Sell to Your Target Market

Selling to Sand Businesses

The territory of sand businesses is fertile soil for B2B sales. To achieve success in the sand business industry, you'll need to pay attention to the basics.

Although there is a strong market for products geared toward sand businesses, breaking into the market can be daunting.

The process of converting sand businesses from prospects to satisfied customers isn't a given. It takes intentionality from owners and managers to create a strategy that connects your products to your customer base.

Cost Analysis of Your Selling Tactics

Every part of your sales strategy should be targeted for cost analysis. Business owners sometimes neglect cost considerations and instead, choose to invest in sales strategies that fall short of ROI expectations.

For example, even though it might be desirable to recruit an additional ten sales reps to expand your base of sand business customers, the additional labor overhead may be an inefficient decision from a cost analysis perspective.

How to Sell to Sand Businesses

After you have qualified a lead, how do you close the sale?

Like many of us, sand business business owners are have no patience for extended pitches and sales cycles. As a rule, be respectful of your customers' time constraints and adjust your pitches to accommodate their schedules.

In some instances, your initial contact at sand businesses you call on may not even be the decision maker, so you'll need to quickly identify key staff and be prepared to sell to office managers or others in the organization.

Reaching Prospective Customers

Prospecting transforms contacts into qualified leads.

Networking can fine tunes prospecting performance and conversion ratios. However, it's important to make sure your sales force isn't so focused on conversation that they miss the point of prospecting, i.e. the identification of likely buyers, key decision makers and high value industry contacts. In other words, the type of people you meet is just as important as the number of people you meet when prospecting for sand businesses.

Lead lists are useful because they narrow the field for your team. Third-party lists from reputable vendors (e.g. Experian Business Services) provide a database of likely conversion targets, making it easier for your company to balance the quantity and quality demands that are prerequisites for effective prospecting.

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