In this video, we outline a step-by-step process for how to make cold calling easier. Cold calling can be one of the most difficult tasks that a salesperson has to do because: Very small window of time: You have an extremely small window of time to work with when you get connected with a prospect [...]
This is a recording from week 6 from our 15-week sales training webinar series on The SMART Sales System. .If you would like to purchase a copy of the book The SMART Sales System - SELL SMARTER, NOT HARDER, go here. Also, Read How to Make Cold Calling Prospects Easy
In this sales training video, we talk about how to get around gatekeepers that you are sure to face when cold calling. Understand the Gatekeeper In order to improve your ability to get around the gatekeeper, start by trying to understand the gatekeeper. When the gatekeeper is doing everything they can to prevent you [...]
This is a recording of a webinar that we hosted on how to prospect for leads on LinkedIn. This material is actually from Chapter 26 of the book The SMART Sales System - SELL SMARTER, NOT HARDER. If you would like to purchase a copy of The SMART Sales System, you can do that here. [...]
Michael Halper was a guest speaker on a webinar hosted by VanillaSoft on the topic of 5 Winning Strategies to Overcome Sales Objections. In this recording of that webinar, we discuss tactics for responding to objections and actually go through many different responses that you can use for many of the most common objections. Also, [...]
Here is a cold email example that I received from a salesperson who sells internet and connectivity services for a major telecom provider. Below is the actual cold email that he sent, and after that, there will be some analysis and another cold email example that I created based on the feedback. Subject Line: [Salesperson’ [...]
While it is very easy to connect with prospects on LinkedIn, it can be very difficult to figure out how to cold call LinkedIn connections. This is because becoming connections can, in some ways, seem like a friendly gesture, and you might not want to follow that gesture up with some sort of sales pitch [...]
Hosting webinars and events is a great way to generate leads for your business. Usually, after you have an event, you will have a spreadsheet of registrations or attendees. This is a great list to work on, but it can often be unclear what best to do to convert the list of attendees into leads. [...]
Here is a real cold call example from a salesperson that appears to sell PEO services, which is a type of HR and payroll outsourcing. In this video, we provide the recording of the call and after that we provide an assessment of the call in terms of what went well and what could have [...]
A cross-sell cold call script is a script that you can use to call existing customers to try to upsell them on a different or additional product. Here is how you can create your sales script for cross-selling and upselling existing customers. Introduction Since this is an existing customer, opening the call should be fairly [...]