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Definitions
1. The use of the telephone as an interactive medium for promotion and sales 2. The business of selling products or services by making telephone calls to potential customers 3. Using the telephone: (a) to make sales directly; or (b) to develop customer relationships and customer care programmes
History
In 1950s, Dial America Marketing Inc . The term telemarketing was first used extensively in the late 1970s to describe Bell System communications which related to new uses for the outbound WATS and inbound Tollfree services.
Why Telemarketing
1. Minimisation of cost. 2. Provides employment at large level 3. Brings technology and thus saves time. 4. High tech companies are increasingly looking to reduce costs and drive revenues by outsourcing particularly in the current economic climate
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