Cold Calling Tips and Scripts Blog: Improve Your Sales Calls

4 04, 2013

How to Cold Call: Pre-Call Steps for Improved Results

By Michael Halper|2024-08-17T06:20:20+00:00April 4, 2013|Cold Call Script, Cold Calling, Inside Sales, Lead Generation, Sales Coaching, Sales Prospecting, Sales Tips, Telemarketing, Telesales|0 Comments

It can often be one of the keys to success for a salesperson when determining how to cold call. There are some very clear and simple things you can do to improve results even though it can be a very intimidating thing to do. Pre-Cold Call Steps There is a significant amount of work [...]

3 04, 2013

Tips to Make Your Outgoing Call For Sales More Successful

By Michael Halper|2024-08-17T06:24:09+00:00April 3, 2013|Cold Calling, Inside Sales, Lead Generation, Sales Prospecting, Sales Tips, Telemarketing, Telesales|0 Comments

There are very clear things that can be done to improve results when you need to make an outgoing call for sales. 1. Improve Your Mind It can be extremely mentally challenging to make outgoing sales calls. The reason is we’re likely calling people who aren’t expecting our call, and we will likely face [...]

1 04, 2013

Three Ways to Improve Phone Sales Calls Today

By Michael Halper|2024-08-17T06:25:19+00:00April 1, 2013|Cold Call Script, Cold Calling, Inside Sales, Sales Prospecting, Sales Tips, Telemarketing, Telesales|0 Comments

Very clear and practical things can be done to immediately improve phone sales calls. Some of those things are outlined below: 1. Improve Your Mind It can be a mentally challenging and taxing activity to make sales calls over the phone. We can improve our results and stamina by putting aside some time and [...]

30 03, 2013

The Keys to Qualifying Sales During Cold Calls: The Basics

By Michael Halper|2024-08-17T06:26:18+00:00March 30, 2013|Cold Calling, Finding Prospect Pain, Qualifying Prospects, Sales Pitch, Sales Process, Sales Prospecting, Sales Questions, Sales Scripts, Sales Tips|0 Comments

When working on qualifying sales during cold calls, lightly qualify first because we’re simply attempting to determine if it makes sense for everybody to keep investing their time in the conversation. Some examples of what to look at when asking light qualifying questions are general questions that identify if things are great, ok, or have [...]

23 03, 2013

Create A Successful Lead Campaign: Practical Tips That Work

By Michael Halper|2024-08-17T06:27:48+00:00March 23, 2013|Cold Calling, Inside Sales, Lead Generation, Sales Methodology, Sales Process, Sales Prospecting, Telemarketing|0 Comments

There are clear things to incorporate in order to create a successful lead campaign. Focused Target List Building a target list of prospects for the campaign is a step often overlooked or not given enough attention. It’s common to quickly pull together a target and attack list with more time focused on other areas. [...]

9 03, 2013

Real Steps to Take Your Sales Campaigns To The Next Level

By Michael Halper|2024-08-17T06:33:39+00:00March 9, 2013|Cold Call Script, Cold Calling, Communicating Value, Inside Sales, Lead Generation, Sales Consulting, Sales Process, Sales Prospecting, Sales Tips, Telemarketing, Telesales|0 Comments

Time and investment should be made in a few areas to improve the chances that your sales campaigns will be successful. 1. Define the target audience Having the ability to clearly define the target audience for a sales campaign is one important step usually overlooked. You will be better at generating leads if you [...]

7 03, 2013

Effective Sales Tactics – Magnify Uncovered Pain

By Michael Halper|2024-08-18T04:17:28+00:00March 7, 2013|Closing Sales, Cold Call Script, Cold Calling, Communicating Value, Finding Prospect Pain, How to Build Interest When Selling, Sales Coaching, Sales Tips|0 Comments

It is a given that selling is unpredictable and one thing we can be sure of is we can use effective sales tactics to create increasingly productive conversations with prospects. Magnifying any pain in which we’re able to identify that the prospect is experiencing is one of those tactics. When using pain in this context, [...]

3 03, 2013

7 Steps to Improve Your Persuasive Sales Skills

By Michael Halper|2024-08-18T04:19:17+00:00March 3, 2013|Closing Sales, Cold Calling, Communicating Value, Finding Prospect Pain, How to Build Interest When Selling, Sales Coaching, Sales Prospecting, Sales Tips, Sales Training|0 Comments

Commonly, salespeople believe in order to be successful you need to have persuasive sales skills. Also, there is a common misconception that you somehow have to manipulate prospects to be truly persuasive. Actually, you don’t have to be manipulative at all to be effective in building interest as well as getting prospects to move forward. [...]

1 03, 2013

Using Open-Ended Sales Questions to Increase Sales

By Michael Halper|2023-11-18T06:00:55+00:00March 1, 2013|Cold Calling, Inside Sales, Qualifying Prospects, Sales Coaching, Sales Prospecting, Sales Questions, Sales Scripts, Sales Tips|0 Comments

Having the ability to effectively collect information from prospects is one of the keys for how to increase company sales. The optimal way to extract more information is by asking open-ended sales questions. Looking at Closed-Ended Questions First Before discussing how to incorporate good open-ended questions, let’s discuss closed-ended questions. Questions that can be [...]

22 02, 2013

5 Essential Sales Questions that Help Boost Revenue

By Michael Halper|2024-08-18T04:24:49+00:00February 22, 2013|Cold Call Script, Cold Calling, Inside Sales, Qualifying Prospects, Sales Coaching, Sales Methodology, Sales Prospecting, Sales Questions, Sales Scripts|0 Comments

Incorporating good sales questions is one of the best ways to improve your sales results. The following are five questions that can reveal valuable information. 1. Why have you made the choice to meet with us? Being salespeople, we always know the reason we want to meet with qualified prospects which is we want [...]