Niche Market Sales Tips

Selling to Bartending Services

No doubt about it, bartending services are high value sales targets for business sellers that are poised to sell well in a competitive marketplace. The challenging part is crafting a selling strategy that gets your products noticed by top-tier buyers.

The world is an uncertain place for emerging businesses and businesses are constantly evolving their selling strategies to keep pace with changes in the marketplace.

For B2B professionals that sell to these companies, the industry's positive growth outlook makes the solid execution of fundamental sales principles more important than ever.

Sales Strategy Tips

Effective bartending service sales strategies focus on selling fundamentals and ROI. Some sales techniques are simply more efficient than others and the ones that maximize ROI need to be pushed to the top of the list.

Also, it's important to avoid a silo approach to bartending service sales. Companies that strictly segment their sales units fall behind in the marketplace, especially when they face companies that encourage cooperation between sales, marketing and other units.

How to Find Bartending Service Leads

Leads are the foundation of successful selling. The first step in lead generation is to analyze the local market. From there, you can broaden your net to include the yellow pages, Internet searches and trade listings.

The names of bartending services you obtain through your own efforts need to be qualified through phone calls, emails, and face-to-face conversations.

But the most reliable source of qualified sales leads is often a third-party lead list provider. For consistently high quality lead lists, we recommend Experian Business Services to our business partners. Experian has a reputation for providing accurate and filtered lead lists that can be used for direct mail and other marketing efforts directed toward bartending services.

Networking Tips

The bartending service industry is relationship-based. Businesses that sell in the industry leverage networking and contacts throughout the sales cycle.

Lead lists are helpful in expanding your network, but only if your sales force is willing to develop list contacts into long-term business relationships. As an owner or manager, you need to encourage networking strategies and proactively model relational sales techniques.

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