What do prospects like and dislike? A Telemarketer’s GuideB2B Lead Generation, Appointment Setting, Telemarketing Part of the job as a telemarketer is to understand the person at the other end of the telephone line. It is only through familiarity and insight that telemarketers are able to converse genuinely, probe effectively, discuss business efficiently and generate leads frequently. Just like B2C telemarketers spend hours of research and studies to find out what their customers like, B2B telemarketers must also make an effort to be “personally acquainted” with the desires of business prospects. In fact, B2B is even more complex. It’s really important to know what types of marketing approaches piss them off so you could learn from them and make your efforts better. What prospects don’t like People who are not familiar with the telemarketing industry have a negative association to the word “telemarketer”. Prospects also don’t like hearing how they should be excited about a product or service you’re offering, or want to be approached in a sales-like fashion. They don’t want to hear the word, ‘just.’
Client Profiling Services Selling to people you don’t know is like shooting in the dark. While a few pitches actually hit the target, most are not even near-misses. Client profiling can quickly solve this problem. Unlike your typical company profiling technique, we don’t simply split business leads by differences in income, status, or age bracket. Could your lead generation campaign be more targeted if your client profile had the following additional information? Employment HistoryInterests and hobbiesProduct or service preferencesPurchase historyAverage spendingCredit worthiness, etc. Put more life into your customer prospecting campaign. Dial 888.810.7464 to speak with a Callbox representative or fill out that form on the left. Callbox and Software Leader Spell Success The Client The Client is a professional business software consulting firm based in Irvine, CA. They specialize in the Sage Software family of products – Sage MAS 90 and 200, Sage BusinessWorks, Sage CRM, and JobOps Job management software. The Client’s services include software selection, system design and implementation, user training and support, data conversion, and eCommerce/EDI/CRM consulting. The Challenge Considering the stiff competition and difficulty of marketing business software, it was crucial for the Client to double, even triple their sales and marketing efforts in order to find prospects. system changesystem upgrade or downgradesystem maintenanceadd-ons to current system The Client sought a partner to find these prospects, generate interest for the products and services and provide all necessary marketing support to achieve their goal. The Callbox Solution The Client turned to Callbox to rev up their sales efforts. The Results
A Lesson From Warren Buffett For Telemarketing In Singapore Lead generation is serious business in Singapore. After all, how are you supposed to continue selling if you do not have any customers, right? For this to be successful, you need to hire the right people for the job of generating B2B leads. While there are a lot of qualities that you need to look for, perhaps the words of billionaire Warren Buffett can help you: “Somebody once said that in looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. Yes, integrity means a lot. Buffett understood the value of integrity.
Marketing Activities you should Outsource to Professionals | Business Marketing Singapore Some things are better left to experts, especially when the fate of a business is on the line. This is certainly true in the world of marketing. No one is really an expert of everything; each person can only specialize in a handful of fields. When we desperately try to be a “Jack of all trades”, we end up not reaching the maximum potential of our efforts. That’s why we need to understand that there are marketing channels that need external help for them to be truly effective. 1. Effective copy goes far beyond attractive wording. Your copy isn’t something to assign to the team member with an English degree. 2. The quality of the media you produce is directly correlated to the status of your company in the eyes of viewers.Average infographics and videos don’t automatically propel a business into prominence. It’s better to hire out quality pieces, even simple ones, than to create your own lacking pieces of media. 3. Long-form content has the capacity to serve as a flagship of your company.
Increase your Google Search Rankings: 5 Expert SEO Tips Online visibility is a powerful asset that a business could possess. It opens up endless possibilities for prospects to stumble upon a company that could solve their problems and provide their needs. Unfortunately, Google exists to make sure that every business would have a fair share of searchability and advertising reach. Lead generation through search engine optimization may sound like a techie’s dream job, but even small businesses with just enough resources can tap this channel to increase their sales opportunities. On that note, featured below is an excerpt from an article by Brandon Gaille, CEO of the internet marketing company ByReputation.com, which specializes in SEO, social media, reputation management, video production, and web design. From BrandonGaille.com: 5 SEO Tips 1. 2. 3. It is also good if SEO will always use keyword variations, but be careful, overused keywords are not attractive to use in a website. 4. 5.
