Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Experience First-rate Outsourced Telemarketing Services
Business organizations in Singapore are taking the risk of outsourcing telemarketing services. Some of them seek professional help in market surveys. The use of the telephone is a productive tool in conducting researches that show current market trends. When it is outsourced, the large expense of an in-house activity is avoided. On the other hand, several firms in this city-state experience teleprospecting from third party service providers. They show no reluctance on this decision for they know that telemarketing companies are the experts in cold-calling practices. Others count on outsourcers when it comes to appointment setting services. They base this choice from the good reputation of first-rate B2B call centers in closing qualified appointments.
First-class services can be expected from outsourcing, if done properly. Outstanding telemarketing companies have sufficient resources-manpower, methodologies, financial stability, management, technology-to start and end every program successfully. Let your firm be one of the companies that will benefit from the aforementioned services.
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
How do Telemarketers Prepare for Their Cold Calls?
Why is it necessary to know their procedures?
It is very necessary to know the procedures and tasks being done by these telemarketers. For one thing, it is to make sure that you have formed a contract with a respectable and legitimate company. In addition, it would let you know that they are competent and capable of meeting your goals and expectations.
In order to successfully prepare themselves for the coming calls to be made, these call center agents do a number of processes to prep themselves for the next call to be made. Here are some of those processes that they do.
• Since a smile (or frown) can be felt even across the telephone, telephone marketing representatives need to make sure that they keep on smiling even when bombarded with rejections and objections. There are many agents who would prepare mirrors next to them to keep the smile alive in their faces.
• They keep a positive mindset in order to successfully meet the expectations of their clientele and to boost their overall morale when doing their cold calls.
• Problems that are generated outside the company should always be kept there. These call center agents know the definition of professionalism that's why problems outside the company do not bring their work performance down.
Monday, January 3, 2011
The Basic Framework of an Effective Telemarketing
To guide and help you attain success in telemarketing, learn from the subsequent tips:
• Be prepared. Call scripts are actually prepared to assist cold-callers and appointment setters. Equally important is that these call guides boost the self-esteem of professional telemarketers. However, you do not solely depend on this material. Always be ready by preparing yourself through constant practice. You can ask your superiors for improvements and additional insights. Read, read and read articles on enhancing cold calling techniques.
• Speech and delivery. Telemarketers are naive of hang-ups. However, this is not a healthy occurrence. It is strongly discouraged for telemarketers not to be able to keep the conversation going. Therefore, build-up your speech prowess and catch the prospect's attention through an attractive delivery. Vary your tone and pitch to avoid monotony and dullness. Be polite and forget not the pleasantries.
• Patience. It is of common knowledge that some prospects are usually irritable and not welcoming. The only remedy to this is patience. Cool down your temper while digging information. Never ever burst out your emotions or else the future of your employment will get overcast. You can not win by replying fire with fire.
• Practice unflinching perseverance. As the saying goes, No pain no glory. Fuel your work with perseverance and sooner than you think, you will reap the rewards of your hard work. Never say never.
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Getting to Know Telemarketing Like the Back of Your Hand
Most telephone marketing campaigns are made through the use of cold calls. These cold calls are made for the receiver of the call would not expect a call from the representative on that particular time and date. The cold calling representatives are all highly trained in order to effectively complete their assigned tasks to meet the expectations of their clients.
The representatives do not pick up the phone and dial a number randomly. Instead, they use a highly organized database that stores all the necessary information about their contacts. This would let the agent know on what industry their prospect is in.
The main objective of telemarketing is for prospects to gain sufficient product and service knowledge in order to entice them into purchasing these goods. Hiring the services of these call center agents can indeed boost a business' sales output in order to gather more income.
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Business Benefits of Sales Outsourcing
Lead generation services improve the general finances of the company. The lead generation agents are skilled in acquiring sales leads, producing more revenue for the company and providing quality prospects.
Lead generation service is the answer to the rapidly expanding sales needs of most companies. An expert lead generation service can increase sales and improve customer relationships. Lead generation service provides skilled lead generation agents that will work closely with the client to acquire deep knowledge of the products and services. Sales lead generation supply agents that work as part of the client’s work force. They augment the sales team of the company. Lead generation services will not only increase the company’s sales revenue but also decrease the cost of acquiring these sales. Lead generation services can be considered as a direct extension of the company’s sales team. They produce sales leads that generate income to the company and reduce the spending cost at the same time.
Lead generation services provide new accounts that will increase the customer count of the company. Lead generation focuses on raising revenue and improving customer relations. Sales lead generation services also provide lead management and appointment setting.
Lead generation service can simplify the company’s operation by letting them focus more on important business aspects. Cold calling and follow ups are distributed to lead generation agents. This way the company can have more organized business goals. The company can focus more on improving their marketing team and increasing revenue on sales.
Friday, March 26, 2010
Guerilla Guide to Telemarketing, Lead Generation and Telesales
The game of telemarketing and lead generation is all about prospecting: Not your usual prospecting but targeted prospecting, to be exact. This is possible with a prospect clients’ list. You need to be clear about your motives, though: Who are your target customers and why them? Targeted prospecting saves your time and effort by letting you speak with the right people.
Tune in to customers
Not all prospect customers resent cold calling. They just have too much to say. They speak more than telemarketers because deep down they might be interested. In this case you need to know where to go in. When a prospect customer blabs away, let him. But avoid a “yes” or “no” line of questioning. Instead, go for “why” and “how” lead questions as these prompt your customers to explain so you get more clues. Use courteous expressions instead of going point blank. When you allow your customer to vent this makes him feel good. Listen closely to your customer talk. Somewhere in his words you’ll find an opening for a sales pitch. It’s really a matter of timing.
Qualify leads
Fine-tune your leads and aim them well. This saves you time, effort and leads. When your leads are properly qualified, you hit close to home. So have a method for qualifying leads and adopt it to your prospect customers’ changing needs.
Speak your prospect customers’ language
Get a hold of your customers’ profile-- company position, social status, attitude, habits, etc, so you know how to “deal” with them. Pattern your sales pitch after their business “persona”. Speak on their terms, not yours.
Believe in your product
It’s easy to sell something that you believe and use yourself. This comes out naturally that your customers can literally feel it. You don’t need to do any compelling sales pitch because you’re talking about a product you have faith in.
Join social networking sites
You cover a lot of ground when you go out and meet people, even virtually. They may not buy from you right away but their friends, spouses and cousins might. Don’t limit your contacts to your Twitter and Facebook friends.
Some times the most unexpected person makes the best customer.
More than this, it’s a lot easier to get referrals from people on your social networking sites. You can leapfrog your sales and telemarketing campaign by creating a word of mouth blitz. This then gets passed around by friends, suppliers, partners and clients.
Work with time not against it
A telemarketer should have full use of his time. The best time is now. Ring up qualified and unqualified prospects and treat your time talking to them as “billable” time.
Finally, keep this in mind: People expect value for their money in the form of return investment. Sometimes customers buy something not because they need it, but because others don’t have it.