How to Sell to Niche Markets

Selling to Environmental Products Wholesale and Manufacturers Businesses

No doubt about it, environmental products wholesale and manufacturers businesses are high value sales prospects for business sellers that are prepared for a competitive marketplace. Here's the information you need to boost sales to environmental products wholesale and manufacturers businesses throughout the U.S..

Technology and technique are important. But in a B2B sales environment, they may be less important than other critical resources.

If selling to environmental products wholesale and manufacturers businesses is your core business, the likelihood of conversion improves dramatically when you incorporate a few proven resources and techniques into the selling process.

Direct Marketing Strategies

Direct marketing is an effective way to sell to environmental products wholesale and manufacturers businesses. The benefit of direct marketing is that it is an efficient method reaching qualified prospects with targeted messaging. From a sales perspective, direct marketing establishes a platform for relationships with environmental products wholesale and manufacturers businesses that can benefit from your products or services.

The sticking point of direct marketing is lead generation. Since finding leads is time-consuming and difficult, we recommend using lead lists supplied by established third-party vendors. Over the years we've found that Experian is one of the best in the business with a reputation for supplying consistently reliable lists of environmental products wholesale and manufacturers businesses that produce high conversion rates.

How to Evaluate Sales Staff

Periodic staff assessment is essential for companies that sell in this industry. Businesses that achieve significant market share recruit the cream of the crop and routinely evaluate them against performance goals and benchmarks.

Although annual reviews may be acceptable 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 improving performance and revenues. In some instances, it may be appropriate to team underperforming sales reps with reps that have more experience selling to environmental products wholesale and manufacturers businesses.

Benefits of Networking

Networking broadens your prospect pool. In addition to raising your company's profile, it strengthens your reputation with environmental products wholesale and manufacturers businesses.

But more importantly, a strategy that emphasizes networking dramatically boosts leads and referrals. Sometimes the leads you generate through skillful networking will be leads that you had never considered before.

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