by Mary Shanley
10. November 2011 08:00
WHY YOU MUST ADVERTISE NO MATTER WHAT YOU DO
“You can’t advertise today and quit tomorrow. You’re not talking to a mass meeting. You’re talking to a parade.”
—Bruce Barton, 1930
Bruce Barton was a famous Advertising executive and the 2nd B in BBDO. He died in 1967 after a long career as one of the most successful advertising experts in the early 20th century. I came accross his quote many years ago and found this very simple message one of the most important marketing and advertising rules of all time.
Take out advertising and replace it with generating leads and the rule still applies. You are not marketing to a mass meeting. You are marketing to a parade. People come and go in your neighborhood, region and vertical. People die and people are born. Your advertising, marketing and lead generation efforts must be an ongoing effort, or the parade will pass you and your company right by.
by Mary Shanley
23. July 2011 08:06
Script a strong sales message for Guaranteed Success!
Clients ask us all the time how good our Sales People are. I tell them, they are as good as the Sales Script we create for them. They are surprised by that response and then question their ability to handle objections and questions and again I tell them, they are as good as the Script we create for them.
I don’t care if you are the best Sales Person in the world selling million dollar deals or a telemarketer prospecting for carpet cleaning, you will be more successful when you script out your sales message and unique selling position in order to insure your strongest words are used every time. You need to think through and document the best sales message possible and craft your lines like a best selling author would. Why take the chance that something that could have been used was forgotten or presented weakly?
Certainly in a sales presentation that could literally go on for hours, you can’t pre write every word that will be spoken, but believe me when I say you will increase your effectiveness when you’ve thought through and provided yourself with an outline or script that delivers your strongest sales message. In addition to all the features, what are the specific benefits that will help this 1 person you are talking to right now? Whenever and however you can personalize your message to each prospect you will be that much more effective.
In addition to that sales presentation you should also think through what possible questions or concerns the prospect might have. Again document your strongest message to respond so that in a moment of stress or rejection, you won’t have to come up with ideas. You will have your best sales message easily at hand increasing your likelihood for success.
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by Mary Shanley
14. July 2011 10:27
Welcome and thanks for visiting our TTC Call Center & Lead Generation Blog. Our Blog is intended to provide valuable information to help you be more effective at generating sales leads for your business. Our company motto is “We make your Business Grow!” Over the past 27 years we have worked for and partnered with over a 1000 companies and we estimate we have generated over 3 Billion $'s in sales for those clients.
The last few years has been so disappointing for so many different companies and of course that down turn in business has eliminated Millions of jobs across the country hurting millions of families. Certainly some of that has been due to problems in the mortgage and financial markets that is out of our control. But personally I believe way too many companies pulled back on their marketing efforts at exactly the wrong time. In an effort to cut costs and protect their bottom line they stopped advertising and marketing efforts which effectively decreased their visibility in the market place.
I plan on sharing some of the most effective and timely ideas we are seeing in our business that can help small, medium or large companies be more efficient, maximize every opportunity and systemize their sales & lead generation efforts to keep the pipeline full, your sales professionals happy and your bottom line positive.
In addition to comments and thoughts from me, you will also be hearing from Bob Aloisio our VP of Sales & Marketing who has over 30 years experience selling and consulting with some of the best and most cutting edge businesses. Mark Silet our Director of Internet Marketing will also provide insights and ideas from an on-line perspective.