Gabe Buck
Simplicity in your inbound call center will improve sales performance
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TCPA Requirements?
Gabe Buck
The online lead generation industry, sales industry, and call centers are affected by TCPA requirements in ways that require both time and resource allocation. Marketers in all industries must implement appropriate protections to ensure they do not assume liability for themselves or their clients.
Outsourcing Telemarketing isn't Child's Play
Dan McDade
An argument for outsourcing telemarketing.
Big productivity gains is one reason!
McDade Steps Up Again!
Dr. Gary S. Goodman, CustomerSatisfaction.com
One of the top ten most popular articles on the SLMA site.
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Denny Head
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Genie Parker
While it’s clear that successful and productive sales calls are the goal of all inside sales teams, believe it or not, many do not have a dynamic script to handle different call scenarios.
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Scott Buresh
In previous articles about search engine marketing and website analytics, I have written about the importance of tracking leads from a website all the way through the buying cycle in order to determine which of your online campaigns are performing at optimal levels and which could use some tweaking.
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Michael A. Brown
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Michael A. Brown
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Dr. Gary S. Goodman
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Dr. Gary S. Goodman
President
Customersatisfaction.com, Clientrelations.com
I launched a very successful training and consulting business a number of years ago.
Focusing on college sponsorships at first, I thought through very carefully what it would take to devise a sales script that: (1) Stodgy university personnel would be persuaded by; (2) That would operate stealthily; and of course, (3) One that would produce wonderful results: lots of college bookings of my seminars.
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Dr. Gary S. Goodman, CustomerSatisfaction.com

If you ask most tele-reps why they don't like scripts, they'll respond that they don't want to sound canned, believing that one naturally follows from the other.
Not true.
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Ruth P. Stevens, eMarketing Strategy

"Hello, Ruth, this is Susan Doe from Acme Widgets calling. I’d really like to speak with you. Would you please call me back? You can reach me at xxxx."
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Multi-Media, Multi-Touch Education Market Case Study
Tom Judge
Telephone: the most valuable tool for B2B marketers!
Ruth P. Stevens
Multi-Media, Multi-Touch Direct Marketing Case Studies
Tom Judge
Chris Tremblay, Event Technologies
The recent Exhibitor magazine article"The Myths of Lead Management" confirms what most everyone knows – 98% of exhibitors collect trade show leads. And while 70% have a follow-up plan in place, almost as many are less than enthusiastic with their results.
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Ruth P. Stevens
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Michael A. Brown
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