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For information, please call This book is dedicated to AFS. Contents Acknowledgments. It seems so strange now, so rudimentary, in terms of what and how I teach today and how you do business. Change is one of the things I love about sales. While the basics of sales remains unchanged, every day, every customer is different.
At least once—and often two or three times—a week, a student will ask a question that gets me thinking in a different direction and opens up new ideas. Thank you for your letters and e-mails. Thank you for your suggestions. Thank you even for your criticism. Without you I would not have been around long enough for a 20th anniversary edition of anything. And, as always, without the support of Jennifer, Daniele, and Anne, none of this could have happened. Did they see the telegraph and telephone as significant advances that would change the nature of sales?
Did they jump on the new technology or were they afraid of it? The fact is that while the tools of the sales process often changed over the years, the process itself has not.
You still have to find and validate prospects. You still have to gather information to figure out what it will take to get your prospects to get up off their, uh, desk chair, and change the way they do business. The laptop computer is a good example. Sales force automation software can be a significant help in keeping track of things. Do you remember the excitement about teleconferencing? It was considered Star Wars technology. It would eliminate the burden and expense of travel.
Road warriors would be able to spend more time with their families. Did that happen? Or did this revolutionary Star Wars technology just lead to the Return of the Redeye? So if nothing has changed, if sales is sales is sales the same way it was twenty years ago, why a new edition?
The most obvious reason is on the back of the old edition. Have you seen my picture? You cannot make a cold call on a cell or via e-mail. So that is why I decided to go with a new and updated edition of this work. As with all the other books in this series, I hope you find it helpful. And if I may paraphrase the late Roy Rogers: Happy sales to you!
Introduction A number of years ago, I decided to take some golf lessons from a pro. During my first lesson, the pro showed me the proper grip for the club. It felt a little awkward, and I told him so. But my teacher assured me that the reason the new grip felt awkward was simple: I had been holding the club incorrectly for many years.
And with that, he demonstrated not only the right grip, but also the right swing and follow-through. It was beautiful. Well, what he had said sounded logical enough, and it was certainly hard to argue with when he showed off that swing.
And yet I had a similar feeling of awkwardness when the golf pro showed me how to stand, where to put my feet, and how to swing. It all felt very uncomfortable. But during my lesson, I swung, as instructed, from that awkward position, and I hit the ball many, many times while the golf pro watched me and offered suggestions.
If I did, he promised, the new ways of holding the club, standing, and swinging would soon become second nature. Well, once I got back on my own, I tried to hold the club, and stand, and swing, as the instructor had told me to. But it still felt strange. And when I stood the way I was used to standing, it just felt better.
And when I swung the way I was used to swinging, it just felt better. And is an extremely high—that is, bad—score. In fact, I wasted a whole year wondering why my scores were so high.
After a year, I went back to the golf pro. This time, I followed his directions, stuck it out, and practiced the right grip, swing, and follow-through over and over and over again, until they became second nature to me.
The thing is, I had to drill the right way of swinging until it became comfortable. Why do I tell you a story about golf in a book about cold calling? And it really will deliver the results. Twenty years ago, when I first came up with the idea for this book, I bought a book that was written by someone who had sold a whole lot of book proposals to publishers. It outlined a system for selling your book idea to a publisher.
It broke the system down into simple steps. I followed the steps, even though some of them felt a little awkward at first. The system worked! Cold Calling Techniques is now entering its sixth edition.
You are holding in your hands a system xvi Cold Calling Techniques written by someone who has set a whole lot of sales appointments. This book outlines a system for getting face to face with people to discuss your products and services. It breaks the system down into simple steps. If you follow the steps—the system will work! Once you begin the book, do yourself a favor. Make a commitment to drill the techniques repeatedly until they become second nature.
Do what works. And you will certainly see dramatic improvements in your sales prospecting and your overall income level. I would love to hear your reactions and results once you have implemented the strategies in this book.
Please e-mail me at [email protected] , or call Good luck! He got all kinds of answers, ranging from bad management and bad programs to bad products, poor concepts, and lack of capital. After reading all their answers he stood before his class and told them that the number one reason businesses fail is. To become a successful salesperson, you have to develop a solid base of prospects.
This base will only remain solid if you continue to prospect successfully—and the cold call plays a large part in successful prospecting.
