Appointment Setter
Use a friendly telephone manner to obtain sales appointments and support the sales objectives of a business.
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- What's it like to be an Appointment Setter?
- How to become an Appointment Setter
- Latest Appointment Setter jobs
- Top skills and experience for Appointment Setters
- Is Appointment Setter the right role for you?
- Appointment Setter role reviews
What's it like to be an Appointment Setter?
Appointment Setters use telemarketing skills to support the sales function of a business. They initiate telephone conversations to engage leads (potential customers) sourced from a database.Did you find this video helpful?
Tasks and duties
- Creating interest in goods and services and seeking a sale or agreement to a sales appointment.
- Working from scripts and lists of contacts to promote goods and services by telephone.
- Arranging processing and despatch of product samples, information kits and brochures to customers.
- Recording notes for follow-up action and updating marketing databases to reflect changes to the status of each customer.
- Reporting issues raised by contacts to managers.
- Maintaining statistics of calls made and successes achieved.
- Submitting periodic reports on telemarketing activities and results.
- Receiving calls and providing information and basic customer support.
How to become an Appointment Setter
A high level of customer service, a friendly and professional telephone manner and basic record keeping abilities are necessary to work as an Appointment Setter. On-the-job-training is usually provided.
- 1.Consider completing an online short course in office administration to enhance your computer proficiency and record keeping abilities.
- 2.Consider completing formal training in customer service, such as a Certificate III in Business (Customer Engagement) (BSB30120).
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Skills and experience employers are looking for
Having the right skills and experience can make you an in-demand applicant. Appointment Setter employers on SEEK are looking for job seekers with expertise in the following areas. Appointment Setting
Outbound Call Centre
Sales Cold Calls
CRM Software
Sales
Rapport Building
Phone Etiquette
Lead Generation
English
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Latest Appointment Setter reviews
3.0Nov 2018
'Appointment setting is not as easy as it sounds'
Reviewer's QualificationCertificate III in Human Services
Experience1 – 4 years
Organisation sizeSmall (1-19 employees)
SpecialisationInvestment properties
The good thingsThe good things; dealing with the public, good work environment and salary can be quite good.
The negative things; I have found quite often I am calling people who have been called by other companies,...
The challengesMy biggest challenge was getting my KPI's or over set KPI's for reasons I outlined in question 12. The words ruthless and pushy come to mind but then you can't be too much of either...or you will lose...
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4.0Nov 2018
Cold calling can be hard and you get a lot of rejection but when you win it is a great feeling
Reviewer's QualificationCertificate III in Business Administration
Experience1 – 4 years
Organisation sizeMedium (20-199 employees)
SpecialisationSales
The good thingsHaving autonomy
Having good systems
Having a few things to focus on
Having achievable kpi
The challengesLearning complex products
Having limited time
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