Ask yourself this question: How long does it take before a sales rep contacts a sales-qualified lead who wants your foodservice product/solution? If the answer is any longer than a few hours, your competitors may be stealing your leads right from under your nose. How can this be?
It's data. Data is king. Data is knowledge. Without data, how can you move your company forward?
Let's first take a look at the 'buyer's journey' and how it's changing right in front of us.
The way we engage with our buyers online needs to change. Currently, the foodservice equipment industry is disregarding two very important phases of the buyer's journey, which hinders our ability to sell. We must engage with buyers well before they are ready for a quote, but how?
How much sales intel are you collecting before speaking with a lead? How is that information getting into your salespeople's hands? What are they doing with it?
Here at TMC, we're big fans of Seth Godin's daily insights. If you don't follow him, you should. In today's post, he talks about the downfalls of the "sort by price" mentality, and he argues that buying the cheapest widget almost never winds up being the right choice. Can you think of a time when you bought the cheapest item possible, and it wound up being the best option in the long run?