From Spreadsheets to Data Driven Field Sales: Eir’s Field Sales Transformation
Turning door to door sales into a high-performing, insight-led sales channel.
Eir is the principal provider of fixed-line and mobile telecommunications services in Ireland with approximately 2 million customers. The Group provides a comprehensive range of advanced voice, data, broadband and TV services to the residential, small business, enterprise and government markets. A key component of their sales strategy is their field sales team, “feet on the street”, which ranks second to their retail channel.
Before adopting Ecanvasser, Eir managed a large field sales team using highly manual, outdated processes. Operations relied heavily on Excel spreadsheets, with workflows described as “just a step above pen and paper”, a stark contrast to their more advanced retail sales channel.
This approach created several key challenges:
- Inefficient territory management: Territories were not clearly mapped or structured with reps assigned areas in an Excel file. This led to reps to knock on doors at the wrong times or spending selling time handling customer support queries on the doorstep.
- Limited visibility and tracking: Managers lacked insight into day-to-day activity, with no clear view of doors knocked, rep productivity, or follow-up actions.
- Missed sales opportunities: Critical information such as contract end dates was often lost, as it lived in individual reps’ notebooks rather than being centrally captured.
- Low-quality, inconsistent data: Reliance on manual input resulted in unreliable data that varied significantly between reps.
- Poor adoption of previous systems: Earlier tools were overly complex, required duplicate data entry, and failed to meet the needs of a less tech-savvy field workforce.
- Lack of modernization: While other sales channels had evolved with data and technology, the field sales operation lagged behind, making it difficult to generate insights or demonstrate ROI.
Our Solution
Ecanvasser was introduced as a streamlined, user-friendly platform to digitize and optimize field sales operations. Key aspects of the solution included:
- Simple, intuitive interface: Reps could log activity quickly using dropdowns and icons, removing the need for manual data entry and allowing them to stay focused on selling.
- Centralized data capture: All interactions, outcomes, and follow-ups were recorded in one system, removing the need for duplicate entry across tools.
- Enhanced territory management: Territories could be structured and assigned more effectively, enabling reps to work more efficiently in a highly competitive market. With better territory insights, such as optimal engagement times, reps could knock neighborhoods when prospects were more likely to answer. Existing customers were also mapped and excluded, reducing wasted time on customer support.
- Built-in follow-up tracking: The system enabled reps to schedule and revisit leads when their contract end dates were approaching, ensuring outreach happened at the right time and increasing conversion rates.
- Low barrier to adoption: The simplicity of the tool made it accessible even for less tech-savvy users, improving engagement compared to previous systems.
- Enhanced backend visibility: Managers gained access to richer, more reliable data
- Improved management visibility: Managers gained access to richer, more reliable data on field activity and performance, such as doors knocked and conversion rates, without adding extra admin work for reps.
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The Outcome
The implementation of Ecanvasser delivered significant improvements across both operational efficiency and data visibility:
- Stronger data and insights: The team now captures meaningful activity data beyond just sales, enabling better decision-making and performance tracking, essentially removing any guesswork from their field operations.
- Reduced lost opportunities: Follow-ups and future sales opportunities are now tracked systematically rather than being forgotten and no potential sale is missed.
- Improved rep adoption: Thanks to its simplicity and ease of use, reps are more engaged compared to previous tools, with minimal disruption to their day-to-day workflow.
- Greater operational efficiency: Eliminating manual processes and duplicate data entry has streamlined workflows and reduced admin burden.
- Improved rep productivity: Uploading customer data onto the map allows reps to skip customer homes and reduces time spent managing support queries rather than closing new customers.
- Scalable foundation for growth: Eir now has a future-proof solution to support expansion of the field sales team.
Overall, what was once a fragmented, low-tech process has been transformed into a structured, data-driven operation that benefits both field reps and management.
We’re really happy with the product and relationship we have with the team. We're looking to roll it out to our B2B field sales team as well. It's an absolute no brainer.
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