Your virtual sales team
Grow your business with our professional business development service. We provide a variety of business development support, from cold calling and lead generation to mentoring services. We’ll be your virtual sales team, developing a strategy from scratch or contributing to your existing one.
A flexible approach to business development
Whether you need occasional support for holiday cover or ongoing business development to help deliver on your goals, our experienced professionals are ideally suited to help.
The Get Ahead difference
Business development only works if the person doing it actually understands your market, not just sales technique in the abstract. Every business development expert in the Get Ahead network is chosen for real experience closing deals and building pipeline, then matched to your business by your Regional Director based on the sector and audience you’re actually selling to.
We’ve been earning trust with clients since 2010, bringing an outside perspective that’s often sharper than an in-house view precisely because it isn’t tangled up in the day-to-day of the business. There’s no fixed retainer and no restrictive contract: support flexes from a single sales campaign through to an ongoing strategic partnership, so you get exactly the level of business development your business needs, whether that’s cover for a busy quarter or a dedicated virtual sales team.
Virtual sales team support services
Bespoke business support
Every business needs a development strategy and the means to deliver it.
Successful business development strategies are underpinned by sound systems and a consistent approach. With a strong foundation and expert guidance from us, every aspect of your business development will feed into a single strategy.
With the strategy in place, it’s time to act, undertaking the activities it highlighted to achieve business growth.
We know that consistent business development activities can be difficult to sustain when your business makes other demands on your time. However, outsourcing cold calling to a virtual sales team will ensure consistency and deliver the results you’re looking for.
Alongside cold calling, your virtual sales team will follow up with your contacts and book in meetings on your behalf, ready for you to meet with your clients on a pre-planned basis. You can maintain a consistent relationship with your clients and grow your business, without the work involved in chasing up appointments.
Common Questions About Working With Get Ahead
Cold calling and lead generation, CRM set up, sales strategy and campaigns, customer segmentation, and mentoring, delivered as a virtual sales team rather than a single generalist hire.
Both. Support flexes from short-term cover, holiday periods, for example, through to an ongoing relationship helping deliver a sales strategy over time.
Either. The team can develop a strategy from the ground up or work within one you already have in place.
Experienced UK-based business development professionals, matched to your business by your Regional Director based on both skills and fit with how you work.
Yes, it sits within this category. Rebecca Newenham provides ongoing, one-to-one mentoring support alongside the more hands-on sales and marketing services here.
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