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Selling on the Telephone Part 2
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| As reviewed in part one, telephone selling is in a boom. It is very common to find sales and marketing managers growing their telephone sales team. Telephone selling has proven to be a very effective sales channel, if used properly. Here are a few more tips on becoming successful at telephone sales.
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Test your Telephone Effectiveness - Find out if your phone practices are winning or losing customers
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| Test your telephone know-how with this 5 question multiple-choice quiz to identify your telephone effectiveness, and that of your co-workers. Discover the 'correct' answers with strategies for enhancing telephone greetings, using the hold feature, juggling a caller and in-person visitor, and more. |
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Prescription For Responding To Media Inquiries From “The PR Doctor
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| If someone from the media called you or showed up today and started asking you questions related to your business, would you know how to respond? Unfortunately the response to this question is often a resounding No! And being unprepared or ill-prepared to media inquiries can have serious consequences to your organization and its reputation. “The PR Doctor” strongly believes that all organizations with more than one employee should have a well-written media policy that clearly defines who within the organization may respond to media inquiries, what kinds of information can or should be released to the media, and what information must be kept confidential. “The PR Doctor” offers the following prescription for a media policy to respond to media inquiries. |
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International Franchise Expansion
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| Once you start offering franchises, it may not be long before you begin receiving inquiries from individuals and firms interested in being part of your franchise program, or in opening franchised outlets, in other countries.
While this may sound very interesting, the matter of international expansion should be undertaken carefully and deliberately. Most inquiries may be legitimate, but some could be looking to simply steal your ideas, brand, and concept, or take advantage of a new franchisor.
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Turn incoming calls into sales & profits
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| The top sales performing businesses understand how very important the telephone is as a selling tool.
They understand:
1. Customers and prospects telephone the business because they have a need, problem or want.
2. Many times the telephone conversation determines whether the prospect becomes a customer or whether the customer remains a customer of the business.
3. The person answering the telephone is a very important provider of customer service for the organization.
4. The person answering the telephone has a great opportunity to gain customers and obtain sales.
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Telephone Coaching: Be honest to yourself and your client What do you need to do and know about telephone coaching?
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| Teleconferencing, telephone coaching..... Telephones have taken an important role in the way we do business and relate to others. I have spent some time looking for a guide or protocol for telephone coaching and could not find anything. I decided to include a session on telephone coaching in my coach training programmes and mentor coaching, this is the result!
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Overemphasis on inquiries devalues B2B ad results
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| 1. Inquiries are only the tip of the iceberg
2. Measuring only inquiries cause their value to degrade
3. Lower quality discourages Sales follow up |
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Don't Judge a Book, or an Online Franchise Inquiry by its Cover
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| Remember the old saying "Don't judge a book by its cover?" This is a good rule of thumb for sales inquiries generated for franchisors by online portals. When it comes to reaching out to prospects who have expressed interest in buying their franchise, however, franchisors too frequently dismiss the inquiries they get from portals and third party web sites as 'junk' or subpar. According to Mario Altiery, President and CEO of the Upside Group, and other franchise sales consulting and training professionals, it's not the quality of the leads, but how franchisors are handling those inquiries and communicating with prospects that perpetuates what has become a very inefficient sales process. |
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What is VoIP - Part 1
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| VoIP is technology that allows high speed internet lines to be transmit telephone voice data. The study of what VoIP is and how it works begins by looking at the analog telephone and how that transmits voice data along standard telephone line channels.
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Successful Telephone Calls
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| The impression made when making telephone calls is often the first and most significant quality of service customers are presented with. When making a great impression on the phone, there is a much better chance of converting inquiries into new business. |
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