Business Dynamics
Dedicated to sales improvement

Marketing

Marketing is an activity that must integrate with sales activity and be targeted at generating sales. Typically there are three key elements within marketing:

  • Customer and Market Feedback
  • Image Building
  • Lead Generation

Customer and Market Feedback

In order to keep competitive in the market place it is important to constantly monitor the needs of the customers, the activities of competitors, and the pricing position of your products or services. This will allow you to feed good selling intelligence to the sales department, and supply details of future needs to development people. The feedback on customer satisfaction is also vital to the growth of the business, as providing a poor service will limit the growth prospects of any business. To that end we carry out both customer satisfaction surveys and "mystery shopper" campaigns, on behalf of clients.

Image Building

Building the image of your business is important in backing up the sales process. It is far easier to sell to someone who has heard of your business, than one who hasn't. We assist clients to build this image within their industry by using such foci as:

  • Press Releases
  • Expert articles in trade and non-trade publications
  • Exhibitions
  • Case studies
  • Customer testimonials
  • Professional literature
  • Entries in directories
  • Strategic partnerships
  • Newsletters
  • Proposal design and creation
  • Effective presentations

In the majority of our clients we will also assist in developing a "guru" campaign, where the company is used as a source of keynote information on anything that is happening within the industry.

Lead Generation

Whilst it is important that sales people have the capability to cold-call customers, using more hands-off forms of lead generation can allow an expensive sales person more time in front of valuable prospects. Lead generation is the responsibility of the marketing department, and we can help to set up or outsource a wide variety of lead generating techniques, such as:

  • Telemarketing
  • Emailshots
  • Mailshots
  • Web-marketing
  • CRM
  • Business networking
  • Referrals programmes

In order to establish the most effective means of generating leads for specific business, it is important to trial a number of different possibilities, and we can help clients to carry out these trials.

 

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