Cold calling is the best and most economical way for you to develop prospects on an ongoing basis. This book is devoted to helping you get in front of your prospects in the most efficient, profitable way—and to overcome your number one competitor. You could tell me that you are your own competitor. You could say to me that your energy level is your competition. Your number one competitor today is the status quo. The status quo is what people are doing right now.
Once when I was doing a training session I stated that your number one competitor is the status quo. In the United States nearly 1, copiers are sold every single hour of every single day. What do numbers like that tell you about sales? They should tell you that there are people who need your product. But is that enough? The interesting thing is that plenty of salespeople make their living by simply accepting the first one-third.
That tells you something about the entire sales process. If you see enough people, you will eventually make a sale. Do you think anybody would put money in my hand? Now if I held out a cup, do you think I might make more money? Of course. If I add a cup and a bell, bing-bingbing-bing, would more people give me money?
You have to use the right tools. Three bank employees simply approached every person who walked past them. And people would sign up. You and I could make sales that way. Simply going after the first third, and doing nothing else, however, is not the way to build a successful sales career. I doubt even that telecom giant could survive today if all they had were a couple of tables and a few homemade signs! Timing Is Everything When we begin to look closely at the prospecting process, we can see why the concept of time is so important.
January 1st to March 1st. The sale will be closer to May. I think you get the point. Think about it like this: When you get paid for a sale, when did you really earn that money? Depending on your sales cycle, it could have been as long as three months or even a year ago.
If you look at it this way, what you suddenly realize is that the appointments that you generate today are what create the prospects you meet, which ultimately give you your sale at the end of your sales cycle. Reducing the Sales Cycle A couple of weeks ago I went on a sales call.
It was a good sales call. How do I know it was good? Because while I was there, I set up an appointment to come back. By setting the next appointment on my first appointment, rather than waiting until later, I accelerated my sales cycle by three to five weeks.
Then what happens? We might not get the person on the phone that next week. Now we have to wait. Finally, we get the person on the phone, setting an appointment for perhaps two to three weeks later. By setting the next appointment during the first one, we can save all this wasted time. We really can reduce the sales cycle by three to five weeks!
Gerbil Selling Let me share another story. Recently a sales call of mine went very well. The presentation was great! Since the presentation had gone so well, I asked for the sale: Steve: It makes sense to me. What do you think? Steve: Why not? Prospect: I gotta talk to my boss. Steve: Because time is so important Okay. I need a week. Prospect: Nope, no good. Prospect: Steve, trust me. I will get back to you. Steve: Okay. There was nothing else I could do.
One week went by, then two. What do you think my chances are of making the sale? Virtually zero. The point is that time is of the essence. The longer the sale goes out of the normal cycle, the less likely it is to happen. Does this next example sound like a normal sales cycle? A woman in Rockville, Maryland, once told me she went on 37 appointments to the same contact at one company. Would you do that? Of course not! Years ago I went on a sales call, and the person I was dealing with knew that I usually only go back three times.
Would you come back one more time? And, of course, when the same thing happened at the end of that meeting I got suspicious. Of course, I came back again. I want you to meet some more people. In fact, I went back 11 different times for this company. What do you think happened the eleventh time? What they did was convince me, against my usual practice, to run around in circles and waste a lot of time.
I call that gerbil salesmanship. At home, my kids have two gerbils. One runs around continuously in the miniature Ferris wheel in the little cage. Gerbil salespeople run around in circles all day but get nowhere. The Open Door At my company we have an open door policy.
Anyone who wants an appointment with me can get one. In fact, I try not to screen phone calls. Granted, not everyone thinks that way. Whether your prospects have an open door policy or not— your goal has to be to get the appointment. To learn why that goal is so important, read on. I sat in the office waiting for the phone to ring because I was convinced that people would call me. I hired a secretary and an associate to help me field the calls. How naive was that? I would be glad to send you some of the 10, brochures and 10, pens with my name and telephone number on it that I still have.
I learned very quickly that if I was not able to get appointments, I was not going to be successful. That, too, is nonexistent. The real question is, how many appointments do you need to generate one real prospect? A prospect is someone who consciously agrees to move through the sales process with you. Your appointment base is always going to be larger than your prospect base, which is going to be larger than your sales base.
No appointments, no prospects, no sales. Know Your Numbers How many appointments do you need to get your prospects? How many dials on the phone does it take to get those appointments?
In my case, I know I need one appointment a day, or five new appointments a week. In order to do that, I have to call 15 people each day. Fifteen times five gives me Over five days, I dial 75 people, I generate five new appointments, which ultimately gives me my one sale every single week.
