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Fulcrum Consulting (FCI) offers companies the leverage to bring on senior personnel on a provisional basis. Provisional being defined in two flavors: Interim or Part-time.
Many times the search for the right VP of Sales or Marketing can take months. Unfortunately, revenue expectations do not take a back seat while you conduct that search. In other situations companies do not have the budget to fund a full time Alliance or Marketing Director. FCI can help in three significant areas
- Interim Senior Management resource
- VP Sales or Marketing – fill the void as you do a thorough search for a permanent candidate. As an interim resource we will be in a unique position to
- Maintain the revenue stream
- Engage the HP Software sales teams
- Engage the HP VARs
- Explore the two-tier distribution model
- Assess individual sales skills
- Evaluate the effectiveness of sales strategies
- Analyze competitors sales deployments
- Turn the keys over to the new VP
- Part-time Senior Resource
- Alliance Director – you don’t get several opportunities to get the attention of the HP channel including the VARs.
- Setting the right internal Expectations
- Positioning in the HP Software stack
- Establishing a meaningful “value proposition”
- Testing the positioning and value proposition
- Communicating with the OV sales organization
- Embracing the OV VAR community
- Expanding into the greater HP domain
- Marketing Director – an outside resource can see the “forest from the trees”. A resource that understands the HP Software Domain and can quickly assess your position within the industry.
- Market Perception – What is it?
- Customer reality – Why they bought?
- Competitive Messaging – How are they perceived and/or positoned?
- Establish the Value Proposition
- Produce a Company “Mantra”
- Position within the HP Software stock
- Communication strategy to HP Software teams
FCI provides resources that know the HP Software terrain and can get your organization out of the gate quickly and leverage the HP Channel.
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