Case study: sales automation

Every new stockist onboarded as well as the first one

Bringing on a stockist is a sales process and a teaching process at once. HPCR designed both, then built them as a live, automated stockist onboarding system currently operating in controlled client testing.
Client
Quadrant Farming Solutions
Delivered
Sales-process design; a nine-email onboarding and education sequence; four forms supported by six form-effect workflows
Platform
Runs on the client's HubSpot CRM
Status
Live, operating in controlled client testing

Why consistent stockist education was needed

A stockist who signs up but never learns the products sells none of them. Onboarding done personally works for the first few stockists and then stops scaling: the quality of each new stockist's start depends on who had time that week, and a national network cannot be grown one personal induction at a time.
The client needed more than automation; it needed the sales process itself designed. HPCR designed how a new stockist should be brought on, what they should learn about the products, in what order, and how the business should follow their progress, with minimal instruction needed from the client. The automation is the delivery mechanism for that design.

The three-week onboarding journey

One enrolment starts the whole journey: nine automated emails delivered across three weeks, scheduled at days 0, 2, 4, 7, 10, 13, 16, 19 and 21. Each send carries practical resources, engagement is written back to the stockist's record, and a suppression list holds back anyone who should not receive the programme.
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The sequence as deployed: nine emails across three weeks, two resources on every send, forms, the day-14 escalation branch and the handover
Day 0, the opening email: why the product is different, in one line a busy store can use
A new stockist manager is enrolled once; the sequence runs itself from there
Every email lands on a fixed day and carries two practical resources
Engagement state moves automatically as the stockist takes action

Product education and objection handling

The education leads with the product story, then answers the conversation every counter actually has: what the customer already uses. Educational resources are delivered throughout the sequence, and the comparison guide gives counter staff a clear, confident answer to the most common objection without needing to be technical.
Day 2: the product explained in sixty seconds, with one good question to ask
From the comparison guide: the pH difference, explained for a counter conversation

Practical sales support

By the third week the sequence turns to selling: display and merchandising, common questions with confident answers, and the reference material a representative can leave at the counter. The knowledge arrives in stages a busy store can absorb, rather than a single information dump.
Day 13: common questions, confident answers, with the objection-handling card attached

Forms, questions and human follow-up

Four forms sit inside the journey, supported by six form-effect workflows that write properties, notify the owner and raise tasks on submission. The automation also knows its limits: where no meaningful action is recorded after 14 days, a task asks a representative to step in, confirm the right manager received the resources and find out what support is needed.

Transition into ongoing seasonal nurture

Day 21: the launch review closes the journey and sets up ongoing seasonal support
The final email closes the launch and asks two questions that set up what comes next: how the launch went, and which customer groups the store will focus on. Active stockists transition into ongoing seasonal nurture; a stalled stockist is flagged for a representative rather than left in the sequence.

What management can eventually measure

Engagement and resource activity write back to each stockist's record and can update the management reporting as testing broadens, alongside pipeline and sales activity. The stockist who completes the sequence is the same stockist the locator sends customers to. The current controlled testing volume is deliberately small, so we publish no engagement or performance figures from it.
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