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Skip Tracing Results Explained: First-Best vs Near-Best Results

February 12, 2021 By Jeff Mason Leave a Comment

Skip Tracing Result Explained: First-Best vs Near-Best search results.

Many small businesses have become skip tracing data buyers. There are some misconceptions, though, about what these businesses are actually buying. Few have had the different types of skip tracing results explained to them. In this post, we’re going to correct a part of that. There are two types of skip tracing searches, single and batch. The results they give you might look the same, but they are different in one very important way. A batch search only gives you a first-best result. A single … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Batch People Search, Bulk Skip Tracing, People Search

Upload Multiple Numbers Per Person To a Contact Dialer Call List

January 12, 2021 By Jeff Mason Leave a Comment

Contact dialer call list uploader

We recently updated our call list import process so you can now upload multiple numbers per person to a Contact Dialer Call List when your spreadsheet has more than one number column. When you’re creating a list of people you want to call, it’s likely you have more than one phone number for each person. Before now, you would have to duplicate the person in your spreadsheet for each of their numbers. Now, you can have up to five numbers for each person. When you import to a call list, you … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Sales Dialer, Virtual Phone & Text

Skip Tracing Hit Rate. Why Does It Matter?

November 18, 2020 By Jeff Mason Leave a Comment

This small business entrepreneur is checking the skip tracing hit rate.

We report the skip tracing hit rate on every batch search and we report our monthly average hit rate right on our website. What is a hit rate and why does it matter? What is a Skip Tracing Hit Rate? The hit rate equals the number of skip tracing results, divided by the total number of searches. It’s written as a percentage. For example, if you batch skip traced a list of 100 name and address records, and your search results returned information for 81 of those records, the hit rate … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Batch People Search, Bulk Skip Tracing

How to Transfer a Call to Another User

August 31, 2020 By Jeff Mason Leave a Comment

Transfer a call to another logged in user in your BellesLink account.

If your BellesLink account has multiple users, you can transfer a call from one logged-in user to another. This is most useful when you have a virtual assistant making calls, because they can transfer the call to someone who can close the sale, instead of scheduling a callback that may never be answered. Transferring a call is similar to adding a call, with one big difference. In a call transfer only two people are ever on the call at once, the customer and the caller or the customer and the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Virtual Phone & Text

How to Add a Call: Conferencing a Second Number

August 21, 2020 By Jeff Mason Leave a Comment

You can add a call to conference another person into an active BellesLink call.

When using the Contact Dialer, the Add a Call link will appear below the Hangup button when you’re on an active call. When you click the link, the Add a Call dialog box will open. Enter the number of the person you want to add and click the green Call button. The call button will put your first call on hold, so be sure to tell that person. When your added call is answered, you can conference it with the first call by clicking the green Merge button. Once the calls are merged you can use the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Virtual Phone & Text

BellesLink Pro and Business Plan Overview-What’s Included

August 10, 2020 By Jeff Mason Leave a Comment

Like a building that rising, a BellesLink Pro and Business Plan lets you scale your skip tracing workflow.

For businesses who use skip tracing and cold calling in their sales and marketing process, the BellesLink Pro and Business plan brings everything you need into one app. You no longer have to subscribe to multiple web apps to go from a skip trace search to a phone call contact. Using just BellesLink you can search a current phone number for a lead and get them on the phone, with just a few clicks. If you want to scale your workflow, you can batch skip trace a list and send it to the our … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Batch People Search, Bulk Skip Tracing, People Search, Sales Dialer, Virtual Phone & Text

The Contact Dialer: A Preview Dialer For Batch Search

June 22, 2020 By Jeff Mason Leave a Comment

A real estate investor is calling a list of customers using the Contact Dialer, BellesLink’s built-in preview dialer.

If your business makes a lot of phone calls, a preview dialer is something you should consider adding to your workflow because it can save you a lot of time and improve the return on investment, or ROI, of your calling campaigns. This post will give you an overview of the Contact Dialer, BellesLink’s built-in preview dialer. What Is A Preview Dialer? A preview dialer is an automated telephone dialing system that saves you the time of manually dialing numbers but still gives you … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Batch People Search, Sales Dialer

Batch Skip Tracing Results Explained

June 16, 2020 By Jeff Mason Leave a Comment

A real estate investor is reviewing her batch skip tracing results on her laptop.

The first time you get your batch skip tracing results it can be intimidating. You’re looking a spreadsheet with a couple dozen columns, filled with data, and it’s difficult to tell what data is in which column. If you have felt this way, don’t worry. This post will help you make sense of all those columns. No one is born knowing how to work with spreadsheets, it just takes a little guidance and practice. Let’s get started. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Batch People Search

BellesLink Phone and Text System: What’s Included

June 9, 2020 By Jeff Mason Leave a Comment

A real estate investor is contacting clients using BellesLink's phone and text system.

One of the things that makes BellesLink unique is our phone and text system. Combined with our people searches and skip tracing searches, our virtual phone features let you find contact information for a customer and contact them by phone or text, all in one app. A Phone and Text System Our virtual phone and text system is full-featured and includes all the essentials you would expect from any business phone system. Local & Toll-Free Numbers Inbound/Outbound Calls Unlimited … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Virtual Phone & Text

Deep Search Results from Single People Searches and Asset Searches

June 2, 2020 By Jeff Mason Leave a Comment

An investigator using a single people search to lookup a phone number.

Single people searches are the heart of skip tracing. We call them single searches because, unlike a batch skip trace, they are searches you do one at a time. To use them, you manually enter the search inputs, such as a name and an address or a property address. There are two categories of single searches, people-focused and asset focused. Single People Searches People-focused searches, such as people search, reverse address search, or reverse number search start with different search … [Read more...]

Filed Under: People Search

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