Tag Archives: Telemarketing Lead Generation

How to use outbound telemarketing to support your inside sales team

Sandy Pernick, Senior Operations Manager

Note: When we use the term outbound telemarketing, we’re talking about placing cold calls to prospects to set business to business appointments. Some companies call this work Business Development. Others call it prospecting. Others call it lead generation. Keep in mind that these terms can be used interchangeably.

Clients are hesitant to lose control of one of the most important elements of their marketing and sales operation: setting appointments for their inside sales staff. This essential component will make or break new customer acquisitions so outsourcing appointment setting using a third-party firm can cause angst and uncertainty.

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10 ways to use an outbound telemarketing partner

By Megan Hottman, Operations Manager and Brand Evangelist

Outbound telemarketing plays a vital role in the success and growth of companies. With the influx of technology, the mediums in which businesses communicate with customers varies. From text, to email, to targeted online ads, to mail, to radio, to instant messaging…. such an abundance of choices! While current marketing practices tend to leverage the most successful trends, outbound telemarketing isn’t new. Outbound telemarketing is a communication channel that is still very alive, extremely effective and here to stay.

There are many ways companies can leverage outbound telemarketing to help achieve organizational goals. Here are 10 ways our customers have used the outbound telemarketing services of Quality Contact Solutions. Continue reading →

How to Write an Outbound Telemarketing Script

By Julie Kramme, Sales Executive

So, you’ve decided to use outbound calling as part of your sales and/or marketing strategy…You’ve acquired a list of prospects to call, and you know what you want the outcome of those calls to be. Now you need to develop a message for your telemarketing staff to effectively convey on your behalf…You need a telemarketing script. But what does that look like?

What should be included in a telemarketing script?

For some call center agents, a traditional script that tells your agent what you want to say and how you want them to say it, works very well – especially for those new to the game who are still building confidence. The challenge with traditional scripting is that with time and repetition, message delivery can get a bit stale. So, how can we prevent that? Through training and motivation, or course! But that’s not the only way…
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Augment Your Sales Pipeline: Outbound Lead Generation

By Megan Hottman, Brand Evangelist

One of the services we specialize in is outbound lead generation. We provide thousands of qualified leads to our clients on a daily basis. One of the activities that drives the demand for our services is pipeline management. In most organizations, sales pipeline management is an activity owned by the Sales VP or Director. We partner with those individuals to assist them with keeping their sales pipeline as full as possible – ensuring they are in a position to achieve their sales goals every month. Continue reading →

Why You’re not just doing B2B Appointment Setting

By A.J. Windle, Director of Operations

B2B Appointment Setting Have you ever changed a tire? Seems pretty easy when you say it, but have you ever thought about how much work goes into something so simple? First you have to brave the weather and if you live where I do that could be a lot of work in itself. Then you have to make sure you have the right tools to do the job. You’ll need a jack for the car, potentially gloves and a spare tire. You have to jack up the car, take off the lug nuts, pull the tire off, put the new tire on, tighten the lug nuts, release the jack and put everything back. What seemed simple is much more complex.

B2B appointment setting is very similar. It seems easy at first glance. However, if misjudge the task as easy, then you will most certainly be disappointed. At Quality Contact Solutions we are experts at B2B appointment setting and here are a few items you’ll need to keep in mind to make sure your B2B appointment setting program doesn’t go flat. Continue reading →