Cold Calling Tips and Scripts Blog: Improve Your Sales Calls

16 02, 2016

Mastering B2B Cold Calling: A Methodology for Success

By Michael Halper|2024-08-03T05:40:16+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 [...]

3 02, 2016

Improve Your Understanding of Prospects When B2B Cold Calling

By Michael Halper|2024-08-03T06:10:49+00:00February 3, 2016|Cold Call Script, Cold Calling, Inside Sales, Sales Coaching, Sales Tips|0 Comments

B2B cold calling can be tough. Not only is it tough to get sales prospects on the phone, but when you do, the prospect may end up being a little difficult or not completely friendly. The first step to improving your ability to deal with difficult or unfriendly prospects is to stop and try to [...]

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 [...]

23 01, 2016

One of the Worst Sales Questions to Ask When Prospecting

By Michael Halper|2024-08-04T04:21:20+00:00January 23, 2016|Cold Calling, Inside Sales, Qualifying Prospects, Sales Prospecting, Sales Questions, Sales Tips|0 Comments

It is critical to ask sales questions when you are out there selling. But the difference between being a good salesperson and consistently overachieving is asking the right questions. Let’s look at one of the common sales prospecting questions that many salespeople think is good, and we will show you why this is one of [...]

22 01, 2016

Voicemail Examples: Crafting Value and Pain Messages

By Michael Halper|2024-08-04T04:23:18+00:00January 22, 2016|Cold Call Script, Cold Calling, Sales Pitch, Sales Prospecting, Sales Tips|0 Comments

Sometimes it can help to look at some cold call voicemail examples in order to get some ideas of what to say when prospecting. In this video, we go through some examples for you. Value Message The first of the sales prospecting voicemail examples is a value message. It is one that just focuses on [...]

22 11, 2015

How to Handle the “Sell Me this Pen” Sales Role-Play

By Michael Halper|2024-08-04T04:58:34+00:00November 22, 2015|Cold Call Script, Cold Calling, Sales Pitch, Sales Prospecting, Sales Tips|0 Comments

One of the most common sales role-play exercises you will see in training programs or interviews is where the request is made to sell a pen. If you have ever seen someone try to do this, most of the time, they will not handle the test well. In this post, we will explain exactly how to [...]

21 11, 2015

How to Effectively Use Voicemail as a Sales Prospecting Tool

By Michael Halper|2024-08-04T05:01:23+00:00November 21, 2015|Cold Calling, Inside Sales, Sales Methodology, Sales Tips|0 Comments

In this webinar, we look at the subject of what to do (and not do) with voicemail boxes when sales prospecting. Getting a prospect’s voicemail box is the most likely outcome. Prospects can be difficult to reach. You can call a prospect dozens of times, and it would not be crazy to get his [...]

2 11, 2015

Responding to We Don’t Have Budget Sales Objection

By Michael Halper|2024-08-04T05:03:22+00:00November 2, 2015|Cold Calling, Sales Objection Handling, Sales Objection Rebuttals, Sales Pitch, Sales Prospecting, Sales Tips|0 Comments

An extremely common sales objection is that the prospect will say, “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. How to Respond when Cold Calling One key thing to understand here [...]

13 09, 2015

Sometimes It Can Help to Have Warm Call Script Too

By Michael Halper|2024-08-06T02:15:56+00:00September 13, 2015|Cold Call Script, Cold Calling, Inside Sales, Sales Prospecting, Sales Scripts|0 Comments

I was doing some warm calling this week, and since it was calling people who had just attended my webinar, I felt confident and did not need to use a warm call script. It is easy for all of us to feel like this and that you can just “wing it.” Well, I ended up [...]