Cold Calling With online marketing becoming one of the highly preferred methods for generating sales leads, B2B marketers ask: Is cold calling still an effective B2B lead generation strategy? Most business people hate telemarketing. You can’t blame them. However, many sales lead generation companies still use the telephone in generating new business — and for good reasons. The Good News Despite growing interest in online marketing, B2B marketers have not totally abandoned their telephones. Contact Us and find out how cold calling can pump more life into your lead generation and B2B appointment setting campaign.
What Will SMBs Focus on in 2014? Greater Online Presence We’ve all heard about the brouhaha about how mobile usage will take over desktop particularly starting in 2014. That’s why businesses have started giving more focus on making their strategies compatible to mobile devices. But that’s only for huge businesses. Small and medium-sized businesses apparently are rather behind their larger counterparts when it comes to going mobile. In 2014, SMBs say they plan to focus on establishing more of their online presence, whether through blogging, social media marketing or any other web-based campaigns. So why aren’t they joining the mobile revolution? j2 Global’s research, as reported by eMarketer.com, indicated that a common increase in online presence, including things as basic as setting up a website or online store, was the top priority for 2014 for nearly three in 10 SMB professionals surveyed. This goes to show that not all sectors of the business chain are able to go with the changing times.
Search Marketing 2014: Comment Marketing rocks! Every New Year there will always be trends to watch for. Women will crave for a new haircut and men go loco for newly-released gadgets. Everyone loves fad, trendy, novelty but no matter how many adjectives you add into this sentence it just says one thing, we always love what’s new and we usually go along with where the crowd is. Even when it’s about Miley Cyrus ‘twerking’ dance move or her music video in her latest song ‘wrecking ball’, no matter how awkward they were, they’re still in. Same thing with the Search Marketing; some had applied trendy strategies that would make them look cool and best to fit the top of the SERP rankings and some had not followed and made their own track. With the consecutive release of Google algorithm updates, search engines were flooded with blogs telling tips and how to’s that would help recover the loss from the tragic changes that have marked an end of some website’s PR. Here are some tips on blog commenting that never lose the spotlight:
Marketing Appointment Setting | Just another WordPress site Other Industries Logistics Callbox supports logistics and supply chain solutions providers by developing and implementing strategic b2b lead generation and appointment setting initiatives based on emerging trends, strategies, marketing tools, and industry best practices. We help logistics salespeople maximize their sales time, and focus on selling instead of filling the sales funnel. We generate logistics sales leads through professional telemarketing, targeting their potential customers which might include logistics managers, freight forwarders, customs brokers, and project cargo service providers. Insurance We use non-scripted style telemarketing to market various types of insurance policies including Mortgage Guaranty, Life Insurance, Home Insurance, Healthcare Insurance, Auto Insurance, Loan Protection Insurance, Commercial Coverage, and Education Insurance. Research and Consulting Travel and Tourism Real Estate Management
Giant Software Company Finds Callbox at the End of Quest for Sustainable Marketing Solution The Client The Client is a well-known software manufacturer with 60 offices in 23 countries and a worldwide customer base of more than 100,000. Since its founding in 1987, it has developed, manufactured, and supported software products used by IT professionals for application management, database management, virtualization, cloud automation, and back-up and recovery solutions. In 2011, The Client was recognized as a leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring. The Challenge The Client has an impressive line of software products and a proficient in-house team whose expertise is making sales presentations. The Client partnered with Callbox to set up an outbound telemarketing campaign with the following goals: To call potential customers from the Client’s database and invite prospects to sign-up for the Client’s seminars.To set and deliver B2B appointments with qualified sales leads to the Client for follow-up and close. The Callbox Solution The Results
Why are Marketing Infographics cool? Of course by ‘cool’ we mean ‘intellectually enlightening’ and ‘visually fascinating’ at the same time. A few years ago, people would rely on infographics to gain insight on the most important information out there, not only in the realm of business but also in everyday life. Now, not only do people crave for information from infographics, they also seem to have become more enthusiastic about creating them. Naturally, for lead generation marketers, it’s a matter of building thought leadership status and generating traffic. But what exactly makes infographics so effective? Majority of people are visual learners It’s also the reason why Facebook posts with images are more likely to generate likes and responses. Infographics highlight the bottom line You don’t see a lot of text on infographics. People just love sharing infographics We rarely see lousy infographics. Your brand has infographics = your brand must be wise Face it: you also learn a lot by creating infographics