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Challenges in Targeting Malaysia and What To Do About It

Challenges in Targeting Malaysia and What To Do About It
Asia is one gigantic market for internet users and has huge potentials for running business to business lead generation campaigns. With Singapore’s strong, limitless internet connection, and the Philippine’s reputation as one of the fastest growing number of internet savvies in the continent, Malaysia now shares a part of pie. But how far has lead generation gone in the Malaysia market? How do Malaysian businesses perceive or behave towards lead generation as part of their marketing strategies? Let’s probe. 1. Chinese, Indian, Eurasian and indigenous cultures comprise the Malaysian society. However, despite the notable growth of Malaysia’s economy, its people have kept a percentage of conservatism that depicts their stance on Lead Generation. How do we address this? “Send me the information first and I will take a look at it”, is the usual answer that you will hear from a prospect during a lead generation call. 2. How do we overcome this? 3. How do we cope with the challenge?

Appointment Setting Best Practices for Malaysian Training Providers Lately, Malaysia’s training industry has been regarded as a high opportunity area. In light of an upcoming economic integration in the Southeast Asian region, there is a strong demand for training and skills development as the country prepares to enhance the quality of its labor force. For this reason, training providers need to address the increasing need for skills in areas such as education and healthcare. It is also vital for them to set appointments for leads indicating a desire to enroll. But it is not always easy. Training providers need wiser and more cost efficient approaches in improving their call campaigns and delivering high quality appointments. Here are some ways you can do to drive quality appointments and push your enrollment rate upwards. Know your target audience. Give prospects flexible options. Deal with declines. There are more ways for Malaysian training providers to apply in vitally winning enrollees during this time of great demand for manpower training.

Cloud Computing - B2B Lead Generation Australia Cloud Computing Lead Generation Offering to manage cloud-based services might not be as easy as you think. Convincing Australian businesses to trust in the security of your cloud is no walk in the park. It takes more than one phone call and a follow-up email to get prospective clients to see you can be relied on to do the job. To establish credibility and gain their trust, you will have to engage them in conversation numerous times throughout the sales process, answering their questions and addressing their concerns, and do all this over various channels – via call, email, online, and even on social media. Our B2B multi-channel packages are customized to answer your need for a truly engaging way to reach and develop lasting relationships with your prospects, until they are finally converted to sales-ready leads. Callbox can help you identify businesses in Australia that requires cloud computing services. Cloud computing services we cover:

Make Better Business Decisions: A Guide for Struggling B2B Companies - B2B Lead Generation Company Malaysia Leading a company, particularly in the volatile grind of the B2B industry, executives need certain tools. And no, we are not talking about the usual, concrete tools defined by new marketing technologies such as lead nurturing and lead management software, which are effective by themselves. In this article, we are going to talk about the effective use of basic intuition and instinct to achieve exponential business growth. That last one sounds very much far-fetched, especially to the ears of SME executives who are new to the B2B field and to older companies that have yet to make significant strides. With limited resources at hand and with aggressive competition to face, how can they truly drive their businesses towards securing higher revenue and a large volume of clients? These are actually possible when business executives themselves execute sound decisions. Negative decisions are usually attributed to poor judgment, research and planning. Judgment Research and planning

How To Get Into The Zone When Looking For B2B Leads Let us face it, generating good B2B leads in Australia can be totally stressful, time consuming, not to mention hard to get. It certainly calls for you to be totally focused in your lead generation work, not to be distracted, so that we can succeed at the task at hand. Practically speaking, we should be in the ‘zone’ in order for us to do that. The quality of our business sales leads are dependent on how good our actions are. But how do you achieve that feeling of concentration? There is no such things as a zone in new tasks – when you are in the ‘zone’, you are in a mental state where you continue doing your task at its best. Give it a try in Australian business.

Callbox and the Quartered Success of The File Transfer Expert The Client Industry: File Transfer Appliance Location: Singapore Headquarters: Germany A group of file transfer software experts from Germany founded this File Transfer Appliance Company in 1996 which later spanned to France and Singapore in 2007. The company stands on a mission to offer the latest Hardware Technologies coupled with the leading Software Solutions as “Plug-and-Play” appliances designed for security problems and compliance tasks. Target Criteria Location: Singapore & Malaysia Industries: Oil & Gas, Architecture firms, Precision Engineering firms, Property Developers, Advertising Media or Graphic Design Houses, Large Manufacturing companies, Government-linked companies, Lawyers, Health, Pharmaceutical companies, and Building and Construction. Annual Turnover: More than SG$ 2 Million Employee Size: More than 20 Target Contacts: Directors, Business Owners, IT Managers, Person in Charge of IT Campaign Type : Lead Generation Summary The initial campaign production delivered 19 leads.

Upstart Storage Company Beats Launching Turnout Target in a Flash - B2B Lead Generation Company Malaysia The Client The Client is a US-based all-flash enterprise storage company that enables broad deployment of flash in data centers. Founded in 2009, the company was named a silver winner in the Enterprise Product of the Year in Best in Biz Awards 2011, and the Wall Street Journal 2012 Technology Innovation Awards. The Challenge In January 2014, the Client hired Callbox for an appointment setting campaign targeting decision makers from Fortune 1000 companies in Singapore, Malaysia, and the Philippines. About a week before the event, the company realized that it was coming up short of its goal of 80 registrations. With only two days to plan and execute the campaign, the challenge for Callbox was to develop a quick and engaging approach in order to generate as many confirmed registrations as possible, while carefully considering the Client’s qualification requirements. The Callbox Solution The goal of the entire campaign was three-fold: The Results

Callbox Expands its Asia-Pacific Market Ultimo, Australia – June 2010 – Callbox Sales and Marketing Solutions, the world’s largest B2B lead generation company, announces the expansion of its Asia-Pacific (APAC) business operations to include the IT and Software Sales-and-Marketing Group. From its Asia-Pacific business hub, the company has built-out presence in the high-growth countries of the region including Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia, and Hong Kong. It currently provides sales and marketing services to over 200 small to enterprise clients in the areas of IT, Software, Financial, and Commercial Services, and other competitive markets. For the last 3 years, Callbox has been extending its reach and aggressively expanding its current staff, to serve the sales and marketing operations of its clients across the Asia-Pacific region. These successes paved the way for the creation of a dedicated business department, the Asia-Pacific IT and Software Support Group.

