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...]
How to Transfer a Call to Another User
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...]
How to Add a Call: Conferencing a Second Number
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...]
BellesLink Pro and Business Plan Overview-What’s Included
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...]
The Contact Dialer: A Preview Dialer For Batch Search
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...]
Batch Skip Tracing Results Explained
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...]
BellesLink Phone and Text System: What’s Included
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...]
Deep Search Results from Single People Searches and Asset Searches
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...]
Paulie Staying Home Playlist 4
Welcome to the forth and final playlist in this series. When we started this project, COVID-19 was spreading across the U.S., and the country was shutting down. Our lives went from 100 miles per hour to a slow crawl in an instant. Now, as our cities and states are starting to open up, we hope that we will all take a cautious approach and walk, not run. https://belleslink.wistia.com/medias/pr9tny3ymy?embedType=async&videoFoam=true&videoWidth=640 In that spirit, this playlist … [Read more...]
See the ROI of Your Search with Batch Skip Tracing Search Stats
Businesses who use batch skip tracing often find themselves asking two questions. I just bought a lead list. How do I know if the names and addresses are accurate? I’ve bought a batch skip tracing search from two companies. How do I know which search result is better? We’ve added batch skip tracing search stats to BellesLink to help you answer both those questions and to help you understand the return on investment you get from every BellesLink batch skip tracing search. … [Read more...]