Telemarketing involves using the telephone to attract and sell to customers, provide service, and answer questions. It has several key uses, including selling products and services, generating new leads, gathering customer information, reactivating past customers, setting appointments, and cleansing marketing databases. Telemarketing can complement in-person sales and reach new customers cost-effectively. It also provides information on advertising effectiveness and customer purchasing patterns.
Telemarketing involves using the telephone to attract and sell to customers, provide service, and answer questions. It has several key uses, including selling products and services, generating new leads, gathering customer information, reactivating past customers, setting appointments, and cleansing marketing databases. Telemarketing can complement in-person sales and reach new customers cost-effectively. It also provides information on advertising effectiveness and customer purchasing patterns.
Telemarketing involves using the telephone to attract and sell to customers, provide service, and answer questions. It has several key uses, including selling products and services, generating new leads, gathering customer information, reactivating past customers, setting appointments, and cleansing marketing databases. Telemarketing can complement in-person sales and reach new customers cost-effectively. It also provides information on advertising effectiveness and customer purchasing patterns.
BBA-8th Outlines • Introduction • Scope of telemarketing • Uses of telemarketing Introduction • "The marketing of goods or services by means of telephone calls, typically unsolicited, to potential customers"
• For example; Cable and internet services, home security systems.
Scope of Telemarketing • Telemarketing is the use of the telephone and call centers to attract prospects, sell to existing customers, and provide service by taking order and answering question. Scope of Telemarketing (Cont.)
•Telemarketing is the several significant uses of telemarketing are the
following; 1. Selling 2. Lead Generation 3. Gathering Information 4. Customer Reactivation 5. Appointment setting 6. Database Cleansing Uses of Telemarketing • Selling: Telemarketing can complement or replace face-to-face sales with existing accounts. It can complement the field sales effort by reaching new customer bases of geographic markets at a relatively low cost. • Lead Generation: Using telemarketers to generate leads means increased sales revenue and greatly reduces the amount it costs to make a sale Uses of Telemarketing (Cont.)
• Gathering Information: Telemarketing can provide accurate
information on advertising effectiveness, what customers are buying, from whom they're buying, and when they will buy again. • Customer Reactivation: Your organization must keep a record of all current customers and all those people who were customers but are not actively buying from you. By using telemarketing, your company can win you up to 50% of your past customers back! Uses of Telemarketing (Cont.) • Appointment setting: Appointment setting is, always has, and always will be, a primary way that companies generate new business. Organizations usually place a great deal of emphasis on appointment setting, and also a significant proportion of their budget. • Database Cleansing: The information in your database is quickly out of date. By using telemarketers to work through your data, you can correct, delete the details of your existing customers, leads or prospects.