How Often are you in Touch with your Opt-in’s?

In simple, how often are you contacting the contacts in your database? Getting opt-in’s are very difficult these days and we should be very careful in contacting them with a particular pitch. There are numerous businesses in the world and we are also one of the customers of many companies. how often would we expect our supplier to contact us? This should be taken care well.

For example, I’m the customer of a bank. I often getting calls for so many of their services and sometimes i loose my temper. I prefer the way of communication through email. I mark that as unread and check it whenever i get some time.

But how often would i expect my bank to contact me through email or even by calling me directly? I prefer a call once in 2 months and an email once in a month. If i get more and more sales calls and email, I’ll unsubscribe everything and work peacefully.

My SharePoint Experience as a Manager

SharePoint plays a major role in my everyone working life. I started using it properly when my company has recreated an intranet portal SharePoint. It’s user friendly and also you can easily share the files with your team anywhere, anytime. Also, you can access all the information any time. In my team, each one is sitting in different time zone. Also, I hate to download a big MB of file from my outlook. that made me sick when i did every time.

Are you interested in Cold Calling? – How would you prepare yourself?

As we everyone know, cold calling is the oldest technique which plays a major part in sales techniques. Cold calling is different than telemarketing.

Telemarketing is the one in which the telemarketer doesn’t care about what his/her client’s business. They don’t care/know even if the client needs their service/product.

Cold Calling is totally different from telemarketing. For cold calling, you should definitely need to research on the company and the person designation you are going to call. You should know how would your service/product help them or their company.

How Customer Service would help you to attain more Sales?

Its very hot in chennai. So, I start my day very early and ends after the moon arise. I don’t like to go out in afternoon’s and burn my skin. I go out for a break to a nearby restaurant and have something and be back around 5 pm. I opened a packet of chips’s today and found a stapler pin. I was shocked. I found an email address at the back side of the packet and emailed them. But, for gods sake, it’s bounced.

Boost your Career in Marketing/Sales

When comparing other fields like, production, Development etc., marketing and sales are very different. Those people should have the business knowledge. If you are a marketing or sales guy, You should think not in career level but in business level. We can’t think here as “I, me, myself“. Team work plays an important role here. Eventhough there are lot of points that we should follow, we have to be aware of some important points will be surely boost our career.

The first and foremost point is,

Sales Information as Thank You Page

We are coming through online forms, presentations, documents in our day to day life and you can see the important of thank you page in all the presentations and forms. For everything we get thro’ online, especially for free stuff’s we need to fill up a form with our personal and official data’s.

I’ve seen in so many places that the thank you page will contain “thank you for fillup the form”, “Thank you for visiting us”. They themselves want theirvaluable customers to quit their website.

How would we make our thank you page as a great way to increase sales? get the customer contact us?

Is it a Right Way to Get Suggestions Publicly for our Website/Product?

In many of the forums, networking websites, some of our friends have requested the crowd to check their website for further improvement. Most of us will get enormous responses for our requests. Is it a right way to ask someone publicly to review our website/product? Here are some of the advantages and dis advantages of asking suggestions publicly:

Outsourcing Partner Replacement – What are all the Causes?

Outsourcing is a magnetic word in the current business field. Company A have wanted a solution for its business and it’s outsourced its requirement to Company B which has its development center in a country called “X”. Now, A is seeking another outsourcing firms for replacing of the current firm. What are all the causes that made the company A to seek other outsourcing firm instead of B?

This is the major problem that most of the outsourcing firms facing currently. Every outsourcing firm should understand that the clients are outsourcing their requirements only because of good solutions in affordable rates. I have listed out some of the points which might have started the problems:

Mistakes in Marketing Collaterals

Every company website contains lot of marketing materials such as white papers, case studies, presentations and brochures in it. Once the company has created these collaterals, they will upload it in the website and forget it till the new website has got launched. Maximum people don’t even think of reviewing or updating it based on their new targeting verticals, technologies et al.

So, What are all the points that need to be noted when updating a collateral?

Is Sales be a Part of Marketing??

All medium to large companies have a separate department for Marketing and Sales. But Does sales come under marketing? Is marketing a big picture which starts from identifying the requirements to selling the solutions?