Telemarketing is a very effective method of marketing your business. Due to its nature it works for pretty much any business model and has very high conversion rates because people can't simply ignore a phone call. Prospects will either say they're not interested or ask for more information and possibly lead to a sale.

At Virtual Sales Limited we've been making calls to prospects for over 9 years. We're very experienced at handling telemarketing campaigns and we know the best ways of making a campaign successful with high conversion rates. It's also the main reasons why we don't use telesales scripts. Our telemarketers are very experienced and a script can hinder the sales call.

Yeah, we know we’re leaving ourselves open here, but really, we want to know your thoughts.

What is it that you hate about telemarketers? What puts you off using them to promote your business? Tell us what comes into your mind when we say “Use telemarketing to promote your products and services”.

We want to know. Because we want to see what we’re up against, and answer any criticisms and fears, we want to be able to write blogs that address these points, and we want to be open and honest.

It’s important to us as a company.

Telemarketing or Telesales: Do you know which one you need?

Let’s face it; most people don’t know the difference between Telemarketing and Telesales.  This suggests that they don’t understand the important distinct values that can be gleaned from each service.  The words ‘Telemarketing’ and ‘Telesales’ are still often used interchangeably and then, they can be used to describe activities that often cross over.  However, if you wish to get the most from your telephone campaign, knowledge of the differences and how they can be best employed to help your business is vital.

“Outsourced selling may be alright for some, but it’s not the right for model for me because……”

Rapidly increasing in popularity amongst SMEs and corporates, Outsourced Selling is all the rage, but there are still a lot of commonly held misconceptions about it and how it works.  Andy Dickens, Managing Director of Virtual Sales Limited, explains how the business works.

In theory, Outsourced Selling can work with any kind of a business from smallest start-ups, to established SMEs through to some of the biggest international organisations.  However, people often misunderstand what it is and how it works, and think that it won’t work for them.  Here are some of the objections that I hear to a company outsourcing its sales operations, and why they are wrong!

Many small companies start off their life with a pool of regular customers who recommend and refer them onto others. This is a very good way of growing a business organically and often leads to a sound base of quality clients. The problem with this method of growing a business though is that you have no control over the speed of the growth and sometimes you need extra help to take you to a higher level of activity.

The outsourced sales team is the ideal solution for many business organisations. Here are the Top Ten reasons for using ‘virtual’ sales people.