Business Development

Who uses us

You are launching an innovative technology in a new vertical and region. You are looking to accelerate your market access with a temporary outsourced business development team that can strategically prospect potential clients, sales channels, or distribution partners, that can develop your pipeline and detect new opportunities.

What we do

We prospect opportunities, start building your B2B pipeline, and test your market traction, by engaging conversations with lead users, sales & distribution channel partners, and industry-specific experts. Our highest-impact business development initiatives have consistently been through thoughtful alignment of well-managed strategic partnerships combined with organic growth. Starting with our internal team and our contractors, we incrementally recruit fully-dedicated executives for you and help develop an ecosystem of partners to build critical mass.

Why choose us

Companies choose us almost systematically when they see a perfect alignment between their strategic goals, our market experience, and our 40+ contracted industry experts who bring deep roots and lifelong professional relationships in their specific market segments. Whenever these are aligned, our engagements have achieved nearly 100% success rate. Satisfied clients think of us as a combination of business development advisor, an executive enabler, and a long-term market partner.

Our collaboration with The Triana Group has already helped SpagoBI generate strong interest from users and integrators, and will allow us to promptly react to the growing demand […] which can sustain both business growth and innovation.

Gabriele Ruffatti, quoted in a 3/7/2012 Press Release

Director, Engineering Group, Italy's largest and Top-10 European IT Services Provider

The Triana Group presented us a business opportunity with a German manufacturer, and was instrumental at making this new relationship a success. […] The Triana Group’s involvement reassured us about the company’s integrity and made us feel this new relationship would be trustworthy. Once our agreement was signed, The Triana Group handled the transition in a way that retains all confidence in this new relationship. We hope to work with The Triana Group again, they are good.

Debby Arrin

President, Straight Road Electronics, Inc. (electronics components distributor covering most of the Fortune 500 corporations in North America)

Our first deal was between a distribution company we own and a medical devices manufacturer selected by The Triana Group. We were able to reach an excellent deal for both sides. Negotiations could have fallen apart several times were it not for The Triana Group’s mediation. As a result, we invested in this manufacturer’s distribution in our territory and placed an immediate order to purchase machines.

Majed Alsulaiman

Director, Gaidek - The Triana Group Consultant in the Gulf Countries

We needed a commercial test for one of our solutions. The Triana Group’s methodology was very professional (from target definition to writing the right messages, preparing databases, and the commercial outreach itself). Within 3 months, they reached out to dozens of key accounts nationwide and started many conversations, leading to demos involving our team. In addition, their outreach generated useful insights that informed our strategic decisions. I would strongly recommend them to any company seeking to define or refine its business development strategy.

Bernard Fort

CEO, Tennaxia (international pioneer in EHS & Sustainability software solutions)

Cold calling on Key Accounts is tough, so we wanted a company that had experience making executive-level business-to-business cold calls and could get up to speed quickly on our service offerings.  We chose The Triana Group because they had experience working in our sector, and had good results working with a company we know and that is similar to ours.

Cold calling is only as good as the person making the call and we were very pleased with our Triana Group representative.  She learned our business, kept us informed via a weekly report and update calls, helped us qualify our CRM, and made suggestions on how to modify our b2b sales approach to get better results.  We will use Triana Group again.

Karl Pfalzgraf

Vice President, Sustainability Services, iCompli, division of BPA Worldwide whose prestigious board includes Pfizer, Medtronic, John Deere

Our Case Studies

Developing a Pipeline of Qualified Leads

For a Healthcare Company Seeking to Develop a Pipeline of Hospital Clients

Situation

An American Midwest diagnostics company wanted to expand its East-Coast sales presence.

 

Client Deliverables

Within 7 months, 200 hospitals called & qualified, 100 hot leads identified in 6 States, 12 tests completed, totaling $5.4 million in revenue potential. David Orwick, then Vice-President & General Manager of Androjek Inc., commented: “We needed to expand our distribution in the East Coast. The Triana Group delivered. Within a few months, they built a multimillion dollar pipeline.”

