Originally Posted by Anteater (Post 2074879)

What color is the sky?

Originally Posted by Frownland (Post 2074881)

Ivory.

Originally Posted by Anteater (Post 2074879)

When you work for a marketing company that has clients in specific niches (like real estate, insurance, certain kinds of medical services, technology products, etc.), then qualifying a lead would be taking a call from someone who opted in via Facebook Messenger (or booked an appointment via that business's online calendar) to your company who is interested in the services those clients provide their target market. All sales organizations have people who handle different stages depending on where that lead is in the sales cycle.

This is different from what Frown keeps bringing up. In a telemarketing job, your primary goal is to make outbound calls to businesses on a list of some kind, but in most cases the close rates on those aren't high because they're cold traffic. In most cases, they've probably never even heard of the company you are calling for.

Originally Posted by Frownland (Post 2074886)

That's like saying that print marketing isn't marketing because digital marketing operates differently. It's cleanly in the same category (and still sucks pretty bad).

Originally Posted by Anteater (Post 2074887)

I disagree. Someone who is already 80 to 90% sold on your company before you even talk to them is way better than trying to build brand awareness with somebody you randomly called on a list.

Originally Posted by Frownland (Post 2074888)

It's a better telemarketing tactic than cold calls but it's still telemarketing dawg.

And trust me, those leads are still only marginally better than cold calls. You just get a bunch of people who have the time to waste that don't give a **** about your product. I'd rather get hung up on.

Originally Posted by elphenor (Post 2074889)

I sold actual vacation packages, but other companies had strictly lead generators

and damn did it look like they were getting Timeshared

they only got paid for the "good leads" which, you know, the sales reps are going to consider exactly Zero of the sales they don't make to have been good leads

I got paid regardless of whether they actually got suckered into the scam part, I always told them upfront not to buy anything once they got to the resort

Originally Posted by Anteater (Post 2074890)

Why do you think every CRM software on the planet makes distinctions between different kinds of leads?

Originally Posted by elphenor (Post 2074807)

tomorrow looks like:

-wake up at 6am
-arrive on campus by 7 to scout out where the **** my classes are at
-begin Maths at 8
-finish classes at ~12
-go home and attempt to eat
-go to work at 3
-end work at 11pm