Social TelemarketingPosted by Maxine on February 20, 2011
Social Telemarketing from Maxxy combines professional telemarketing with social media monitoring delivering high quality leads… Find out more and get a FREE report of conversations and opportunities you may be missing.
Is twitter helping to fill the TPS gap?Posted by Maxine on July 8, 2010
Many of us know about the TPS (Telephone Preference Service) and up until fairly recently if a phone number was registered then that was that… no other option but to consider other marketing routes. But twitter can be great for filling the TPS gap. Typically any data list usually has around 30% registered on the [...]
Alternatives to Telemarketing using Phone Book dataPosted 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:
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 [...]
My Wife Hates Cold Calling!Posted by Maxine on September 11, 2009
I heard this phrase today and I have heard this several times in the past couple of months. The scenario is husband and wife businesses and it is the wife that does the cold calling. She finds it an unpleasant task (a bit like the ironing I suspect) as no matter how much you do [...]
Put that Phone Book Down!Posted by Maxine on August 27, 2009
There are many options available that are preferrable to using the Phone Book and this article explores those, namely lack of contact details or calling organisation that you would have with a CRM system, the lack of TPS checks for unsolicited cold calling, and the difficulty in following up any sales pipeline… read more for an overview of why calling from the Phone Book is a poor idea!
Don’t risk a £5000 fine through Cold CallingPosted by Maxine on August 13, 2009
Unsolicited cold calls without checking the Telephone Preference Service (TPS) or Corporate Telephone Preference Service (CTPS) carries a risk of a £5,000 fine… per call! This articles provides information on the benefits of tps-checking, how to do it, where to get it from, and other useful stuff and is one of our most read articles on this blog.
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