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  • Chitwan Malhotra

    Chitwan Malhotra 10:04 PM on April 18, 2010 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment
    Tags: , , sales   

    3CLogic – Managing Your Business Leads 

    Leads are the base of business activities when it comes to Call Center Solution especially Outbound. More or less, all actions at call centre are aimed at “Converting leads to customers.”

    It’s mandatory for a call center to manage these leads properly and transform these leads into potential customers. It is not only brand loss, but even wastage of important lead, if the call center agents approaches it at an inappropriate time (as per his/her time zone). Most of the times, it has been found that your hot lead may turn into your competitors customer, if you call it an hour prior.

    In simple words, leads are contact details of a potential customer whom the agent needs to contact. These leads are basically package deal which carries a lot of information that may enable an agent to convert every opportunity into a profitable customer.

    Right from lead acquisition to post sales reporting, 3CLogic provides best solutions by tracking HOT leads first and closing them as sales. For others, prioritizing consistent lead follow ups with easy to apply recycling policies.  This is how we manage our leads in a better way:

    1. Lead Acquisition
      Lead Acquisition 
 Lead sources could be distinct. They could come from Web based forms or via formatted batch data files like Microsoft Excel or CSV. 3CLogic provides sophisticated Lead import functionalities to cover all these areas. One can easily embed lead collection widgets into web pages of their marketing partners, or into campaign banners, prospective customers can fill in their information right there and turn into HOT leads of your system. Available agent calls these leads and converts them into sales.(More on Click-4-Agent here)
    2. Lead Tracking
      Imported leads in the System can be tracked quickly using various search options, besides customized filters provide an efficient way to track the exact lead you are looking for. Filtered leads can be grouped together into lead lists and this provides one of the best ways to cluster up your leads into different groups and manage each of them accordingly.
    3. Lead Updates
      For large organizations, where each agent deals with hundreds of leads daily it’s an effort to update leads related data. As every lead that has got changed after it was imported into the system (changed his email, her address etc), this effort un-folded for each agent dealing with his own batch of assigned leads is substantial. System should be up to date always and agents should not waste time by contacting incorrect numbers. Bulk lead update feature of 3CLogic allows modifying multiple lead attributes efficiently. Various update sources can be merged to trigger bulk update of leads in just no time.

    No Matter how you are generating your sales leads, if you are not managing them properly you could be simply wasting money. 3Clogic ports all the best of features into one application that can help you to improve the way you handle your leads.

     
  • Amarveer Singh

    Amarveer Singh 12:00 AM on February 10, 2010 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment
    Tags: , dialer ROI, , portable contact center, sales, Telephony Application Grid   

    Portable Contact Center – I knew you would say – Really? 

    “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy” – Yeah, same old proverb, but can very easily be related to business management problem?
    Persistent Sales Inc, a contact center with 30 seats had a series of issues:

    1. The company had planned its annual off-site meet of agents with their families during month end at Las Vegas, Nevada
    2. The company had failed to meet its sales target for the month. They were already into week 3 and meeting next week meant losing account, if they failed to catch up last month.
    3. Agents were bored with monotonous work and off-site meet was company’s idea to break this monotony.
    4. The agents were really looking forward to this break at LA.

    Steve, the account manager was restless and worried. He is certain that he needs to cancel the company off-site trip knowing that would not go down well with the agents. He decides to break the news to the agents post lunch.

    Steve settles down for lunch and picks up a copy of the newspaper, flips around and hits upon an article on “Portable Devices” elaborating the way laptops, notebooks, mobile phones etc changed our life……and Bingo! He knows what needs to be done! 
The distributed dialer solution from 3clogic that his company incorporated a couple of months back was a solution to his business management problem!……..He thinks aloud in his mind – “For one week we are porting our contact center to Las Vegas”
So he proposes a deal to the agents:

    1. Morning 9AM to 2PM they make sales calls.
    2. Evening’s they enjoy Las Vegas.

    “So what do we need to carry with us?” questions an agent, Steve says “minimal equipment, one laptop per agent and a headset…..That’s it!”… Smiles, your browser may not support display of this image.

    The resort Bally’s, on the strip in Las Vegas,  where they proposed to stay had Wi-Fi connections in all rooms, that’s all they would need to get down to work, the central hosted management portal would still be able to do lead management, live monitoring and reporting!
Steve ran the contact center from Las Vegas for a week, coupled with team building exercise in the evening, they made 32% more sales than any week they had in the previous year and before I forget, yes they did meet the target.

    On the last day of the week, when Steve met his agents for dinner, he raised a toast with his bottle of beer … all he said was “Cheers!”

    Persistent sales still successfully runs the account and yes Portable contact centers is not fiction! Distributed Dialers and Telephony Application Grid from 3clogic, makes this a cake walk!

     
    • Tanvir Alam

      Tanvir Alam 2:03 AM on February 10, 2010 Permalink

      All you need a laptop,internet and headset, you are up and running. it’s a cool concept, It’s true callcenter in your bag.

    • Raj Sharma

      Raj Sharma 10:14 AM on February 10, 2010 Permalink

      The work-at-home agent concept sounds great and it seems it s a no-brainer for large and small Call Centers. In the past it had not been that easy to implement. Even some of the pioneering companies like JetBlue have not completely moved to work-at-home agents. They allow their agents to work from home 2-3 days a week. This is because the technology is a barrier – virtual ports on their Call Center switch are expensive and complex to implement. With what you are describing, technology no longer poses a barrier. It is about time that more and more companies opt for virtual call centers.

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