Lead Generation in Singapore: How Database Integration can Keep you in Profit Photo Credit: Tom Raftery It’s a data-driven world out there and B2B enterprises need to drift with the times. In the face of unpredictable market forces, it is important now for these companies to harness new technologies that can provide wide-ranging benefits to their lead generation and appointment setting campaigns. As a way to effectively reach out to multiple audience touch points, database integration is becoming an important strategic answer to business needs in vibrant economies like Singapore. Despite negative outlooks this year, the country continues to receive international capital. For now, B2B suppliers such like you need to use cost-efficient and time-saving ways in order to stay in profit and provide the necessary services to current and potential clients. Integrating your marketing and sales functions in this case should be the first thing in mind since it entails benefits to B2B lead generation like: 1. 2. 3. 4.
8 Cool Ways to Improve your Sales Calls - Appointment Setting Singapore Making effective sales calls is as important as acquiring high quality sales leads. To get a prospect to purchase a certain product or service requires a compelling presentation over the phone, one that takes into account these tips from a Forbes article by Tom Hopkins. Develop a professional greeting. Don’t just say hello and jump into your telephone presentation without taking a breath or allowing the other party to participate. Your greeting should err on the side of formality. Increasing your sales is just a conversation away. Please follow and like us:
Social Media in Singapore: Have you Joined the Bandwagon? There’s no question about Singapore’s reputation as a high opportunity business hub. Being one of the most technologically advanced countries in Asia, it boasts of an internet connectivity rate of 99%, with nearly 74% of the island-nation’s citizens using social media on a regular basis, not excluding the managers of top performing companies. It is then easy to point out that Singapore provides a highly lucrative avenue to search for B2B leads. With a progressive IT infrastructure, it’s just as easy to find a sales-ready lead just about anywhere in the web. You can leverage this present situation to enhance your social media marketing efforts to expand your reach and consistently provide your salesforce with qualified prospects. Here are some things you can do enhance your social media marketing experience and lead generation activities: Engage through blogging Inbound strategies are still a thing today, particularly in terms of establishing your brand’s image and voice in the market.
Want to be Productive? Stay Positive Ever had those days when you felt like not doing anything at all? Weren’t you in a state of pure bliss? Do you often seek to go back to those days when you just don’t give a darn? Then again, reality hits you square in the face and tells you to stop daydreaming and start working. We don’t want to bum you out. As a solutions provider for companies in say the health care and IT industries, you are in this constant struggle to harness the best means to acquire B2B leads and close as many sales as possible. In this sense, enhanced productivity shouldn’t be ignored and should always be something that determined B2B companies should always strive for. Easy: Stay positive. Having a positive attitude towards marketing can get you as far as attaining utmost efficiency and productivity. Stay positive with these important tips in mind for your lead generation and appointment setting. Set SMART-ER goals. Plan with your team. Finally, take your time and unwind. Please follow and like us:
Productivity in B2B Lead Generation - Why Complacency could be a Bad Habit Success in any undertaking is usually judged on paper, but sometimes, numbers and data aren’t enough to paint the whole picture. Marketers are naturally inclined to rely on evaluative statistics to assess their progress, but there is a catch. There are things that statistics cannot measure, such as your marketing team’s determination to reach your lead generation goals. You also cannot measure – with absolute certainty – the level of satisfaction of your clients. That is why business marketers should avoid being complacent on the current progress of their campaigns. Hold regular meetings to check up on individual and team progress.
5 Key Steps towards Engaging Sales Appointments for Singaporean Companies Singapore indeed deserves to be called for what it is – a loud and proud commercial lion, its eyes set on expanding the growth of its financial and IT sectors this 2015. This is a good thing since the influx of investments brings with it huge opportunities to realize growth for your company. B2B appointment setting in Singapore is no doubt a serious endeavor, one that requires you to know the best approaches in engaging B2B prospects through a telemarketing call. To better prepare for sales engagements in Singapore, try these tips for a constantly productive appointment setting campaign. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
B2B Appointment Setting Done Right in Singapore In Singapore, it is crucial for B2B companies to enhance their appointment setting efforts on top of improving their lead generation campaign. Consider the fact that most decision-makers in the island nation have sophisticated preferences as to the type of solutions they want to purchase. When done right, appointment setters are able to hit their prospects and position them for a meeting with sales reps. Here are some pointers to consider when speaking to a decision-maker, courtesy of QualityContactSolutions.com: The Right B2B Appointment Setting Target List B2B appointment setting is a tenuous balance between a numbers game and creating a work of art. A Compelling Offer Why would a business owner or manager want to accept the offer of an appointment? Professional and Memorable Every good B2B sales representative knows how to engage the gatekeeper and their prospect in a professional and memorable phone conversation. Keep Appointment Setting Records and Adjust Persistence
The Most Neglected Problems in B2B Appointment Setting It is often stipulated that businesses in the B2B industry can never live without appointment setting activities. Fact is most sales engagements depend on proper techniques in meeting decision makers. Once you apply the correct approaches, you might find yourself a step closer towards gaining a closed deal. But another fact remains: finding the right formula for setting appointments seems like finding a needle in a haystack. The same problems can be found in looking for a B2B lead generation strategy that suits your objectives. It is a tedious process that eats up a lot of time and money. It is obvious that companies are focusing their resources on concocting a harmonized marketing and sales plan that promises a good influx of sales-ready prospects and ROI. Finding the right strategy is impossible until you acknowledge the fact that there are other problems at play. Poor lead nurturing infrastructure. Inefficient call scripts. Inaccurate data acquisition. Please follow and like us:
When it Comes to Social Marketing: Are you an Individualist or a Utilitarian? Modern philosophy was by two important “schools” of thought: individualism and utilitarianism. Although most people misconstrue one for the other, they normally differ in their content. For the individualist of the Ayn Rand variety, personal happiness is the main objective in life. For the utilitarian followers of Jeremy Bentham, ultimate virtue pertains to giving happiness to the greatest number of people. We can relate these two schools to the B2B world, particularly in the rough-and-tumble world of social media marketing in which a business is made to decide on strategies providing utmost efficiency. Individualist: We’ll Do it My Way The noteworthy author of Atlas Shrugged and the Fountainhead believed that Man (in its individual conception) is an independent and sovereign being. To put this in the context of social media marketing, business managers can take the individualist path of creative self-realization without the pressure of competition. Utilitarian: A Spoonful of Goodness