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Selling to Sailing Schools
Many sailing schools offer opportunities for emerging companies to earn profits. We'll tell you what it takes to conquer selling challenges in the sailing school market and dominate the competition.
Over the past several years, sailing schools have experienced moderate growth rates compared to other businesses.
Your approach will vary according to your circumstances and your company's unique sales objectives. But overall, there are several things you will need to consider when devising a system for selling to sailing schools.
Cost Analysis of Your Selling Tactics
Every part of your sales strategy is fair game for cost analysis. Business owners sometimes ignore cost considerations and instead, choose to invest in sales strategies that fall short of ROI expectations.
For example, even though it might seem logical to increase the size of your sales force to expand your base of sailing school customers, the additional labor overhead may be an inefficient decision from a cost analysis perspective.
Marketing Channels for Sailing Schools
Even though companies market their products in many different ways, there is one truth that applies to all sailing school marketing strategies -- no single marketing channel is capable of delivering the sales volume that you would expect to see in a leading B2B seller.
Across the industry, multichannel marketing strategies are the norm, and may include direct mail, telemarketing, print ads, email campaigns and other online strategies.
Top sellers routinely purchase lead lists as a way to drive the sales process. High quality lead lists provide a high volume of leads that are up-to-date and targeted to high-converting prospects. In our experience, Experian Business Services has the largest and most accurate database of sailing schools on the market.
Sales Team Considerations
The majority of businesses that sell to sailing schools take a team sales approach.
Although your team may consist of individual sales reps, each rep has to recognize their role in the team strategy. There is simply no room for mavericks in this industry! Team-based training programs and other initiatives can be beneficial, but the best strategy for encouraging buy-in to a team sales model is for owners and managers to incorporate teamwork into their leadership styles.
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