That ties into the question I asked you before. How many cold calls do you make each day? Do you know? If so, why do you make that number of calls? Even on busy days I still try to find a way to make those 15 calls. On those days when I cannot reach anybody during normal business hours, I call 15 new people starting at a. I know the odds are that I will not reach people that early. But I also know that I will have 15 messages out there, and at least one of those people will call me back.
Typically, though, I call 15 people a day, and I actually speak to seven of those people. For every seven people I speak to, I set up one new appointment.
As a rule, I do that five days a week, so at the end of the week, I have five new appointments. If I make five new appointments this week, as I always do, how many total appointments will I have next week?
Do you know the number? Why is it eight? If you say to me that you have five appointments for this week, but you have no follow-through appointments, then the odds are you did not have five appointments last week. My total number of appointments eight is very important.
My closing ratio is for every eight appointments, I make one sale. This means that I will bring in something in the neighborhood of 50 new accounts a year. What would happen? The 15 calls that I make every day give me the 50 new accounts a year. In other words, the 15 calls drive the 50 sales. Cold calling is a numbers game or, to be more precise, a ratios game. And this particular game drives your sales. How many calls do you make each day? Is it giving you the number of appointments that you require in order to be successful?
I know that I must get one new appointment a day, and that I have to make 15 calls, and speak to seven people, to set up that one new appointment. I do that five days a week. Those are my numbers. How many appointments do you require to be successful?
If you must make five new appointments a week, are you getting them? If you require 10 new appointments a week, are you getting them? Do you know the mileage of your car? Most people can tell me automatically that their car has X amount of miles on it.
They know how many miles per gallon they get in that car. Which figure matters more to your yearly income? You need to know your numbers and understand your ratios. You are not going to get 20 more appointments a day.
But if you get one more appointment a day, consistently your sales are going to increase. What they do just evolved; it just kind of happened. Now these are actual sales numbers. Let me tell you what they represent. In this particular case, this salesperson picked up the phone times during a week period.
During that time, he spoke to people and actually set up 49 first appointments. The 83 represents the total number of sales visits. Ten represents the number of sales. When you analyze these numbers, what you start to understand is that the salesperson made one sale and went on an average of 8.
This person actually set up about five appointments every week for 10 weeks and made about 30 dials a week, or six dials a day every day, for 10 weeks. Not exactly a major blowout in terms of numbers, but successful nonetheless. Because this person understood his numbers. His goal was a new sale a week; he monitored his numbers and hit the goal. Of course you would. Avoiding Peaks and Valleys Another reason prospecting and getting appointments is so important has to do with the peaks and valleys, the ups 14 Cold Calling Techniques and downs that so many salespeople experience.
Think about the ratios we just discussed. Salespeople often repeat the process I just described. And in doing that they create peaks and valleys.
They have highs and lows because they work their way through their prospects. They make their four or five sales out of the 20 prospects that they had, without replenishing that base of prospects. In order to avoid these peaks and valleys, we have to replenish or re-establish that base constantly. How long does that take? Depending on your sales cycle it could be 8, 10, or 12 weeks, 90 days, or it could be a year. Whatever time frame your process demands, when you get a big sale or even a little one , you have to check for peaks and valleys and replenish your prospect base.
For example, if it takes 60 days to generate a sale, 30 days to implement the program, 30 days to use the service, 30 days to bill, and 30 days to get paid, that means six months pass between the start of the process and when you actually see the first dollar. Recently I was working with a software company that had had a tremendous year.
I talked to the president of the company about what had happened that year. The conversation went like this: Steve: What happened last year? Company President: Well, from January to June we had a tremendous year. We had 15 people call us and we got 15 major accounts. It was just a great year. Steve: And what happened after that? Company President: Well, people stopped calling!
Steve: So what did you do? Company President: Well, we uh. Company President: Well, you know, we, uh, we started thinking about what to do. Keep on Prospecting! Prospect constantly, every single day. I learned the importance of prospecting some years ago when my business got very busy.
We got an assignment in August that sidetracked everyone in the organization. We stopped prospecting for about two months. It was incredible the amount of work that we had to do on that assignment, and every trainer and every staff person was involved.
You guessed it: in October our sales plummeted. I was extremely worried about her, as we all were. Although she passed the crisis safely, she had to stay in the hospital for a number of weeks. You can talk on the phone. Make the calls; you have to make calls now.
