Why Telemarketers Love/Hate their Job In B2B marketing, we are always faced by the prospect of getting rejected. You pick up a phone, conduct a cold call, and talk with a prospect only to find he or she has no interest in your offers. Isn’t it just frustrating? Others will say that B2B telemarketing should always be frustrating, especially when it is specifically done for generating sales leads. There’s no wonder why telemarketers hate their position, being at the frontlines of prospecting for leads and setting up sales appointments. Having to deal with irate prospects is just too much for someone to bear. Aside from securing a fresh group of B2B sales leads for our respective businesses, we are also partly responsible for solving certain issues that clients want to streamline or optimize. We can see here that the telemarketer is in a love/hate relationship with his or her line of work. There are advantages and disadvantages when it comes to contacting leads through phone. Give value to politeness. Be clear and concise.
3 Steps to Enhance your Corporate Event’s Impact A good deal of B2B companies considers corporate events like trade shows and conferences to be the best avenues for acquiring quality business leads. Then again, only a handful could manage to provide participants with experiences lasting up until a sales appointment is set. More important than just holding an event is creating an impactful event. It is clear enough that managers have their own ways to this, but can these strategies achieve valuable long-term relationships? These are questions you would need to answer when it comes down to marketing your corporate events. Here are some steps to consider in your event marketing as seen on an article posted in the Tradeshow News Network website. Differentiate your event In your marketing content, always make it a point to highlight the key factors that distinguish your event from others in the same vertical. Capture accurate demographics data It is vitally important to know and understand your audiences’ roles and requirements.
Improve your Lead Generation by Improving Telemarketing Teamwork Anyone in the crazy world of B2B marketing will tell you outright that telemarketing remains a relevant business communication channel. Numerous studies support this claim. In a slide presentation by SCI Sales, up to 90% of B2B companies regard telemarketing as effective in generating sales leads. Added to that number, MarketingProfs says that telemarketing is among the most effective lead generation tools that B2B marketers trust. Now, when someone tells you such facts, trust that he is not crazy. Indeed, without a properly organized staff, it would be hard for a business to qualify leads for sales. Teamwork is essential in that it allows your staff to communicate freely and collaborate on how best to approach B2B leads. It is clear that teamwork plays an important role. Think of your potential clients. Upgrade your database. Keep in touch. The absence of teamwork can signal the death knell of your campaign, if not your business.
GUIDE Coaching – Bringing the best out of a B2B Telemarketer Telemarketers possess both the pride and pressure of the company they’re representing, that is why they need to be continually developed and coached. This is most notable in outsourced telemarketing and lead generation services companies wherein their agent workforce is the product itself. These firms usually have a dedicate team leader, quality assurance analyst, and sales coach to make sure the standards of the company – as well as that of the clients – are met. But how does one really coach a telemarketer, knowing that each one is as unique as the other? Monique Honaman, a partner at ISHR Group, shares in an article about how they created a coaching model called G.U.I.D.E. which stands for: Ground – This step embodies the essence of engagement. Understand – In this step, you and your coachee gain mutual clarity on her intentions and vision, either for the short-term or long-term.
Handle Price Objections The Telemarketing Way When doing a B2B lead generation campaign, it is always part of your job to deal with the objections. Still, this is just part of the norm. You cannot just sell your products to potential sales leads that easily. Now, if this is your first time to start such a campaign, it is always good sense to study the ways on handling price objections. Being PreemptiveAnticipating what your prospect might say as an objection to your price will allow you to state the benefits of your offer. There are so many ways to deal with price objections in your B2B lead generation campaigns.
Top B2B Telemarketing Sales Techniques for Better Results Not experiencing enough conversions? Is your lead generation not producing high quality B2B leads? Do you feel that there’s a need to further enhance your B2B telemarketing efforts? These questions are typical among marketers nowadays; typical in the sense that all of them share the very same problems that impede them from gaining a competitive advantage. And indeed, they are one in the quest for finding an efficient way to improve their telemarketing campaign. Too much talk about this issue has prevailed in numerous online platforms and blogs dedicated to B2B lead generation and telemarketing. From where marketers stand, cost-efficient ways are top priority. The struggle for a strategy that balances cost-efficiency and productivity is just too immense. Be on the dot. Potential B2B partners like it when they know every second they spend engaging you has value. Wear your prospect’s shoes. To get the prospect, you will need to be the prospect. Assume your audience is not that soft.
6 Vitals Arts to Master in Outbound Telemarketing | Marketing in the Asia Pacific Training materials, online slides, self-help books and hundreds of instructional blogs have provided tons of advice on how to become an excellent telemarketer, but there hasn’t been a perfect formula – and this article will not change that, either. It’s impossible to create a flawless telemarketer persona on account of an industry that’s so complex and rapidly evolving. What’s possible, though, is to focus on improving certain areas of the telemarketing process. Eventually, as each small part is enhanced, a new skill set and approach will have been developed, and that’s the closest you can get to perfection. You can start off by mastering these 6 important aspects: The art of timing.This is not about how you determine when to respond to prospects over the phone – that’s an art you’ve probably already mastered.This is about learning that specific hours of the day are more productive than others.
Why an Event Telemarketing Campaign Will Work For Your Business By: Rona Gumban “You are invited to the 2015 Media Advertising Events in Sydney on the 31st of July 2015. I saw that subject line of an invite in my personal company email’s inbox yesterday, and I was glad to know that I am one of those considered as guests in the upcoming event – I felt privileged. So I clicked on the message and read through the content of the invitation. “Closing Advertising Deals in 3 Successful Calls” “Your Brand & the Social Media” “The Way to your Prospect’s Heart “ As an advertising practitioner and an avid critique of advertising brands both on broadcast and print media, I easily got interested. Then I recalled I had this matter discussed over the phone with a lady named Sam this morning. There are different reasons why companies engage in Call-to-Invite Telemarketing Campaigns. Service or product launch. Others are: Trade ShowsConferencesBreakfast meetings & business luncheonWebinarsSeminars Question: Answer: Author Bio #Event telemaketing#telemarketing