT? FIELD MARKETING REP: These guys and girls are the cream of the crop, they are masters of everything. Sometimes they may be conducting training sessions on major proportion for a retailers whole selling team. Another role they find themselves in are in is in the field collecting data and conducted audits. Finally everything in between including sales, merchandising, and working at events. Their primary concern is to drive brand awareness across their region through face to face with consumer and staff on a retail level. Read about what being a field marketing rep is all about here. FIELD MARKETING MANAGER: The field manager’s role is to oversee the field reps; it is their duty to ensure the field marketing campaigns achieves the clients intended goal. As the manager of all the region, they hold the responsibility of ensuring that all reps are trained and directed towards the client’s goals. In addition the field marketing manager will work closely with the clients marketing executives to align the marketing objectives and goals with team in the field. Finally they will then report the findings and feedback from the team. Read more about what being a field marketing manager entails here. BRAND AMBASSADOR/BRAND REP As we know by now the BA role is one of the most crucial in field marketing. Ultimately they are usually supplied by the marketing agency and are tasked with promoting and representing the client’s brand. This can work well within a University by hiring a student to represent the brand around campus; this is perfect for low budget campaigns as sometimes all it takes is giving the BA some products to show off. Some larger scale business’ use celebrities to endorse their product and services by making them the face of their brand using social media to promote to their following. Learn about the various roles within the Field Marketing industry are by reading our guide here. You can also join our team by signing up here. DO YOU NEED FIELD MARKETING? Field marketing as you have seen is a useful tool to accompany other traditional marketing strategies. For example a company might pay a huge amount of money for prime advertising spot during a major sports event. However if this is the case it is important for the brand to follow up with demos in stores. If there is a brand rep placed in store the following few days after the advertising campaign the customer is more likely to come over and ask some questions about the product. Another reason you might need field marketing is to ensure your budget has been well spent. After investing into a large scale in-store promotion campaign you want to ensure that it is implemented to the standard agreed with the retailer. Data can be collected by auditing teams and analysed to see if the money had been well spent. Furthermore it also gives opportunity for future campaigns to implemented with higher efficiency and success.      

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Build a Small Business Brand

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Branding is a very important part of every business. When you think of brands, there are likely a few that come to mind first such as Coca-Cola, Nike, Starbucks, Macy’s. Anyone can sell anything, but you really stand out in the market when you have a brand. It’s key to the growth and success of your business. Many small businesses choose the easy path when it comes to branding themselves. They pick a name and get someone to create a logo, or worse, do it themselves. Then they get some stationery and business cards. The visual representation of your brand and your brand colors are important, but you need to spend some time thinking about what you want to people to think about your business. You only get one first impression with customers, so you need to consider what it’s like to call your office, or when some sends an email through your contact form, does an actual human call them back? How quickly? How long does a prospect wait to get a proposal from your company? These are all things that leave a brand impression. Here are some tips that will help you to develop a unique small business brand.

What is your business focus?

How do you want to position your business in the marketplace? When you think about your brand presence, you should consider your industry, your personality, and your target customer. Chances are a stock photo chosen at random by the sales-person at a print-shop, will not quite capture the brand impression that you are trying to create. so hire a professional graphic designer to help you. Yes, it will cost you, but if you want to only do this one time, so spend the money to look just like the big boys. If you have keen negotiation skills, you can often find a talented designer who can put together a very reasonable package for you. There are also plenty of websites where you can find designers and view their portfolios such as Fiverr, 99Designs.com, guru.com, and upwork.com. Here are some questions to answer that will help your designer get a feel for your business.

  • What is the mission of your business?
  • What differentiates your brand from your competition?
  • What is your company’s unique selling proposition?
  • What do you want people to think of when they think of your business?
  • How would you describe the branding of your closest competitors?
  • What can you improve upon when looking at your competitors?
Be mindful of color stories as you pick brand colors.

Different colors will cause varying physiological reactions.  Here’s a quick overview of the types of feelings and emotions that can be triggered by the presence of popular colors.

  • Black: Represents authority, power, and dominance.
  • Red: Think Passion. Emotionally intense, it can stimulate the heart to beat more quickly,
  • Blue: It’s a calming color, peace, tranquility.
  • Green: It represents nature; it’s the easiest color on the eyes, refreshing.
  • Yellow: Yellow catches attention, but it can be overwhelming.
  • Brown: It can represent genuineness which can be good for business, but it can also come off as mundane, sad and wistful.

