Are you going to let the “Credit Crunch” crunch you? Even though the present negative press and media coverage is enough to make you pack up and head for the hills – don’t! Or, burying your head in the sand isn’t going to help either – you need to take some positive action!
In ignorance, many companies pull the plug on their marketing budgets when times get tough – but that is very short sighted. Why is your business in decline? It’s because you have less clients, or your current clients are spending less.
So what is the solution?
Yes, you need more clients or encourage those you work with to spend more with you. As a marketing company, we often have people come to us when they are in trouble. Through months or possibly years of neglect of their sales pipeline, they have reached difficultly where their cash flow dries up, and their forward forecasts will no longer gain them credit with their bankers. That’s such an awful place to reach! So, please learn from other’s mistakes and concentrate your efforts on sales and marketing.
So – how’s your sales pipeline?
Have you dedicated sufficient man hours or staff to ensure that new business will continue to flow your way? It’s highly recommended to introduce new practices in the current climate and here are a few suggestions to get you going:
- Re-educate your sales staff to the new demands of business under the Credit Crunch i.e. you are going to have to negotiate harder than before and deliver more
- Re-evaluate your current spend on marketing and where possible increase it
- Adapt new methods of lead generation and find new sources
- Network with increased intensity amongst your clients, prospects, collaborators, partners, suppliers and competitors
- Rekindle your relationship with current clients and ensure you are getting your share of business if other suppliers are involved
- Tighten your credit control to ensure constant cash flow
- Take fewer financial risks than before, and if possible, increase the level of deposits on orders to spread your risk or costs (if applicable)
- Introduce something new (Product or service) to make sure your visibility levels remain high with current and potential clients
- Automate your sales pipeline using a CRM (Customer Relationship Management) system like www.salesforce.com – so you never ever miss another lead or opportunity, and you can track your sales pipeline accurately
- Ensure that you confirm at least 30% of this quarter’s pipeline – more if possible
- Ensure you are using the internet to your advantage using Search Engine Optimisation, Web 2 practices such as blogging, and raise your presence in social networking and book-marking sites such as Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon, Facebook etc
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Pues ya sabeis lo que toca: OFRECER MAS VALOR en vuestro producto o dedicaros a otra cosa. Pero no os preocupéis que eso NOS PASA A TODOS y además no tenemos PAC que nos subvencione.
Rather than a stunt, maybe go for effective.
Use direct mail.
You have an advantage here in that people respond to "food offers" more than any other kind of direct mail.
Most managers mistakingly believe that they lose money whenever they give discounts…..bzzzzt! wrong.
By getting people to respond to your insane direct mail offer, you will increase your revenue by creating sales from those customers in a time frame that would not have happened naturally.
In other words, you are getting that guy who, on his own accord comes in say, once a month, or you might see him every two months for like three days that week, to come through your doors twice a month. You are increasing the frequency of purchases.
If you send out a worthwhile offer, they will respond….over and over…and over.
If you have a lame offer….ya..they won't budge.
ask your customers what it would take…get some feedback….then create a nice professional looking piece or two….send them out….get feedback….tweek the thing, till it produces results consistently.
This is how smart companies use direct mail. ….you know…the ones who use it year after year….thwy do it because they've learned how to make it work for them.
El 63% de las empresas agroalimentarias redujo su plantilla el último año debido al efecto de las marcas blancas en el sector, que, según el secretario general de la Federación Agroalimentaria de CCOO, Jesús Villar, generan “peores” condiciones económicas que las marcas tradicionales.
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Usually, Incentive is a deffer ed payment of productive calls made by Marketing Executives, depending on quantum of Business booked by an Executive from the margin. You may give any thing between 10 to 15 % of your margin as an incentive to each Executive for additional Business i.e., beyond Target. Target too has to be fixed scientifically.
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