Thursday, August 14, 2008

The Importance in Research Before Purchasing a Dialing System

If you are reading this, you are probably looking into some sort of dialing technology. Good for you! Dialing technology can and will help your company for the better, and it starts when you buy a dialer. They contact your leads, they store information, they take information, they can help your leads and so much more. Most of these things come with a system, but you need the right one. Not just any old dialer can work for anything. Each one is made for a certain area, and you should probably look into which does what before you buy. You need too!


How do you go about doing something like that? How do you find the information that you need? You need to be consistent with what you do. There are a ton of websites out there that can help you so much. It isn't hard to find most of them. Just some common sense. Another thing to help you out: write down a list of questions that you would ask the different service providers. Have them be deep, meaningful questions. When you are calling around to different providers, and you ask them good solid questions, it will be easier to tell if they are committed to you and your business. Good companies will tell you the truth and won't beat around the bush, trying to get away from certain inquiries. You will know a good provider when you see one.


Remember that you aren't the only one who will be using the dialer that you choose. Your employees, sales reps, IT, etc. will all use it. Be mindful of what they need too. Ask around your office. Some input can be very useful. You get an idea for what your employees need. This is key. They will play a huge role in the success of you purchasing the right dialer. Mixing and matching dialers and providers is an extremely bad idea because it might not work the way that you thought it would, and it would be a terrible waste of time and money.


Researching your needs and the needs of the company is also very helpful, because it gives you more confidence and often cuts the time for you to make the decision nearly in half. Here is something else that is very smart to do. Keep two or three vendors in the race before you make your final decision. Notify each that you are looking into those other companies. Giving them competition makes them work harder for you, plus you can see their true colors and the way they work in a dead heat race to the finish. A great website that i found that can help you in your research is DialerEvaluation.com. Hopefully you can take advantage of this information, and find your choice dialer.

Tucker Case is a lead management specialist focusing on marketing software. For more information on multimedia lead response strategies like dialer, email, voice messaging, fax, direct mail and voice broadcast tools, please visit Inside Sales.

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