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Expert insights, practical tips, and industry knowledge on call centre management, telemarketing strategy, dialler technology, and contact centre operations.

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Browse our collection of articles covering everything from dialler strategy and compliance to telesales training and recruitment.

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Dialler Features That Could Help You Improve Sales Performance

Lesser-known dialler features including HLR checking, intelligent dialling, AMD, and speech analytics to boost your outbound campaigns.

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Fixing Common Habits When Cold Calling

How positive mental attitude and the right approach can transform your cold calling results.

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3 Ways to Bring Your A Game to the Sales Floor

Respond to hot leads within the golden 5 minutes, analyse your sales data, and profile your customers for better results.

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Staying Compliant — Abandoned Call Messages

How to create compliant dropped call messages that meet Ofcom guidelines and protect your business.

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Loss & Gain — Understanding Customer Factors When Buying

How fear of loss and desire for gain drive buying decisions, and how to use this in your sales approach.

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Choosing Hold Music That Won't Drive Your Clients Mad

Why most companies get hold music wrong, and how to choose music that works within phone system limitations.

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Why Do B2B Buyers Say No? And What Can We Do to Fix It?

Common B2B objections including pricing, authority, and status quo — and practical ways to overcome them.

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4 Steps for Hiring the Best Telemarketing Staff

Focus on carers over sellers, ask the right questions, and find candidates with lasting passion.

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Telefundraising — 5 Important Tips

Essential tips for charitable telefundraising that keep supporters happy and donations flowing.

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Why Telesales Is Still Your Most Potent Marketing Tool

Building relationships, developing trust, and showing commitment — why the telephone can't be beaten.

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Effective Closing Technique During B2B Telesales Calls

Professional closing techniques that replace outdated gimmicks with quality, honesty, and smart questioning.

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How to Avoid a Negative Brand Impression in Telesales

Avoid being pushy, build knowledge, ask questions, and let sales happen naturally for better brand perception.

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How to Offer Telesales Agents Positive & Constructive Feedback

Frame conversations positively, be specific without accusing, and help agents discover solutions themselves.

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Building a Dialer Strategy

Data management, compliance, and choosing between manual, power, and predictive dialling methods.

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10 Ways to Improve Call Centre Morale

From tea runs and charity events to career progression — practical ways to boost agent happiness and retention.

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Top Tips for Increasing Telesales Conversions

Sales training, recruitment, testing campaigns, and transfer strategies to transform your conversion rates.

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Writing the Perfect Telemarketing Script

A comprehensive guide to mapping, building, and continuously improving call centre scripts that convert.

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Calculating Erlang, Drop Rates & Service Levels

The formulas and methods for calculating service levels, staffing requirements, and call centre shrinkage.

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What Is Answer Machine Detection (AMD)?

How AMD works, its limitations, detection time issues, and alternatives for your dialler setup.

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How to Improve Your Call Quality Monitoring Processes

Focus on top and bottom performers, involve agents, form habits, and run a robust feedback system.

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How to Find Your Perfect Data/Lead Supplier

Decide what you need, vet suppliers properly, and spot the warning signs of poor quality data.

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Why Telesales Will Never Go Out of Fashion

Why telesales campaigns remain essential, working alongside digital channels for better engagement.

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Using Your Marketing Database Smartly

Privacy, GDPR compliance, list maintenance, and why keeping your data healthy matters.

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Negative & Positive Questions in Telemarketing

How rephrasing negative questions into positive ones can transform your client interactions and conversion rates.

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Improving Your ROI & Starting a Telesales Campaign the Right Way

Contact data, experienced staff, target setting, and launch day planning for successful campaigns.

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The Art of The Close — Choosing Great Telemarketing Staff

Work ethic, culture, data-driven training, and why hunger to succeed matters more than experience.

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How to Handle Telesales Rejection

Overcoming anxiety, handling rejection professionally, managing callbacks, and turning negatives into positives.

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Why Cost Per Lead Doesn't Always Work

How lead quality can suffer over time, common pitfalls, and how to monitor your inbound leads effectively.

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How to Improve Your Call Centre Contact Rate

Outbound number presentation, callback strategies, and using reporting data to boost contact rates.

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How an IVR Could Benefit Your Business

Automate tasks, triage calls, gather feedback, reduce costs, and project a professional image with an IVR system.

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How to Re-Activate Your Customer Base

Tips on using telephone outreach, predictive diallers, reviews, and special offers to win back former customers.

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