TELEMARKETING/TELESALES SKILLS
OUR APPROACH
 

You will learn to:

  • Understand the sales process and how it can be adapted to the telephone
  • Deal with all out-going calls objectively, rationally and consistently
  • Develop a number of introductory phrases and statements that reflect your personality and that deliver your message clearly and effectively
  • Prepare a telephone campaign and the content of each call; understand its objectives and set achievable goals
  • Plan regular and relevant telephone contact campaigns including: follow-up to new product or product update mailers, special offers, standing orders, service contracts, field visits and exhibitions OR implementing separate initiatives such as customer awareness or customer satisfaction surveys.

Additionally, you will:

  • Revise proven and successful communication techniques and review the methods that work best when initiating calls to your customer base
  • Test the premise that ‘Customers don’t care what you know, if they know how much you care’

CUSTOMER SERVICE SKILLS

Topics to be covered:

  • Revision of proven, successful telephone, written and face-to-face communications with customers
  • Critical review of what will work best for communicating with your clients
  • The cost of finding new customers vs. keeping existing ones
  • Planning regular and relevant customer contact campaigns
  • Developing the ‘share of mind’ experience with customers
  • Prioritising the customer service response – ways of segmenting customers that determine your level of responsive activity
  • The need to manage customer expectations

INTRODUCTION TO (FIELD) SALES

What you will learn:

  • The fundamentals of questioning, objections handling, negotiating and closing
  • The basics of running a sales territory/client list/product group
  • Professional techniques for presenting yourself and your product
  • To deliver an opening benefit statement - arousing interest and involvement
  • The difference between product features and benefits; why customers need to recognise the benefits before they buy

Who will benefit from this level of training or coaching:

  • Those taking on a field sales or desk-based sales/support role for the first time
  • Those with less than 3 years sales or commercial experience
  • Those who have some sales/support experience but no formal training
 
COURSES

Designed to offer skills training in a prescribed series or sequence of lectures. Most effective when run over a number of days, weeks or months to reinforce/ supplement experience and where knowledge is gradually being acquired and applied.

WORKSHOPS

Workshops bring groups together to work creatively on challenging projects starting with clear objectives and ending in action plans.

COACHING

Designed to maximise individual performance. Developing self confidence and self belief through support, encouragement and mentoring in a non-judgemental environment.


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