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A Visual Guide to Telemarketing Performance Metrics [INFOGRAPHIC]

A Visual Guide to Telemarketing Performance Metrics [INFOGRAPHIC]

Telemarketing boosts marketers’ performance by delivering leads at scale and producing results in real-time. Given this channel’s current function, the success of today’s telemarketing campaigns, argues Robert Howells of the Global Marketing Associates, hinges on better use of data.

Related: Telemarketing 101 in Australia: Maintaining Pleasantness throughout the Call

One crucial data-related aspect that needs a major rethink is telemarketing performance metrics. As the channel evolves, so do the yardsticks used to measure performance. Today’s marketers rely on a dizzying array of metrics and indicators to gauge how well each component of their strategy is working, including telemarketing. Modern telemarketing performance metrics help marketers answer five key questions about their campaigns:

  • Database Quality – Is your database accurate and relevant?
  • Activity and Volume – Are you making the right number of calls?
  • Reach Rate – Are you talking to the right people?
  • Conversions – Are calls driving the desired action?
  • Costs, Revenues, and ROI – Is your campaign making or losing money?

These are the five areas to look at when evaluating telemarketing performance—whether you’re running campaigns in-house or outsourcing to an agency. In this post, we’ll go over the important telemarketing performance metrics to keep track of under each category and find out how to make informed decisions based on the numbers.

A Visual Guide to Telemarketing Performance Metrics

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Database Quality – Is your database accurate and relevant?


Overall List Health

The ratio of known errors to the number of records. These errors include missing values, duplicates, invalid contacts, data entry errors, etc.

Segmentation Fields

The level of segmentation a list allows. Does your list contain valid industry codes, job titles, etc.? How well do the segments match your target buyer profiles or personas?

List Penetration Rates

The number of positive contacts, conversations with decision makers, and the number of conversions your campaign generates.

New Information Gathered

The amount of new information obtained or verified through phone calls. How many new records were you able to add? How many fields did you update or verify?

Related: How many times should you have your business database cleanse?


Activity and Volume – Are you making the right number of calls?


Calls per Hour

This metric indicates the average rate at which an agent or rep places calls. While high calls-per-hour figures are generally a good sign, the quality of each call matters more than quantity alone.

Average Call length (Average Talk Time)

This is the average amount of time an agent or rep spends on each call. To make meaningful comparisons, make sure you take factors like the length of the call script and admin work required.

Occupancy Rate

This metric refers to the time an agent or rep spends on calls versus the time spent between calls. Occupancy rates tell you how productively agents allocate their time.

Calls per Record

According to data cited by HubSpot, It takes 18 calls on average to actually reach a B2B buyer.


Reach Rates – Are you talking to the right people?


Positive Contact Ratio

The percentage of dialed records where agents are able to speak with the target contact.

Related: 4 Ways to Get Past Gatekeepers and Reach Prospects Every Time [VIDEO]

Abandonment Rate

The percentage of calls which aren’t picked up by the target contact.

Unique Decision Maker Conversations

This metric gives insight into data quality as well as lets you compare initial contact versus callbacks and follow-ups.

Requests for Information (RFIs)

This metric looks at how many positive contacts asked for materials about the offer or company.

Not Interested

A very high number of not interested prospects can mean you’re targeting the wrong audience, but it can also indicate that agents are doing a good job filtering unqualified leads.

Related: How to Handle Early Sales Objections, According to Science [VIDEO]


Conversions – Are calls driving the desired action?


Lead Conversion Rates

This is the percentage of decision makers reached that qualify as leads(schedule a face-to-face meeting, sign up for a free trial, verify some information, etc.).

Call-to-Close Ratio

This is the percentage of telemarketing-generated leads that actually convert into paying customers.

Calls per Outcome

This metric tells you how many calls it takes to get a result (conversion). Calls per outcome measures how efficiently a campaign generates results and you largely want to minimize this metric.

Related: Top 10 Proof that Outbound Efforts Help Close Deals in Australia


Costs and ROI – Is your campaign making or losing money?


Cost per Lead and Cost per Opportunity

This is the total costs incurred in the campaign divided by the total telemarketing-generated leads (or opportunities).

ROI

The revenues attributable to the channel divided by the total telemarketing costs. This is usually estimated through attribution models such as first touch, last touch, weighted, time decay, linear, and position-based attribution.

Cutting Marketing Spend: When It Works (and When it Doesn’t)

Cutting Marketing Spend: When It Works (and When it Doesn’t) [INFOGRAPHIC]

Gartner says that marketing budgets have started to plateau in 2017, after years of steady growth. That’s one of the main things they found in their 2017 CMO survey, which also reported that only two-thirds of CMOs expect a significant increase in their 2018 budget while a third believe their budgets will be cut.

