The Importance of Great Phone Skills

Ken Peterson, CEO of Encharter Insurance knows that driving traffic on the web is good for business, but good marketing doesn’t stop there. In this interview with Tim Sawyer, Peterson talks about beefing up his company’s phone skills in order to make his sales team successful.

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  1. Will Penny

    July 16, 2010 at 11:13 am

    Great video! Phone skills are critical to agency success.

  2. Rachael Segarra

    August 17, 2010 at 6:29 am

    Great video! We are doing something similar, but definitely took a lot of positive from this and will implement the “one step further” with our training as well. Thanks!

    Rachael with Lloyd Pro Group Insurance

  3. Joe

    November 12, 2010 at 3:18 pm

    Phone skills and leads are critical to agency success!!
    http://bestinsurancequotes4u.com/

  4. Sharon

    December 9, 2010 at 6:50 pm

    Phone skills are important not only for agencies but also for larger company Marketing People such as myself in Business Development. Follow-up is crucial in building relationships and good phone and people skills are a necessity in todays market. Empathy is very important. Listening and finding your connection with that other person is very important.

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