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Hire an interim to support your new telesales manager

Monday, January 4th, 2010

Hire an interim to support your new telesales manager. You may have a new team leader, or a supervisor who you’ve just promoted to run the team for you. This is something they deserve and have worked for, and you want to acknowledge their contribution. However you may also acknowledge (perhaps privately) that they don’t have all the rounded commercial and business skills that will help them become an immediate success. This is a situation we are coming across increasingly at the moment as clients seek to motivate and reward the staff they already have without wishing to commit to management wages and extra salaries.

Help support your telesales or telemarketing team leader

Help support your telesales or telemarketing team leader

You want them to lead the team on a daily basis, but you recognise that they may need some help and assistance setting up good management reporting systems and training. Perhaps they’ve never had to look at key performance indicators before, perhaps they don’t know where to start. Have they ever trained a team ? And what are they like at working with you to set up a good motivational commission scheme ?

Other areas we typically look at include the quality of the database.  What’s the quality like ? Have they had to evaluate it before ? In order to help your team supervisor or team leader make a quick success of their role and in order to help shorten the learning curve, we can work alongside them on an interim basis to help get the systems set up. Once that’s done, we step away and you then manage your team in-house.

Hiring an interim on a fixed number of days per month can give them the support they may need to get things set up without you commiting to the ongoing cost. If this is an idea you’d like to explore further, just drop us an e-mail to info@tomarket.co.uk and we can have a chat.

We can help you with interim telesales or telemarketing management across the West and East Midlands including Leicester, Birmingham, Lichfield, Solihull, Coventry, Derby, Nottingham, Kettering, Corby, Wellingborough, Milton Keynes, Melton Mowbray, Daventry, Northampton, Newmarket and Cambridge

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Get advice on why not to hire a new telesales manager

Monday, December 14th, 2009

Get advice on why not to hire a new telesales manager. If you are currently looking to build up the telesales or telemarketing function in your company, you may be looking at recruiting a new telesales manager. Alternatively you may be looking to recruit one who has left. However there is a flexible alternative.

Hiring a short term telesales manager gives your business flexibility

Hiring a short term telesales manager gives your business flexibility

You can hire in a manager for a limited period of time. You can agree some objectives for them, and you can ‘hire’ them for a fixed number of days per month. A package might be between a half a day per month and say 6 days per month. In this time a quality telesales or telemarketing manager will be able to help you set up good managment systems and KPIs (key performance indicators) for your team. They should also be responsible for training and agreeing with you some targets and benchmarks for activity and results.

We can come and have a chat over a coffee about how this may work for you.  We can give advice on what to look for, and what an interim or short term contract telesales manager may be able to offer you. So if you’re in Leicester, Northampton, Market Harborough, Corby, Wellingborough, Kettering, Lutterworth, Cambridge, Newmarket, Daventry, Coventry, Rugby, Birmingham, Lichfield, Solihull, Melton Mowbray, Uppingham, Oakham give us a call on 01858 461148  and we’ll have a chat.

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Don’t hire a new telesales manager yet !

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

Many companies are in the situation where they want to develop a more effective telesales or telemarketing team, but don’t necessarily want to commit to spending £40,000 a year that it would cost to secure a quality manager.

How to find a quality telesales manager for your team

How to find a quality telesales manager for your team

Furthermore the economy is fragile and so you want to maintain flexibility. A great and increasingly popular solution is to hire a quality telesales manager on a short term contract. And if you can negotiate a flexible and open agreement where you’re not even committed to them for as long as a year then so much the better !

By agreeing to take on someone with a track record in successful telephone team management you can improve your own systems and processes so that after they’re gone, you can run the systems yourselves. Often a team leader or supervisor can look after the team on a day to day basis and they might only be costing you £20,000 a year.

Our advice on beefing up the telesales management in your company is that you should expect a good telesales manager to help you with such varied issues as ;

  • Advice on your team’s callpots. Do you have enough names, too many, about right ?
  • A check on your database quality. The best sales team will struggle and get demotivated if they’re working poor quality leads.
  • Input into setting up some effective KPIs and management reporting systems. This gives you complete control then. Disciplinary procedures rely on evidence. Underperformers must know they’re underperforming.
  • Advice on how to set up and run easy incentives schemes
  • Help integrating incentives into company campaigns
  • Added value in terms of general marketing advice on things such as your website. Optimising it so that it brings in more visitors is straightforward, it just takes some time and dedication.

If the idea of hiring in an interim telesales or telemarketing manager is something that appeals to you, feel free to contact us on 01858 461148 for some tips and advice. Alternatively go to Associated Learning Systems site where you will find an audio CD on the topic of how to set up and manage an effective telephone team. Click through here http://www.associatedlearningsystems.co.uk/product_detail.asp?ProdID=2

We have worked with companies in many areas including ; Leicester, Northampton, Market Harborough, Corby, Wellingborough, Kettering, Lutterworth, Cambridge, Daventry, Coventry, Rugby, Melton Mowbray, Uppingham, and Oakham

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Interim or fixed contract telesales or telemarketing manager

Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

Interested in hiring an interim or fixed contract telesales or telemarketing manager ?

