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Small Accounts = Big Wins with Telemarketing

The Mx Group

Combine that 50% failure rate to meet sales targets with MarketingProfs’ research that Sales ignores nearly 80 percent of the leads Marketing sends them , and it’s easy to conclude that these two sales problems are likely linked. If you don’t have a team actively mine and nurture smaller accounts, you’re leaving money on the table.

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11 Reasons Why Outbound Telemarketing Programs Fail

Marketing Insider Group

The leads with the highest conversion rate and the lowest costs typically come from inbound activities like search and are then followed up and qualified by our telemarketing professionals. In this article I will summarize a whitepaper Robert wrote on the 11 reasons why outbound telemarketing fails.

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Desperate and Fearful: Need Pipeline – Want Sales Lead Generation

ViewPoint

Last week I published a blog that provided five ways to avoid getting burned by outsourced B2B sales lead generation, qualification and nurturing. Marketing needs to be accountable for lead quality, and Sales needs to be accountable for follow-up activity. You can read the blog here. Doing the right something is. I promise to help.

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Be A Hero: Choose Appointment Setting for Your Next Campaign

Marketing Insider Group

Telemarketing services are continuing to grow in popularity, due to the low cost and high ROI; however, the difficulty lies in which telemarketing tactic to utilize. The training is critical to the success as the callers must understand your offering, but this is constant amongst all telemarketing tactics. That is so true!

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5 Sales Closing Techniques

Marketing Insider Group

Time Line Close The Time Line close is effective when a product or service will impact a prospect’s project plan, especially if the purchasing decision is a prerequisite to other activities in the project plan. Thermometer Close In the Thermometer Close, you ask a prospect to rate their level of interest on a zero-to-ten scale.

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Holy Cow! That Is A Lot Of Time Spent Online Using Social Media

Marketing Insider Group

41% of online time is spent on only 3 activities: social networks, gaming and email Email use has declined 28% vs. last year Video/Movie use is still less than 4% but grew 12% Email is still the #1 activity on mobile devices but social network use grew 28% So what does all this mean? Here are 7 points to consider.

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10 Reasons Why Mobile is Hot!

Marketing Insider Group

According to the report, mobile internet growth is significantly faster than the internet desktop growth of the late 90s compared to the growth rates of both AOL and Netscape. Both of these activities are well ahead of news, sports and other activities. Mobile growth is hot. Social networking follows at 41%.