- Selling services or products to companies whose rules are often ignored by the team
- However, making B2B sales is an easy thing to do!
- Provided you are well prepared in advance and put in place the right strategy and tools
- Thus, C2M explains to you how to prepare and succeed in your Be 2B in just 3 steps.
1- Define your target and your objectives
- Before you start, you should know that selling cannot be impromptu and even less so on market B.
- Hence the importance of clearly defining how the offer works, of identifying the real influencers on the decision, and of paying particular attention to adapt your offers to your specific needs.
- Your strategy can be divided into three axes:
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- Lead :
- You need to know everything about your potential customers.
- What is his budget?
- His hierarchy in the company?
- What are his needs?
- What are his activities outside of work?
- The type of magazine he reads?
- In short, the more you know about your prospect, the more work you have to do and the longer it takes to close the deal.
The objectives :
- It is important to set short-term and long-term goals linked to your performance results.
- First, start by allocating the number of sales made each month to cover your expenses.
- You can then think about long-term goals, for example increasing your sales by 10% year over year.
The resources mobilized :
- Achieving your goal will depend in part on one factor: the number of resources with which you can market your product/service.
- It is therefore essential that your infrastructure, your budget and your employees can contribute effectively to the growth of your operation.
- Know how to reward your salespeople for their efforts by setting up a commission system and thanking them for the investment they demonstrate.
- Sometimes the fast pace of business does it for us, but a simple "thank you" always works because
2- Generate leads
- This is the crucial step where you need to generate leads.
- And so you should have an arsenal of weapons to attract potential customers and turn them into customers.
- Optimize your SEO: Improving your SEO on search engines, particularly in Google, will allow customers to find you on the web.
- Otherwise, they will never be able to find that you are typing a query.
- Influence your audience with a call to action: Once you have attracted potential customers through your blog and yours, you need to capture their contact.
- To do this, call for action on your vehicle!
- or develop a quote request or a personalized contact form.
3- Establish your sales process
- To make a successful B2B sale, nothing is left to chance.
- It is therefore essential to set up a sales process that allows you to conclude your sale as simply as possible.
- Your sales team must contribute to the implementation of this process because they will have to accept and respect it.
- It's up to you to establish the sales process best suited to your product/service and market, here we present 3 sales channels that can help you:
- Classic scheme: It's the trilogy - Follow-up by telephone - Meeting in reverse, it's a proven action in itself.
- The mailing prepares you at the base, to then make a phone call whose goal is to win
- Proper shipping and tracking will be an opportunity to sell an appointment.