(Without Necessarily Having To Constantly Create New Products Or Services!)
Some of you may or may not personally know just how challenging any type of sustained telemarketing truly is. The constant rejection is brutal. I personally experienced it decades ago. Potential feel they have the right to be outrageously obnoxious and rude.
Simply because you dialed their number. They bothered to answer. And simply had no interest whatsoever in your products or services.
(That type of untargeted telemarketing totally sucked to put it bluntly. 😎 But that’s not to say nor suggest. You can’t strategically utilized to play to and off of your marketing strengths. Who else is up for discovering how?
Let’s Hear For Some Potentially Profitable Creative Marketing Incentives!
Ladies and gentlemen take a much closer look at the featured image for this particular blog post. One of the simplest strategies to maximize your long term gross profits with any part of your business or service.
Which has or provides in house customer service reps. Especially if their (or your!) ideal prospects or customers call in. Via either a toll free number. Or a regular local number.
The basic idea is to allow another non directly competing vendor to offer one of your best products or services to either:
1.) Their current customers. 2.) Their currently inactive customers. 3.) Allow them to offer your service(s) to the previously mentioned groups. On a trial basis. And their current and future vendors. And their current and future employees. (Whenever it’s applicable.)
If the organization is large enough. Think about a non franchised retail furniture store. Who offers fancy bubble bath products. To every female employee of a large local factory.
As long as the owner(s) and managers spend at least X.
So What If You And I Strategically Leverage Someone Else’s Creative Marketing Ideas Or Tactics!
So imagine what will definitely start happening. When local customers either: A.) Call in to some company. B.) Or when local customer walks over to the customer service desk. They can be offered a market tested upsell or two. 😀
Statistically speaking. They (or you!) You definitely generate a few additional sales. Strictly by playing the numbers. And if you don’t currently have your own additional products or services to promote on the long term back end of your sales funnel. By all means partner up with a local, non directly competing vendor or two.
Especially if you know your ideal customers total lifetime customer value metrics. Take closer look at the featured image. Now for just a moment. Imagine what will ultimately happen to the bottom line.
Of an extremely marketing savvy retailer. Who allows another non directly competing vendor. To in this particular, hypothetical marketing illustration.
Test offering at least three or X different extremely time sensitive, market tested offers to any incoming callers. In order to determine which, (if any!) of the offers consistently produces the most gross profit.
This Is How You And Or Your Major Competitors Systematically Take Things To The Very Next Level Or Two!
Now you can allow any telemarketers who wish to. Allow them to pass out some of your best market tested, single or doubled sided index cards. Whenever they’re off the job. Say what? 😀 Side “A” could promote you or your major competitors monthly or quarterly free drawing.
Which means they have to join your opt in email list in order to be eligible to receive your ultimate grand prize. 😀 And side “B” ethically bribes the recipient to drag a friend with them to your showroom. Whose at least 18.
Before your ten or X day expiration date expires completely worthless. (This is called super semi qualified lead generation 101 BTW entrepreneur.)
They drag a friend and receive some really cool, market tested ethical bribe for dragging a local friend. The friend, provided they also join you or your major competitors list. (Before they leave the store that day! They’re ethically bribed for doing so. 😎
And the telemarketers are rewarded weekly. The one with the most redeemed index cards and or gift certificates etc. They receive an X dollar cash bonus! And the second runner up also receives a cash bonus. (Obviously not quite as good. :-D)
But every time there after. The customer service comes in first again for the week, month or quarter etc. They automatically receive double the cash award.
My friend that’s playing to your marketing strengths. Don’t you agree?
The Deeper You Or Your Major Competitors Dig! (The More You Tend To Discover!)
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