Saturday, October 11, 2008

Telemarketing: Hiring A Firm


A professional telemarketing firm is one of the major requirements of any business that wishes to expand its client base using telemarketing techniques. For a business that has just started, the owner himself can dial up a few numbers and talk to t6hem about the product to see if they are interested. But once the business begins to roll, responsibilities and work increases in many folds and services of an agency or a firm providing telemarketing services becomes inevitable.

Here are some reasons why you will require the service of such a telemarketing firm

  • You, on your own, have managed to generate some leads. These leads, however, will have to be followed up and pursued with care so that you don’t lose those leads. However, you cannot do this on your own because the time you have at hand does not permit you to get into it. Hiring a telemarketing firm at this stage is what you will require.
  • You will also need someone to manage the large number of inbound calls that you get. If people and customers are constantly ringing you up inquiring about the product, or about the order they have placed, or about feedback, you need a staff to take those calls and see to it that everyone’s queries are answered. Sometimes, the traffic of this call is very large to be handled within the company alone. A telemarketing firm must necessarily be hired, which charges on the basis of inbound calls you anticipate within a given period of time.
  • If you want to pursue advertisement and marketing though the telephone ideally you would want to reach to as many people as you can in a day. Therefore, going in for a professional telemarketing firm to make these outbound calls for you, you gain the opportunity of being able to contact hundreds and thousands of persons in a day.
  • Since a telemarketing firm is a professional organization, their staff will know when to contact what kind of customers. People do not appreciate being rung up any odd time of the day. A telemarketing firm’s staff is trained to judge that so that potential customers are not put off by calls from your company.
  • Internet marketing is gaining ground to which telemarketing is losing. Telemarketing firms actually put in a lot of research into this to come up with new ways of using the telephone as an effective tool to market. Hiring such a firm is a good idea.

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