There’s obviously a lot of reasons why companies slash marketing budgets (including tough economic times, shifting priorities, cost-cutting measures, and scaling down operations). Most of these factors are simply beyond any marketing decision-maker’s control. But marketers still influence how much business impact their marketing activities can have. And that’s through carefully planning how (and how not) to spend their budget. That’s what we’ll feature in today’s post.

Cutting Marketing Spend - Infographic

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When to Cut Spending

#1 The end goals aren’t clear.

Specific goals and objectives all move the revenue needle. If a marketing activity or your overall program doesn’t clearly show this, then it’s a prime candidate for the chopping block.

#2 Marketing isn’t aligned with sales.

There are all sorts of things that can go wrong when marketing and sales are out of whack. That’s why there’s no point in paying for a marketing tactic or project that doesn’t align with sales’ priorities.

#3 You can afford losing out to the competition.

Companies that were quick to cut marketing budgets in past recessions were all outperformed by competitors that maintained or even increased their marketing budgets during the downturn. If you can afford to lose out to the competition, then, by all means, reduce your marketing spend.

Related: Warning: Don’t let Your Market Competitors Eat you Alive

When Not to Cut Spending

#1 Decreased marketing spend brings only hard cost savings.

Cost-cutting measures result in two kinds of cost savings – hard cost savings and soft cost savings. If reducing marketing spend only results in hard cost savings, then you’re better off finding ways to maximize the budget you have instead of slashing your expenditures altogether.

#2 Cutting back results in cutting corners.

When cutting marketing spend means scaling down activities to the point where they no longer drive results, you have to wonder if you can really afford cutting corners just to cut costs.

#3 Cutting back is done to fix a misspent budget.

When marketing fails to hit goals, the problem won’t be fixed with budget cuts. The solution is to find new and better ways of using what you already have.

A List of the Top IT Trends in the Outback [INFOGRAPHIC]

A List of the Top IT Trends in the Outback [INFOGRAPHIC]

People tend to think about the Land Down Under as the most dangerous place on earth. Basically, any animal you come in contact with has a potential to kill you. This has produced memes calling Australia the Land of Nopes.

But in recent years, the country has enjoyed relative growth in crucial sectors, particularly the IT industry. Much of this optimism has been spurned by the fact that Australian companies are beginning to uncover more opportunities in growing revenues and competing with international brands.

As things go at the moment, there is a lot of things to be positive about. Here are some of the trends you will expect that will have you saying “Yes!” instead of “Nope!”

List of Top IT Trends in the Outback Infographic

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There is a growing market for virtual reality software caused mainly by curiosity and interest towards the concept. IT companies, in this way, will have to exploit this trend and add their own brand of innovation to the fold. After all, VR is still a work in progress, but developing fresh ideas about it will eventually give the IT industry a good boost.

Related: 4 ways for your IT Business to Access to New Markets

Analytics-driven marketing

The IT market will become even more complex as new players are bringing in powerful guns. The competition will get even tighter as companies continue to invest heavily in developing better technologies. Along the lines of marketing their products, Australian tech companies need to focus a great deal on the most important metrics from which they can create better audience engagement strategies.

Related: 13 Reasons Why You Should use Data Profiling and Get Accurate IT Contacts

Everything-as-a-service becomes important

A Deloitte report sees that IT enterprises will skew inevitably to adopting bulked software services that benefit core business operations. This will, in fact, lead to making important operational as well as organizational changes, and for IT companies to upgrading to ERP platforms.

Related: IT and Software: Mastering Product Knowledge Before your First Sales Pitch

Higher business penetration rates

Deloitte also points out that IT companies will continue to secure better opportunities for their brands. This is due to the fact that more and more businesses see the significance of setting up efficient software and IT infrastructure to streamlining their day-to-day operations. We should expect higher demands for automated marketing services and emerging technologies benefitting core business processes.

Related: Is Technical Jargon Necessary in Communicating with IT Leads?

Data intelligence is the intelligent way to go

Lastly, the IT industry will see more prominence in data acquisition and analytics. In fact, applied data intelligence has been listed as a top priority in “Gartner’s list of Top 10 strategic predictions for 2017.” Even more so, businesses will invest heavily in adopting smart technologies and training their teams on how to handle these tools and make the most out of them.

Related: Jaw-Dropping Growth of Fintech Industry After 18 months

The Australian Preferred Mode of Business Communication

Australian Prospects Preferred mode of Communicating By Statistics [INFOGRAPHIC]

More than 50% of Australian are shopping online. Items such as clothes, shoes, accessories and even travel related purchases are done online. Most of the time, they search for information about the product and services before they buy them.

