Can you believe it’s the end of another year? Before planning for 2018, it’s always helpful to review the prior year’s
efforts – determining what worked well and what didn’t:
- What plans and processes helped move your company toward its goals?
- What needs to be tweaked, modified, or improved upon?
- What should be SCRAPPED altogether??
How you answer these questions will help you develop effective plans for 2018.
But, if you are marketing to corporate training and HR, you must also answer the following three questions which will be CRITICAL to your company’s success next year.
STEP 1: Have you set clear, specific metrics?
“If you don’t know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.” – Laurence J. Peter (the man who brought us the Peter Principle)
You must have clearly established goals.
Ask yourself the following questions:
What are your established sales goals for 2018?
A. How many sales does it take to achieve this number?
B. How many people within your target market do you need to deliver your message to in order to produce one prospect?
C. How many prospects do you need to make one sale?
It is truly shocking how many organizations have not answered these critical business questions.
STEP 2: How will you reach “Enough Targeted Eyeballs”?
Answering the questions in Step 1 will enable you to determine how many “targeted eyeballs” you must reach with your message in 2018 to achieve your goals.
So, how many targeted people SHOULD you be aiming for?
- Take the figures from Step 1 and calculate the following: A x B x C
- This is the number of people you should aim to reach with your message in 2018!
You may have just realized you are not even close to “hitting enough eyeballs” to achieve your sales targets… If so, you’re not alone.
Many organizations fail to reach their annual sales goals because they are simply not getting their message in front of enough potential buyers.
Let’s take a simple example – assume:
- It will take 100 sales to achieve your 2018 goal (A)
- You need to reach 25 (targeted) people to get one qualified prospect (B)
- You need 10 prospects to make one sale (C)
- Then you need to reach 25,000 people to make 100 sales! (A x B x C)
That’s a lot of people!
You will need a plan to get in front of that many “eyeballs.” This brings up another question:
- Do you know how to reach your target market?
You may think you are “hitting enough eyeballs” by sending out a mass mailing – but…what if the list data you are using has a 50% error rate?
Sound impossible? Most lists in the world of corporate training and HR have a 30% – 40%, error rate due to poor compilation methods. The result? WRONG or outdated contact information for non-decision makers which decreases the actual number of targeted “eyeballs” you are reaching.
So, how can you avoid this critical barrier to success?
STEP 3: How can you find an ACCURATE database of the RIGHT decision-maker contacts?
People move around A LOT in the corporate training and HR industries… Do you have a proactive marketing plan that accounts for this fact??
You MUST take proactive steps to:
Doing this is no longer the challenge it once was. There is now a way to quickly and easily reach enough targeted “eyeballs”…by using the Mentor Tech Group (MTG) Market Intelligence database!
MTG has done all the hard work for you! Through the use of MTG’s specialized marketing database, it is now possible to accurately and efficiently reach decision makers within corporate training, HR, e-learning and talent management – directly.
We guarantee every contact in our database is:
- Spearheading projects, or
- Creating new initiatives, or
- Controlling the budget, or
- Making final decisions, and/or
- Someone you want to connect with!
How does Mentor Tech Group accomplish this? We are highly specialized in Corporate Training & HR. As a result, our marketing database of decision-maker contacts is simply second-to-none:
- Hand-Built: The MTG database is hand-built by industry experts
- Highly Accurate: Our Market Intelligence Consultants have personal phone conversations with each contact in our database to ensure accuracy
- Segmented by Job Code: MTG database contacts are segmented by specific job functions and responsibilities, which we call “Job Codes” (…this is much more useful than using nebulous job titles)
- FREE List Updates: Every contact is called and updated every 4 months– so you know the information is accurate – period.
Take steps now to set your company on a course for amazing success in 2018!
- Break down your 2018 goals into bite-sized, actionable sales and marketing steps.
- Deliver your message to enough targeted prospects, decision-maker contacts in corporate training and HR.
- Partner with a specialist in your industry to find the exact decision-makers you seek!
We all know it’s a numbers game – and when you start with a high-quality market intelligence database of decision-makers in your target industry, the job is made much simpler for you right from the start. MTG’s Market Intelligence is simply second-to-none… By investing in a quality, targeted industry database, you will finally be in a position to reach the decision-makers you’ve been seeking.
We now offer more than 40,000+ decision-maker contacts at more than 5,500 North American companies.
Click here to learn about a company that grew their client base 20% as a result of marketing to an MTG list! Then, contact us today to learn more and take the first step toward achieving a blockbuster 2018!
“We purchased the Mentor Tech Group data to help grow our Executive Coaching and Leadership Development practice…
Once we began our outbound email campaign, we realized a 10 fold return on investment in the first 90 days! Based on those results, we then expanded our MTG database to include even more records to use in our marketing & sales efforts…” Greg Ruf, Managing Partner – Robert Gregory Partners
What kind of results could YOU see?? Contact us to learn more: (651) 457-8600, Ext. 3
Wishing you happy holidays and a prosperous New Year!
