Heroes, every day. That’s how we’re feeling about our nurses and doctors, our police officers and paramedics, our hairdressers and barbers, and our local restaurants and grocery stores, too. All of those folks are providing us with the essentials we need to stay healthy, happy, and safe. We feel very grateful for their dedication, sacrifice, and grit. https://belleslink.wistia.com/medias/95j6qx2m0q?embedType=async&videoFoam=true&videoWidth=640 Heroes Included in this week’s … [Read more...]
BellesLink Batch Search Overview: How-To Tips
It’s been a while since we’ve done a BellesLink Batch Search Overview, so in this post, we’ll review the basic how-to’s and give you some tips for getting the best results. Watch the video then read the post for extra resources on batch file setup, searching businesses, LLCs, and family trusts. Let’s get started by reviewing what's included in Batch Search. Video Tutorial: Batch Search … [Read more...]
BellesLink Basic Plan Overview-What’s Included
The BellesLink Basic Plan is a pay-as-you-go subscription that’s great for businesses who only need Batch Search or who are just getting started using public records data. In this overview, we’ll take a look at the features that are included and how you can use them for skip tracing and people search. When you log into your account, you'll land on the dashboard where you’ll find all the tools available to you in the Basic Plan. You can begin a new batch skip trace search, or begin a new … [Read more...]
Paulie Staying Home Playlist 2
This past week I’ve felt a mix of emotions about the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on our country and the world. Those emotions have definitely shown up in the tunes that landed in this week’s playlist. https://belleslink.wistia.com/medias/gj2ga5xbea?mbedType=async&videoFoam=true&videoWidth=640 Iris DeMent’s romp, Trouble, hits with the certainty of the blues we all know during difficult times and The Beatles’ Help! reminds us there are people around us we can turn to, if only we … [Read more...]
Paulie Staying Home Playlist 1
Throughout my life, music has always been the thing I turn to. When life is good, music helps me celebrate the moment. When things are tough, music lifts me up and gives me hope. If you’re like me, your life has a soundtrack that tells the story of your ups and downs, hopes and worries, loves and losses. While we all deal with the uncertainty and separation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, I think it’s a great time to put some music on the stereo and turn it up until it feels right. I … [Read more...]
Voicemail Drop Messages are a Sales Dialer Super Power
Sales dialers save you time by eliminating the need to physically dial phone numbers. But there is another feature of BellesLink’s Contact Dialer that will save you even more time, and give your cold-call game a huge boost, voicemail drop messages. Voicemail drop messages are a sales dialer super power. What is a Voicemail Drop? A voicemail drop is a type of voicemail automation that is designed to accelerate the process of leaving voicemail messages. It allows a pre-recorded message to … [Read more...]
Your Sales Dialer Should Not Be An Autodialer
If you have a business that uses cold calling as a way to contact customers, you should be using a sales dialer to make your calls. Why? It will save you time and make your workflow more efficient. Choose wisely though. Your sales dialer should not be an autodialer. Auto-dialing, predictive-dialing, and agent-assisted dialing are technologies better left to scammers and telemarketers, not salespeople. Autodialers are all about volume, making the most number of calls in the shortest amount of … [Read more...]
Sales Dialer ROI-Call Disposition Data
When we talk about sales dialer return on investment or sales dialer ROI, we’re not just looking at how many leads, deals, or sales came from your calls. We are also looking at the efficiency of your calls and how much time you don’t waste doing things manually, that you could automatically. Call dispositions are one of the small things that make a big difference when you automate them. Automated, or one-click, dispositions make your calls more efficient and give you performance data you can … [Read more...]
How Salesdialers Fit Small Businesses
Salesdialers are popular with businesses that have big teams who make lots of calls because they save time by eliminating number dialing and manual voicemails. Smaller teams can save time, too, but it requires a different dialer solution. How salesdialers fit small businesses is a question of both dialer features and calling approach. Sales Dialers and Small Businesses Small businesses that use people search and skip tracing tools like BellesLink are often using cold calls as a way to … [Read more...]
How to Cold Call Skip Trace Phone Numbers
Across all the different types of businesses that skip trace phone numbers, what do you think is the most effective way to contact potential customers? Is it a robo-call, a ringless voicemail, a text, a phone call, or something else? If you picked the good, old-fashioned cold call, you are right. In fact cold calling still has a higher response rate than any of those other contact methods. What’s Your Contact Goal? According to Salesforce, telephone calls to a prospect list deliver … [Read more...]