This service covers advertising and direct response management. We include
 

1. Short code set up using third parties

2. 1800 Toll Free Line Set up

3. Call handling

4. Outbound call for closure

Some of the key areas include
 

1. Contests and Promotion

2. Enrollment in programs

3. Sampling

4. Inbound lead generation

5. Inbound research

6. Ecommerce sales on phone

Consumers have very little time. Thanks to Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg and other pioneers of modern world technology, we have a lot of content to digest. As a brand that advertises in newspapers, magazines and television, you are really competing with many content sources. So how about creating a direct response mechanism on your advertisements?

Direct response is least effective when you try and take consumers form offline to online Very often we see an ad in the newspaper that gives us an email address or website to visit and we just move over to the next page. No wonder print and TV ads are used more for brand building and less for driving website traffic – for that there are google, Facebook and more cost-effective ways to reach consumers using digital medium.

So how does a marketer get consumers to see a print or TV ad and then contact the company and generate an enquiry or an order?

Using Direct Response Call to Action is a very good way to get consumers to generate enquiries or place orders. It’s easy to pick up the phone and call or send an sms.

There are several ways to take in responses
 

1. Live Call Centre – have a trained live customer service or sales rep take the calls

2. IVR and Voice Mail Service – get consumers to leave a message which is transcribed and then compiled for the brand to take action

3. Missed Call Service is one where the consumer calls a number and the call is disconnected on receipt, while the number is taken into the direct response system

What is the most cost effective method for direct response?

One cost effective and manageable method is the missed call service. And why do we call it ‘Manageable’? Because you don’t need a room full of call centre executives to take in campaign responses that may be at a peak for 2-3 hours maximum. For one, it will be expensive. Then there is the training cost to train so many executives on a campaign. And lastly there is a capacity issue. No matter how well you plan for direct response, chances are that you may have a large number of abandoned calls or customers who have to wait for a long time. And a Missed Call Campaign overcomes all these issues.

So, how does it work?
 

1. A brand engages Kankei to create a Missed Call based Direct Response Campaign.

2. Kankei sets up a help line number that will be published on the advertisement.

3. Consumers call and give a missed call on the number. It does not cost them anything and it is also very easy to do as all consumers now have phones handy.

4. Once the calls are received, the Kankei Outbound Direct Response Campaign Management Executive calls the consumer and conducts the business activity.

Some of the areas that a brand can use such a service are
 

1. Product Sampling Requests from Consumers

2. Generating interest in consumers to get a Test Drive

3. Getting consumers to ask for a sales visit by the sales representative

4. Interest generation in new projects like real estate

5. Consumer research and feedback on products or advertising (can be used for advertising testing)

6. And several other options where the brand wants to get consumers to opt in to being called back

How do you get started?
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Kankei is an experienced customer engagement services company covering consumer and trade programs for several large multinational and domestic brands. Established in 1998, Kankei works with its clients as a partner who seeks to provide a solution towards the end result.

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