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HOW SMALL BUSINESSES SUCCESSFULLY SELL TO BIG BUSINESS
Big Game Hunting in the Urban Jungle Catherine McQuaid
CM Associates
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Business Development Principles
•Executive outreach
•Permission-based, pre-qualified conversations
• Improving the Odds: BIG pipeline
•Engage ALL stakeholders
• Messaging: Relevance to various roles’ needs
•Each business unit is a different opportunity
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1.Executiveexploratory
conversations all biz units
2. Referral to other roles
in decision: warm intro
3. Exploratory conversations with
all roles in decision, all biz units
4. Initial project secured;
development continues in other biz units
5. Brag about outcomes to other biz units Enterprise-wide
vendor status
6. Re-engage: new executives, acquisitions,
reorganization
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Case # 1: Becoming Market-Ready
• Startup with deadline to repay investors• Revenue was unpredictable, no asset value
• Long-term contracts secured:• High-volume, blue chip credit card issuers
• Future value of contracts a cash asset• Co. profitably sold
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Case #2: Leverage Sector Success
• Early-stage specialty firm: Fin. Services client• Market potential in Canada limited
• Pricing model depended upon large head-count• Top 20 US fin. Ins. targeted for expansion
• After 3 yrs: 24% growth compounding annually• Pref. Vendor status with 7 of 20 US banks• Cons. Fin. entrée to other sectors: retail, auto
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Case #3: Vertical Biz Dev Strategy • Point of Purchase design-build offer
• Bldg. Supplies retailer shift:contractor to DIY
• Feet-on-the-street: access to “implementers”
• Outreach: US-HQ Mktg. Exec.
• Biz Dev investment repaid in 13 months
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Golden Rules
• Simultaneous outreach inside multi-line bus.
• Cold call only once: referrals from there
• Reconnaissance mission
• “THEM” vs. “I” message
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Big Game Hunting in the Urban JungleBusiness
Catherine McQuaid
Principal
Big Game Hunting
416 923 0877
www.HuntNewBiz.com