If you think back to the companies we mentioned earlier, think of the red one and the green one. There are likely two that come to mind immediately. How does each brand make you feel? When choosing a color to represent your brand, be mindful of the psychology behind that color choice.

Be consistent with your branding

If your business is taking advantage of social media marketing, then it’s important to have consistent branding across all social platforms. For example, if you build a personal brand use the same headshot everywhere. You also want your profile to tell people how to hire you. It’s great that you are swim dad or an Eagles fan. (Yes, I’m from Philadelphia), but it will greatly help your business to promote what you do. Keep in mind my 4:1 Ratio of sharing other people’s helpful content before you promote your own. You’ll also want to tailor your content to fit the culture of each platform and how your potential customers use it. Don’t just post the exact same thing across every social network, that’s a great way to damage your brand.

Don’t be afraid hire someone to help you. When choosing a designer, use a contact that says it’s work for hire, make sure you can get at least 5-7 options, and then refine one down to become your logo. When you get your artwork, ask for the jpeg, pdf and high resolution png files. And get the exact color and fonts on a one-page style guide from them, so you’re not stuck, in case you ever need to move on from that designer. Remember, if you hire a designer, you’ve got to trust them to create something brilliant, but it’s your brand, and you need to make sure convey the impression that you want people to have.

Door To Door Marketing

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.

Door to Door marketing and Face to Face marketing is a more effective traditional form of marketing, it’s one of the oldest forms of marketing and we use promotion as a means to drive sales to your company or business. There’s nothing more exhilarating than getting to interact with potential customers through face to face marketing and over the years customers are aware and very receptive to this marketing approach through supermarkets and public business places.

The benefit of this type of field marketing is that it can be done on a low budget, it is very cost effective and reaches a larger number of people per within a very short duration, in this short period of time where you have just a few minutes to convince the customers to take interest in your business, just a few minutes to build personal relations through five stages. By attention, interest, desire, conviction and action.  And what else do you benefit by using face to face marketing service?

It gives you the chance to build a certain level of confidence and trust with the customers, you get to break down communication barrier of communication and it gives you the opportunity to show clarity and answer any questions on the mind of the customers.

While many think that door to door marketing is getting neglected in this very era it still yields more results especially during startups of businesses, think about it. Other forms of marketing get lower results, emails get spammed, adverts go unnoticed and phone calls go unanswered so why not just take your business directly to them. It’s only through personal interaction that you get the chance to connect with the customer, you would be selling more than a product.

 

 You would be selling your zeal, emotions and passion

We offer a wide range of marketing services to business of different functions in India, startup businesses are not left out and we cut across all methods of marketing services, with Door to Door marketing service we assist you our clients with reaching your target customers, our services which extends to all parts of India and we target customers who are ready to change their local services to yours. We can assure you that our face to face methods would be conducted with high regards to personal safety and very good competence.

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

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

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


Hire and Train Door-to-Door Marketing Team

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

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

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

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

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How to Prepare Brand Ambassadors For An Experiential Marketing Event

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Start With Etiquette

Start off slow by going over basic etiquette rules with the team of brand ambassadors that are going to be working at your event. Every good brand ambassador will know they shouldn’t roll their eyes at guests, slouch, or cross their arms so they seem unapproachable. But, there are other etiquette rules that need to be discussed, especially when it comes to social media.

Do you want your brand ambassadors to post about the event on their social media accounts? If so, make sure you establish guidelines on what can and cannot be posted. For example, posting a selfie at the event with the brand’s hashtag is harmless. In fact, it’s free promotion. But, brand ambassadors shouldn’t post photos of themselves drinking alcohol at the event or tweet about how bored they are. You can’t control what they do or say while they’re not representing your brand, but there should be rules put in place over what they are allowed to post while they are on the clock.

Introduction to the Brand

A brand ambassador will not be able to represent your brand if they don’t know who you are, what you stand for, and what you are selling. Therefore, an important part of the training process is introducing brand ambassadors to your brand. Help them understand who you are selling to, what you are selling, and why your target audience will want to become customers. A brand ambassador doesn’t need to be able to rattle off all of the ingredients in every single one of your products. But, they should be informed enough to answer guests’ questions and speak confidently about the products or services that you are offering.

