Showing posts with label B2B Marketing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label B2B Marketing. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

The Benefits of a Telemarketing Call Center

In business, it's all about the money at certain times. You'll probably spend your days watching your profit in comparison to your expenses. When your profit margin isn't enough to cover your expenses, you've got trouble. And what usually gets businesses down is because they spend too much on their marketing strategies. However, using an outbound call center could possibly lower your expenses; especially when it comes to generating quality credit card processing sales leads.

Wednesday, July 4, 2012

The Importance of Lead Nurturing

Have you ever answered a call and got a message like this?

“Hi, this is ----, we are currently in the neighborhood and we do free estimates on getting your living room repainted from top to bottom. How does 10am on next Tuesday sound?”

If you ever got a message like that on the phone, I'm sure you won't continue the conversation any further and just hang up the phone; or if you ever continue, I'm sure you would get so frustrated at the telesales agent and complain a lot before hanging up the phone.

What b2b lead generation and appointment setting firms focus more and more each day is that they should nurture their leads. This is because lead nurturing can help improve leads to be converted into loyal company customers over time. When a business would nurture their leads with the right kind of lead management tools and training, sales revenue can increase significantly by around 10% or even more. Not only can lead nurturing increase the sales for your company or business organization but it can also help build a trusted relationship with those leads.

With the wrong kind of nurturing, leads and customers alike would feel being trapped into a corner by hardcore salesmen. These salesmen would ask questions that can be so intrusive to their potential customers that it can get so frustrating just listening to them. Prospects need to be taken care of and should be treated with the right kind of respect. Always remember that if you want respect, you should be the person to give it first.

Now, let's tweak that same message a bit and let's see the difference.

“Good day, this is ---- Are you in need of repainting your living room so that it would be the envy of all your friends? If so, we might be able to help you in your time of need. We are a group of experts who paint living rooms and have extensive knowledge on how to turn your living room into the best living room that can be seen in your neighborhood. We can also do free estimates for you to help you decide on which design would be perfect for your living room. When would be the best time to contact you again to set the appointment date?”

This time, the person selling you the service is more polite and knows how to respect their potential client. The main difference here is the level of respect and the questions that they ask. On the second message, the question to make the appointed date was neither intrusive nor rude. Instead, it gave you as their potential client the freedom and flexibility to choose which would be the most appropriate date for your living room to be repainted. The key here is that they are not trying to sell you the service, instead they are there to provide you with insights and solutions within the realm of their expertise.

Customers have the right to choose whether or not to purchase a particular product or service. You don't have to be coerced into buying what you don't really need.

When a business nurtures its leads, they can already be seen as experts and professionals in what they do. The build-up of trust would then be converted from a possibility to a reality when the right kind of nurturing is involved. With this kind of sales technique, both the salesperson and the client alike can both feel good about themselves. For the salesperson they feel good about what they offer and for the client, they feel good about what they have purchased.

Monday, July 2, 2012

Unlocking the Secrets in B2B Lead Generation

lead generation
Among the many scopes of lead generation, business-to-business (B2B) lead generation proved to be more market-wise. When it is done well, it facilitates the inflow of qualified leads. If processed inadvertently, the company suffers. It is then necessary to fully understand how B2B lead generation can be best integrated.

The list that follows pertain to the essential insights one should know about B2B lead generation.

1. It involves business people, who think not as consumers.

One of the common mistakes firms commit is the belief that business people are consumers. Of course they are, however, that is when work is out of the picture.

As with all employees, businessmen decide for the company. Their choices will determine what will be the company's status. They need to pick the right decision, or, at least, avoiding the wrong one.

Center stage in this is the differences of job descriptions. Different jobs mean different priorities. Therefore, it would increase impact and relevance to handle each transaction relative to a particular department or employee/r.

2. Nothing happens overnight.

Naturally, businesses spend lots of time before it decides to buy or not. Nurturing such prospects mostly lead to a high conversion rate. Giving out of constant awareness are usually appreciated and rewarded. Hardwork and patience are the major driving forces in doing business.

3. Refine and reinvent propositions.

All too often, too many business organizations underperform because its B2B marketing has a uniformed proposition. Check closely, because there may be something remarkable that is exclusive to your firm's product. Furthermore, there is a need to craft an original and creative method to market the product. Don't stick with what's traditional.

4. Target exact audience.

One of the toughest challenges in B2B marketing is how to target the right individuals or the qualified leads identified by the organization. More often than not, getting the wrong people results in a wasted budget.

Let it be a top priority to always direct efforts towards the specified prospects. Not only are they interested, but the likelihood that they will buy is high, whether later or sooner.

5. Present the product or service in business terms.

Add to the marketing list the presentation of a product's facts, figures, statistics and research to validate the proposition. For instance, providing the prospects with how the product can help a firm in terms of reducing cost and increase efficiency will motivate them to patronize such product. Aside from that, telling them of services that your company can offer like for example, repairs and maintenance, updates, can be a good method to make them more willing to buy.

6. Captivate their interest.

How do companies inform their prospects? A dull mail is easy to defenestrate. Dry emails are not that hard to junk. You can not relay the message unless you get their attention. Make an impact. Firms should make sure that prospects are going to remember the product. It isn't not so crucial if they don't recall all the data, all it takes is for them to recall the basic points.

7. Make response easy.

Companies should provide most, all if possible, of the mediums open for the prospects to respond conveniently. Keeping an email account, telephone system, web page, facsimile machine, paper forms or mobile phones will be critical. Prospects do reply by using what's makes them comfortable. Moreover, there should be an assigned person who will answer all messages from the qualified leads. Don't make them wait.

8. Branding.

Prospects should be able to be aware of the company and the products. There are other effective ways than television or outdoor advertising. Building a brand means convincing the qualified leads to believe that your product will provide solutions to their problem or improve something in their life.


There are still many concepts to know and to learn. The bottom line here is to provide the best method to attain success in a B2B lead generation. It would be totally unintelligible to fire a premature weapon or an overcook strategy.