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... time and effort to hire well-paid telemarketing professionals to communicate with clients and prospects often bog them down with customized letters, customized proposals, multiple databases that don't connect with each other, 10-second (or longer) screen response rates, etc. This is like forcing a race car driver to make a pit stop after every lap. One of the best investments an agency or independent producer can make is to bring in an outside systems analyst to chart the flow of the telemarketing off-phone process. This process should be analyzed in detail and ... first to read the script word for word to test reading skill, and then to modify it to their own style. If you have the luxury of time, send the information home with the candidate, and have them call the next day ready to sell. Include buying signals and referral possibilities in your responses to see if the candidate hears and responds to them. This tests listening and communication skills. If the candidate seems viable at this point, send them to another person in the agency for an interview. This can ... sales will come. Build your own sales funnel and analyze your statistics. The sales funnel is a numbers formula that allows you to arrive at call levels necessary to achieve profitable revenue figures. Explain the sales funnel to your staff so that they can use it to track their own performance. This example details the professional activities of a top salesperson selling $700 worth of educational products. Sample Sales Funnel 80 connected calls per day = 30 decision-maker contacts (DMCs) 30 DMCs = 20 presentations 20 presentations = 15 brochures sent 15 ...

... feeling and opinion among prospects and clients depends on your agency. If your competition is using all the normal methods of advertising, then you may have to find newer, exotic methods of reaching the public. For example, a very prominent agent happens to like to race stock cars, so he advertises his agency on the side of a stock car. It's his way of getting the community's attention. KNOW YOUR COMMUNITY You should know the economic facts of your community before advertising. This may sound elementary, but unfortunately, most ... fire classes have been lowered (we also ran a newspaper ad) Our agency sends a lot of mail to Boxholder-Neighbor, ' because we feel that it's a good way of covering every person in a specific geographical area. And next to the word Boxholder' we include some information so that when the prospect glances at it, he will get part of the message, whether he wants to read it or not. In addition, sending such mailings in envelopes is not really necessary and adds a cost you can do without. ... . If you're buying a system that doesn't have this word processing capability, it is already obsolete. With our word processor, we do direct mail, mass marketing with personal letters-sending a similar or repetitive letter to the same accounts every so often. You can keep track of business lists, homeowners lists, auto owners, boxholders, and so on with a computer. BE YOURSELF When advertising your agency, one of the most difficult rules to follow is to be yourself. Don't try to be something different. You must determine ...

...ounts every so often. You can keep track of business lists, homeowners lists, ...