You should also make sure the brand ambassadors know what kind of personality your brand has so they know how they should communicate with guests at the event. Should they be bubbly and outgoing when approaching customers? Or would you rather them be serious and professional? These are the questions that need to be answered during training so brand ambassadors know how to conduct themselves during the event.

Media Relations

Another topic that may need to be covered as you prepare brand ambassadors for the event is media relations. If you are planning a small and intimate event, there may not be a need for media relations training. But, if you are inviting influencers and journalists to cover the event in order to increases brand awareness; this is an important part of the training process.

Go over some of the key points that you want brand ambassadors to mention when talking to members of the press. For instance, let’s say you are launching a new food product that is organic, gluten-free, and non-GMO certified. In this case, the three main points that should be mentioned in every media interview are:

  • The product is organic.
  • The product is gluten-free.
  • The product is non-GMO certified.

Don’t give brand ambassadors scripts to memorize. Even the best brand ambassadors will sound rehearsed when they have to read from a script when speaking to the media. Instead, focus on making sure they understand the key points that you want to get across. Ask them to answer the questions as naturally as possible while still incorporating these key points.

Responsibilities During the Event

Every brand ambassador should show up to the event knowing exactly what they are going to be doing that day. Make this happen by going over everyone’s responsibilities before the event. For example, assign a few brand ambassadors to the entrance of the event so they can greet customers and help them find what they’re looking for when they arrive. These brand ambassadors should be very familiar with the layout of the event and the different activities that are going on. They should also know about parking, restrooms, and other general information that people tend to ask whoever is standing by the entrance. The responsibilities of this type of brand ambassador are different than those of a brand ambassador who is stationed around the product demo area. That’s why it’s so important to go over roles and responsibilities ahead of time.

Role Playing

A strong brand ambassador knows how to communicate with guests at the event and keep them engaged in conversation. At the end of the training program, test your brand ambassadors’ skills by doing role playing exercises where you pretend to be a guest or member of the media at the event. Doing this exercise will allow you to see how much of the information the brand ambassadors absorbed during their training. Do they remember the key talking points for the media? Are they asking guests to fill out a contact form so you can capture leads at the event? Take mental notes during the exercise—or have someone else stand back and watch—so you can help your team improve before the event.

Work with Factory 360 on your next experiential marketing event so you don’t have to take on the task of recruiting, hiring, and training brand ambassadors. We work with a highly trained and professional team of brand ambassadors that are eager to represent your brand and connect with guests at events. To learn more about our services, contact us today to schedule a free consultation.

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Build a Small Business Brand

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Branding is a very important part of every business. When you think of brands, there are likely a few that come to mind first such as Coca-Cola, Nike, Starbucks, Macy’s. Anyone can sell anything, but you really stand out in the market when you have a brand. It’s key to the growth and success of your business. Many small businesses choose the easy path when it comes to branding themselves. They pick a name and get someone to create a logo, or worse, do it themselves. Then they get some stationery and business cards. The visual representation of your brand and your brand colors are important, but you need to spend some time thinking about what you want to people to think about your business. You only get one first impression with customers, so you need to consider what it’s like to call your office, or when some sends an email through your contact form, does an actual human call them back? How quickly? How long does a prospect wait to get a proposal from your company? These are all things that leave a brand impression. Here are some tips that will help you to develop a unique small business brand.

What is your business focus?

How do you want to position your business in the marketplace? When you think about your brand presence, you should consider your industry, your personality, and your target customer. Chances are a stock photo chosen at random by the sales-person at a print-shop, will not quite capture the brand impression that you are trying to create. so hire a professional graphic designer to help you. Yes, it will cost you, but if you want to only do this one time, so spend the money to look just like the big boys. If you have keen negotiation skills, you can often find a talented designer who can put together a very reasonable package for you. There are also plenty of websites where you can find designers and view their portfolios such as Fiverr, 99Designs.com, guru.com, and upwork.com. Here are some questions to answer that will help your designer get a feel for your business.

