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To
become a key market player, an established enterprise
in the marketplace on a long-term basis, as well as
a highly respected and admired organization, you must
consistently produce revenues through penetrating
enterprise accounts, segments and markets.
Your company may have the best products and services,
a top management team,
an effective business plan, an efficient structure,
a great marketing strategy,
a reliable source of funding and a motivated professional
staff including senior sales but that doesn't mean
you'll succeed! In the end, business is driven by
"top down approach", "time to market"
and "local business understanding".
Take
advantage of our local presence, executive networking,
industry knowledge, business practices and cultural
rules understanding. We interface clients, partners,
industry segments and markets for you. We optimize
your sales resources and process by maximizing business
opportunities through all channels!
Our
methodology
Direct
Sales
Our sales methodology reflects the European, Middle
East and African practices, cultures, local regulations,
and channel reality - We deliver successfully proven
approach!
We
handle the "Complex Sales Process" for you.
Since
every business in itself is complex, the sales process
is naturally an intricate undertaking. Every deal
generates a multitude of processes and involves several
decision-makers who may be located in various countries
and offices. In addition, the recessional economy
has created a more cautious buying environment. Decision-makers
are more
wary about the choices they need to make. They are
under more stress than ever before and must deal with
administrative controls that may not have existed
during the 90's. You will perhaps find it difficult
to secure sales appointments as they are increasingly
pressed
for time.
Our
delivery
Step
1
We identify potentialities for you, by market, by
account and industry segments, we select enterprise
accounts by project opportunities - business needs,
timing, budget and executive contacts, we set-up a
local team including experts, market developers, internal
coaches including decision makers and local partner,
we identify the decision making process within the
enterprise accounts, we analyze your current position
on the market, segment and within the enterprise accounts,
we evaluate the sales effort, the product gap and
the organizational issues, we define the purchase
influences or parties involved, and we collect the
strategic information for you
Step
2
We visit the decision makers (financial, business
and technical) through a top-down approach, we understand
their roles/lines of influence, we initiate an action
plan and we assume the follow-up, we maintain lines
of communication, we set-up executive meetings, technical
workshops for your teams
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Step
3
We set up a sales forecast, we make lobbying within
the enterprise accounts, we destabilize competition,
we manage problems and internal clashes, we control
internal changes (core business, markets, technologies,
customer needs, product range, competition, company
strategy, operations, structure - M&A and downsizing)
.
Step
4
We help you in the negotiation, we bring legal, sales
and technical support for closing the deal, we minimize
customer uncertainty during both the pre-sales process
and the first sales visit, we identify and avoid bad
deals, we keep ownership of the sales process, we
determine buyer receptiveness, we help you to value
of the sales - the higher the cost of your solution,
the higher up in the corporate hierarchy the buyer
is
..
Step
5
We always think and measure in terms of client satisfaction,
we help you to repeat orders - cultivate customer
loyalty, we help you to duplicate project inside or
outside the organization, we help you to build and
to promote a set of success stories, we support
your sales account mgr to "farm" your client.
During
the entire sales process, we assume the coordination
with your sales/marketing teams and with your local
partners. We provide at anytime a business report
including
sales forecasts, visit reports and next action plans.
Indirect
Sales
We apply the same methodology than the direct sales!
The
channel development delivery consists to deliver services
such as:
- Selecting
partners - Resellers, OEM, VAR, ISV, Integrators,
distributors, consultants
- Qualifying
your potential partners carefully - Reputation,
expertise, size, focus, resources
- Identifying
pilot project necessary for the partner negotiation
- Setting
reasonable targets for your partners. We make sure
you set targets that allow you and your partner
to get rid of under-performers, but setting unreasonably
high targets only creates relationship problems.
- Setting
first and second level of support especially in
sales and in legal
- Segmenting
the market properly according to the geography,
industries & languages
- Helping
you to coordinate all local action plans with or
through your partner
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