Niche Sales Strategies
Selling to Day Camps
Good news! There are still inroads for emerging entrepreneurs to sell into the day camp market. If your offerings appeal to this market, it's time to learn how to sell to day camps in the current business climate.
In today's economy, day camps are looking for reliable products and great values.
Don't be intimidated by the speed of the marketplace. Although speed is important, solid business principles and common sense will make the biggest difference in the success or failure of your selling efforts.
Developing a Marketing Plan
A robust marketing strategy is the basis of a successful sales strategy. Your team might be stocked with highly capable sales professionals, but if they aren't supported by strong messaging and effective marketing channels, your revenue stream will be weak.
Keep in mind that day camps are fast-paced operations with little patience for long sales cycles.
A well thought-out marketing plan helps to focus your selling proposition and deliver messaging in channels that are successful with your customer base. When combined with a sales plan, a marketing plan provides a coordinated selling strategy that delivers results.
How to Evaluate Sales Staff
Periodic staff assessment is essential for companies that sell in this industry. Businesses that achieve significant market share hire top-end producers and routinely evaluate them against performance goals and benchmarks.
Although annual reviews may be enough for other business units, sales units should be evaluated quarterly with monthly or weekly reviews of sales totals. Training, coaching and sales incentives can be useful for boosting sales and employee morale. In some instances, it may be appropriate to team underperforming sales reps with reps that have more experience selling to day camps.
Market Aggressively
Ambitious marketing factors into day camp sales success. A combination of tight competition, multichannel approaches and emerging marketing technologies mean that you'll need to flawlessly execute your strategy to capture the attention of decision makers.
A large portion of your marketing efforts should focus on channeling leads to your sales force. Lead lists are a genuinely powerful resource in lead generation and can be purchased cost-effectively from Experian and other reliable third-party providers.
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