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Business-to-Business Marketing II

Business-to-Business Marketing II (8 hours)
The various modules within this course are designed to help your sales team improve their effectiveness in marketing your business to various referring business entities.

Target Audience: 
Estimator, Production Manager, and General Manager

Are You Experiencing:
  • Low customer traffic
  • Lack of insurance relationships
  • New DRPs which yield very low volume
  • Spotty agent support
  • Stiff competition from consolidators
  • Lack of a strategy for ongoing agent visits
  • Dealerships sending work to other repair centers
  • Lack of in-store promotional items
  • Inconsistent use of company logo on promotional items
  • Other accident site influencers not encouraging the use
   of your repair center use

This Course Will Provide:
• An understanding of the different types of business-to-business marketing
• An understanding of the components of an effective Marketing Plan, including marketing strategies, tactics, budgets and tools
• A proven step-by-step sales / marketing process for each of the B2B segments
• Numerous examples of industry-specific tools and marketing ideas
• An opportunity to practice new skills

Developing a Marketing Plan
• Completing demographic research
• Determining historical source of business by segment
• Reviewing the closing ratio by segment
• Evaluating the marketing options
• Creating a marketing budget
• Developing an overall marketing plan per segmentClaims
• Understanding the difference between brand building for consumers and business-to-business selling
• Appealing to the primary referral sources at the point of the accident
• Understanding insurance claims procedures
• Understanding how to apply for and secure a DRP relationship

Agents
• Developing the skills necessary to build a business relationship with agents and others
• Exploring different ways to optimize the relationship with agents

Fleets
• Understanding how to secure and negotiate a fleet relationship
• Exploring different ways to optimize the fleet relationship
• Understanding the value of Point of Impact marketing

 
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2010 Summer NPG

The Summer 2010 National Performance Group Meeting will be held August 25-27 in Chicago, IL.

Registration is open!

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