A Call Center can be an in-house telemarketing department within a business, or an outside company that performs the same service for several companies. In both cases, telemarketers or telesales staff make or receive telemarketing calls from one location or "call center."
Some Call Centers receive calls generated from an advertisement or some other form of lead generation activity. The telemarketers are trained to receive these calls and to "close the sale." This could mean anything from selling a product or service and accepting payment by credit card over the phone, or some other activity such as setting an appointment. In this case, the telemarketer receives the call from an outside interested party. These are called "inbound" calls and are generally easier to "close" because the caller is already interested in the product.
Other Call Centers handle "outbound" calls, meaning the telemarketer makes cold-calls (not solicited by the prospect) in order to find interested prospects for their product. Because the prospect is not expecting the call, this type of telemarketing is considered somewhat more difficult to "close."
A Call Center can also receive inbound calls and make outbound calls. They are called call centers because some type of "call activity" is handled from a specific location.
A business can set up its own internal call center for business development for its own products. Or it can hire an outside telemarketing firm to generate leads for the company's sales staff, or to sell the product directly to the prospect. The Small Business Administration can help businesses learn how to set up their own call center. Or a business may prefer to find an outside Call Center to handle this for them.
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