Cold Calling Tips and Scripts Blog: Improve Your Sales Calls

6 03, 2016

The Key to Selling is Being Able to Find Quality Sales Prospects

By Michael Halper|2024-08-02T00:50:24+00:00March 6, 2016|Cold Calling, Inside Sales, Qualifying Prospects, Sales Methodology, Sales Process, Sales Prospecting, Sales Tips, Sales Training|0 Comments

One of the biggest things that can hurt your sales is wasting time talking to poor-quality sales prospects. Your time is extremely valuable and every hour spent on a sales prospect that has a low probability of purchasing should be avoided if possible. We Sometimes Try to Sell to Everybody The challenge is that we [...]

6 03, 2016

One of the Most Important Factors When Prospecting for Sales

By Michael Halper|2024-08-02T00:52:58+00:00March 6, 2016|Cold Calling, Inside Sales, Lead Generation, Qualifying Prospects, Sales Methodology, Sales Prospecting, Sales Tips|0 Comments

Even though prospecting for sales can be difficult, there are some small things that you can do to improve your results. One of those small sales tactics is to always keep in mind the concept of opportunity cost when deciding which prospects to spend your valuable time with. What is the opportunity cost? As a [...]

3 03, 2016

How to Have a Strong Mindset When Phone Prospecting

By Michael Halper|2026-07-11T15:13:10+00:00March 3, 2016|Cold Call Script, Cold Calling, Inside Sales, Sales Coaching, Sales Tips|0 Comments

Having the right mindset during phone prospecting can sometimes be the difference that takes you to the next level. In this video are some tips to help you improve your mindset. Increase Your Value Awareness When phone prospecting, you can receive a lot of negative feedback from prospects, ranging from outright rejections to simple [...]

1 03, 2016

How to Decrease Self-Doubt During Phone Prospecting

By Michael Halper|2024-08-02T01:06:54+00:00March 1, 2016|Cold Calling, Inside Sales, Sales Coaching|0 Comments

Phone prospecting can be challenging. There will be many highs and lows. This can be not easy on someone emotionally, making it easy to have an element of self-doubt lingering in your head while you are working the phones. It is critical that you find a way to manage this self-doubt, as it can have [...]

20 02, 2016

Focus on Getting the Meeting When B2B Cold Calling

By Michael Halper|2026-07-21T15:41:41+00:00February 20, 2016|Cold Calling, Sales Process, Sales Prospecting|0 Comments

One of the best ways to improve b2b cold calling is to focus on the simple goal of getting the meeting. This can be easy to forget because our ultimate goal is to sell the product. And if we end up on the phone with a prospect, it can be easy to get excited and [...]

19 02, 2016

B2B Sales: How to Avoid Sounding Like a Salesperson

By Michael Halper|2024-08-03T05:36:57+00:00February 19, 2016|Cold Calling, Inside Sales, Sales Pitch, Sales Tips|0 Comments

When working in B2B sales, it can help to do what you can to not sound like a salesperson. Why Sounding Like a Salesperson Can Be Bad The reason that we make this suggestion is that when you are in B2B sales, you are going to face prospects that get sold to a lot. Every [...]

16 02, 2016

How to Get Connected When B2B Cold Calling

By Michael Halper|2026-07-11T15:24:28+00:00February 16, 2016|Cold Calling, Inside Sales, Sales Methodology, Sales Prospecting|0 Comments

It can be difficult to get prospects on the phone when B2B cold calling. Either the person you are trying to reach does not answer the phone, or you simply don’t know who to call. In this video, we outline a methodology for entering and navigating the organization of a business you are trying to [...]

13 02, 2016

Improve Your Sales Training by Providing a Sales Playbook

By Michael Halper|2024-08-03T05:43:05+00:00February 13, 2016|Cold Calling, Sales Methodology, Sales Tips, Sales Training|0 Comments

One of the best ways to improve the performance and sales of your salespeople is to provide a sales playbook. A playbook is a set of instructions and sales tools that can be provided to a sales team to provide clarity and direction on how to generate sales. Components of a Sales Playbook A playbook [...]

25 01, 2016

How to Use Social Selling When Cold Calling

By Michael Halper|2024-08-04T04:19:13+00:00January 25, 2016|Cold Calling, Sales Prospecting, Sales Tips|0 Comments

Social selling continues to become an essential aspect of sales prospecting every day. In a recent webinar on social selling, we discussed social media and provided some things for you to think about when figuring out how best to use social media in your sales strategy and phone prospecting. Here are some quick takeaways from this video. Figure [...]

2 11, 2015

Responding to We Don’t Have Budget Sales Objection

By Michael Halper|2026-06-27T14:26:53+00:00November 2, 2015|Cold Calling, Sales Objection Handling, Sales Objection Rebuttals, Sales Prospecting|0 Comments

An extremely common sales objection is when the prospect says, “We do not have the budget right now.” While that might sound like an immediate show-stopper, there are some key things that you can do to try to get around and resolve that objection. TLDR We do not have budget is a common and difficult [...]