  • What is the mission of your business?
  • What differentiates your brand from your competition?
  • What is your company’s unique selling proposition?
  • What do you want people to think of when they think of your business?
  • How would you describe the branding of your closest competitors?
  • What can you improve upon when looking at your competitors?
Be mindful of color stories as you pick brand colors.

Different colors will cause varying physiological reactions.  Here’s a quick overview of the types of feelings and emotions that can be triggered by the presence of popular colors.

  • Black: Represents authority, power, and dominance.
  • Red: Think Passion. Emotionally intense, it can stimulate the heart to beat more quickly,
  • Blue: It’s a calming color, peace, tranquility.
  • Green: It represents nature; it’s the easiest color on the eyes, refreshing.
  • Yellow: Yellow catches attention, but it can be overwhelming.
  • Brown: It can represent genuineness which can be good for business, but it can also come off as mundane, sad and wistful.

If you think back to the companies we mentioned earlier, think of the red one and the green one. There are likely two that come to mind immediately. How does each brand make you feel? When choosing a color to represent your brand, be mindful of the psychology behind that color choice.

Be consistent with your branding

If your business is taking advantage of social media marketing, then it’s important to have consistent branding across all social platforms. For example, if you build a personal brand use the same headshot everywhere. You also want your profile to tell people how to hire you. It’s great that you are swim dad or an Eagles fan. (Yes, I’m from Philadelphia), but it will greatly help your business to promote what you do. Keep in mind my 4:1 Ratio of sharing other people’s helpful content before you promote your own. You’ll also want to tailor your content to fit the culture of each platform and how your potential customers use it. Don’t just post the exact same thing across every social network, that’s a great way to damage your brand.

Don’t be afraid hire someone to help you. When choosing a designer, use a contact that says it’s work for hire, make sure you can get at least 5-7 options, and then refine one down to become your logo. When you get your artwork, ask for the jpeg, pdf and high resolution png files. And get the exact color and fonts on a one-page style guide from them, so you’re not stuck, in case you ever need to move on from that designer. Remember, if you hire a designer, you’ve got to trust them to create something brilliant, but it’s your brand, and you need to make sure convey the impression that you want people to have.

Door To Door Marketing

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.

Door to Door marketing and Face to Face marketing is a more effective traditional form of marketing, it’s one of the oldest forms of marketing and we use promotion as a means to drive sales to your company or business. There’s nothing more exhilarating than getting to interact with potential customers through face to face marketing and over the years customers are aware and very receptive to this marketing approach through supermarkets and public business places.

The benefit of this type of field marketing is that it can be done on a low budget, it is very cost effective and reaches a larger number of people per within a very short duration, in this short period of time where you have just a few minutes to convince the customers to take interest in your business, just a few minutes to build personal relations through five stages. By attention, interest, desire, conviction and action.  And what else do you benefit by using face to face marketing service?

It gives you the chance to build a certain level of confidence and trust with the customers, you get to break down communication barrier of communication and it gives you the opportunity to show clarity and answer any questions on the mind of the customers.

While many think that door to door marketing is getting neglected in this very era it still yields more results especially during startups of businesses, think about it. Other forms of marketing get lower results, emails get spammed, adverts go unnoticed and phone calls go unanswered so why not just take your business directly to them. It’s only through personal interaction that you get the chance to connect with the customer, you would be selling more than a product.

 

 You would be selling your zeal, emotions and passion

We offer a wide range of marketing services to business of different functions in India, startup businesses are not left out and we cut across all methods of marketing services, with Door to Door marketing service we assist you our clients with reaching your target customers, our services which extends to all parts of India and we target customers who are ready to change their local services to yours. We can assure you that our face to face methods would be conducted with high regards to personal safety and very good competence.

