If you are cold calling and trying to get your foot in the door of an account and the target prospect never answers his or her phone, this will seem like a significant barrier preventing you from selling to that account. The simple workaround for this is to find other contacts at the account that [...]
While you should leave voicemail messages, you do not want to leave one on every call attempt because there are some advantages to hanging up with no message: It takes time to leave voicemail messages, and that can be saved by hang- ing up. You can make more calls overall with the time you saved. [...]
I personally believe that it is not optimum to ask prospects to call you back on voicemail messages that you leave during cold calling efforts and I say this for a couple of reasons: It is rude: If you ask a prospect to call you back in a voicemail message, you are asking them to [...]
When you are sending cold emails to prospects, do not ask the prospect if they saw or read the emails you have sent them in the past. For example, some salespeople will send a second email that starts out with something like this: Did you see my last email? Did you read my last email? [...]
Salespeople often complain about prospects not returning their calls after they leave voicemail messages, and they ponder what to say to get prospects to call back. It is not good to spend time and energy thinking about this because it is my belief that prospects do not return calls from voicemails that are left by [...]
In this video, we outline seven sections that you can create your cold call script around and here is a quick summary of those sections: Step 1 - Introduction You most likely don’t need help with creating the introduction section of your cold call script but one thing that we recommend is to not ask [...]
In this video, we provide cold email examples. This is actually a clip taken from a longer video on email prospecting and sending cold email messages and you can find that on our blog here. Use these as an email campaign These cold email examples are designed to be sent as a series where you [...]
You never know what direction conversations will go with a prospect and what steps you will have to go through between the first interaction and either a closed deal or a closed file. But even though each prospect is unique, you can take your prospects through a structured set of sales process steps and here [...]
Sending cold emails on LinkedIn has become one of the most popular ways to try to get new prospects and generate leads. And while LinkedIn makes it very easy to connect with and message prospects, it is also very easy to make mistakes with your messages. With that being the case, here is a brain [...]
This is a webinar recording where we share a few tips to help with selling during a global pandemic.
The ability for a startup to secure early stage customers and adopters can often be the difference between failure and success. And while it can be difficult to get net new customers at any stage of the business, there are definitely some things that you can do and focus on to help secure those first [...]
If you are receiving this email, you are likely a new user to SalesScripter and have been provided with this by your employer. If that is the case, this is a good video to watch as it will provide you with a good introduction and overview of what the software does and how to use [...]