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Outbound telemarketing The telephone is the Swiss Army knife in the B-to-B marketer’s backpack: a flexible, personal, dependable resource with infinite applications. That compares to $7 billion spent on directmail and $4.5 Better yet, but more expensive, is dimensional mail, delivered by an express mail service.
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Think you’re getting away with cold calling and pretending you’re best buddies with your prospect? When you receive referral introductions from people your prospects know and trust, they (and their gatekeepers) will happily take your call. They know it’s a pesky telemarketer calling. Think again. Why would they?
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Increased budgets of this nature are including outbound telemarketing and lead generation companies. While everyone wants less expensive leads in the form of prospects who identify themselves via company websites, traditional direct marketing is still needed to educate prospects and drive them to websites.
So, I’m committing to spending time on-camera answering your questions and sharing powerful tips and methods to revolutionize your prospecting. Think you’re getting away with cold calling and pretending you’re best buddies with your prospect? They know it’s a pesky telemarketer calling. Always free. Always fabulous! Think again.
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This activity got me thinking about how we run our businesses, and how we all need to regularly pick up the trash in our sales approach—in other words, by doing an inventory of how we interact with prospects and customers and unloading the strategies and selling tools that just aren’t working. Do you sound like a radio ad or a telemarketer?
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