Become Familiar To Your Prospects

Success in getting new customers is the engine that drives your business, the engine that powers your dreams, energizes your ideas and delivers your expectations. A well-tuned engine delivers powerful results, it takes you where you want to be, and beyond.

Starting that engine and running it at peak performance is the priority and end goal of every business. In the B2B arena, this becomes an even greater challenge, where customers are clients, individuals who have been in the trenches and know the drill, what to anticipate when you knock on their door. Often the engine is already built and just needs to be tuned up, sometimes it needs to be rebuilt.This subtle recognition is about making your presence known without all the obnoxious baggage. It’s about being seen and remembered, but for all of the right reasons. When the time comes and your potential client, after recognizing their need, contemplates where to go, what to do and who to call, you want their decision maker to say “Eureka! The answer is right here, call **Insert your organization's name here** immediately!” This is where ideas begin to become a success, where cold calls become clients, this is conversion.

At Larson & Associates, we firmly believe that the success of the campaign is not measured by leads, referrals, or clicks and likes on your social sites, but when the conversion is made. This is when potential becomes a client, where the rubber meets the road, driving your bottom line, creating success.  Everything else is just fluff and puff.

Here are the cold, hard statistics of lead generation. The good, the bad and the ugly.

Starting that engine and running it at peak performance is the priority and end goal of every business. It takes 1 to 3 touches to re-engage an inactive customer It takes 1 to 5 touches to engage a prospect who is high in the buying cycle It takes 5 to 12 touches to engage a warm inbound lead to buy It takes 5 to 20 touches to engage a prospect who has only a minimal familiarity with you or your company It takes 20 to 50 touches to engage a cold prospect who does not know you or your company Now ask yourself how are you going to to that? If you have done your research and have begun focusing on the names of companies that are a good fit for you, then you are ready for another cold, hard fact, it’s likely that many of these companies do not care about you or have even ever heard of you or your organization. Your name brings a blank stare and holds no value for them. So, what do you do?Plan to become familiar to them.   This plan might include office visits, phone calls, voice mail, e-mail, social media, trade shows, and industry conferences. Most importantly, establishing and maintaining contact with them, brand yourself and then integrating yourself into their business world. A word of caution, do not focus solely on building the relationship, do your work, use your product and professionalism in action, this will leave a lasting impression. Each time you leave a voice mail they hear your name and your company name Each time they read an email they see your name, e-mail address, company name and your product/service line and how it fits with they’re pain/pleasure needs. Connect on social media and familiarity increases If you “like,” comment or share something they posted you become more familiar (and important). When you meet and talk at industry events and conferences a name is put together with a face and you are even more familiar. While building your relationship learn all you can about their business. Be aware of any recent changes and any talks of upcoming changes. Don’t be afraid to go the extra mile, the clients will remember you. Respond quickly, never make them wait. Be More than an email address. Create an online presence.  Even with the most finely tuned engine, you’re like the man out driving, who is hopelessly lost but making excellent time. Yet when you build around a plan, with a focused list, clear objectives, aimed at a niched based prospect channel it becomes easier, faster and brings greater results. Invest your time, your efforts and your resources wisely.   If you don’t have a clear plan, if you haven’t identified your objectives or have nothing in particular in mind, then that is what you can expect, nothing, or even worse, a glimpse of success and the knowledge of preventable loss.   At Larson & Associates that is our plan, that is what we do, we sit down with you and create the roadmap to your success. We find the tools to help fine-tune your engine, to reach a peak performance that will put you in the fast lane to success. We offer the services and solutions to assist you in building your business, we ready, willing and able to step in at any part of the process, from creation to fine-tuning, repair, rebuilding or management, we have the right solution for you. Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines! Call or email Larson and Associates 847-991-1294 howard@larsonassociates.ws