Every Lead is Special (The Callbox Lead Nurturing Tool) I was never a fan of Hindi films until I was able to watch “Taare Zameen Par”. It’s a directorial Hindi movie by Bollywood star Aamir Khan which starred Darsheel Safary as Ishaan Awasthi, a child who had special learning needs. Ishaan’s parents misunderstood him for being a troublemaker and dumb, which resulted him being sent to a boarding school for boys to be disciplined. Ram Shankar Nikumbh (Amir Khan), a substitute Art teacher, discovered Ishaan’s special learning needs which were never known by any other faculty in the boarding school. Ram helped Ishaan discover his special skills, and nurtured him to understand his academic lessons through daily tutorials and mentoring. Nurturing means to take care of something or someone to grow or develop or succeed. Callbox just thought exactly the same for You. 1. At the start of your campaign, a Lead Nurturing tool is set up by the Team Leader to work simultaneously with the agent’s daily calling routine. 2. 3.

Business 101: Building Your Thought Leadership Level 2.0 Thought leadership is what positions your brand as an expert in your industry. It is creating content that positions yourself as knowledgeable and keeping potential customers or clients coming back to you for more insight and information in your industry. – Tony Adragna, www.smartbugmedia.com Just a bit of trivia: the term “thought leader” was first coined 23 years ago in the pages of Strategy+Business, the publication from consulting firm Booz & Company. From www.entrepreneur.com, “Thought leaders are CEOs, businesspeople, entrepreneurs and other individuals who are respected for their knowledge and expertise and who have something to say and know how to say it.” In short, a thought leader is someone regarded as an authority in his/her field—someone other professionals in the field look up to. We’ve known a lot of sales and marketing influencers but these TOP TEN Thought Leaders in ASIA were the most influential speakers in the industry. Here are some of the strategies. Be Credible

Understand your Singapore Market by Dissecting It We in the B2B marketing industry are fond of throwing around metaphors to describe how ferocious and contested it is to engage our target markets. But as executives in the IT services sector see their market as a battlefield of technical jargon and healthcare marketers see their arena as a merciless valley of risks, these metaphors are actually far from what their markets really are: as organisms. Back in high school, our biology classes involved capturing an animal and dissecting it for the purpose of having a better look at its anatomical structure and its importance to the animal’s survival. But where does marketing fit in all this? In this Business 2 Community article, David Cameron Gikandi offers a guide of 11 characteristics you could find in a market with high potentials. Size. By understanding this, we can create a lead generation strategy that will work.

Why Malaysian B2B Companies need Data Profiling As B2B lead generation becomes more advanced and B2B buyers are strict in their choices, companies have noted the importance of keeping their databases free from errors. With a data profiling system in place, B2B firms are able to keep their marketing campaigns highly efficient. A good quality list is the most important element of a successful B2B marketing campaign. But what are the gains in having an accurate and high quality data? #1: Promotes accuracy. One basic function of data profiling is that it allows you to deliver the right message to the right people. #2: Identifies duplicates. Calling or emailing the same company over and over again can hurt your company’s reputation. #3: Updates old data. Having an old data means calls and emails are often directed to the wrong person. Related: The Best Way to Reach Out to Prospects: Sales Email or Sales Call? #4: Reduces cost. Although data profiling may take time as you need to call or research every contact within your marketing list.

The Quintessential Guide to Building Trust for Better Business Effectiveness in Malaysia You can’t expect people to buy your product or service when they have second thoughts about engaging you the first time around. There are some companies that try to shorten the buying cycle with the expectation of getting as many closed sales as they want. But the truth is, even if you are able to generate high numbers of business leads within a single period, there is a small chance these leads will end up buying. Obviously, they still don’t know if you are the contractor they are looking for. In this sense, building trust can be a long and arduous process, but when it comes to acquiring high quality B2B leads and nurturing these leads into sales ready prospects, there are no shortcuts. Take time to read some of them and you’ll be winning sales like you’re winning in Tetris. Know your people. In B2B lead generation, you can’t go on contacting people without knowing who they are and what they currently want at first. Tip: Identify your key decision makers for lead generation. Check out!

Professional Training Agency Grows Customer Base with Callbox The Client The Client is an Australian Registered Training Organisation and member of the Group Training Australia Network. It allows local businesses to enjoy a hassle free and cost-effective way to employ apprentices through its Group Training system. The Client operates from three offices in Australia, serving customers in Mildura, Robinvale, Ouyen, Wentworth, Swan Hill and surrounding districts, South Australia’s Riverland, and Metropolitan Adelaide. The Challenges The Client wanted to improve its lead generation campaign to get more registrants for its group training courses. The Client’s in-house staff had difficulty allocating their limited time between finding leads, meeting appointments, and conducting trainings.Without sufficient experience in cold calling, the client’s sales team had difficulty getting past gatekeepers.Lead quality was poor. The Callbox Solution The Client’s initial objectives were: The Results

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