Showing posts with label sales tips. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sales tips. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Selling as the way to Make Money

There have been so many changes nowadays with regards to Selling. Traditionally selling can be done in three ways. One is by advertisements that include fliers and brochures, news and magazines. Second is via face to face negotiation and the third is via telemarketing or phone calls. Through these ways of selling you may easily get a sale on the spot especially the face to face negotiation.

Bonding and Trust.
This also creates bonding among the seller and the buyer which in effect there will be a partnership due to trust and loyalty. Buyers or clients may also enjoy of asking favors or discounts aside from the standard prices because this is where negotiation works. Negotiation may come at one time or may recur as per order. This can be a very challenging job of the Customer Sales Representative because they always give credit on all aspects of the seller from the voice up to the looks and negotiation skills and this is what they call the “total package”. During this time you may not be able to reach the quota if you really don’t have the right skill to selling.

Latest Trends in Selling.
There comes a very big shift of the ways as to how a business may prosper and grow. Selling has shifted to outsourcing and that does not require a very stringent screening and evaluation of the qualifications of the seller. Outsourcing only requires employees who can speak English and knows computer operations. Yes outsourcing cost cheaper than maintaining the traditional way of selling. It speeds up the job and shortly it reaches the goal. Therefore, the traditional employees are really fit to the job with regards to qualifications! If you’ll evaluate both you will see that the traditional way of selling is much more advantageous but the only problem now compared with business outsourcing is that business has already gone with the trend of which is the computer age.

Internet and Traditional Selling.
With online Telemarketing and Virtual Sales Assistant, though they spend less with actual selling experience, they fail to realize that they also spend on recruiting and training, news and advertisements, sign up commissions. If we are going to add all expenses, it will show a very slight difference of the selling expenses. The only problem with traditional salesmen is that they can not sell to clients from other parts o the world and on the other hand online Telemarketing Call Center is far faster reaching clients though the use of latest technology like e-mail, chat and VOIP.

Wouldn’t it be more successful if they are going to combine the two and at the same time finding the right competent qualified people who are masters of selling trained with outsourcing skills? In this way business will be very successful and since the company has already chosen the right people then there will be no more budget needed for the continuous recruitment and training, sign up bonuses and more.

Realizing and studying the right thing to apply for the business is the task of a Sales Manager. Hence a good manager will be able to arrive at a right decision after coming up of an idea of merging the traditional way and the current outbound telemarketing process as a way of reaching customer and gain profit in the age of internet technology.

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Saturday, August 22, 2009

Telesales Tested Tips

These Telesales tested tips were used by most online outbound call center agents through the country. Collected and organized into article for your own benefits. A good telesales professional needs to know the right things to accomplish cold calling a success. Here are 5 tested tips for your guidance.

Philippines call center agentFirst - always be prepared. In making calls, always have a plan prepared on what to say and what to ask. Writing a script can also help and having the rebuttals you will need, asking the right questions during objections, taking notes and make sure the communication equipment you’re using is in good condition. Fulfill the promises you made to your prospects like sending information through emails and etc. The more confident and prepared you are for your calls, the more new business and success next in line.

Second - always be prospecting. This is the most important part of any telesales professional’s working day. Never stop prospecting because it will dry up your sales pipeline. You have to spend at least two hours a day of true cold calling. This will create more business opportunities and getting more people. After all, sale call center agent's are evaluated based on the sales they generated for its clients.

Third - it’s time to qualify. If and only if it’s a human being on the other line but do not pitch the first person who gets on the phone because it is just a waste of time. 99% who picks the phone is not the decision-maker and you don’t even know them yet. Make sure the person on the phone is the decision-maker. You can use these probing questions such as “Ms. Big is the person I should be speaking to in relation to your sports supplies, am I right?”, and “Is there anyone who is involved in decision making process regarding to your sports supplies?” The outbound call center agents have to be polite and friendly in order to qualify your prospect with the gatekeeper. If the information is correct, you can have the access to talk to the decision-maker.

Fourth - you have to build rapport and gain trust with your prospect. Trust is the important part process of telesales but you need to build rapport with your prospect in order to get them to trust you. This can be done in asking a few open-ended questions that can gain information about who they are and what they do. Do not forget to take notes which you can go back to the points they bring up later on. In this way, you can get to know the pain your prospect is in and the problems they need to solve. You can prepare your pitch or presentation and you can be able to attract and match the mindset of your prospects, the needs, etc. If you have enough rapport already built up, the trust will automatically sink in and you’ll be able to pitch.

Telemarketing Call CenterFifth - presenting your products or services to your prospects. You can present your products and services after you have the trust of your prospects. Be straight to the point when presenting how your products or services will solve the problem, meet their needs and etc. You can use a script as a guideline and practice it for more convincing presentation.

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