Top Speaker & Best Selling Author Says - Telemarketing Is B A C K
Like that scene from the horror flick, “The Shining,” when Jack Nicholson axes his way through Shelley Duvall’s bathroom, telemarketing is just as dramatically asserting:
“I’m B A C K!”
Taken for dead, this incredibly useful yet widely misunderstood and abused medium is assuming its rightful place in the pantheon of promotional tools.
And why shouldn’t it?
The Web, for all of its sweeping grandeur and cascading impacts, simply isn’t nearly as effective in SELLING as the humble, real-time, person to person phone conversation. As I’ve said elsewhere, and as so many would-be dot com moguls can attest:
YOU MIGHT BUILD IT, BUT THEY STILL WON’T COME.
This is to say INDIRECT marketing is problematic for a few reasons:
(1) Well, duh, it’s INDIRECT, for one thing. Wormholes aside, the shortest distance between two points is still a straight line. And if there was ever a medium filled with more curves, detours and dead ends, it’s the Internet. Hoping that the right clients will find us we do all kinds of bizarre, labyrinthine things, like seeding search engines with meta-tags, tons of articles, and anything else that will get is Googled at a high ranking.
Isn’t it a whole lot easier to identify a qualified prospect and then to pitch him?
(2) Passivity doesn’t pay; it costs a lot. Time is money, and while we’re hoping to be discovered, like an aspiring movie star sitting at a drug store soda fountain, others are beating the bushes and finding paying work to do.
(3) The phone creates clarity. You know whether you have a live one or have to cut bait in nanoseconds. If you prefer results over mere activity, then the phone is for you.
There has never been a better time to prospect or to cold call.
How come?
Fewer people are doing it now, proportionate to the population, than at any time in memory. Moreover, because of the Do Not Call Registry, eliminating tens of millions of names from telemarketers’ lists, the ones that do get called today have less sales resistance, at home or at the office, than ever before.
Given how cheap calls have become, landed and wireless, who can resist the call to REACH OUT & SELL SOMEONE® for mere pennies?
Dr. Gary S. Goodman is the
best-selling author of 12 books and more than
a thousand articles. His seminars and training
programs are sponsored internationally and he
is a top-rated faculty member at more than 40
universities, including UCLA Extension, where
he has taught since 1999. Dynamic, experienced,
and lots of fun, Gary brings more than two decades
of solid management and consulting experience
to the table, along with the best academic preparation
and credentials in the speaking and training industry.
Holder of five degrees, including a Ph.D. from the
Annenberg School For Communication at USC,
an MBA from the Peter F. Drucker School of Management,
and a law degree from Loyola, his clients include several
Fortune 1000 companies along with successful family
owned and operated firms across America. Much more
than a “talking head,” Gary is a top mind that youʼll
enjoy working with and putting to use.
He can be reached at: gary@customersatisfaction.com
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