Distributors everywhere are struggling to put a successful digital sales transformation in place.
After investing a lot of time and energy, many still experience difficulties. They know digital sales and marketing efforts can work efficiently, generate more valuable leads, and increase the trajectory in their sales cycles, but they can't seem to make it all happen!
For most distributors, the situation is:
Complex new technology and implementation issues have distributors scratching their heads, wondering how and where to start.
The 180-degree shift in distribution's new and necessary go-to-market strategies are disruptive, making stakeholders uncomfortable and anxious.
Handling even the smallest details while searching for a light at the end of the tunnel is more than most distributors want to deal with.
The race to the finish line has already begun. Now is not the time to fall behind! It's time to pull ahead and stay ahead of your competitors.
Ninety percent of the visitors to your website leave without making a purchase or contacting you. That's a lot of money being left on the table!
The longer it takes you to 'go digital,' the harder it'll be to catch up. The distributors who survive digital's long game will be those who are best prepared.
The Digital Distributor™ is an immediately actionable, six-step program and learning community that will maximize the results from a distributor's digital sales transformation.
It's designed for distributors who want to succeed at digital sales and marketing strategies but who are struggling with implementation, generating results, or suffering from a lack of resources.
Think of The Digital Distributor Program as the results-generating ‘Secret Sauce’ that you're sure must exist yet always seems to be forever lingering just beyond your grasp.
Whether you have yet to begin, are in the midst of, or have already completed a digital sales transformation, The Digital Distributor Program is the easiest and fastest way to Maximize your Sales Transformation so that your company:
There are no silver bullets or magic formulas! This program will require some work on the part of your company. In fact, a successful transformation of any sort requires:
You’ll also need consistent action and the willingness to participate from your Sales and Marketing Departments.
"The Digital Distributor Program is for distribution companies who want to gain the greatest ROI from their investment in a digital transformation or sales enablement program. It's your fast-track to the results all distributors wish for, but most have yet to attain!"
The Breakdown of the Program
There are six core steps, each with its own comprehensive library of tools, case studies, and advanced bonus trainings that ensure your ongoing success. Every element of this program is designed to save your company years of expensive trial and error and guarantees a worthwhile ROI from your digital transformation and sales enablement program!
Step 1:
Create a Clear Direction for Your Sales & Marketing Teams
Together we’ll chart and follow a path leading to the most important goal of your digital sales transformation — More Sales for Many Years to Come!
The powerful tools and guidance you'll receive in Step 1 will help you assign the right responsibilities to the right people. You'll also be fully equipped to avoid the most common barriers distributors experience during their sales transformation.
No Marketing Team? No problem! Talented specialists from our team can assist you.
Or, we can help you hire a Marketing Team to complement your Sales Team and who will give you the support and expertise you need to move your company forward with a successful plan of action.
Step 2:
Understand and Plan for Meeting Your Customers’ Needs
Step 3:
Communicate Your True Value Clearly and Succinctly
Ensure your customers and prospects are fully aware of how good you are at what you do and how valuable a partnership with your company can be as we finish fine-tuning the plans we will have started in Step 2.
Your unique capabilities and willingness to over-serve will become so incredibly clear to customers! They'll forever perceive you as a company that's interested in meeting their needs over yours.
This is the step where things really begin to come together. The result of this step? Customers and prospects will realize they cannot run their businesses without you!
Step 4:
Automate with a System that Fits YOUR Company's Needs
How can you be sure to reach the right audience at the right time with the right message in the right format? By using the right technology!
In Step 4, you'll gain a powerful understanding of which automated functions you should (or should not!) consider for your company. As a result, you'll become 100% comfortable choosing the best technology for your automation.
Follow our proprietary worksheets, checklists, and comparison tools created specifically for distributors. These tools will help us guide you in choosing tools that are compatible with your existing systems and are the best fit both short- and long-term.
If you’d like, we can help lead your set-up process, cleanse and import your data, and ensure your data is accurate and your technology is installed correctly.
Step 5:
Capture, Nurture, Qualify and Convert Your Leads Into Sales
Chart the course to capture more Marketing-Qualified Leads (MQLs) and turn them into your most valuable Sales-Qualified Leads (SQLs). This enables your stakeholders to recognize and act upon buyer signals that indicate each lead's viability and value.
You'll capture, track, qualify, and score your leads so that your Sales and Marketing Teams know when Sales should take action based on a prospect’s behavior on your website or his placement in your sales cycle.
