Friday, October 25, 2019

Telephone marketing: pros and cons


Telephone marketing on its credibility is not inferior to private sales, reducing the time required, materials and transportation costs. Telephone service provides full two-way contact (if it is not an advertising message recording on film), during which the client can ask their questions and receive satisfactory answers. If the marketer understands that a person does not belong to the circle of potential buyers, then it can quickly roll contact. Live chat for a few minutes provides more features than the 30-second commercial. According to statistics, the number of responses to telephone marketing is much higher than the level of responses to advertisements in the media.

By telephone marketing minus is molestation phone calls. In most cases, if the call is not relevant to the consumer, it causes a negative reaction. Especially irritating subscribers proposals coming to the recording on the tape. Some phone companies in the West, provides users with a deviation of calls from promotional offers using ID number. Despite the shortcomings of telephone marketing, more and more businesses are using it in their practice.
Two types of telephone marketing: inbound and outbound

Inbound telemarketing provides the buyer, and this kind is impossible without preliminary organizational phase, where the bulk of the work falls on direct advertising. Moreover, the peak consumer activity occurs immediately after the filing of the advertising message: if advertising on television has passed, the bulk of calls are coming in the next 10 minutes. Companies that fail to advertise their products or services constantly, simply can not cope with the flow of calls for technical reasons: in addition to the psychological readiness is necessary to have more, and related equipment, capable to cope with the massive calls. Therefore, they most often turn to the specialized agencies, where the calls are professionals.

For outgoing telemarketing calls to potential customers perform themselves the representatives of the company. It is this kind of marketing and causes the most rejection by the consumer, especially if it is not professional. In order to reduce the resistance of the potential client and improve the efficiency of communication, it is necessary to take into account the properties of auditory perception:

 treatment must be simple and easy, without flowery speed and the use of specific terminology, if you do not chat with a specialist;
 treatment must be short: no one wants to discuss your proposal more than 2-3 minutes, it is also useful to warn the customer immediately that you will not take him long;
 do not need to indulge in a detailed and complex description of the properties or the function of the goods offered - that information can be sent direct mail advertising;
treatment must attract attention from the very first seconds of conversation. You should consider the phrase of appeal, which would contain a highlight of your proposal, it was she who had to convince a potential customer to listen to the caller.

And then, "He who has ears, let him hear," and will probably become a regular customer.

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