Building a U.S. National Sales & Distribution Network

For a German Electronics Components Company


Situation

A German electronic components manufacturer whose existing U.S. distributor did not generate sufficient revenue, retained us to expand its American sales channels.

Client Deliverables

600 calls, 550 emails, and 4 months later, we signed contracts with manufacturers’ representatives covering 28 States and 3 national distributors, adding millions of units to the company’s sales pipe-line potential.

Providing Part-Time / Full-Time Marketing Managers

For a Foreign Manufacturer Seeking to Reinforce its Market Presence

Situation

A European manufacturing company needed 360-degree US marketing management for several months to boost its growth efforts.

Client Deliverables

Within days, we assigned 2 part-time marketing managers, of which one transitioned into a Full-Time Marketing Manager position. The manager expanded the company’s professional media visibility; developed relationships with 5 trade associations; adapted the company’s marketing material to better fit its North-American market (including its online presence); developed new marketing material including product documentation which served the company globally; created marketing support programs for distributors and sales representatives; planned, created and developed email campaigns and newsletters; grew the company’s e-mailing database; within 6 months, the company’s number of in-bound business-to-business contacts reached 640 spontaneous connections.

Designing and Implementing In-Bound Lead Generation Campaigns

For a European Enterprise Software Seeking Qualified American Leads

Situation

A software company without brand recognition or sufficient sales force sought to grow its pipeline of business-to-business leads.

Client Deliverables

Over a period of 18 months, we designed and implemented several lead-generation campaigns: an initial campaign including 53 in-depth interviews with users and experts (3 months); a partnership with a national professional association, resulting in a featured article sent to the association’s 20,000 newsletter subscribers; production and publication of a White Paper, generating an average of 10 new spontaneous leads per month; sponsorship of trade association’s webinars, featuring our client’s case studies and clients (up to 400 registered participants and 170 attendees in the company’s targeted profession). Overall, 1000+ B2B contacts generated of which 650 nurtured with a newsletter and 260 nurtured via our Hubspot program. Resulted in a client sales funnel of 50+ multi-billion dollar companies.

Validating a Growth Plan and Building an Executive Team

For a Manufacturing Company Seeking Geographic Expansion

Situation

A European manufacturing company American subsidiary’s revenue was 20 times smaller than its calculated potential. The CEO assigned us to independently assess the subsidiary, provide a marketing plan and assist in its implementation.

Client Deliverables

Following approval of our proposed marketing plan, we were retained to help strengthen the subsidiary’s leadership by recruiting 2 key positions, including a new General Manager. Through nationwide executive search we recruited a new General Manager in charge of leading the subsidiary’s next phase. We also recruited a new Pre-Sales Project Manager, and delegated a full-time Marketing Manager who helped hire 4 additional people. Representative metrics: for each position, screened 300+ resumes, short-listed 10 candidates, each time the client hired our 1st ranked candidate.

Finding a Synergistic Partner to Pursue an International Business Opportunity

For an Enterprise Software Company

Situation

A global airspace manufacturer wanted to develop our client’s software internationally. This entailed considerable content localization cost and other issues, which prevented our client from pursuing the opportunity. We were asked to help unlock the situation by finding a local partner.

Client Deliverables

We detected and screened 340+ relevant contacts in the company’s market space through trade shows, conferences, and reserved-access databases; arranged multiple meetings for the CEO; finally secured a partnership with a local content provider, saving $1 million+ investment in local content creation; this enabled the company to move to its first pilot stage, and continue its process.

Finding a Joint-Venture Partner for a Geographic Expansion

For an Enterprise Software Company

Situation

A midsized European enterprise software company wanted to partner with an American systems integrator to facilitate and accelerate its US market expansion.

Client Deliverables

We listed 900 target companies; conducted 40 interviews, held advanced discussions with 3 companies; enabled a Joint-Venture with their preferred company, based in California. Tim Britt, CEO of joint-venture partner SYNOPTEK, commented: “The Triana Group enabled us to come together from a business and cultural perspective and develop a common strategy. This has created the foundation to achieve significant results in the US market over the next 2-3 years.”

To know more about how we achieved this, call us for a personal webinar