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Ted Williams

Forget Cold Calling. Break the Ice with a High Impact Mailer.

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I’ve been in sales for many years and have faced all the challenges that people in my line of work come up against. One of the most difficult is initiating conversations with prospects who, though they might need the product or service that my company offered, don’t really want to talk with a salesperson. When I joined the team at North Star Marketing, I was well aware of the agency’s reputation for producing extremely effective…

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TeleSales: To Get a Foot in the Door Put an Ear to a Phone

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Whether you call it telemarketing, telesales or teleprospecting, using the phone as part of your direct marketing strategy can increase response rates by a minimum of 25% and get sales people’s foot in the door which leads to more closed deals.  According to Douglas Karr, founder of the Marketing and Technology Blog, “most direct marketing strategies fail because they’re not persistent in calling on the clients who are within their key firmographic.” To prove the…

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