Why did I do that? The key, then, is to keep prospecting on a regular basis. And the key to that is to replenish your base of prospects with new appointments. If you keep this concept in mind, and act on it, you should be able to avoid the peaks and valleys. Ready for a surprise? In fact, we train life insurance agents around the world. Why can we do that? I meet with many different sales forces throughout the United States.
Nobody turned us down! We had a new representative in Chicago a while back who was not doing well his first few months on the job. Five Ways to Double Your Income Let me give you some more examples of numbers and ratios so you can have a feeling of what to expect.
One sales force I worked with in New York picked up the phone times, spoke to people, and set up appointments. This person was selling advertising in the Chicago area: dials, spoke to people, and set up appointments. Let me explain why these numbers are so important. There are five ways in which you and I can double our income, based on what we do with these numbers. Double the Number of Calls The first way to double your income is to simply double the number of calls you make.
In all the seminars that I conduct, and I do about to seminars a year, I ask people if they can double the number of calls they make. Get Through More Often A second way to double your income is simply to get through to more people. For example, on a typical day, I call 15 people and speak to seven of them.
Now, getting through to 14 people might be tough. But if I got through to eight people a day, would it change anything? Well, one more person a day means over more people a year. Think about how a similar change would affect your numbers. Get More Appointments A third way to double your income is simply to get more appointments. In other words, instead of speaking to seven people and getting one appointment every day, I could get By the Numbers 21 two appointments, or even 1.
If I got one more appointment a day, the amount of additional income I could generate would be incredible! But even a smaller increase could make a dramatic difference. Close More Sales A fourth way to increase my income is to get more sales from my appointments. My closing ratio is one out of eight. What if I could improve that ratio? What if I could go to 6-to-1 or even 4-to-1?
Again, a dramatic improvement. Generate More Dollars Per Sale Finally, I could go down to my last number, my 50 new accounts, and simply raise the stakes. If I could just get twice as many dollars out of each sale, I could theoretically at least double my income. A woman from a major oil company called my office at on a Friday night to buy 10 copies of an earlier edition of this book. I must not have a life either! We thought your book would help.
So there they are—five ways I can increase my income: double the number of calls, do a better job of getting through, do a better job of getting the appointment in the first place, do a better job of closing, and finally, make higher-dollar sales. Just One More Call a Day If you watch sports, you know the difference between winning and losing is often one stroke, one run, or even one fraction of a second.
You just have to win. Just one more point is often the margin of victory. You may just need one. Years ago I did a program for a pharmaceutical company. Their top representative was a young man who had beat out other reps for the top spot in the organization. The senior managers had asked me as part of my speech to ask this particular salesperson what he did that made him so special. I thought he would give me an elaborate story about what he did.
What he said was simple. He said he decided he wanted to be number one in the country. By the Numbers 23 He normally made all of his prospecting calls in the morning. You may just need to get one more person on the phone every day.
Take a look at the set of numbers that I gave you before: conversations with new people, 49 first appointments, 83 total appointments, and 10 sales. If that salesperson had merely spoken to one more person a day, gotten one more appointment a day, made one more sale a day or a week, or had increased any one of those numbers by one, he would have increased his income substantially.
If you want to be successful in sales, you have to understand that a seemingly minor change can have a major impact on your career! Not long ago, I was in Dallas, Texas, doing a program.
Every single year I get in my car, drive from Dallas to Oklahoma, down through Arkansas and back to Dallas again. I drive 60, miles a year every single year. You have the same amount of appointments every year. I eventually found out how much money he was making every year. Are you a 60,mile salesperson?
Are you doing the same things over and over again—and getting the same unsatisfactory result? Salespeople not only have to know what their ratios are, they must know how to work their ratios. I realized I needed to change something to keep myself sharp. Remember—the best salespeople know how to work their numbers.
Chapter 3 Where to Look for Leads What exactly is a prospect? Typically, I find it, maybe do a little research on it, and put it in my database. At this point, what do I have? Do I have a prospect? If I really thought about it, I could call it a candidate. I could call it a lead. I could call it a suspect. I could call it any number of things. To me, those are simply opportunities. Now, suppose I get to the next step—and get an appointment. Now do I have a prospect? Well, there is a realistic chance that the person will cancel, postpone, or change that initial date.
