Thursday, July 15, 2010

The Importance of a Good List in a Telemarketing Service

A good telemarketing service is able to reach a highly targeted demographic and offer a personalized customer experience; aspects sorely lacking in today's marketing environment. There are various functions of telemarketing. A good telemarketing service should be able to present your message to the ideal target audience. A good telemarketing service should be like a heat-seeking missile; navigating obstacles to reach its intended target. Understanding the consumer's mindset is extremely important when promoting your product of service. You may want to consider avoiding telemarketing services that blindly 'carpet bombs' consumers at your expense.

Telemarketing is still a relevant marketing tool in today's continuously evolving marketing landscape. Despite the preconceived notions consumers have towards telemarketing, telemarketing still remains an effect way in generating sales and leads.

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Uses of Telemarketing

Like any outsourcing decision, retaining outside telemarketing services should be subject to cost/benefit analysis. Less readily quantifiable are the benefits. Comparing the cost side of in-house vs. outsourced telemarketing operations is relatively straightforward. It is on the benefits side of the cost/benefits analysis that things get a little trickier. A review of ten tactical uses of telemarketing services can help shed light on those broader potential benefits.

For a start-up, assembling a telemarketing team would represent an extremely costly upfront investment in personnel and technology. Being able to outsource telemarketing reduces this barrier to entry. With outsourced telemarketing services, sales resources can be ramped up and scaled back down at any time. Besides leveraging expertise, outsourcing telemarketing can provide financial leverage by converting a fixed cost into a variable cost. Having access to expandable sales resource in the form of an outside telemarketing company allows a firm to run parallel sales campaigns to test new tactics. Telemarketing companies are specialists in what they do. There has been a series of legislative restrictions on telemarketing activities, which can represent a potential legal liability to any organization with an in- house telemarketing operation.

Cost/benefit decisions are usually discussed as trade-offs, where lower costs are exchanged for lesser benefits, or higher costs are invested in return for greater benefits.

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Ultimate Benefits Of Directory Submission

In order to create such traffic to your website, you need backlinks. Backlinks help your website to be ranked in search engines like Google and Yahoo. If your website appears in the first page of a search engine, the more traffic your website will get. One way to build backlinks is by submitting your website to Web Directories. Web directories list entries or website that offer services/information or products for sale. Submitting in a web directory is easy. Also, web directories allow you to choose certain keywords for your website. In directory submission, backlinks are one way.