5 Tips for Developing Your B2B Sales
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Increasing B2B sales isn’t simply a matter of hanging out your shingle and hoping that more customers will come your way. Businesses who purchase from you want to believe they have the right vendor at the right time for the right price. Because there are more people involved and there are higher price points, we know from experience at Azam Marketing it can often take months to close a business-to-business sale.

As a business who markets to other businesses how can you tilt the playing field and make sure that when the customer is ready to buy, your company is the one that comes to mind?

1. Collect Feedback

Feedback, whether received through surveys, in-person interactions, or email, is vital for both technical improvements to your site and funnels and your customer-facing work. Because in-depth and useful feedback from clients is hard to come by, it’s important that you take steps to automate the process and encourage your clients to provide you with more.

Talk with your clients. Find out what they liked and what they didn’t like. Talk about the number of steps that they took to get to the sale and the process that they went through. Ask them what about your company caught their attention and what they didn’t like.

Your customers’ needs are constantly evolving. By listening to what they are saying and keeping your ‘finger on the pulse’ you can stay ahead of the competition, making more sales for your company.

2. Produce Videos

There are compelling reasons to have video on your site, but the biggest reason is that it’s one of the most effective means of selling your company’s product. Customers and clients engage with video, often watching and engaging with the shorter ones for the entirety of the clip.

Here are some noteworthy statistics about video marketing.

  • 43% of customers want to see more videos from marketers
  • 9% of marketers name video as the type of content with the highest ROI
  • 4x as many customers would rather watch a video about a product than read about it
  • Shoppers who view video are 1.81x more likely to purchase than non-video viewers
  • 4 in 5 customers believe that demo videos are helpful

Depending on your products, your videos can have many purposes.

  • How-to videos explaining a single part of your product.
  • Explainer videos that outline what your company does and how it does it.
  • Funny videos designed to get others to think about your product.
  • Video testimonials from your clients to persuade others.

3. Upsell and Cross-sell

Upselling and cross-selling have increased sales of B2B and B2C companies for ages. Upselling simply offers a higher version of the product itself. Cross-selling offers related products to your clients.

Upselling

Amazon has this tactic down cold. For instance, If you place an order for a laptop, you will inevitably be asked whether you want to upgrade the memory card or get a better one. It is the logical thing to do and, shown to millions of people every day, boosts Amazon’s sales and revenues. The intent behind this is showing the customers that he could get a better product by spending a little extra.

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Cross-selling

The McDonald’s sales force are also pros at this tactic. Cross-selling offers your client something different but related to the first product. For instance, you’ll most likely be asked the famous question, “would you like fries with that?” or the less leading, “will that complete your order?” with every order. This gives McDonald’s customers to look at the menu for another few moments, pondering their next mouth-watering treat.

Cross-selling and upselling tactics can be applied to nearly any business who wants to improve its bottom line and increase B2B sales. By offering multiple versions of the same service or related services, you can create a selling juggernaut with your already ‘warm’ clients.

4. Run Events

Local events can boost your bottom line like nothing else because they allow you to put a face to the name of the client. Savvy businesses regularly hold events to keep their brand at the top of mind for their customers. Here are some statistics about event marketing for your reading pleasure. Here are a few pertinent statistics:

  • 84% of consumers repurchase the product promoted at the event, after their first purchase
  • 51% of marketers surveyed believe that events strengthen existing customer relationships
  • 60% of marketers use tradeshows and events for face-to-face customer meetings
  • 58% of marketers believe that events and conferences are important ways to improve customer experiences of their services or products
  • 31% of event marketers believe that trade shows, conferences, conventions, and channel events are essential to doing business in their target customer markets
  • 69% of B2B marketers consider in-person events effective)
  • The top 5 B2B content marketing tactics: Social Media Content (92%); eNewletters (83%); Articles on your Web Site (81%); Blogs (80%); In-Person Events (77%).

The event you hold doesn’t have to be something very formal. You can set up something on Meetup for your contacts and clients to attend. By offering them something different to get them in the door, you are getting your brand to stand out and lining up potential customers.

5. Publish Case Studies

Whether your business constantly generates data and whether you have hired a marketing agency like yours truly or you are the one doing the advertising, leveraging that data into the creation of case studies – and perhaps white papers – is often beneficial for your business. Case studies generates fuel for the fire to get more clients interested in your product or service because it’s measurable proof of what your company does.

73% of buyers used case studies in B2B purchasing decisions (DemandGen Report). Fortunately, developing a case study mostly involves the collation of materials rather than the creation of new materials. Look at your customer successes. Are there ways that you can parlay that into viable case studies?

These 5 marketing tactics to increase B2B sales are by no means the only way to capture the attention from customers and earn higher revenues from them. Each tactic has its pros and cons, but all of them give you the opportunity to increase your bottom line.

What steps can you begin to implement today to increase your company’s revenues?

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