Inside Sales: Cold Calling Tips and Strategies

5 02, 2017

How to Structure Your Inside Sales Process

By Michael Halper|2024-07-25T11:06:48+00:00February 5, 2017|Closing Sales, Cold Calling, Inside Sales, Lead Generation, Sales Methodology, Sales Pitch, Sales Process, Sales Prospecting, Telemarketing, Telesales|0 Comments

While you never know how a conversation will go with a prospect, there are still some things you can do to build out an inside sales process that your sales reps can use and try to take a prospect through. In this short video, we outline three key steps to an inside sales process. It [...]

1 02, 2017

One Thing to NOT Do When Prospecting for Leads on LinkedIn

By Michael Halper|2024-07-25T11:08:04+00:00February 1, 2017|Cold Emailing, Inside Sales, Lead Generation, Sales Methodology, Sales Pitch, Sales Prospecting, Sales Tips|0 Comments

In this short sales tips video, we talk about one of our tips for what NOT to do when you are prospecting for leads on LinkedIn. This video is part of a longer sales training webinar that we hosted on How to Use LinkedIn as a Sales Prospecting Tool Effectively. The Instant Pitch One [...]

26 01, 2017

Generate Leads Without Cold Calls: Practical Tips That Work

By Michael Halper|2024-07-25T11:10:37+00:00January 26, 2017|Cold Calling, Inside Sales, Lead Generation, Sales Methodology, Sales Pitch, Sales Prospecting, Sales Tips, Sales Training|0 Comments

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 [...]

18 12, 2016

Get Better at Selling with Sales Role-Play Scripts

By Michael Halper|2024-07-25T11:11:59+00:00December 18, 2016|Cold Call Script, Cold Calling, Inside Sales, Sales Methodology, Sales Pitch, Sales Prospecting, Sales Scripts, Sales Tips, Sales Training, Telemarketing, Telesales|0 Comments

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 [...]

25 11, 2016

How to Create a Telemarketing Script Template

By Michael Halper|2024-07-25T11:14:13+00:00November 25, 2016|Cold Call Script, Cold Calling, Inside Sales, Sales Pitch, Sales Prospecting, Sales Script Examples, Sales Scripts, Telemarketing, Telesales|0 Comments

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 [...]

12 11, 2016

Guess a Prospect’s Email Address: Here’s How

By Michael Halper|2025-03-16T02:19:14+00:00November 12, 2016|Cold Calling, Cold Emailing, How to Use Sales Scripter, Inside Sales, Sales Tips|0 Comments

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 [...]

10 11, 2016

Use a Phone Call Script Example to Get New Ideas

By Michael Halper|2024-07-25T11:17:02+00:00November 10, 2016|Cold Call Script, Cold Calling, Inside Sales, Lead Generation, Sales Pitch, Sales Prospecting, Sales Script Examples, Sales Scripts|0 Comments

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 [...]

3 11, 2016

How to Effectively Use LinkedIn as a Sales Prospecting Tool

By Michael Halper|2024-07-25T11:18:12+00:00November 3, 2016|Inside Sales, Lead Generation, Sales Methodology, Sales Pitch, Sales Process, Sales Prospecting|0 Comments

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 [...]

23 10, 2016

How to Write a Telephone Script That’s Not Salesy

By Michael Halper|2024-07-25T11:20:20+00:00October 23, 2016|Cold Call Script, Cold Calling, Inside Sales, Sales Prospecting, Sales Scripts, Telemarketing, Telesales|0 Comments

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 [...]

16 10, 2016

Here are Two Sales Email Templates

By Michael Halper|2024-07-25T11:22:47+00:00October 16, 2016|Cold Emailing, Inside Sales, Lead Generation, Sales Methodology, Sales Pitch, Sales Prospecting, Sales Script Examples, Sales Scripts, Sales Tips|0 Comments

Here are some sales email templates from the SalesScripter library of emails. These templates are filled in with one of our campaigns that was created for server and application hosting, but you can use this same structure for any product or service. Before we show you the sales email templates, let’s review a few concepts [...]