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Welcome to the
Telecom Consulting Business
As with any business
organization, individuals have a wide variety of skills,
experience, and knowledge in business development,
operations process, planning, administration, pipeline
development, and sales.
The
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week's syllabus; meant to be customized based on your strengths and
weaknesses. Each item contains full details which you will review
when booking your customized training week.
The program is modeled after ISO 9000
Quality Assurance Programs.
- Ice Breaker
- Review of RMHTC: How the
system works
- What is a Profit Center and a
Pipe Line?
- Discuss major startup issues
- Getting organized
- Build initial Prospect List
- Starting the process
- Get the message internalized
- Tools required to obtain
goals
- Professional proposal formats
and templates
- Spreadsheets
- Credit Facility template
- Request for Proposal/Bid
template
- Business plan
- Identify business plan
components
- Identify gaps
- It's your business; You can’t
play at this!
- Gear Ratio: Structured
development of Productivity/Revenue Models
- Time Management
- 5/10-day Planning Calendar
- 30, 60, 90 day major
milestones
- Building the pipeline
- Identify:
- Lead sources
- Qualified prospects
- Vertical markets
- Probability of Success
- Develop and/or refine sales
skills
- Business Cases
- ROI Model - Structuring your
P&L
- Presenting your Business Plan,
Pro Formas, and Services - Building a Business LOC
- Role play
- Cold call script
- Sales contacts
- PowerPoint presentation
- Closing the consultation
- Decisions made
- Problems solved
- Actions to be taken
- Questions
- LOTS OF ROLE PLAY
- Telephone Contact Simulation
- PowerPoint Presentation:
Learning the Message
- Overcoming Objections
- PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE
- Expense Optimization Training
- How to perform the analysis
and production for Expense Optimization Findings and
Recommendations studies
- Input from Telecos, Service
Providers, Carriers, and other Vendors
- Business Case Studies. Hands
on training with actual invoices to produce OptiStudy
- Packaging the Findings and
Recommendations Executive Summary
- Post Business Development
Week
- Analysis summary and report
- Feedback and feed-forward
- Performance Enhancement
- Inventory
- On going 10-day telephone
follow-on
- Proactive communication with
RMHTC
- Provide metrics for tracking
performance
If you add sales personnel --
Sales Personnel & Independent Contractor Short Course
- 2-3 day intense focus on How
To Sell Expense Optimization
- Learning the Message and the
Value Proposition
- Role Play
- PowerPoint presentations and
Scripts
- Overcoming Objections, Learning
How To Close
- Sales Tools: Templates,
Proposals, RFP/Bid Responses, etc.
Ongoing Services*
- Request for Proposal response
assistance*
- Feedback to facilitate BDW
Program continuous improvement
- Proactively setup next level of
business development to bring Strategic-Partner to the next level
- Large account
strategies/tactics*
- Joint sales efforts for
high-value prospects including non-optimization opportunities*
- Assess Business Plan additional
resource requirements
- Assistance in selection of
additional sales personnel
Other Areas --
- Proven Process methodology
adaptable to any market
- Track/record experience
- Learning curve in place;
Work-In-Process
- Offer customized solutions
- Meeting Best Practices and
Marketing standards
- Develop Website and CD Rom
support materials*
- Customized Templates for
Input/Output and Report Formats
- Scalable to any size
organization
*Billable
items
If you are ready to start
your Telecom Consulting Business,
e-mail
Robert M. Hardy, today!
Or, telephone
478-461-7267
As with any business, results will vary. |