Why Telemarketing isn’t Going out of Fashion.

 

 

Here at the Lead Lab, telemarketing will always be current and valuable. That’s because we live and breathe it. Whilst we know that many people consider the word ‘telemarketing’ to carry negative connotations, we strongly believe this is simply due to a lack of knowledge around the service.

 

Whilst speaking to our Managing Director, Toby Blatchford-Tagg, we discussed the benefits of telemarketing and why companies still revert to it as their number one marketing channel;

 

“I believe the biggest perk of using telemarketing is that it grants control over who you market your product to, meaning that you contact the people who you deem the most important and you can tailor your pitch to conform with different people and their needs. It also creates urgency; you get to speak directly with prospects immediately and in high volumes, meaning the efficiency levels are immense.”

 

Some people may question why they should fully invest in telemarketing when there are less costly marketing channels available, such as social media marketing or content marketing. We have been asked this many times, but we have complete confidence in our response;

 

“I believe it depends on the business in question. B2B businesses with high product/client values have the potential for high returns when using telemarketing due to a deeper and more personal engagement, this is because people want to fully understand the concept of something before investing money into it. However, social media can be really effective for consumers and when it’s used in conjunction with other channels.”

 

The negative association with telemarketing is something we tend to address when talking to businesses. Sometimes it can be due to a bad experience, or just simply down to misconception. We completely understand this, and prove concept to prospects by successful case studies and demonstrating our ideologies and our business model.

 

“The reason I think telemarketing gets a bad name is through ‘old school telemarketing techniques’, as I like to call them. This includes methods such as ‘phone bashing’ and harassing contacts until they are forced to listen. We steer very clear of this. In the B2B industry, the approach is much more formal and ‘non-salesy’. We like to contact people because we genuinely believe they will benefit from our client’s offerings. We also integrate our telemarketing with other channels such as email marketing, creating multiple touch points which might suit the prospect better.”

 

Toby started telemarketing when he dropped out of college 14 years ago, and wanted to earn money to travel the world. He saw the potential and was drawn in by the direct and ‘to the point’ approach, whilst having a great sense of satisfaction in assisting with the success, growth and sales that telemarketing offers to businesses.

 

“Telemarketing will be around forever, simply because you won’t ever be able to beat the genuine human interaction it offers. I strongly believe that, in my lifetime, there will not be any development that will replicate the engaging and captivating approach our telemarketers take.”

 

To find out more about what The Lead Lab do, call us on 0333 207 0540.