Monday, February 6, 2012

title pic Where to advertise your Telemarketing Opportunities

Posted by Maxine on March 23, 2011

Someone just visited my blog using the term “where to advertise telemarketing opportunities” so I thought it would be useful as a telemarketing company in the UK to respond to this search. At Maxxy we tend to respond to * Linkedin discussions, forum discussions, twitter, other social media. * Freeindex There are some pay-per-lead sites [...]

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title pic Top Tips for Not Wasting Money As A Start Up

Posted by Maxine on March 18, 2011

I read this article today and was inspired to think about what tips I would give others for not wasting money as a start up.  The article I read is here: Ten Ways to Waste Money On A Start Up If you were to write your Top Ten list for ways to NOT Waste Money [...]

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title pic Pay-per-lead Telemarketing can be just the ticket!

Posted by Maxine on June 28, 2010

telemarketing,pay-per-lead,cold calling Pay per lead telemarketing can work very well in some circumstances especially where clients want to pay on results only but don’t want to pay out as much as they would do on "commission only" (by this we mean actually processing the order and payment and getting paid once the end client pays). [...]

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title pic Alternatives to Telemarketing using Phone Book data

Posted by Maxine on June 6, 2010

The Phone Book can seem like an easy source of prospects to call but really it is the devil in disguise for this purpose! It’s not targeted, it’s not tps checked, it doesn’t have contact names or up to date information. If you are after free or low cost data sources consider the following:

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title pic Use of First Names when Telemarketing

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I am sure we have all come across cringe-worthy telemarketing or telesales calls where the use of the first name is overdone.

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title pic When are Telemarketing numbers games good?

Posted by Maxine on May 18, 2010

I don’t usually advocate the “numbers game” in telemarketing campaigns as usually it is a lazy method that relies of low levels of success through probability. However, in some cases the “numbers game” can be a good approach.

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title pic Cold Calling from Twitter could get you a £5k fine!

Posted by Maxine on May 13, 2010

As most people are aware the TPS for individuals and CTPS for businesses has been in place for a while.  What some people are seemingly not aware of is that calling a follower or someone you are following, or someone from a hashtag conversation is still an Unsolicited Cold Call. That means that if you [...]

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title pic Gentle Telemarketing that gets results

Posted by Maxine on March 3, 2010

You know you need to do it but dread the thought of cold calling.  Here are a few ideas if you would like to ease in gently to cold calling, where a gentle approach to making calls could make it more comfortable and build confidence

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title pic Telemarketing for Marketing Consultants / Agencies

Posted by Maxine on October 6, 2009

Why have 30% opt ins when you could have 70%? Marketing Consultants are under so much pressure to get results from campaigns and this can be made more difficult due to the following: Their client chooses their own Telemarketer and liaises with them directly. Clients don’t know how to choose their telemarketer. Marketing Consultants are [...]

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title pic Cold Calling Teachers

Posted by Maxine on September 30, 2009

Here are a few tips if you are cold calling to school teachers Teachers are very busy people and don’t appreciate being interrupted during their busy schedule for cold calls. Now before you say it.. I know that nobody does! However, cold calling is a way of business life and those that feel strongly will [...]

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