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16 Lead Generation Activities Eligible for Free Money with MDF Funds

Last updated December 6, 2023 Categories: Sales Prospecting

By Kendra Lee

Secure MDF

If you have a set of vendors you resell – or even highly recommend – vendor market development funds make smart business sense for you. These funds are provided by a manufacturer to help their alliance partners promote the manufacturer’s products. This is part 2 of a 3-part series about how to secure vendor market development funds (MDF) to help you grow your company.

But how do you get the free money? It starts with knowing what activities might qualify for these funds and then knowing how to ask.

Common and Not-so-common Lead Generation Activities Vendors Fund

Here’s a list of 16 different lead generation activities that we’ve seen our clients get MDF funding for – all in the past 12 months.

  1. Lead generation plan. You can’t reach your lead generation destination without a plan that identifies who you should target, how to reach them, what messaging to use, and which lead generation activities to employ.
  2. Lead generation campaign creation. Effective content writing isn’t as easy as you think. Get some help to differentiate yourself from generic content and don’t antagonize your valuable list.
  3. Social media management. By boosting your audience and increasing engagement, you’ll gain digital visibility and increase web traffic.
  4. SEO strategy and monitoring. Strategists can identify the best keywords to use and what activities will bring more traffic to your website.
  5. SEO monitoring. To be effective, your SEO needs to be closely monitored by an expert who stays on top of the ever-changing playing field.
  6. Website redesign. Your website should look modern and fresh. If it’s looking a little dated, it could cost you business. You work hard to get people to visit your website, now you need to convert them.
  7. Events. Showcases, seminars or even conferences – events are a great way to get people face-to-face and engaged. Anyone who comes to an event is already an interested prospect.
  8. Appointment setting. You can outsource using an agency, or you can partially fund the salary of an in-house appointment-setter.
  9. Case studies. A well-written case study will show prospects exactly how you can help them with their business issues.
  10. Sales prospecting training. Stagnant sales? Your reps could likely use some new tools to keep their pipelines full.
  11. Prospecting blitz days. Vendor funds can be used to pay for incentives, prizes and additional resources needed to execute prospecting blitzes.
  12. Blog articles. Your website needs consistent educational content to stay relevant.
  13. Social media training. Improve your social selling skills and boost your web presence.
  14. Email lists and list services. You can break into a new vertical or just try a new, targeted list.
  15. Lead generation laser coaching. Laser coaching helps you target specific areas of improvement for your lead generation campaigns.
  16. Sales hiring. It might be time to hire a sales rep, improve sales compensation plans, or revamp your whole sales hiring process.

What to include in your MDF proposal

To get your vendor on board, you need to craft a strong proposal that includes three key elements:

  1. A clear-cut plan. Outline your campaign and include a timeline. You want to identify your target market, who will be involved in the project and what resources you will need.
  2. A budget. Include all of the associated costs. If you’re hiring a company for the activity, they should help with this. For example, we offer sales training, lead generation services and a number of the services listed above. When we work with clients, we help them scope the project and provide justification to their vendor.
  3. The anticipated results. Your expected results should be as specific as possible. Include your sales projections and the expected timeline for the sales cycle. You should also mention any lead generation goals and include a follow up strategy.

Notice that each of these sales and marketing activities will help you generate revenue and grow your business. When you’re successful, your vendors will be too. By delivering a proposal that offers the details that your vendor is looking for, you show them how those activities are going to benefit them. And you’re much more likely to succeed.

You should be using more vendor MDF to fund your sales and lead generation activities. If you want assistance determining the right activities to request MDF, or with any of these lead generation activities, our team will help. To get started, give us a call at 303-741-6636 or email us at [email protected].

This is part 2 of a 3-part series on how to get vendor MDF funds. You can read part one here: Free Money: When Vendor Market Development Funds Make Smart Business Sense. Coming up, I’ll share some tips on how to build better relationships with your vendors so those funds are as good as yours.

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