It still is simply an opportunity, a candidate, or a lead. As a practical matter, a prospect is someone who is in steps one, two, or three—someone who is allowing you to open up, get information, and make the proper presentation prior to closing the sale. So there are three types of potential customers in the world of sales: 1. A customer, an account, or a client—someone with whom you have closed a sale; 2.
A lead, suspect, candidate, opportunity—someone you want to talk with; 3. It also reflects common usage among salespeople who make cold calls. Generating Leads How do you get to those steps? How do you find your candidates?
There are a number of ways in which we can generate leads. The most important tool you have for lead generation is probably word of mouth—that every single person you know probably knows an average of people. The problem is that most of us fail to let people know what we do when we meet them. I was at a dinner party the other night; someone came up to me and asked me what I did.
I prefer to think of it as being consistent. Therefore, I want to be consistent in my message to all the people I talk to. If possible, I want to give you a mini-commercial for my business.
You must develop a clear, consistent message that you can use to promote your business. That is a big mistake. For example, when was the last time you told your life insurance agent what you do for a living? In order for that life insurance agent to be successful, he or she has to sell to at least 1, people.
Did you know that? How many of those 1, people do you think could use your product or services? Did you know that your accountant probably does about tax returns a year?
Does he or she ever call on you for your services? Do you know why? Your accountant almost certainly has clients who could benefit from what you have to offer. Have you ever thought about using your accountant to reach them? When was the last time you told your physician or your dentist what you do? Your barber, for that matter, is another source of people you can meet.
We overestimate how many people know who we are and underestimate how many people our acquaintances know. A barber or hairdresser might have as many as 20 customers a day, and yet few salespeople think about using them to generate leads. I give copies of my books to my barber!
Every time I write a new book, I give several copies to my physician! He tells me the books never stay in his office. They are constantly being taken out by salespeople. I got a lead at a major computer company through my life insurance agent.
Civic Organizations Another way to generate leads is by becoming involved in civic organizations: Rotary, Lions, Kiwanis, Chamber of Commerce, and so on. But even your church or synagogue gives you a platform to meet people. Why not use every resource available to get more leads? You could help me. This is what I want to do. A couple of months ago, I went to a conference sponsored by a major entrepreneurial magazine, with business owners in attendance.
I walked away with 83 business cards—none of which I actually asked for. People walked up and gave me the cards! Then she went to the right again and saw somebody else. Of course, I wondered what happened to all the people on the left, but I never asked her. The point is she was using her intuition to gather new contacts, and that helped her build her sales. Whatever works! Newspapers Newspapers are another good source of leads. You probably already knew that, but consider that most people look at the obvious sections: the business section, and maybe the front page.
You should really be looking at the obituaries not so you can call the person who died, but so you can identify the company he or she worked for , the classifieds, the display ads, and the wedding sections—in addition to the more obvious sections. All of these parts of the papers can give you good information about companies. I worked with a major computer company about two years ago. We took a copy of the Sunday Los Angeles Times, went through the paper, and came up with potential customers that company had never thought about calling before.
Newspapers are an incredible source of leads—especially old newspapers. New ones can actually be trickier, since lots of people call newsmakers the day a story breaks.
Existing Business Another way to generate leads is through existing business. You have a one in two chance of getting more business from an existing account. You even have a one in four chance of getting business from an inactive account. At the same time, every single business you work with will inevitably suffer from a downturn.
Think about IBM. IBM once was famous for its typewriters. Where to Look for Leads 31 Have you seen a Selectric lately? Learn to rethink your existing accounts—while you find new ones. You should also think about joining clubs where people trade leads and create alliances with other companies.
Some people, because of the nature of their job e. These people can be a tremendous resource for you. Create alliances with them! Chapter 4 Cold Call Mechanics There are five basic elements to the initial cold call: 1. As we work our way through this outline, take notes so that you can develop your own cold calling script.
Sure you have. Did the actors in that drama or comedy sound like they were reading from a script? I can, therefore, take that program and change 32 Cold Call Mechanics 33 it and adjust it as the circumstances require.
It always sounds natural. Do you remember the first time you drove a car by yourself? You were probably so nervous about driving that you actually forgot how to start the car. Or maybe you went through stop signs or you got lost.
What is the response? What is the person saying? Are we creating an atmosphere that will make it easy to make positive responses? Here then are the five elements. And the better I get at my opening, the more likely I am to get a good response from you! People respond in kind. I got a call recently from a stockbroker. Schiffman, are you interested in investing in stocks?
