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Selling to Home Health Care Businesses

As the dust clears, home health care businesses are timidly rebounding from the market slowdown and are starting to reinvest. The implementation of these techniques for selling to the home health care business market will dramatically improve sales.

Technology and technique are important. But in a B2B sales environment, they may not be your most valuable assets.

With perseverance and strategy in your corner, it's possible to break into the industry and capture your share of the marketplace.

Hiring Staff

Your sales team is your most valuable sales asset. A first-rate sales strategy is ineffective if your sales team lacks the expertise and resources to perform at the highest levels.

Most home health care businesses appreciate the value of sales professionals who are informed and prepared. When a customer has a problem with an order, they typically reach out to their sales contact so it's imperative for your team to be trained in techniques for service after the sale.

Marketing Channels for Home Health Care Businesses

Even though companies market their products in many different ways, there is one truth that applies to all home health care business 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 home health care businesses on the market.

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 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 improving performance and revenues. In some instances, it may be appropriate to team underperforming sales reps with reps that have more experience selling to home health care businesses.

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