It is very helpful for a salesperson is to have a template for a follow-up sales email. The email could be with information already filled in, and you just change a few details. Then, simply send out the email when needed. A salesperson finds this helpful when cold calling and sales prospecting because one of [...]
One thing you can be certain about when cold calling for sales is you’ll very likely run into some sort of on each call. Objections are like mini stop signs in which the prospect will hold up to attempt to end the call. What you do and not do when getting an objection determines your [...]
Having the ability to create sales scripts that sell is quite often the difference between success and failure. Commonly, it is thought that there is not much that can be done in order to make a sales script better when, in reality, the product is what is going to sell. There are some fundamental things [...]
There are simple things that can be done to improve effectiveness and increase results when it comes to making good sales phone calls. 1. Confirm Availability Most often, the prospects we are calling on are busy. This is usually because the decision-makers have full workloads. In addition, with common headcount reductions taking place, the [...]
It is not always considered the easiest thing to do when writing a cold call script. One challenge is that you typically only have a small amount of time for executing the cold call, and you most likely have a good amount of information that you would like to share and/or collect. The following are [...]
The following are some simple and clear things that can be done to make your phone script more powerful. 1. Confirm availability Include language that confirms that the prospect is available to speak with you for at least a couple of minutes at the beginning of your sales script. When you confirm that the [...]
You would find if you surveyed 100 salespeople, that the majority don’t utilize any form of a sales script. Often, scripts are seen as a nuisance to develop, but the reality is that there are valuable benefits to using sales scripts. Improves How you Sound When conversing with prospects, using a script clearly makes [...]
The above video is an example of a sales script example for a salesperson who is selling IT services. The actual services being sold are software development and staff augmentation. The salesperson appears to be calling out of India because the accent is very strong and almost difficult to understand. But even with that, there are [...]
One area where there may not be a clear right and wrong way of doing things is leaving a voicemail when cold calling. Do you leave messages? Do you simply hang up and call back another time? What do you say when you do leave a message? These are questions that you need to have [...]
Adding qualifying questions to assess the prospect's fit is a simple way to make your sales script more powerful. What’s Qualifying? Qualifying is the process of determining whether a prospect is a good fit for what you offer and the likelihood they will move forward with a purchase. When a prospect has a real [...]