We hire cold callers in India and pay them per lead.
The hot leads are then passed on to local, professional salesmen.

It works, and is widely used in sales. You really have to make sure they are trained (Preferably by your best salesman) otherwise they will sound so robotic and unprofessional, they won't get any leads.

Hope that helps! Pm me if you have any questions.

My experience that been that Americans are far and away better appointment setters than filipinos. The filipinos I've used lacked the ability to use spontaneous casual dialogue and American mental frames to communicate.

Majority of the call center agents you talk over the phone are either from India or from the Philippines. Although they are not native English speakers which you can obviously hear in their voices and accents, they are also hardworking people. Some had bad experiences with them but mostly, they can be trusted. You just have to provide the time to train them. At Odesk, there are many Filipino telemarketers. Carefully read their profile as well as comments from their previous employers. I agree and it's really a great idea that you hold interviews through Skype so you can hear them speak. You can ask them to read a script so you'll have an idea on how they deliver and if their pronunciations are fine.

there is one that I used to work with, no accents, but they are in south america, don't remember the phone, their website is bicomsite.com

Are you still looking?
If you're still in search for a telemarketer maybe you can consider this person and try her for a trial work. https://www.staff.com/profile/e0c05c...9e8d2eb7f50769

That's a public profile shared to me, so take some time to listen to her as I think she has the qualities that you're looking for someone from the Philippines. Or might as well contact her directly through the site so you can be sure she's still available for work.

i think
My experience that been that Americans are far and away better appointment setters than filipinos. The filipinos I've used lacked the ability to use spontaneous casual dialogue and American mental frames to communicate.

I always want to ask this....

How much cheaper would it be to hire a non-American?

Then are you willing to test both? Because personally I believe the American will be cheaper per appointment even though they will be more per hour. But I have not personally tested this so would love to hear from someone who has.

Just seems like everyone reads Tim Ferris (big fan) and takes him 100 literally vs. thinking outside the box for outsourcing.

I have 8 of em right now! It took 2 months and dozens of interviews beofre I found my team.

I have tried this in the past and was not thrilled by results. Part of that was my fault.

If I were to try this again today I would make the TM's job mostly one of qualifying very quickly , in or out. I would not make them try to "sell" or handle multiple rebuttals.

In other words, design a script that can determine if people want more info and then depending in your scale, either follow up yourself or with american speaking tms.

Its costlier to have international call from, philippines but skype marketing from thsi country is good i have tried once but didnt get much success.