Faculty Publications
Document Type
Guide
Keywords
Career Awareness; Cooperative Programs; Coordination; Entrepreneurship
Abstract
This curriculum guide and content outline for the telemarketing entry-level position contains seven sections: (1) specialized telemarketing tasks; (2) telemarketing selling skills; (3) marketing tasks; (4) business-related tasks; (5) business-specific tasks; (6) personnel/human resources-related tasks; and (7) communications and minimum skill tasks. Each section includes an introduction and topics covered; purpose; objective(s); activities; evaluation; resources; content outline; and additional topics. Section 1 contains the following units: telephone manners; telemarketing in relation to the firm; personal minimum skills; telephone as a marketing tool; telemarketing trends; telephone procedures; dimensions; marketing techniques; and telemarketing and marketing mix. Section 2 covers these topics: attention techniques; customer relations; customer rapport; product benefits; building rapport; handling objections; closing techniques; special objections/complaint techniques; professional; vocal; image techniques; and appointments and call backs. In section 3; the topics are as follows: marketing; competition; daily calculations/sales; and inventory control. Section 4 deals with computer keyboarding and consumer laws. Section 5 covers consumer credit limits and collection procedures. The subjects of section 6 include: letters of application; job interviews; consumer behavior; goal setting; career searches; and job search techniques. Section 7 contains communications and minimum skill tasks. (NLA)
Department
Department of Marketing
Original Publication Date
1987
Object Description
1 PDF file (109 pages)
Repository
UNI ScholarWorks, Rod Library, University of Northern Iowa
Copyright
©1987 Del Shepard
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Shepard, Del, "Telemarketing. Curriculum Guides and Content Outlines for Telemarketing: Entry-Level Position." (1987). Faculty Publications. 5666.
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/facpub/5666
Comments
ERIC Document - ED339900 found in the ERIC Database