Inside Sales: Cold Calling Tips and Strategies

8 04, 2019

Improve Sales Results Through Empathy: A Powerful Social Skill

By Michael Halper|2024-07-25T02:55:45+00:00April 8, 2019|Cold Calling, Communicating Value, Inside Sales, Sales Coaching, Sales Consulting, Sales Methodology, Sales Pitch, Sales Prospecting, Sales Scripts, Sales Tips|0 Comments

Using empathy as a social skill can help you in all areas of your life. But it can help significantly in sales prospecting, and we discuss how to do that in this video. What is empathy? A definition that I found on a quick internet search is: "the ability to understand and share the feelings of another" [...]

14 02, 2019

How to Make Closing Sales Prospects Easy

By Michael Halper|2024-07-25T03:13:34+00:00February 14, 2019|Closing Sales, Cold Calling, Inside Sales, Sales Methodology, Sales Pitch|0 Comments

We recently held a webinar on "How to Make Closing Sales Prospects Easy" and you can watch a recording of that webinar here and also download the slides below. Also, Read How to Make Cold Calling Easy

11 10, 2018

How to Message Prospects on LinkedIn

By Michael Halper|2024-07-25T03:29:02+00:00October 11, 2018|Cold Emailing, Inside Sales, Lead Generation, Sales Pitch, Sales Prospecting, Social Selling|0 Comments

We recently hosted a webinar on “How to Message Prospects on LinkedIn.” This webinar helps you with prospecting on LinkedIn. You can watch a recording of it here and also download the slides. In this training session, we first start with some “Do’s and Don’ts” for messaging prospects. You can apply these tips to both LinkedIn messages and [...]

26 08, 2018

Sales Call Example [+Free Sales Script Template Kit]

By Michael Halper|2026-07-04T05:30:22+00:00August 26, 2018|Cold Call Script, Cold Calling, Cold Calling Examples, Inside Sales, Sales Pitch, Sales Prospecting, Sales Script Examples, Sales Scripts, Telemarketing, Telesales|0 Comments

In this video, we provide a sales call example of a salesperson cold calling to set appointments for marketing consulting services. This is actually one of the better cold calls I have heard, and I explain why in the video and in the blog below. TLDR Here are the main points why this is [...]

11 08, 2018

Cold Calling Demo: Tips and Strategies for Success

By Michael Halper|2024-07-25T03:43:37+00:00August 11, 2018|Cold Call Script, Cold Calling, Cold Calling Examples, Inside Sales, Sales Prospecting, Sales Scripts, Telemarketing, Telesales|0 Comments

Listening to a cold calling demo can be very helpful when trying to improve cold calling. Since we provide many tips on making outbound sales calls, we have been trying to record calls and have attached a playlist of videos with recordings to this blog post. Not a Perfect Process Unfortunately, getting a good cold-call demo is more [...]

2 08, 2018

How to Build a Cold Calling Campaign That Generates Leads

By Michael Halper|2024-07-25T03:47:13+00:00August 2, 2018|Cold Call Script, Cold Calling, Inside Sales, Lead Generation, Sales Prospecting, Sales Tips|0 Comments

Cold calling can be tough and sometimes you can feel like you are wasting your time. But there are actually some key things that you can do to make your cold calling efforts easier and more successful. We will outline those in this webinar recording "How to Build a Cold Calling Campaign that Generates Leads". [...]

28 06, 2018

Example of a Sales Talk Script: Analysis and Key Takeaways

By Michael Halper|2024-07-25T03:52:12+00:00June 28, 2018|Cold Call Script, Cold Calling, Cold Calling Examples, Inside Sales, Sales Methodology, Sales Prospecting, Sales Script Examples, Sales Scripts, Telesales|0 Comments

We regularly conduct cold call demo webinars (view our events calendar if you would like to join a future one) and try to share some of the calls. This is an analysis of an example of a sales talk script from a recent session. What Went Well In this sales talk script example, you hear about [...]

19 05, 2018

10 Sales Tips for How to Sell More by Selling Less

By Michael Halper|2023-09-08T11:11:42+00:00May 19, 2018|Cold Calling, Inside Sales, Sales Pitch, Sales Tips|0 Comments

With most things in life, if you try harder you will increase your odds of success. It does not work that way in sales. Yes, more activity and effort helps but if people are not buying what you are selling, trying to sell “harder” only stands to push people away. We actually believe that if [...]

4 05, 2018

Cold Calling Examples: Learning from Real Sales Scenarios

By Michael Halper|2026-07-13T01:53:27+00:00May 4, 2018|Cold Call Script, Cold Calling, Cold Calling Examples, Inside Sales, Lead Generation, Sales Pitch, Sales Prospecting, Sales Scripts, Sales Tips, Sales Training, Telemarketing, Telesales|0 Comments

We hold a public training session every week during which we make calls to demonstrate real cold calling examples. Whether the cold calling examples go well or not, each call is a great opportunity to reflect on what went well and what could have been done better. I will try to provide a review or quick analysis of this [...]

3 05, 2018

How to Defeat the Fear of Cold Calling

By Michael Halper|2024-07-25T04:16:31+00:00May 3, 2018|Cold Call Script, Cold Calling, Inside Sales, Sales Coaching, Sales Objection Handling, Sales Pitch, Sales Prospecting, Sales Tips, Telemarketing, Telesales|0 Comments

Regardless of your sales experience, cold calling can be scary. It can be difficult to pull off all of the things that you need to do, and it is very likely to face some type of rejection on every call. But all of that being said, there are very small and practical things that you [...]