Tele Sales or email sales

[old boy]

Hi

I have this product that looks really good but need some good quality telesales people or email people who can market it for me.

i dont want to be a PPI and randomly ring up people or spam people with email so it needs to be crafted and focussed

Any ideas or recomendations

here is the site if interested

<removed> - this is a UK based site and company

 

[BuzzHamzaDotCom]

I don't like to be the bearer of bad news, but unless you have an opt-in email list that you have gathered yourself - of prospects who personally gave you their permission to contact them about your product or services - then any email campaign you do is spam. It doesn't matter how focussed it is.

 

[old boy]

hence my reason for looking for a quality company that already has a list of people that have opted in for other products that save them money database.

Or maybe people already have a list of contacts that they could send it to as an item of interest.

if a friend of mine sent me the site and said ' look at this waht do you think' it would then be up to me to make a decision

but I get your point re spam so no worries

OB

 

[BuzzHamzaDotCom]

OK, sounds like you need some sort of joint venture - find someone in the same sector with a massive email following and ask them to promote it to their list. Give them a percentage of the sales like an affiliate commission, or something valuable in return (eg. extremely high quality, high value content that they can send to their list to make them look good). Bear in mind that no-one with a decent list is going to give you access to such a valuable asset for peanuts.

Where do you find someone? Look for the big hitters online with blogs or ezines or ebooks or even web apps who target the same people you do but aren't a competitor. They won't necessarily be in your own sector.

When you've found someone, join their list to see what kind of material they put out. If it's a good fit, try to build a relationship with them before putting a proposal out to them. Twitter, comment on their site, reply to their emails with comments etc.

Hope that gives you some ideas. If you want to go down this route I'd suggest you get a copy of The Silent Sales Machine for $5 - it goes into more detail.

 

[old boy]

Now theres a good post !!! thankyou very much

Yep I agree and thankyou for taking the time to write it out.

Anyone following this thread who thinks they have a decent list then feel free to pm me for a nice share

thankyou
OB

Also just seen your site and you seem to specialize in these things so any further advise or contacts appreciated

 

[Cynic]

This is a little lazy to be honest. Anyone with a list is most likely to do this themselves and make more profit both on the lead generation upfront as well a percentage of the profits on the backend. C'mon now......

 

[BuzzHamzaDotCom]

Which part of that very difficult process is 'lazy'?

You need to achieve 3 wins:

WIN for the email list owner who gets money or kudos from his followers for finding such a great product.

WIN for their followers who get valuable content and/or a great product they need.

WIN for you in exposure and sales in your perfect target market.

 

[webgeek]

In order for you to leverage an existing email list, the email will need to be sent by the list owner. In other words, the current list owner will be endorsing your service to a list that they've invested blood, sweat and tears in acquiring, growing, grooming and maintaining.

That means the list owner is sticking their neck out on the line bigtime!

I'm a big fan of collaborative marketing, so this approach makes perfect sense to me. But, as someone who's developed lists, I rarely see an offer come up which truly compensates the list owner for the value of the exposure.

Offering a percentage is simply a non-starter. That puts all the risk with the list owner and makes this a win-lose proposition.

Offering a fixed fee is the way to go, with a cost per thousand being distributed to... Likely a healthy £XXX.00 per 1,000 names on the list.

 

[old boy]

Good point ref shared commissions and fees

And steer anybody on what i should be looking at price wise for a list.

And

Does anyone have any good reliable lists or sources that are not from the warrior forum or similar

cheers
ob

 

[old boy]

have posted on several peopleperhour sites and got a decent response too

anybody had good or bad feedback from those sites

 

[webgeek]

Speak to the sales geeks at Zoom Info.

There are only a couple of Tier 1 providers, in my opinion, for most needs. There's Salesforce/Data.com/Jigsaw (all 1 company really) and Zoom Info.

I surely wouldn't be buying a CD with 100mil email addresses and firing that spam out...

 

[Cynic]

Hilitedms comes to mind, great service...great response and great support. There are a couple U.K. ones but I'd have to dig deep...It's difficult to say without knowing what your product is

PM me and I'll let you know

 

[old boy]

Thankyou for thiose companies - I have contacted them now and just waiting pricing etc. should be ready for Januaury.

Product I want to get out is the commercial loan refund for people
http://rateswaprefunds.co.uk/

have a good Christmas eve

OB