What is telemarketing?
What is telemarketing?
Proactive outbound telephone calls to contact customers or prospects in order to
• gain new business or
• retain and grow the spend of an existing customer base
Telemarketing may happen at any stage of the sales or account management process, and can be used to build relationships as much as sell products or services.
Telemarketing, can take place to hot, warm or cold leads, and is successful when is seen as part of a multi-streamed or sequential sales and marketing process.
Outbound Telebusiness calls cover a wide range of activity and may include
Gain
– calls to prospects
• new business generation
• offers and promotions
• research
• appointment generation
Retain
– calls to existing customers
• defence against competition calls
• segmentation calls in order to segment customers into different customer groups / niches based on their needs or buying behaviours
• customer satisfaction surveys
• telephone account management
• proactive customer service calls
• calls to lapsed accounts
Grow
– calls to existing customers to increase their spend
• offers and promotions
• telephone account management
Resource Centre
CRM and telemarketing
Making telemarketing calls count
Business to business telemarketing
B2B research
Creating the right first impression on outbound calls
Telemarketing scripts
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