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

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

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


Hire and Train Door-to-Door Marketing Team

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

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

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

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

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Becoming Marketing Active: The Fulcrum Guide to Getting Started with Business Marketing –  In the first part of our guide to becoming marketing active retail Store Marketing company in navi mumbai, we looked at some of the reasons that drive a business to start marketing (if you missed part one, check it out here). But once you’ve made the decision to embark on a marketing strategy for your business, what next? Where do you start and what steps should you take to ensure a smooth and successful process? As is so often the case in business (and life!), preparation is key. So before rushing into any kind of marketing, it’s important to take the time to plan, research and strategise for success. In order to create an effective marketing strategy, you need to develop a thorough understanding of your market, your competitors and your business itself. This means getting back to basics and equipping yourself with all the information you need to identify marketing activities that work for your brand. 1) Research your target market How much do you know about the target audience of your product or service? We’re not just talking about age, sex or occupation (though, of course, you need to know these too). To have the best chance of reaching your target market, you need to dig deeper and find out exactly what drives them towards purchase. What kind of triggers are they most likely to respond to? Which elements of the marketing mix have the most impact on them? How will your product or service benefit them? Understanding these aspects of your target audience will enable you to position and market your brand accordingly, so comprehensive market research is essential. It’s often easier (and more cost-effective) to outsource this type of research to a professional agency who will be better placed to obtain the information you need. 2) Analyse your competition In order to stay ahead of your competitors, you need to know who they are, what they’re doing and how they’re doing it. Once you’ve identified who your key business competitors are, look into the marketing methods they’re using and the way in which they have positioned their brand. What channels and platforms have they chosen to market their business? How are they promoting their brand and its products/services? Consider which elements are crucial to your own business and how you can position your brand in order to get ahead. 3) Define your objectives What do you want to achieve from your marketing activity? Whether it’s to increase your revenue, establish your business in a new market segment or improve brand awareness, setting clear, measurable marketing objectives is vital in understanding what steps need to be taken in order to achieve these goals. Make sure that each identified objective is specific (how much do you want to increase revenue by?), achievable (is it realistic?) and has a timeframe for accomplishment (are you aiming to achieve this goal in three months or a year?). You also need to make sure that your marketing objectives tie in with your overall business objectives. 4) Understand your business You may think you have a pretty good understanding of your business, but it’s surprising what insights can be achieved when you conduct a thorough SWOT analysis (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats). Be rigorous, be meticulous, and above all be brutally honest. Is a lack of staff training letting your business down? Are your prices too high to compete in today’s market? Arming yourself with this knowledge is invaluable in developing a marketing strategy that leverages your company’s strengths and addresses those areas which need to be improved. In the next instalment of the Fulcrum guide to becoming marketing active, we’ll be looking at the raft of marketing channels available and helping you to identify which ones are best for your business. If you have something to share on this topic, why not get in touch? Leave your comments below…  

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How to Prepare Brand Ambassadors For An Experiential Marketing Event

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Start With Etiquette

Start off slow by going over basic etiquette rules with the team of brand ambassadors that are going to be working at your event. Every good brand ambassador will know they shouldn’t roll their eyes at guests, slouch, or cross their arms so they seem unapproachable. But, there are other etiquette rules that need to be discussed, especially when it comes to social media.

Do you want your brand ambassadors to post about the event on their social media accounts? If so, make sure you establish guidelines on what can and cannot be posted. For example, posting a selfie at the event with the brand’s hashtag is harmless. In fact, it’s free promotion. But, brand ambassadors shouldn’t post photos of themselves drinking alcohol at the event or tweet about how bored they are. You can’t control what they do or say while they’re not representing your brand, but there should be rules put in place over what they are allowed to post while they are on the clock.

Introduction to the Brand

A brand ambassador will not be able to represent your brand if they don’t know who you are, what you stand for, and what you are selling. Therefore, an important part of the training process is introducing brand ambassadors to your brand. Help them understand who you are selling to, what you are selling, and why your target audience will want to become customers. A brand ambassador doesn’t need to be able to rattle off all of the ingredients in every single one of your products. But, they should be informed enough to answer guests’ questions and speak confidently about the products or services that you are offering.

You should also make sure the brand ambassadors know what kind of personality your brand has so they know how they should communicate with guests at the event. Should they be bubbly and outgoing when approaching customers? Or would you rather them be serious and professional? These are the questions that need to be answered during training so brand ambassadors know how to conduct themselves during the event.

Media Relations

Another topic that may need to be covered as you prepare brand ambassadors for the event is media relations. If you are planning a small and intimate event, there may not be a need for media relations training. But, if you are inviting influencers and journalists to cover the event in order to increases brand awareness; this is an important part of the training process.

