What you should demand in your Telephone Dialer

A telephone dialer is a combination of hardware and software that allows a sales agent to more effectively make a call. Companies or organizations that make a large volume of calls each day should consider obtaining a telephone dialer through an established host site. In this arrangement the hosting company will be responsible to resolve any technical problems and will be responsible for the purchasing and maintenance of the hardware needed for the dialer. In exchange hey will provide their software for you to use for a monthly fee.
Not all dialers are made the same, and there are certain traits that you should demand in your telephone dialer systems.

Look for a telephone dialer that will work with your existing CRM (Customer Relationship Management System). Hosted CRM's will provide your business with the organization you need to quickly and accurately keep track of leads generated. When powered with a telephone dialer that will automatically process leads generated from sources like forms on your company website, your sales team will be able to contact incoming leads within minutes of receiving them, which is absolutely crucial to converting those leads into paying clients. Having a telephone dialer that will work effectively will provide your agents with the numbers they should call, freeing them from remembering details like callback times – the telephone dialer and CRM team will do the remembering for them.

To save time in the menial and monotonous tasks of manually dialing phone numbers each work day a telephone dialer should have the ability to make a phone call with a single click of the mouse. Additionally a telephone dialer should have the option to automatically record a call, hang up, leave a voice message if a lead is unavailable, or send an email automatically to the potential customer, all with a simple single click. Look for phrases such as “click to call” when viewing the features of a potential telephone dialer.

Your telephone dialer should be able to automatically call through a list of contacts, and patch through only those leads that answer their phones. This system is referred to as a power dialer, and will dramatically cut down on the time wasted by each employee who has to sit through pointless minutes of rings and voice mail with each potential customer. This is one of the ways a telephone dialer can protect your companies time and boost its revenue.

Lead routing is the last feature you should demand in a telephone dialer. This program decides based on the parameters you gave it which agent answers which incoming calls, allowing you to make sure that those toll free numbers you've provided to your customers will always connect them to the right department.