• My Lucky Sales Calling Formula

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    When my sales management assistant requested an update on a particular account, I didn’t want to make the call. However, I knew if I didn’t make the telephone call, my assistant would hound me until I had an updated status. This is one reason I love my digital assistant.Read more…
  • Cold Calling's Dark Side

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    Have you ever wondered why sales managers are so insistent that you cold call?Have you ever wondered why many companies will not even consider a marketing budget, and instead mandate cold calling, make it a job requirement, and tell you you’ll be fired if you don’t do it?Doesn’t it seem a bit strange that you’d be paid so much in salary just to run around collecting fifty business cards a day, or making fifty telephone calls when your talents are so much better than that?Read more…
  • How to Prepare for Cold Calls When Resistance is Likely

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    Many sales reps look at ads, direct mailing pieces, catalogs, the Internet, anywhere there's advertising as sources of prospects. This is wise. But I find so many of these people ill-prepared for what they inevitably hear on calls.Read more…
  • Cold Calling Scripts Are A Waste Of Time

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    Let's say that you were a business owner or executive manager at a company and you get a phone call that went like this:Good morning Mr. Decision Maker, this is Cold Caller from XYZ Corporation. The reason I'm calling you this morning specifically is so that I can stop by and tell you about our new product that will cut expenses for your company.Read more…
  • The Most Cost-Efficient Way To Reach Prospects

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    Telemarketing is still, dollar for dollar, one of the most cost-efficient means of advertising. Why dread it?I know, I know.Read more…
  • A Review Of Opening Statements

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    For attendees of my Telesales Rep Colleges, and customized training programs for clients, I have a standing offer of evaluating their opening statements afterward. Here are a few submitted by the pros at Dobbs Publishing, a group of niched magazines for auto enthusiasts.Joe Galloway faxed over several openers.Read more…
  • Understanding Telemarketing Advantage

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    What is telemarketing? Telemarketing is the process of marketing goods, advertising services or customer service over the telephone. It is classified into two; inbound and outbound telemarketing.Read more…
  • Turn Inquiries Into Solid Sales

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    The first few minutes of an incoming telephone call are critical if you want to turn an inquiry about your company's products or services into a long term customer relationship. Research shows that you only have about seven seconds in which to take charge of the call and capture the prospective customer or client's attention. If you don’t gain immediate control of the conversation you could lose the chance of developing business for your company.Read more…
  • B2B Cold Calling Sucks

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    Yesterday I received an unsolicited phone call from a woman. It turns out she was a B2B cold caller. Here's how it went:Cold calling woman: Hello, can I speak to the person in charge of your janitorial cleaning services?Read more…
  • Telemarketing Services

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    Telemarketing has emerged as a popular and effective marketing tool. More and more companies are adopting this method owing to the quicker responses received. Companies often outsource their telemarketing services to third party telemarketing firms.Read more…
  • An Introduction To Telemarketing Lists

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    Telemarketing lists have a major role to play in making a business successful. If you are aiming at expanding your business and enhance your clientele, you have to go for some exclusive telemarketing lists. The lists must comprise valuable and reliable leads to take your business forward.Read more…
  • Telemarketing Lists

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    Telemarketing plays an important role in today’s marketing campaigns. The right strategy used in the campaign results in huge profits. For the attaining of right results, the company must target the right customers.Read more…
  • Telemarketing Sales Lists

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    Telemarketing sales lists play a vital role in making a business successful and profitable. But the lists must consist of handy leads. You have to make sure that the telemarketing sales lists are updated regularly.Read more…
  • Effective Phone Sales

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    Hate cold calling prospects? Yeah, me to. But in todays fast moving business environment prospecting either directly or by phone is a must.Read more…
  • Cold Calling Considerations and the Warm Up!

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    If you are serious about selling then you need to be serious about time allocation and production and therefore you need to cold call and get to as many decision makers and prospects as possible in order to develop leads and close more sales.Selling on the phone is not easy and you also know that many of the people you contact will be busy and they may be interested but perhaps not now. You need a quick pitch or invitation to open the door to have a visitation, but do not waste your time with a sales call or giving them a free lunch if they are not interested.Read more…
  • Telemarketing Expert Says Recruiters Fail To Ask The Most Important Question

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    I don’t have to tell you that employee turnover in the telemarketing field is rampant.By the way, this is nothing new. It plagued us a few decades ago, and if anything, it has simply grown worse.Read more…
  • Telemarketing

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    Marketing consumer products over the phone is called telemarketing. A recent study indicated that products and services sold via telemarketing amount to hundreds of billions of dollar each year. Political bodies, charity organizations, and various other organizations to raise funds and invite donations also use telemarketing.Read more…
  • Cold Calling Warm Ups and Practice

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    If you are finding yourself somewhat challenged by cold calling and you have convinced yourself that you just hate it, then you may need to do a little cold calling warm up practice. Many cold-calling salesmen will set a big goal of cold-calling 20-30 potential customers or prospects in their target market groups per day.At that rate sometimes they run out of people to call.Read more…
  • Tips for Successful Negotiating by Phone

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    Most of us negotiate something every day. Whether it's getting our kids to willingly clean their rooms, or hammering out an elephant-sized contract with more details than a politician has “special-interest” donors, our ability to haggle effects our results. Here are some useful negotiating tips.Read more…
  • Setting Goals for Cold Calling Efforts and Winning The Market

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    Many companies do not know how to do cold calling correctly and many people do not like to do cold calling because they feel there are bothering the customer. As a franchisor we often opened new franchise businesses with a marketing program, which included listing all the potential companies our business franchise might do business with them the area.Once this list was established we try to find contact names and contact each company directly.Read more…

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