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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
When cold calling for sales, you’ll most likely face a gatekeeper. Initially, you’ll need to be aware that just as you’re being trained on selling and cold calling, the gatekeeper is being trained on screening your cold calls. That is one of their precise objectives: to reduce the number of unsolicited sales calls that get [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]