Telemarketing

We are located an hour north of Boston, MA, near Manchester, NH, where clients traveling by air usually arrive. Our location is a convenient day trip from Pittsburgh, Washington DC, Philadelphia, and the greater New York area. We encourage you to visit us to meet our team and see first-hand the quality and professionalism that are the hallmarks of Marketing Connections.

Our reps usually have significant business experience including telemarketing, customer service, or inside sales. Most importantly, they have excellent telephone communications skills. In fact, candidates do not get a face-to-face interview until they pass a demanding telephone screening process. Our reps typically have two to four years of college education and relevant business experience in the industries we serve – such as medical technology, high-tech, financial services and publishing. The ages of our team members range from the mid-20’s to 70’s with an average age of 40 to 45.

We can develop marketing research programs and customer satisfaction surveys designed specifically to meet your information requirements.

Yes, always. We believe that every company should offer added value.This enhances the results of any project and allows for a true evaluation of results. Often spin off or additional enquiries provide valuable additional revenue from telemarketing activity.

In addition we always offer our recommendations to our clients before and after any project to ensure that there is a constant improvement in all aspects of any phoning.

ASA will not ask you to commit to long term complicated contracts. We are happy to work with you as and when required. If you like what we do and our service you will use us again.

Mail shots are a cheap way of achieving few results.Usually about a 1-3% response is achieved in any area where mail shots are used. Often, mail shots are not seen by the real decision maker. Compare this to Telemarketing or mail shot that is followed with Telemarketing and which focuses on the decision maker.This ensures that a response is achieved from each call and produces positive results ranging from 15-50% in many projects, depending on the product or service.

If these result percentages are compared financially, telemarketing achieves the best returns on investment when used to promote the right products or services.

Telemarketing calls made to a number which has been listed on the federal registry for three months, or which are on a company’s “Do Not Call” list, violate Vermont law. If you get a call from a telemarketer that violates Vermont law, you have the right to sue the telemarketer for actual damages or $500 for a first violation ($1,000 for each subsequent violation), whichever is greater.

Yes. Vermont law also imposes criminal penalties on telemarketers who call a Vermont telephone number without having first registered with the Vermont Secretary of State, unless the company is a federally-regulated financial institution (e.g. a federal bank), or is already regulated by, or registered or licensed with, one of the following Vermont governmental agencies: Secretary of State, Public Service Board, Department of Banking, Insurance, Securities and Health Care Administration, or Department of Taxes.

After some intial consultation with the client we will come up with a script. The reason for this is synergy! This way the client knows what we are saying and they are happy with the enthisis we are putting onto certain areas of the conversation, that the qualification questions we are asking are correct, and through calling we will make minor changes depending on what response we are recieving.

Depending on experience we will put out best telemarketer on every job, and they will stay on it until the campaign finish's or a decision is made to move another person on to it depending on level of success both good and bad.

Certain calls are not covered by the federal registration law, including calls from political organizations, charities, telephone surveyors, and companies from which you have bought something or received a delivery in the past 18 months. If you do not want to get calls from companies that fall into any of these groups, tell the company or charity to put your phone number on their own “Do Not Call” list. Every company and charity is obliged to keep such a list.

One working week, so we can prepare the data, brief the telemarketer and make sure everything is in place to start.

On a daily basis, we will split the data into several sections. The main section will remain as it is, but we will copy and paste things like, Appointments, Short Term Leads, Long Term Leads, Info requests, and client to deal with, into seperate sections for easy access. Normally done in Excel.

This can happen a lot, and it is not just a palm off, you get to recognise which are genuinely interested and which are timewasters simply by asking a few questions before you end the call, many of the products we promote are things that people will not hand a creditcard over for, theytend to be in the thousands of pounds and therefore take consideration before making a decision. Always have something you can send that will add favour to a potential client.

A good telemarketer will make between 100 and 115 calls a day, depending on the level of decision maker you can Expect between 20 and 45 decision maker contacts a day.