General Outbound Sales MCQs

1. What does CRM stand for?

2. What is the definition of "Primacy Effect"?

3. What is the key point to emphasize when recommending a product to a prospect?

4. When making phone calls you should:

5. Providing the best possible customer service and building customer loyalty are traits of what type of selling?

6. Telling a customer that prices will increase in the coming week is a __________.

7. True or false? When making a sales call you should always do most of the talking.

8. What is upselling?

9. The process of calling potential clients without an introduction is called _________.

10. What do you call the pre-sales activity of identifying potential customers and their willingness to pay?

11. An acceptable closing outcome from a customer meeting can be another meeting?

12. What is the best time to call the customer’s home?

13. The first step of sales is to __________.

14. True or false? You should never follow up a cold email with a phone call.

15. Which of the following is MOST effective for a buyer with an analytical personality type?

16. To build a sustainable business, which of the following should a salesperson invest the most efforts in?

17. When first engaging with a prospect, it is best to use _______ questions.

18. When qualifying your prospect, how can you test to determine how engaged he/she is with you?

19. True or false? There is no need for the marketing and the sales department to communicate.

20. The process of helping a customer reach their strategic goals is what type of selling?

21. When qualifying a prospect, what are the most effective types of questions to ask?

22. _______ selling is a methodology that focuses on solving a customer's pains or needs.

23. Generally, you can think of _______ as the strategy and ______ as the execution.

24. Which of the following communication skills is, in general, the most important for sales people to develop?

25. _____ a lead is the process of making sure a lead is a viable candidate.

26. In the customer problem identification process, what is the next best step once a pain point is revealed?

27. What is a commission?

28. What does the 80-20 rule indicate?

29. The more often you call a client, eventually the incremental value is worth less than the costs of making the calls. This is an example of ________ .

30. ______ is the process of acquiring information to ensure that clients will benefit from a product.

31. What is a common cause of a "sales trap"?

32. What is the main benefit of qualifying questions during the sales process?

33. What is the definition of "the Recency Effect"?

34. Which of the following is not an example of Outbound Selling?

35. Who enforces the National Do Not Call Registry?

36. True or false? A sale contract is only official when it is written in document form.

37. Are oral agreements legally binding?

38. Telemarketing is a form of ______ sales.

39. Solution selling is a form of _______ selling.

40. What are three phases of the product cycle?

41. A buyer that likes to focus on the big picture over details has what type of buyer personality?

42. What are the radical qualities which a teleselling agent needs to have to perform

43. Which part of an outbound sales script needs to be recorded?

44. What does sign-posting mean in an outbound sales scenario?

45. Which of the following are some of the effective skills that an agent should possess in order to achieve the target?

46. What is the main aim of a sales executive in an outbound sales process?

47. Suppose you are a TME for a telecom company and you call a prospective customer to sell your company's product. However, during the conversation, you realize that the customer is not interested as he clearly says "I don't need one". What will be your next statement?

48. What does EST mean in outbound sales?

49. Which of the following statements would be appropriate for establishing the need for a particular product (e.g. a credit card) during an outbound sales pitch?

50. Which of the following are important ways to contact the decision maker in an outbound sales scenario?

51. A sales presentation should have _______ to be effective and successful. *

52. What is the best time to call a working couple for making an outbound sales proposal?

53. If a customer demands that he should never be contacted again for the sale of the product in question, his name should be listed on the:

54. How will you, as a telecalling executive, convince a customer who is refusing to divulge personal information like social security number or banking information to do so?

55. What is SPH in outbound sales terminology?

57. Which of the following skill sets is essential in telesales to improve conversation rates?

58. Suppose you are a TME and you get an underage listener on the line. How will you proceed with the conversation?

61. A telemarketing executive, Charles, wants to sell a product from Nokia. Which of the following are the correct ways to open the call?

62. Who is the decision maker in an outbound sales process?

63. What are the two important means of verification of the contractual part of a sale?

64. In order to build a rapport with a customer, which of the following tactics would you, as a teleselling executive, use?

65. If a TCR receives a buying signal from his prospective client, what does it imply?

66. Which of the following opinions regarding grammar and usage is true while making calls?

67. What is the definition of the AIDA model?

68. While making an outbound call, if you, as a telemarketing executive(TME), are not able to get the target customer and the call is answered by a member of his/her family, what will be your next step?

69. What are the necessary attitudes to be kept in mind while closing a sale?

70. Which of the following functions does a gatekeeper perform?

71. How can a telecalling executive get off to a successful start when opening a call?

72. What does the term 'gatekeeper' mean in a sales scenario?

73. You are a telecalling executive. When you ask for the prospective customer on the phone, the assistant answers the call. Which of the following sentences would be more appropriate in this scenario?

74. If your prospective customer is already using a similar product as the one you are trying to sell but of a different make/company, what would you do?

75. Who should control the flow of conversation in a successful telesales pitch?

76. What are the recommended attitudes that a telemarketing executive should employ to improve cold call prospecting?

77. While commencing on a sales campaign, the telecalling representative has been asked to divulge only the USP of the product his company is promoting. What would be the focus of his conversation with the prospective client?

78. What is an IVR?

79. What does the term 'upselling' mean in an outbound scenario?

80. What is Average Wait Time in an outbound telecalling process?

81. What are the radical qualities which a teleselling agent needs to have to perform well?

82. An inbound sales strategy focuses on identifying people who _________.