How to Get More Sales With Less Effort

No matter your industry, everybody likes the idea of working less and getting more sales. They’re all looking for the magic wand to get to better results, especially in times when reaching prospects and closing sales is so challenging.

The Foundation for More Sales with Less Effort

But how do you get great sales results without stressing yourself in the process? The secret is to have a steady base and build your sales strategy up from there. That means you need:

These four elements are the foundation of your sales and B2B lead generation plan and the path to easier sales.

What You Need to Know about Your Target Market

Once you have the foundation of your sales strategy in place, you want to know three things about your target market:

With this information in hand, you can select the marketing strategies decision-makers in your target market will notice.

Here are three strategies that put you in front of decision makers to get more sales with less effort. Keep in mind that although these strategies do take less effort, you still need to put in the work to get the results you want. It’s about channeling your resources to the activities that get results so that your efforts will be worthwhile.

1. Make the Most of Email Marketing

Email marketing has gotten a bad rap lately. Yes, lots of people are using it. Yes, there are spam traps, firewalls, and email systems poised to snare them. But consider this

Why Email Marketing?

Email marketing is still one of the best ways to:

Hot prospects will reply with inquiries and meeting requests. Contacts who are reading and downloading everything you send and recommend are flagged as marketing qualified leads for your salesperson to contact. These are some of the best prospects to contact to get more sales with less effort.

Even with the challenges of reaching prospects’ inboxes, email should be one of your primary strategies to facilitate direct communication between you and a potential client. Use it to supplement search engine optimization, webinars, Google ads and your other lead generation strategies.

Steps to Get Started with Email Marketing

There are a few tricks that make your email campaigns more effective. Here are the steps to get started with email marketing. And, if you’re already using email marketing, are you following all the steps?

As you write your emails, be careful not to over-promote yourself. Use your knowledge of your niche to personalize them and grab your target market’s attention. Incorporate high-value offer lead magnets that contacts will find valuable.

2. Know What You’re Selling

When you create a product or a service, you develop a solution for a specific problem that somebody has.

For example, let’s say you own a business that’s not IT related, and you don’t have any IT staff. But your business still uses PCs, software applications and a plethora of devices. There are certain specialized services that you need, such as remote firewall administration, cybersecurity, and network monitoring. In this case, you would need an IT managed service provider to manage it all for you.

You don’t have the time or expertise to do it. You don’t want to hire the staff to do it. For you, the business owner, the problem is not having specialists who can manage your computer network. The solution is a partnership with a managed service provider.

Focus on the Problem Your Target Market Has

You are selling a solution, and you need to present it that way in your lead generation and your sales activities. When you do, prospects can envision exactly how you help them. They don’t need lengthy explanations or collateral. They see the value because they understand how you solve the problem.

To get more sales with less effort, your solution must:

Too often, you get so excited about your solution’s features that you forget to focus on the problem you solve. Don’t do that. In your lead generation and sales activities, focus on the problem your target market has, and save the features for later in the sales process. You’ll thank me as your sales funnel fills up.

3. Partner with Influencers, Entrepreneurs, and Other Businesses to Get More Sales

You probably know people in your network who have built significant communities of followers or run successful marketing campaigns. These contacts present a unique opportunity to expand your reach by leveraging their network

Influencer Marketing Lead Generation Strategies

Consider adding these two strategies to collaborate with your network and get more sales with less effort:

You form lasting business relationships and use each other’s platforms to reach new audiences. But be careful what businesses you choose to partner with in your lead generation. Do thorough research beforehand if this is a new contact. If something problematic happens in the future, your name will possibly be dragged through the mud because of your affiliation.

The Next Step

We know from our experience that these three strategies are effective. But to be successful, you need to pay close attention to your implementation and invest the time to do it right. Why? Because your sales and marketing plan effectiveness depends on the niche you select, your existing customer base, prospect lists, systems, services, differentiation, sales team, and more.

When you’re sloppy with your implementation, you won’t get the leads and sales you need to achieve your goals this year. When you follow a plan, once mastered, you’ll create a steady flow of leads and get more sales with less effort.

Author Kendra Lee is CEO at KLA Group. Read more from Kendra Lee here.