Go over some of the key points that you want brand ambassadors to mention when talking to members of the press. For instance, let’s say you are launching a new food product that is organic, gluten-free, and non-GMO certified. In this case, the three main points that should be mentioned in every media interview are:

  • The product is organic.
  • The product is gluten-free.
  • The product is non-GMO certified.

Don’t give brand ambassadors scripts to memorize. Even the best brand ambassadors will sound rehearsed when they have to read from a script when speaking to the media. Instead, focus on making sure they understand the key points that you want to get across. Ask them to answer the questions as naturally as possible while still incorporating these key points.

Responsibilities During the Event

Every brand ambassador should show up to the event knowing exactly what they are going to be doing that day. Make this happen by going over everyone’s responsibilities before the event. For example, assign a few brand ambassadors to the entrance of the event so they can greet customers and help them find what they’re looking for when they arrive. These brand ambassadors should be very familiar with the layout of the event and the different activities that are going on. They should also know about parking, restrooms, and other general information that people tend to ask whoever is standing by the entrance. The responsibilities of this type of brand ambassador are different than those of a brand ambassador who is stationed around the product demo area. That’s why it’s so important to go over roles and responsibilities ahead of time.

Role Playing

A strong brand ambassador knows how to communicate with guests at the event and keep them engaged in conversation. At the end of the training program, test your brand ambassadors’ skills by doing role playing exercises where you pretend to be a guest or member of the media at the event. Doing this exercise will allow you to see how much of the information the brand ambassadors absorbed during their training. Do they remember the key talking points for the media? Are they asking guests to fill out a contact form so you can capture leads at the event? Take mental notes during the exercise—or have someone else stand back and watch—so you can help your team improve before the event.

Work with Factory 360 on your next experiential marketing event so you don’t have to take on the task of recruiting, hiring, and training brand ambassadors. We work with a highly trained and professional team of brand ambassadors that are eager to represent your brand and connect with guests at events. To learn more about our services, contact us today to schedule a free consultation.

 

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Becoming Marketing Active: The Fulcrum Guide to Getting Started with Business Marketing –  In the first part of our guide to becoming marketing active one 2 one Marketing agent in navi mumbai, we looked at some of the reasons that drive a business to start marketing (if you missed part one, check it out here). But once you’ve made the decision to embark on a marketing strategy for your business, what next? Where do you start and what steps should you take to ensure a smooth and successful process? As is so often the case in business (and life!), preparation is key. So before rushing into any kind of marketing, it’s important to take the time to plan, research and strategise for success. In order to create an effective marketing strategy, you need to develop a thorough understanding of your market, your competitors and your business itself. This means getting back to basics and equipping yourself with all the information you need to identify marketing activities that work for your brand. 1) Research your target market How much do you know about the target audience of your product or service? We’re not just talking about age, sex or occupation (though, of course, you need to know these too). To have the best chance of reaching your target market, you need to dig deeper and find out exactly what drives them towards purchase. What kind of triggers are they most likely to respond to? Which elements of the marketing mix have the most impact on them? How will your product or service benefit them? Understanding these aspects of your target audience will enable you to position and market your brand accordingly, so comprehensive market research is essential. It’s often easier (and more cost-effective) to outsource this type of research to a professional agency who will be better placed to obtain the information you need. 2) Analyse your competition In order to stay ahead of your competitors, you need to know who they are, what they’re doing and how they’re doing it. Once you’ve identified who your key business competitors are, look into the marketing methods they’re using and the way in which they have positioned their brand. What channels and platforms have they chosen to market their business? How are they promoting their brand and its products/services? Consider which elements are crucial to your own business and how you can position your brand in order to get ahead. 3) Define your objectives What do you want to achieve from your marketing activity? Whether it’s to increase your revenue, establish your business in a new market segment or improve brand awareness, setting clear, measurable marketing objectives is vital in understanding what steps need to be taken in order to achieve these goals. Make sure that each identified objective is specific (how much do you want to increase revenue by?), achievable (is it realistic?) and has a timeframe for accomplishment (are you aiming to achieve this goal in three months or a year?). You also need to make sure that your marketing objectives tie in with your overall business objectives. 4) Understand your business You may think you have a pretty good understanding of your business, but it’s surprising what insights can be achieved when you conduct a thorough SWOT analysis (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats). Be rigorous, be meticulous, and above all be brutally honest. Is a lack of staff training letting your business down? Are your prices too high to compete in today’s market? Arming yourself with this knowledge is invaluable in developing a marketing strategy that leverages your company’s strengths and addresses those areas which need to be improved. In the next instalment of the Fulcrum guide to becoming marketing active, we’ll be looking at the raft of marketing channels available and helping you to identify which ones are best for your business. If you have something to share on this topic, why not get in touch? Leave your comments below…  

