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The MDWG Consultancy "Sales as a Service" is particularly suited to companies that are either early stage or growth companies, including those entering from abroad. These firms recognise the need to improve their sales and business development approach, to drive sales and scale their business
The founder and main practitioner, Michael Walford-Grant, has over 30 years of sales experience, and has specialised in “First Man In” roles for early stage companies entering the UK market, four of which achieved profitable exits.
MDWG Consulting has a broad range of sales and business development services available, both sales consulting and sales execution. They can be delivered either on an on-going part-time retainer basis, or as pre-defined programs of work.
There are five categories of services.
The delivery of the services are pragmatic in approach, and using modern sales methodologies fit for today’s complex buying market. The main categories and topics included within them are:
Sales Health Check: Inclusive of strategy, plan, value proposition, sales execution, business development. A fixed price package, very popular with senior executives and directors, requiring an independent insight into the sales and business development operations.
Sales & Go To Market Strategies: The heart of any sales effectiveness program.
Sales Plan: Including value proposition, pipeline review, business development, partner strategy.
Sales Execution: Can include selling, sales process, pre sales, sales materials, the business case for change, commercial models.
Miscellaneous Other Sales Services: Troubleshooting, sales coaching, mentoring, training, managing bids, key meeting attendance, recruitment, raising market awareness.
As well as operating as an independent sales consultancy in a range of financial services market segments, MDWG Consulting partners with The Wealth Mosaic delivering the Sales Accelerator service.
It is a service targeted at financial technology start up, scale up and market entrants from a different region. It Accelerates, De Risks and Reduces the Cost of business development and growing sales.
See https://www.thewealthmosaic.com/vendors/the-wealth-mosaic/uk-sales-accelerator/
Popular services include: Targeted sales opportunity development: Taking personal sales responsibility for the development of specific opportunities, for example, a discrete target market, or the top priorities that attended an event or webinar. The sales process: Define the core stages and steps that need to be followed in support of a sale. Sales......
Go To Market strategy The main topics will include: Mission / purpose What does winning look like (SMART: specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, timebound) Territory The offering (what product / solution(s)) Target market Current landscape / situation appraisal Business drivers for change Critical success factors Value proposition / messaging Competition landscape SWOT Resourcing Sales strategy (optional): The main topics might include: Priorities Channel to market Type of business Business development......
Topics covered include sales strategy, the sales plan, the value proposition, sales execution, business development and the sales process. The Sales Health Check can be tailored to the specific client’s circumstances. Its purpose is to provide executives with an independent view of sales and business development, with a set of recommendations to......
The scope of the plan will mirror a great number of the topics captured in the sales strategy, covering in more detail the individual elements of each, with a focus on execution, timescales and sales revenue targets....
Some popular other sales services available from MDWG Consulting: Challenger sales methodologies: Define and agree the materials, methods and frequency of content generation in support of this sales methodology. RFI / RFP / proposals: Tasks targeted at the commercial aspects of a proposal, such as the investment section, and writing the executive......