Why listening is so important to telesales

Listening is an important part of the communications skills process and as such is key to effective telesales and telemarketing. Good telesales and telemarketers will have developed good active, attentive listening skills. Our training courses feature listening skills and we also now offer an audio CD on listening skills.

Inbound calls represent the best selling opportunities there are

Inbound sales calls represent the best selling opportunities there are. They do really. Just consider it. They’ve decided to call you. Generally speaking they will be for one of a number of reasons : to gather information or advice, to enquire about a price or some other factor relating to a direct sale, to progress check an order, or maybe to complain!

Don’t apologise for your sales call

Don’t apologise for your sales call. What you or your team does is an important job. So avoid phrases such as “this is just a brief call” or “this is a quick courtesy call.” Urgh that is horrible, all calls should be courteous. Stop apologising and get on with the job.