In this step, we'll plot out and build a lead management system that gives your salespeople incredible intel to effectively close the leads nearest to a purchase. Meanwhile, other leads can continue to be captured, tracked, nurtured, and moved through your sales funnels. This is where the rubber meets the road to ensure your salespeople continuously have a full pipeline, and they can spend their time on the most qualified leads.
Step 6:
Measure and Move Forward Confidently With an Actionable Plan
If you can't measure it, you can't improve it! In this step, you'll learn how to measure each of your strategies by its ability to contribute to the growth of your pipeline.
We'll set up KPIs that tell the full story behind your efforts so you have a clear understanding of which KPIs to measure and how each tactic deployed helped drive revenue and profit.
You'll know the ROI of every campaign you launch and the steps to take to continue improving your ROI over time.
Pre-recorded and neatly segmented, your team will move through the program easily and at their own pace, revisiting key areas as often as necessary on a schedule that is comfortable for all involved.
Meet with Susan every week (or every other -- it's your choice!) to stay on course and moving forward throughout the process. This is the best way to ensure your marketing team is tuned in and trained in everything they need to know!
Enroll as many employees as necessary! All stakeholders will be trained and knowledgeable about every strategy you’ve put in place. Your team will be well-equipped and can continue to maintain a forward momentum for years to come.
Ongoing access ensures everyone can learn as much or as little as necessary. New team members can step in and get fully up to speed whenever needed.
Because people have different learning styles, The Digital Distributor Program is available in several different formats so your teams can move at the pace that feels right for them.
Don't leave your company's future success to chance! This is the ONLY formula that's guaranteed to digitally position your company to keep up with and succeed at future sales and marketing changes in the industry for many years to come!
Enjoy peace of mind knowing you’re getting the right things done in the right order.
Connect with other distributors and learn from their experience, successes, and pitfalls.
Experience distraction-free learning that fosters alignment of your teams.
Maximize your ability to communicate with, sell to, grow with, and serve your customers.
“As a distributor we are struggling with the developing of an introduction or invitation to see customers face-to-face. I can see how these digital tools will lead us to introductions and invites for face-to-face meetings at the right point in the sales process. Great timing Susan!”
"Susan shares the latest in B2B marketing and supports it all with case studies from distribution companies; and unlike most others, she prescribes the very next step you must take to market in a post pandemic world (with downloadable worksheets!)"
Dirk Beveridge
Founder, UnleashWD
“What I like most about this program are the carefully laid out step-by-step guidelines for developing an online marketing and sales plan. This is a DIY approach that includes all the collateral material, downloadable from the publisher’s website, required to facilitate an in-house project."
Ken Brown
Managing Partner, Evergreen Consulting
"Susan has surely laid out a clear and detailed roadmap to change. She’s identified the core elements that will best position distributors for change, and she’s provided workbook exercises and very digestible instruction."
"Whether you are aligning your sales and marketing teams, learning more about your buyer personas, or re-examining your marketing automation projects, the time is now to take a new approach to learning more about your current customers and engaging new ones."
Scott Costa
Publisher, tED Magazine
"We are all deluged with the ‘change now or die’ message. This is a program of six steps that examines how to start and how the pieces fit together. It provides very tangible and specific examples of what the new normal will look like for an industrial distributor."
Mike Marks
Partner, Indian River Consulting Group
"Most distributors are good at putting customers into standard channel segments. But, Susan’s distributor case studies illustrate how to further refine segments into actionable personas that will make marketing collateral and decisions more effective."
"The age of acceleration is upon us! Susan presents a robust roadmap for distributors to compete online effectively. As a distributor, if you are unsure where to begin, Susan’s framework is a compelling starting point. Susan has done all the hard work for you. It’s time for us to get moving."
Pradip Krishnadevarajan
Co-Founder, ActVantage | NAW Author
"This playbook gives you step-by-step instructions on what we all need to do to communicate our value to more people. Follow Susan’s compass, and you will find your distribution company surrounded with more customers for whom you are better fit to help solve their problems."
Brian R. Peters
President, Peters Supply, Inc.
Schedule a complimentary call and walk away with an understanding of the steps that make the most sense for your distribution company.
Get a digital sales and marketing plan that accounts for any current deficiencies and reinforces your strengths. We'll even train your marketing team!
With a high-functioning sales and marketing system and a work-while-you-sleep online presence, you'll enjoy a much fuller pipeline.
To achieve a successful sales transformation, there's important work to be done.
Did you know that there are certain steps you simply cannot skip if you want to do this right?
Did you know that if you wait too long, skip a critical step, or take the wrong action, things WILL go wrong?
Stop Leaving Money on the Table.
Join The Digital Distributor Program ... Because Your Customers Deserve Better than Amazon!
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