Summertime Prospecting with the Phone
Summertime can be a good time for B2B telemarketing prospecting, lead generation, and lead qualification for several reasons: Reduced competition: Many businesses experience a slowdown in the summer months, with decision-makers and key personnel taking vacations. This can result in
Am I Doing All I Can with B2B Telemarketing?
This article says it all. The points made are repeated through out many of the posts in this blog. In the event your company’s B2B telemarketing program has not been living up to the hype or you really do not have a solid program
How A Telemarketing Service Can Help Your Business
A telemarketing service is a quick and affordable method to contact prospective customers directly over the phone and subsequently even face-to-face to convince them to buy a product or service. Telemarketing is a commonly used direct marketing technique and is also referred to
Lead Generation That Converts Leads into Sales Opportunities
Recently, we were asked to help further qualify respondents to our customer’s lead generation campaign. We were able to uncover some immediate sales opportunities but we also determined where the other leads were in the sales process and helped to determine what
When You’re Hungry for Sales, Consider These Lead-Gen Tools
When people ask how successful b to b telemarketing can be I always say the program is only as good as your list. When implementing a lead generation program it’s important to know who are your best prospects. If your selling shoes
The Insidesales.com/M.I.T. Lead Response Management Study
Recently I was asked when is the best time to call on leads. I shared the results for telemarketing from the study below. We have used the times table below to schedule calls and have had similar results. Not that we
How Can Humor Help You Telemarketers
When conducting training’s on cold calling and telemarketing I always stress that adding humor to your conversation increases your credibility and begins to develop a sales relationship. When I first started IT’S YOUR CALL a longtime telephone sales rep and expert appointment setter
9 Steps to Revitalize Your B2B Trade Show Marketing Strategy
March is the start of Trade show Season! The article below discusses trade show marketing strategy for before during and after exhibiting at the show. Interesting that under the follow up section email is used and there is no method
Here are 14 Lead Qualification Questions
I just finished a workshop on prospecting and writing a telemarketing scripts. The audience could easily write a description of what their company did and how they help but the biggest issue was developing the lead qualification questions. Below are samples and descriptions to help with creating
10 Lead Generation Strategies To Explore In Your B2B Organization
This article is a great resource for creating strategies for Inbound and Outbound marketing campaigns. I would add that most of the inbound strategies should have a follow up phone call component which would help to further qualify the prospects. Two