There are times when the telemarketing company is approached by a business firm with a detailed marketing plan. The business firm wants the call center to just go out and execute the plan. In such cases, the business firm is only looking for the execution part of the telemarketing services and that is why they want to hire a BPO. There is a slight catch here. That is, if you are hiring experts of the call center services, why not let them plan your campaign as well? They are handling such projects almost on a daily basis. It may be that your project is different from others, but here are some reasons why you must allow the BPO service firm to make a plan for you:

1. Experience: Telemarketing companies have a field experience of dealing with projects that require answering service and lead generation. They know what it takes to get a call center project off the tarmac. They can do it without additional expenses that are bound to occur when the agents on your team are fresh off the training rooms. Telemarketing services would need experience in the later stages of the project as well, not just to show the way and come to a clinching finale, but also to ward off obstacles. Projects getting stuck because of BPO hitches mean waste of money in unproductive expenditures. When you hire a BPO service firm that can tackle these unforeseen hurdles with the help of experience, you are saving yourself time and money.

2. Skills: The planners of the telemarketing firms are known to be of expertise in their fields. They know how to conduct telemarketing services operations according to the requirements of the clients and the industry-recommended standards. In-house employees of business firms don't usually have these skills because they do not work on a variety of projects that call center agents do. If it's a retail firm, their in-house team is more likely to have worked only on retail. But the BPO firm will have handled a lot many other domains other than retail. This puts them in a better position to call the shots and decide that's best for the business firm in question.

3. Data: Telemarketing companies have an integrated database, built over time and with considerable effort. The sketching of a telemarketing services plan is impossible without the help of this data bank. Call centers can help any business firm build up a marketing plan because they have market research data and other statistics at their finger tips. The BPO firms base their plans and marketing flowcharts on the help of the available data. The call center services agents are also keen on conducting research operations of their own to build up their research and development (R&D) bank. The data bank is valuable not just for the business process outsourcing firm. It also helps the business firms that hire them. When you have such access to interesting and definite data on your fingertips, why will you base your plans on intangible speculations?