This can make great sense if you want to improve the effectiveness and running of your team, but don’t want to commit £40,000 – £60,000 that it would cost to hire a good manager.

Hire an interim telephone team manager - save thousands

Hire an interim telephone team manager - save thousands

A good alternative is to interview some candidates who may want to do the job for you for a fixed number of days per month. Although their daily rate would be higher than a ‘normal’ employee, nevertheless their time on site with you would be focused and should be strongly accountable. Our advice is to set up an agreement with them that is for 12 months or so (however long you see the job lasting) but with the right of notice set to a month. That way it will keep your interim telemarketing or telesales manager on their toes with a strong eye on making sure they deliver for you.

Taking on a short-term contract or fixed term interim telemarketing or telesales manager is an ideal way of staying flexible while still investing in your team to make sure they have good process and the skills in place to capitalise on the opportunities coming out of recession.

Great way of developng your team in Leicester, Northampton, Kettering, Corby, Loughborough, Coalville, Market Harborough, Lutterworth, Coventry, Rugby, Birmingham, Solihull, Lichfield, Derby, Nottingham, Mansfield, Cambridge, Peterborough, St Ives and wider parts of Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Derbyshire, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, and Lincolnshire.

It has worked successfully in many industries such as automotive, electronics, industrial, commercial, print, packaging, paper processors, waste management, materials handling, marketing agency, IT consultancy as well as many more.

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How to build your telesales – without spending big sums on a manager

Saturday, May 16th, 2009

Some ideas on how to build your telesales – without spending big sums on a manager. A current hot topic in telesales and telemarketing management is the idea of hiring an interim telesales manager or someone for a fixed or variable term. It offers you great flexibility and could be just what you are looking for.

Short term telesales manager to raise your team's performance

Short term telesales manager to raise your team's performance

Instead of committing yourself to a fixed spend you can buy some quality management that can finish as soon as the job is done.

So how might they help you ? You can expect a good quality short-term contract telesales manager to help you in many areas managing your team. They should contribute ideas across a broad number of fronts. 

Let’s look first at each person’s call pot. Also any effective team needs KPIs – key performance indicators. You probably know what each member of your team produces in terms of results but that is only 1 of the 4 key measures. Getting the team to produce more involves understanding how they achieve their results.  They each have a results profile. Do you know what it is ?

It is also a good idea to have the phone team working to support your campaigns. These might be based around product lines you want to promote, or products and services that are more lucrative to you. How well integrated is  the phone team currently with your marketing campaigns ? A good manager will help you set this up and provide you with ongoing monitoring.

Incentivising the team is key too. If they WANT to do well, they will. So you may want advice on levels of commission. Also understanding the balance between commission, bonuses and incentives is important. What do they each do, and how do they fit together ? A good quality top drawer telesales or telemarketing manager will be able to help you with this.

If you’re based in  Leicester, Northampton, Market Harborough, Corby, Wellingborough, Kettering, Lutterworth, Cambridge, Daventry, Coventry, Rugby, Melton Mowbray, Uppingham, Oakham give us a call on 01858 461148 and we can discuss how you can achieve all these things by hiring a short term or interim telesales manager to run your team. They should be able to set up processes and management systems for you, which they then leave as their legacy !

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Do you really need a full time telesales manager ?

Sunday, May 3rd, 2009

A question for you. Do you really need a full time telesales manager ? 

As you know recruiting someone to run your team can be an expensive and time consuming business. You may not even get the right person !

Clearly you want the best quality telesales or telemarketing manager you can afford even if you’re a small company because you want to improve sales. Also we can take it as read that you want someone who will bring in more profit than it costs you to employ them.

Interim telesales manager - a more flexible approach

Interim telesales manager - a more flexible approach

The difficulty then is to recruit someone who you know will make these returns. And what do you do if they don’t ? Send them packing I guess. As soon as you agree a contract with them you’re committed to spending a defined sum of money. You’ve got ;

  • Salary (probably likely to cost £25,000 – £40,000 depending on what you want)
  • Pension
  • Social costs (N.I. contributions etc.)
  • Car (do you provide a car – or money in lieu of a car ?)
  • Other on-costs such as furniture, coffee ! heat, light, power etc.

As an alternative have you considered hiring an interim telesales manager on a short term contract ? This offers many advantages.

It will cost you less as they’ll be doing less days. Admittedly their day rate will be higher. Nevertheless if you get a top notch manager, you should get more quality and therefore at least equal results.  You are no longer paying turning up money, you only pay them for what you need. There may even be no fixed contract, so you can end it at any point.  This keeps them focused on achieving results for you.

If this is an idea which interests you, we can advise you on how to set it up, and the sorts of things a good manager should be able to help you with. Drop us an e-mail to info@tomarket.co.uk

This idea will help you whether you are a finance director, a business owner, an owner manager, or someone running a small business in Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Leicester, Northampton, Market Harborough, Corby, Wellingborough, Kettering, Lutterworth, Cambridge, Daventry, Coventry, Rugby, Melton Mowbray, Uppingham, Oakham

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