It may be helpful to give you a little background on what we were looking for from a service such as Harvest and how we went about implementing this service.
Energy4Life is a company that sells Health, Wellness and Fitness programs to corporates. The decision on buying the programs from us generally is made by A and B level executives so it was important from the outset that contact be made at this level. After a number of briefing meetings with Ingrid and the team at Harvest, I felt that they were up to this task. The methodology and processes that they documented and presented back to us illustrated to me that they had taken the time to understand us , our culture , our "sell", our "Ideal client profile" and the types of people they would be making contact with.
Armed with this information, they were then able to select the people within Harvest who would have the best fit and who would in fact become part of the Energy4life team. The training of these individuals then took place (they train back up people as well so as there is no interruption of the process if the main consultants become unavailable for any reason) with a mix of our input coupled with their own selling methodologies. We also matched up the best fit people from our side to create the new "team". Can’t stress enough how important this has become-- we give constant feedback to Harvest ( phone, email etc several times a week) as well as receiving Executive meeting updates and weekly, monthly and quarterly updates and reports. I have attached an example of an update these .
The results have been far above our expectations; we are currently in the process of expanding our team as we are being presented with more opportunities than can be currently handled.