How to engage your prospect in 2 easy sentences

How to engage your sales prospect in 2 easy sentences is about ensuring your message or spiel (aargh) is delivered with their thoughts and perspective in mind. Hold back on telling them how wonderful your company and it’s products are, and how much you know. It’s not what they want to know.

Poor telemarketing looks like this

Here 5 great points about how NOT to do your telemarketing. Good telemarketing requires some thought, some planning and some professional pride. Don’t be one of those telemarketers that gives us all a bad name. Phoning people to sell gas or electricity when they work in serviced offices is clearly a waste of time and frankly not very bright.

8 Appointment setting tips for telemarketers

8 Appointment setting tips for telemarketers. Our experience over the years booking appointments has helped us learn some of the tricks of the trade. Here are 8 tips to help you set more telemarketing appointments more often with more people.

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Shall I leave a voicemail? Telesales tips

Shall I leave a voicemail? In this article we give you our view on when to leave and when not to leave a voicemail. How well you know the prospect, whether you have a specific reason for the sales call and the amount of time since your last telesales or telemarketing call are all factors that determine the way you play this modern barrier to telesales progress.

Increasing telesales conversion rates – 5 top tips

It’s all very well making lots of calls, but it’s results you really want. So conversion rate is really important. Here are 5 of our tips for helping get more orders or appointments from your call activity.

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7 tips to overcome cold call fear

7 top tips to help face up to cold call fear. Cold calls for telesales, telemarketing and sales people are a key part of building the business. Not everyone takes on this role eagerly and so here we’ve set down 7 tips that we hope will help.

How to make telesales scripts work for you

How to make telesales scripts work for you. Make them flexible, train the team in how to go off-script and ensure you have a good call structure. Just as you wouldn’t plan a meeting without an agenda, or a long journey without a map, so a good structured call guide has a place.

Getting past the gatekeeper – some telesales tips

Getting past gatekeepers. Remember they’re only doing their job. So get used to it, and learn to work with them rather than against them. Here we share some tips to help you get gatekeepers on side – to help you get through to more decision-makers more often to do more presentations.

Dealing with sales objections is easy

Objection handling is easy as you’ve probably heard it before. Regardless of industry sector, they generally fit the same pattern. We can buy the same cheaper elsewhere, we’re happy with supplier B, we haven’t got any money etc. Our audio CD guides you through how to handle this.

More successful appointment setting for field sales – Leicester

Appointment setting training for field based sales teams from telephone skills expert Andrew Seaward of To Market. One day course for sales teams to help them make the most of their phone calls in the office. Generating more appointments creates more sales opportunities. Simple as…..