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Sales and Marketing Strategy

Strategies to deliver sales & marketing capability and competitive advantage.

Sales

Once you have a focused marketing plan; dynamic and effective sales strategies are the seed corn of all businesses. Having a well-trained and confident Sales Team who understand your goals is crucial to the success of your business.

Customer-driven markets are demanding a more sales-centric approach. By empowering your team with the right training and tools for success, training can have a quick return on Investment – if you get it right.

Whether you’re establishing a new team or have practised various Sales techniques over the years, we will help you benefit from Sales strategies tailored to the needs of your business. Whether you want to inspire and train an in-house Sales team, a telephone Sales Team or develop and implement a clear, focused strategy, we can help improve the measurable performance of your salespeople.

We Can Help You With:

  • Dynamic and successful in-house sales training – for Telephone or Face to Face selling
  • Performance Management
  • Improving sales effectiveness and “Real Life Strategies” with Quick Wins
  • Drafting and implementing effective sales incentive schemes

Marketing

Why do all the top performing businesses take marketing so seriously? Because they understand that effective marketing can make the difference between real business success and just \’getting by\’. Often the best marketing wins, not the best product.

WLP work with you to create powerful marketing strategies that deliver real, measurable results. We believe that the best strategic marketing plans are not concocted by outsiders and \’bolted on\’, but developed, with guidance, by you the client. This ensures that the plan is owned by you and fully reflects your capabilities, experience and culture.

We can help you with:

  • Marketing audits
  • Market research and the voice of the customer
  • Customer analysis
  • Competitor analysis
  • Marketing strategy and planning
  • Determining the focus for your plan
  • Competitive customer service benchmarking

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Sales and Marketing Strategy - Success Stories (13)

  • Simplified Product Offer

    Introduction: An international brand, a household name in white goods, needed to simplify their product offer whilst improving profitability on one of their core categories. What We Did: We ran an analysis using key external insights along with internal performance and financial data, in combination with designing a bespoke analysis method specifically targeted to meet Read More...
  • New Approach to Marketing for Specialist Construction Firm

    Introduction: A specialist construction firm based in King’s Lynn recognised the need to focus on developing a clear point of difference from the competition. They sought the help of WLP’s Paul Fieldhouse to help them with their growth plans. What We Did: worked closely with the board and senior management team helped deliver a clear business Read More...
  • Sales Strategy and Training Increases Conversations and Conversions

    Introduction: The client manufactures a revolutionary aquarium monitoring device. They recognized the need to focus on developing a clear approach for their sales team so they could help potential clients truly understand and benefit from the device, improve their own sales and develop a marketing point of difference. What We Did: worked closely with the Read More...
  • Mystery Shopper Project for Property Letting Agency

    An independent property letting agency operating in a highly competitive market place sought the help of WLP as it needed to ensure that it was differentiating itself. Our consultant conducted a mystery shopping assessment, obtaining structured feedback about the customers’ experience of dealing with the company. We also assessed the quality and consistency of service levels Read More...
  • Marketing Strategy for Law Firm

    A long established commercial law firm with a historically strong presence nationally in agriculture and rural estates, were aware of a growing link between the firm’s core business and the food supply chain. They called upon food industry marketing specialist Paul Fieldhouse to help with their planned growth. Working closely with the firm’s heads of food Read More...
  • Marketing Strategy for Client in Norfolk

    A manufacturer of bespoke processing and handling systems for the food industry were referred to WLP by their accountants, who felt they would benefit from professional marketing support. Our consultant revised the existing business plan for the owner with a new strategic direction for growth. Systems and processes were enhanced (including the CRM system) and we assisted Read More...
  • Reviewing Existing Sales and Preparing a Plan

    A privately owned, family-run chilled food brokerage business required a review of their existing sales, as well as their operational & admin functions (using SWOT), to produce a plan for the future including recommendations. The review highlighted 2 principal weaknesses: Sales effectiveness in an increasingly competitive market and the quality of their supply base. Recommendations Read More...
  • Sales and Marketing

    The client company design, make and install natural wood kitchens and was working from limited premises with one employee assisting the owner. A strategic approach was taken in 1996 and, together with a systems review, process mapping and marketing tools with a computerised order management system, customer service has been enhanced significantly. Year on year Read More...
  • Raising the Profile of a Property Consultancy

    A leading property consultancy was facing the loss of knowledge and continuity through the retirement of the partner heading up their food business. The new partner had little experience of the sector and needed to get to know the industry and its make-up. A plan was drawn up to redefine the firm’s business proposition, meet Read More...
  • Study of the Charity Sector

    A large company provide managed services to membership organisations and trade associations with support in subscription management, call centres, publishing, legal support and helpline. They then acquired a number of charitable status clients and wished to better understand the charity market sector before making any strategic moves to enter. We carried out a comprehensive study Read More...
  • Survey for Council

      As part of their “best value” review the council were wanting to survey the small business community to canvass opinion on a number of key issues. Through a combination of telemarketing 200 small businesses, with a questionnaire, we carried out face to face interviews with the business support agencies and partners. We were able Read More...
  • Martin Bonser at football stadium

    Getting a new idea to market

    Tim Warner has been running a successful van rental business for some years. But alongside that he had another idea for a totally separate business: Tim’s good idea was a replica football stadium kit customized to a favourite team. He had one hand-crafted model and a burning ambition but, realising that he was going to Read More...
  • Credit Crunch: Marketing for attraction

    A significant landmark has unique characteristics as a conference and food facility, in central Norwich. The potential for business is extensive and the business, which is a charitable trust, wished to have assistance mentoring the Marketing Manager to define potential, establish scope, prioritise and implement new marketing initiatives. We focused on mentoring the Marketing Manager. Read More...