According to The 18th Edition of Nielsen’s Annual Australian Connected Consumers Report, almost all of Australians use the internet to purchase items every week. If you are a marketer, you know that in order to reach a wider audience you need to be where your prospects are. So how would you know what channel to use to communicate and engage with your prospects?

Here are some of the preferred modes of communication of Australian prospects according to statistics.

The Australian Preferred Mode of Business Communication - infographic

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Social Media

Social media is a way for businesses to communicate, engage and interact with potential and existing customers. Based on Sensis Social Media Report for 2016, Australians are now spending more than half a day per week (12.5 hours) on Facebook alone, up four hours from last year.

It is best to know and understand who your target prospects are and their preferred channel to use when searching for a product or service. For example, if you are targeting younger people between 18-29 years old, you must know that their preferred mediums to use are Facebook and Instagram. On the other hand, people between 40 to 49 years old use LinkedIn and Google+.

Here are the statistics for each medium

  • Facebook – 95% of Facebook users spend more than 12 and half hours every week on Facebook.
  • Twitter – At 19%. 2 points higher than last year.
  • Instagram – Almost doubled its reach at 31% since 2013. This is used by 58% of the younger audience between 18-29 years old.
  • LinkedIn – 24% lower because of its many restrictions. Commonly used by medium and large businesses.
  • Google+ – 10% lower than last year

Source: Sensis Social Media Report 2016

Here’s the secret ingredient in turning your social followers into qualified leads.

Smartphone or Mobile Device

They can’t live and won’t leave home without a mobile phone. More and more people globally use mobile phones to communicate and talk to a family member, friends, discuss work, check and respond to their emails, and learn about what’s new in technology, etc.

According to the mobile statistics in Australia from IAB Australia (Mobile Ratings September 2015), smartphones and tablet owners, internet surfing trends and the total time spent on mobile devices continues to increase.

  • Smartphone owners – 15.3M
  • Tablet owners – 11.2M

The result of the Google Consumer Barometer Survey says that 40% of millennials (ages 35 and up) do their research and purchases on smartphones and other mobile devices.

The time spent of Australians on mobile devices has increased by 63% Twitter Icon

Email

According to a blog post from campaignbrief.com, 97% of Australians use emails and sending or receiving email was the most popular activity on the web.

Others are doing online banking or paying bills and reading news and about sports.

The time spent of many Australians on their mobile devices has increased. Emails allow business owners to accomplish tasks more quickly. They use emails as a form of business communication to;

While 84% are looking for information on products and services.  Twitter Icon

Whether a formal or informal way of communication, prospects have a preference as to which channel to use to communicate and search for products and services. Use these stats as your guide in choosing which channel to include in your marketing campaign. Whatever you decide, bottom line is, you have to be where your prospects are at all times.

The Solar Leads Life Cycle [INFOGRAPHIC]

The Solar Leads Life Cycle [INFOGRAPHIC]

More and more households and businesses are considering solar adaptation.

So how does solar lead generation company reach out and nurture solar prospects towards a sale? Here’s a step by step guide on how solar lead generation works.

The Solar Leads Life Cycle [INFOGRAPHIC]

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Here’s a step by step guide on how solar lead generation works.

Step #1: Prospecting

A potential solar customer searched for a promising low-cost solar power either through google search, social media pages or other online marketing channels.

Step #2: Inquiry

He is transferred to a landing page— an attractive-looking web page with information about the solar products and services offered. In this page, he can input his information and inquire.

Related: What it Takes to be an Effective Solar Lead Generation Experts

Step #3: New lead passed to Sales

Information of prospect was passed on to the sales team for pre-qualification.

Step #4: Pre-Qualify

The sales team contacts the prospect to pre-qualify. Ask questions such as:

  • Does he own his home?
  • Is there a non-shaded roof?
  • Does he have public debts?

Related: Power Up Solar Marketing with Outsourced Lead Gen Services

Step #5: Lead Status

The sales team will identify and tag the lead as:

  • Accept. Qualified lead.
  • Decline.

– Lead is not qualified

– Low quality leads and to be transferred into the lead archive to be reassigned for further nurturing.

Related: Ever thought of following up Inbound Leads via Outbound Marketing?

Step #6: Opportunity

If the lead is qualified, an appointment will be set with a Consultant from a Solar installation company for a free assessment.

Step #7: Assessment.

Solar Installation Company visits and conducts their free assessment.

Step #8: Contract Signing

If the prospect is eager to buy then the deal is closed. All information was gathered to prepare all the necessary documents needed.

Related: How to Future-Proof Your Energy Company’s Marketing Strategy

Whether you hire a lead generation company or have your own team to do this, it is best to know how solar lead generation works to make sure you meet your goals.

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