When it comes to making cold calls, whether you don’t have time or the desire, it can be easy to find an excuse not to pick up the phone. Because of this, many salespeople try to only use email to generate leads. While we believe the best way to generate leads consistently is to use [...]
Sales role-play scripts are an important tool to help you with improving sales. Here are some key sections to include in your sales role-play scripts. Gatekeeper Introduction It is very reasonable to expect almost half of phone prospecting calls to get answered by some sort of gatekeeper. A lot of gatekeepers will have the [...]
The term consultative selling can get thrown around a lot. But what exactly does that mean? To bring clarity to that question, we will take a step back and compare consultative sales with a more traditional type of selling, and in this exercise, we will call that product selling. One big difference between consultative selling [...]
A telemarketing script template can drastically improve your success when making outbound prospecting calls. Here is a structure of sections you can use when creating your telemarketing script template. Elevator Pitch We believe that one of the best ways to open a call is to share an elevator pitch. This should be one to [...]
When you work in B2B sales, it can be common to know a prospect's name and the company they work for but not have their email address. If this is a situation that you find yourself in, don't worry, as there is a fairly simple process to figure out what their email address is, and [...]
Here is a phone call script example that we created for selling recruiting services to a hiring manager. Introduction Hello [Contact’s Name], this is [Your Name] from DCR Workforce, have I caught you in the middle of anything? Elevator Pitch We like to start out a phone call script to include some sort of elevator pitch. Great. The Purpose [...]
We recently held a webinar titled “How to Effectively Use LinkedIn as a Sales Prospecting Tool” and you can watch a recording and get the slides here. Finding Target Prospects One of the first things that can slow you down with is not knowing who you should call or pursue. This is one of the [...]
You hear salespeople and sales managers use the term consultative sales. But the reality is that the majority of people who talk about this are not performing consultative selling at all. To demonstrate this, in this video, we outline what is not consultative sales. In this video, we list out what sales reps often and [...]
Here are six tips for your telephone script. 1. Try not to sound like a salesperson trying to sell something. One of the most important things that we want you to start thinking about is that your prospects get a lot of calls from salespeople who are trying to sell them something. Not only is [...]
You often hear the term consultative selling. But what exactly does that refer to, and how do you become a consultative salesperson? If you are curious about this, you may want to watch this recording of a recent webinar we hosted on “How to Become a Consultative Salesperson.” What is Not Consultative Selling Before [...]