Big Game Hunting: Tracking Down Your Most Profitable Prospects

Let’s talk Big Game hunting; going after those accounts that, when you land, would dramatically increase your sales and profits. This month’s example is a great case study in Big Game Hunting in the business-to-business (B2B) space.

The owner, Michael Nguyen, recently bought the company, Produce Results. They are a marketing agency in north Texas. Immediately upon taking ownership, he decided to move all his marketing efforts to small banks and credit unions in Texas.

He found they were more profitable, and much easier to worth with than most of his other clients. He came to me to get help with his direct mail marketing to these new accounts. I’ve been working one-on-one with Michael since June and we’re already seeing some amazing results (to learn how to work directly with me visit 3dmailresults.com/meet).

Michael told me his sales process, once in front of a qualified prospect, was outstanding. All he needed was more appointments. Well, I KNEW we could help with that. We started with a test list of just 165 banks and credit unions.

The first step was the 9x12 express envelope. The ONLY goal is to have the CEO or head of marketing set an appointment, that’s it. As I said, Michael does agency work for banks and credit unions. His transactions are large, $5,000-$10,000 for a small account, and $50,000+ for large accounts.

These are renewable contracts every year. With that in mind we were able to bring some serious fire power to his direct mail.

Within the first month and just one mailing he had set four appointments, and after setting two appointments on the same day this summer he told me (paraphrasing),

“I went home and had a glass of Champaign, we’ve never booked two in the same day!”

We’ve since deployed to a larger list of around 450 and hope to have similar results to report back on next month. Here’s a copy of his letter. There were other inserts as well, but you’ll need to be an Inner Circle Member to see those (you can fix that here).

The idea is to target your best potential buyers. These best buyers buy more, buy faster, and buy more often than other buyers. These are your ideal clients. No matter what else you are doing, you should have additional effort to capture them.

If is your program for targeting your 100 (or whatever number is appropriate) dream clients constantly and relentlessly until they buy your product or service. You need an organized, consistent, and relentless program to win over as clients for life – no matter how many times they tell you they’re not interested.

And that’s the key: you are actually expecting and planning for these dream prospects to say no several times, and these rejections will not cause you to give up. Massive and diligent follow-up can penetrate just about any company if you are determined.

1. Choose your Dream 100: All marketing campaigns start with the list. Make sure you are clear on your criteria for your dream list.

2. Choose the mailers to send out: I’ve found that one of the best ways to get noticed by your Dream 100 is to send 3D mail every 2-4 weeks. Ideally you want the gift to be useful or fun, something they’ll play with or take home to their kids or grandkids.

3. Create your sales letters: A letter should accompany every direct mail piece you send. You need to tie in the 3D Mail item in some clever way. You need to offer something to which they can easily say yes.

4. Create your Dream 100 calendar: What are you going to do to market to you Dream 100 each and every month without fail? Actually, it should be AT LEAST every month. It’s even better if send them something every two weeks.

5. Conduct your Dream 100 follow-up calls: After every mailing you’ll need to follow up with each Dream 100 prospect.

6. Conduct your Dream 100 digital touch points: With all the digital platforms we have now, you’d be foolish to not use at least some of the ways to reach your dream prospect; Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.

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You can decrease your postage cost by 35-50% if you use pre-sort mail. If you need help with that, just give us a call, (888) 250-1834.

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To Your Direct Mail Success, 

Travis Lee 

(888) 250-1834