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Fulcrum is a progressive & creative organization, specializing in Sales, in store promotions in pune , Marketing, Brand Promotions, Training & Development and Brand Activation. The organization started up in Maharashtra in 2007. As a results-based company, we have provided our clients with a competitive advantage over the last 9 years. We have managed to bridge the gap between Sales & Marketing. Many companies spend huge budgets on marketing strategies with no real Return On Investment (ROI). Through our approach, we have optimized both of these functions, creating lower cost per acquisition, and maximizing the ROI. The mission of the organization is to consistently exceed client’s expectations. We aim to explore new markets and industries, and to develop innovative ways of yielding the best results for them. Because of our passion and skill, we are able to represent any type of client, selling any type of product or service. Our adaptability and ability to think ‘out of the box’ has allowed us to yield outstanding results, assisting clients in achieving their Sales and Marketing objectives. As part of our goal, we focus on creating efficient and sustainable business opportunities.
At the heart of Fulcrum’s philosophy is the value of human capital. We pride ourselves with our attitude towards developing future leaders. By focusing on training and developing young, up and coming entrepreneurs, we equip these individuals with a diverse set of skills, all within a vibrant, fun, learning environment. Real Promotions is proud to say that providing a working environment where people can excel within their role, enjoy themselves while they work and build a successful career is central to our core values. Our Brand Promotion Vision: To be the powerhouse for Brand Promotion ideas and excellent execution. Our Brand Promotion Mission: Positively impacting people’s lives through creating employment that allows growth and development. Growing client brands by successfully executing campaigns.
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Marketing and Sales companies one 2 one Marketing agent in navi mumbai with high quality, ethical, outsourced sales through transparent and effective business programs. We have a team of marketing and sales professionals and trainers who are committed to ensure effective delivery of the message from the client to a prospective customer. Our specialty is tailor-fitting our service to suit each individual client’s needs, ensuring compliance and delivering ethical sales every single time. We are focused on compliant and ethical selling that puts the needs of the customer first and we value transparency, integrity, diligence and hard work to ensure that our employees, clients and customers all get the best experience possible. We look for long term investments, in both our employees and our clients to ensure quality in our work, and in the opportunity for growth potential and stability for all parties involved.

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Fulcrum is a progressive & creative organization, specializing in Sales, in store promotions in pune , Marketing, Brand Promotions, Training & Development and Brand Activation. The organization started up in Maharashtra in 2007. As a results-based company, we have provided our clients with a competitive advantage over the last 9 years. We have managed to bridge the gap between Sales & Marketing. Many companies spend huge budgets on marketing strategies with no real Return On Investment (ROI). Through our approach, we have optimized both of these functions, creating lower cost per acquisition, and maximizing the ROI. The mission of the organization is to consistently exceed client’s expectations. We aim to explore new markets and industries, and to develop innovative ways of yielding the best results for them. Because of our passion and skill, we are able to represent any type of client, selling any type of product or service. Our adaptability and ability to think ‘out of the box’ has allowed us to yield outstanding results, assisting clients in achieving their Sales and Marketing objectives. As part of our goal, we focus on creating efficient and sustainable business opportunities.
At the heart of Fulcrum’s philosophy is the value of human capital. We pride ourselves with our attitude towards developing future leaders. By focusing on training and developing young, up and coming entrepreneurs, we equip these individuals with a diverse set of skills, all within a vibrant, fun, learning environment. Real Promotions is proud to say that providing a working environment where people can excel within their role, enjoy themselves while they work and build a successful career is central to our core values. Our Brand Promotion Vision: To be the powerhouse for Brand Promotion ideas and excellent execution. Our Brand Promotion Mission: Positively impacting people’s lives through creating employment that allows growth and development. Growing client brands by successfully executing campaigns.
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