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Why Telemarketing Brings In More Qualified Leads

Why Telemarketing Brings In More Qualified Leads

If you visit the Jobstreet website and filter your job search Telemarketing you will find more than half a thousand jobs are available, daily. This means that telemarketing has kept its popularity level despite the apparent expanse of digital marketing strategies like mobile, email, content and social media.

Of course, we’d like to give credit to new technology. In fact, these digital marketing tools largely contribute to the businesses’ goal achievement as their effectiveness are specific and measurable. See how they fare:

Mobile Marketing

Who doesn’t have a mobile phone these days? Statistics show that there are about 4.41 million smartphone users in Singapore this 2018 and is expected to surge to 4.82 by 2022. (Statista)

A large scale of this data comes from the business category.

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Email Marketing

Singaporeans are more confident to engage with personal advertising via email. In fact, they sign up largely on emails (62%) over other media like SEO (47%), social networks (46%) and online banner (38%); checking their emails at least once per week. This is a good reference on how to quickly generate leads in Singapore.

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Content Marketing

Globally, 91% of B2B marketers and 86% of B2C marketers use content marketing as part of their overall marketing strategy. Customers have become more curious about what more a product can offer aside from its usage, price, and effect. (MarketingProfs)

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Social Media Marketing

Singapore’s top brands rely much on social media. The top five industries that utilize facebook are Services, Retail, E-commerce, Retail Food, and Accommodation. The Shilla Duty-Free has the most number of interactions, while Singtel is the most responsive. (Socialbikers)

But where does telemarketing come in the picture?

But where does telemarketing come in the picture

Statistically, telemarketing comes less familiar to digital; indeed, the very word itself may connote a negative meaning or impression to end users. What’s worse is some marketing specialists claim that they are now fully engaged with digital innovations and even declared telemarketing dead.

However, what they have not realized is that these digital marketing tactics are just start points of the holistic lead generation process which would lead them to the capping stage – telemarketing. 


A Visual Guide to Telemarketing Performance Metrics [INFOGRAPHIC]


Take a look…

A lead that was generated from any of these digital marketing channels remains as is until it goes through customer profiling to validate information, and accuracy of demographic and psychographic data of the prospect. Data that were filtered with positive results would then be the qualifying factors for the prospect to become a candidate for gauging interest which is done via calling. A prospect that was confirmed as interested and identified that has a need of the product or service is then fully classified as a Qualified Lead. Note that this whole process is done by calling, talking to the prospect on his landline or mobile phone which either way, by the way, is still called “telemarketing”.

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In conclusion, leads generated from digital marketing tactics can only be classified as Qualified Leads once gone through the final stage of the whole lead generation process which is Telemarketing.

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The Basic Telemarketing Equation Qualified Calling List = Qualified Prospects

The Basic Telemarketing Equation: Qualified Calling List = Qualified Prospects

The ‘profiting’ part of the lead generation and appointment setting scenario only starts when you and a prospect close the deal. But until that point, these ‘prospects’ are mere targets. You basically don’t know 100% what the outcome will be.

In essence, that’s what you call a leap of faith. But you need to rely on chance – you can improve your probability of a sale if you start polishing from the beginning of the process. And where do you start?

You start with the calling list.

The list is the raw ingredient. If you’re making pizza, your list is the dough, and everything else is just toppings. If you’re dough is bad, the pizza is ruined no matter how much toppings you dump onto it. Okay, bad metaphor.

The point is, plenty of time and effort could be saved if a list is already optimized to include only those which are relevant and qualified. If you’ve been having leads that do not end up as a sale, chances are you’ve been working on a shoddy list.

How do you optimize a calling list?

It would certainly involve an elaborate and time-consuming process to sanitize a list, especially if it’s a huge one involving several industries. First, you start off by checking if your current pipeline system is up to the task.

The functionality to categorize prospect information based on history and relevance is very important in any pipeline infrastructure. The more organized it is, the faster you could get rid of futile elements and bring to front the ones that have the most potential.

Compared with Business-to-Consumer (B2C) lists, Business-to-Business (B2B) lists need to be more encompassing and specific. There are a lot of considerations in deciding whether a particular contact is even worth the call.

More often than not, these are the basic mandatory information for a list to include:

  • Business name and address
  • Business size: employee count/sales volume/asset value
  • Type of business: SIC or NAICS Code
  • Name and title of key executives and their contact information

Use these criteria in going over your list to check if there are entries that aren’t supposed to be there. This is helpful in making calls more efficient, especially if your agents are using auto-dialers which don’t really take into account the relevance of the person being contacted.

You can also cross-reference your evaluation with previous transactions with certain prospects. Checking the history is very important in determining whether there are valuable conversations in the past that could be relevant today but weren’t properly documented.