Nurture to Increase Sales
All too often companies will go through cycles of feast and famine, which can lead to other difficulties for your business. John Bancroft looks to ways in which to smooth out these cycles.
Running one off lead generation campaigns with focused 
propositions in specific market sectors will generate good returns. Yet how much money are you leaving on the table? Once a campaign has finished and the focus switches to the next one, what happens to the contacts?
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All too often companies leave thousands of pounds every year for their competitors, yet there are some simple things that can be done to stop this from happening:
- Lead nurturing to create a consistent sales pipeline
- Telemarketing to existing customer accounts
- Cross selling and up selling other products and services
Lead Nurturing
For many of you this is perhaps not new, but is often forgotten or poorly executed. Yet, new business leads can be found 3 – 6 months after the initial calling.
It is important to at the very least monitor and keep on top of the list of call backs, even if it is months after the initial campaign. You need only allow between 2 – 4 days a month for follow up calls. The data is already there, up-to-date, and everything is in place to carry on successfully nurturing leads long after the initial campaign has run.
Lead Generation within Existing Accounts
More often than not when a new piece of business has been won it is ultimately transferred across to account management – stop!
When dealing with very large accounts it is well worth continuing to get your new business sales team to focus on the account.
Developing a strong foothold in a new account can take some time and often the Account Manager is caught up on delivery issues to generate new opportunities. In the meantime, your competitors’ sales force is busy approaching your account and opening up new opportunities.
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Up Selling and Cross Selling
You win your first piece of business and you are then busy delivering and meeting deadlines, but you could be missing out on further business.
People are often nervous about looking for more business too close to acquiring a new account, but this is your chance to identify further opportunities. Once you have the project underway organise a review meeting to discuss how things are going but also to identify other opportunities by asking questions such as ‘who looks after your…?’ Have you considered reviewing suppliers for…?’
The worst thing that can happen is they ask you to leave that until later in the relationship. On the other hand you could win more new business as well as saving your customer more time or money.
Ultimately, when the deal is done, don’t let your new business sales people just move on to the next campaign – there is a lot more to be won by lead and customer nurturing.