He hung up. End of call. I responded to the question in kind. But we would have had a conversation, and perhaps the beginning of a new relationship. Do you have life insurance? End of conversation. The person hangs up. I am simply responding in kind to the questions! But I never hear that question. That happens all the time! Ninety percent of all salespeople make that kind of Cold Call Mechanics 35 telephone call. For now, just remember that people really do respond in kind.
Schiffman, if I send you information, would it be okay if I call you back? Just call the person back. They can get you in big trouble. Stay away from them. I remember doing a program years ago for a company where the salespeople were taught to ask for the wrong name when making the cold call. Can I speak to him, please? Believe me, there are far, far more effective strategies for getting appointments! Think about it.
When you were growing up, your parents called you by your name. You responded to that. If you hear your name yelled out in the middle of a crowded room, you respond. How well can you handle a response? How well can you turn that response around?
The opening of your call is going to lead to a response. You can anticipate that response. You are then going to produce an appropriate turnaround, which should get the appointment. The reality is no matter what you say in the opening, people are going to respond to you, and you can prepare for those responses.
Cold Call Mechanics 37 Most people will respond positively to a positive-sounding call. There will be a response in kind. Even a hang up is a response. Jones, this is Steve Schiffman from D. Therefore, I have to go further. I have to build a brief introduction, or commercial, into the call.
Give the Reason for Your Call Now, the third step, the reason for the call, becomes important. When he holds his hand out, he does eventually get a response. I would get appointments. Well, think about it. If you called a million people, and you said that a million times, would one person give you an appointment?
Absolutely; probably a lot more than one! Not much! You have to send a message. You have to let the other person know what you want. We have a relatively new assistant in our office. She was in Rome, Italy, a number of years ago when she was a student. She was a junior in high school and had been away from home for a while; one day, because she was very hot and tired, she happened to sit down on some church steps.
She was wearing a baseball cap, and she took the cap off and put it down in front of her. Lo and behold, people started dropping money in the hat! She was in shock.
The point is that by putting her hat down, she conveyed that she was interested in receiving money. She got a response. People dropped lira into her hat. But notice: she had to put the hat out in order for that to happen. Remember the cup, the bell, and the sign. Now do you see why it begins to make sense just to ask for an appointment in a straightforward way?
Cold Call Mechanics 39 I can enhance that third element of the script. The call is now very directed. Jones any questions. This point is very important to any salesperson who hopes to be more effective at cold calling. My qualifying or questioning statement has to follow easily and logically from that statement. So what am I going to say? Jones, are you interested in having qualified salespeople? I might mention a computer company, an HMO, or a life insurance company. Set the Appointment Suppose Mr.
Jones does say that. Jones, then we should get together. How about Tuesday at ? Look at it again! The request must be this direct, this brief, and this specific. Then we should get together. Now I have a better chance of getting the appointment. The biggest mistake salespeople make is that they fail to ask directly and specifically for the appointment.
If you wish to benefit from this program, you must pose the request for an appointment exactly as I have outlined it here. I think we should get together. Louie calls and says: Louie: Good morning, Mr.
Inevitably, people say: Prospect: Sure, would you send me a brochure? Send me something. Here is an example of what I mean. Steve: Hey, nice to meet you. Stockbroker: Anyway, would you be interested in getting some material about us? Cold calling techniques that really work! Publication date Topics Telephone selling, Telemarketing Publisher. For print-disabled users. Books to Borrow. Books for People with Print Disabilities. Share to Twitter. PDF Lessons From Cold Calls Selling Techniques That Workno Matter How Many Calls You Make If you ally craving such a referred lessons from cold calls selling techniques that workno matter how many calls you make books that will manage to pay for you worth, get the certainly best seller from us currently from several preferred.
Item Preview. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Are you also tired of listening to the naysayers that cold calling is impossible, useless and has no place today?
Below are three cold calling tips that will help bring back that feeling you used to have when you thought that people you called actually had an interest in talking to you.
The following techniques will not solve all of your cold calling issues, but they will certainly help your calls start out a little bit warmer. The old idea that if you are excited and enthusiastic about the call, the prospect will also become excited, is just plain nonsense.
It projects the image of the stereotypical telemarketer and forces people to react with defensive indifference. For example, if the prospect is very upbeat and jolly when they answer; be a little upbeat yourself.
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