How Toyota Auto Finland spends 80% less time on sales prospecting

 

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Toyota Auto Finland Oy

toyota.fi

Finnish importer and retailer of the Japanese car manufacturer.

Headquarters

Vantaa, Finland

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70+

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Finland

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When Toyota Auto Finland decided to develop their B2B sales, they found Vainu. For Toyota, Vainu is more than a system provider. “Vainu provides us with a prospecting tool, and the Vainu team shares their sales wisdom with us,” says Jussi Granberg, Field Sales Manager.

The company

In Finland, Toyota operates through an importer and 54 retail stores. Before the company started using Vainu, new prospects were primarily found through static lists of companies close to the stores within target industries. These lists were created by the importer for the retailers. Sales reps went through the listings, and according to Granberg, they often weren’t too happy when the job finished: The lists were outdated, included duplicates, and were mostly frustrating for a rep to use.

With Vainu, retail stores can now do the prospecting work individually, which has sparked the long-lost joy of cold calling among Toyota sales reps.

The solution

Tommy Juuma is a successful sales rep from Toyota's retail store in the city of Raisio and is portrayed by Granberg as a professional and hardworking modern salesperson. For Juuma, Vainu provides a more natural way to get in touch with the customer. “The person on the other end of the telephone line pays better attention to what you have to say when you've knowledge about their company.” One time, Juuma noticed that a certain company was looking for a new employee and gave the company manager a call. “It was an easy way to start the conversation by asking how this new person is going to travel to all her meetings,” Juuma says with a smile on his face.

Overall, Juuma is happy with the versatility of the prospecting tool. One time, they were looking for a specific kind of construction companies close to their store. “We draw a circle on a map in Vainu that was 25 kilometers in diameter. Then we filtered out all but construction companies that have less than 5 million in revenue and less than 25 vans. The list of companies included only companies we needed to find with zero exceptions,” Juuma recalls.

Granberg, who works for the importer, works daily with Vainu to find target groups to share with retailers. One of the many ideas was to offer service packages for local companies that own Toyotas but don’t actively maintain their cars at Toyota stores. “First, we imported all the active customers to Vainu. Then we searched for all the local companies that have Toyotas and excluded all the active customers, resulting in a list of potential customers that we should give a call,” Granberg chuckles.

In another case, a deal once deemed lost was reopened.“Our sales rep had spoken with a prospect earlier, and according to the rep, the prospect had chosen to work with a competitor. To our surprise, Vainu vehicle data revealed that they hadn’t acquired cars from competitors either. The rep gave the company a new call which resulted in a multi-vehicle sale. This was especially great as this was one of the smaller stores which rarely received deals as big as this”, Granberg recalls.

“A veteran sales rep with a 30-year career said he has never seen software as spectacular as Vainu.”

Jussi Granberg

Field Sales Manager at Toyota Finland

Results

Vainu is more than a spectacular tool

Vainu is a tool to help both sales reps and managers alike. Juuma estimates that he saves up to 80% of the time spent on prospecting by using Vainu. “Without Vainu, I would need to visit the company website, YTJ (Finnish Patent and Registration Office), different social media, and also get details about the company's vehicle database. Now it’s all available straight from Vainu,” Juuma sums up.

Granberg reveals that the cold calling hit rate (less than 10% before Vainu) has more than doubled after the sales reps started using Vainu. “It’s magically high, something like 23%,” Granberg says and sums up the interview by quoting his colleague: “A veteran sales rep with a 30-year career said he has never seen software as spectacular as Vainu.”

 

The collaboration between Toyota and Vainu is more than that of a platform provider and user, as Vainu also helps Toyota develop their B2B sales. The way Vainu does sales has impressed Granberg from the start. Toyota Finland is one of the companies that got a spot from the first Vainu Academy, which is a four-part sales training program. Company representatives have only been to the first of the four sessions but are already enthusiastic. “We were impressed by the Vainu playbook and the atmosphere at the Academy. We listened carefully, and think it was an excellent idea to take part in this. The next thing to do would be to figure out our ideal customer profile...” Granberg states.

“Without Vainu, I would need to visit the company website, YTJ (Finnish Patent and Registration Office), different social media, and also get details about the company's vehicle database. Now it’s all available straight from Vainu.”

Tommy Juuma

Vehicle Sales at Toyota Finland

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