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Are You Managing or Just Nagging?

Great Leadership By Dan

Examples include (correlated to the performance list above): - Not following up on telemarketing leads. Could you make the same connection between developers that code with IPods plugged in and those that don’t? At worst, it’s an obnoxious abuse of power, or discriminatory, that will lead to turnover of talented employees or lawsuits.

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10 Key Things to Avoid in B2B Cold Calling

Strategy Driven

The above suggests that telemarketers have some way to go in terms of provision of information from a telemarketing call. Fail to Plan and plan to fail” is a well-used expression and it definitely applies to telemarketing. A telemarketer that just trusts to luck is likely to fail. Don’t Sound like a Telemarketer.

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Credibility Crisis: 4 Sure-Fire Strategies for Cultivating Consumer Trust

Strategy Driven

From telemarketer calls coming in at dinnertime or, worse, before the alarm sounds in the morning; an endless stream of SPAM e-mails jamming inboxes; and mailboxes overflowing with white mail that proceeds directly to the recycle trash bin, statistics show that consumers can be bombarded with more than 300,000 messages every day.

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Closing the Gap Between Blue Ocean Strategy and Execution

Harvard Business Review

For any strategy to be successful and sustainable, an organization must develop an offering that attracts buyers; it must create a business model that enables the company to make money out of its offering; and it must motivate the people working for or with the company to execute the strategy. This is a trap many companies fall into.