Does Tele-marketing Work? - Page 2

Porsche-O-Phile · Porsche-O-Phile's Garage

That can be a negative thing too though. Think of "Yugo", "ValuJet", "BetaMax" (or "Microsoft" I suppose). All bigtime negative connotations. In those cases, it might have been better if they could have kept the name brand recognition OUT of peoples' minds until they could fix the things that created the negative connections, or at least let 'em blow over.

Fame isn't always good.

And FWIW I agree - it should be up to people to find what they're looking for. If a person wants your widget, they'll find it goddammit - I don't need some a-hole to call my phone at home or my office trying to push their crap on me. The implication is simply "we think of you as a financial food trough". It's offensive by its nature. For one, I think I offer more to society than just being a resource for consumptive leeches to suckle on.

M.D. Holloway · 01-02-2007, 10:40 AM

Performance has to be coupled with credility. I think there are products that are available that are very good that have neame brand recognition yet do not advertise. I can't think of any right now, maybe PB Blaster?

Porsche-O-Phile · Porsche-O-Phile's Garage

"Ferrari"?

therotman · 01-02-2007, 10:55 AM

I know mortgage brokers who get most of their business through telemarketing.

Generally these are sub-prime loans where they target people who are having credit problems already.

legion · 01-02-2007, 10:57 AM

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Originally posted by Porsche-O-Phile
And FWIW I agree - it should be up to people to find what they're looking for. If a person wants your widget, they'll find it goddammit - I don't need some a-hole to call my phone at home or my office trying to push their crap on me. The implication is simply "we think of you as a financial food trough". It's offensive by its nature. For one, I think I offer more to society than just being a resource for consumptive leeches to suckle on.

But that's exactly the problem for some companies.

No one is going to seek out manufacturers of fad items. (Tickle me Elmos, hoola hoops, even cell phones anymore.) The public has to be convinced to buy crap they don't need.

Hetmann · 01-02-2007, 01:13 PM

Just hang up.

Porsche-O-Phile · Porsche-O-Phile's Garage

Doesn't work. You need to actually get a person on the line AND get them to acknowledge your request to "please remove me from your calling list" for it to be valid. If you hang up, you stay in their autodialer.

For this reason, a lot of telemarketers are going to autodialers with lengthy computerized messages/sales pitches so there's no way for you to "opt out" until you've heard the entire spiel.

The people that promulgate this crap are true scum. . . no better than internet spammers - just their choice of medium is different (and actually more of a "personal violation" than is an e-mail or text message).

Show me a business that does this kind of pushy, unsolicited advertising and I'll show you someone who needs a serious size 11 to the chin.

RallyJon · 01-02-2007, 01:46 PM

Oh yeah--about the "setup a good website". Many of the b-to-b websites I see are just fronts for their sales team. Very little actual info, and heaven forbid they put pricing out there.

"Please read our vague white paper about how we wished the world worked. Then enter your complete contact information and a salesman will call to hound you at his convenience."

Can't tell you how many times I've called a company and said, "Does your **** cost $1,000 or 100,000--please give me a clue so I can decide if I want to waste any more time here."

rcecale · rcecale's Garage

Of course, there ARE those who have benefitted from Telemarketers...

Randy

skilletshot · 01-02-2007, 07:55 PM

Sure as heck works for us biz to biz. Have a lady that sets 10 to 12 appointments a week for me. Service business. Call it dialing for dollars. Legit business. Just a numbers game. Same with cold calling. Built a million dollar company on cold calls and sold.

sammyg2 · 08:54 PM

It certainly doesn't work on me. If someone calls me I make a point never to do business with them and I try to discourage others from doing business qwith them also. When a tele-marketer calls me the wife tells me I need to calm down and shouldn't talk to people like that. I don't cut them any slack.

Just how *****ty of a person would you have to be to stoop low enough to take a job like that?
I'd dig ditches and shovel dung before I took a job as a tele-marketer.

As bad as the callers are, the people who employ them to make those calls are worse.
Not if they were on fire..........................

M.D. Holloway · 01-03-2007, 07:24 AM

Sammyg2 - agree that calls to the home are a pain in the arse. What about a legit biz? Lets say you buy a few items from time to time from a company, nothing big in fact you may not even relize that the sales person hasn't paid you a visit in a few months. You get a call from the companies home office saying that the sales person has moved on (maybe retired or got a better job) and that the person you were talking with was going to handle the sales until the field sales post was filled. In a way that is a form of tele-marketing.

Lets say that the rep only paid you one vist and then took orders over the phone from then out?

What if you got a call from a company that stated that your buddy over at another company reccomended that they call you because they were able to help him out and your buddy that that they could do the same for you? Tele-marketing again, just not as obnoxius...