It can be very understandable for a salesperson to have questions around how many cold calls should I make to a prospect before either moving on or before starting to appear to be a pest. We will try to outline a process in this blog post and attached video to give you some ideas to [...]
Getting prospects to answer the phone is the biggest challenge when cold calling. Having the best product and the best means nothing if you can’t talk to someone. If you feel like a lot of your calls go straight to voicemail, watch this webinar recording on “How to Get Prospect to Answer the Phone When [...]
Cold calling is one of the most difficult sales activities. You operate in an almost hostile environment, have a ton of information to share, and only have a 2—to 5-minute window to work in. Believe it or not, we have a process that you can implement that will not only make it easier but also [...]
I received a cold call from a salesperson who sells payroll processing services. I thought her sales pitch had room for improvement, so I outlined how the call went to create a cold call script example of what not to do. Here is what she said on the call. I will break down the [...]
Creating a good outbound sales script is not an easy thing to do. Here are some tips that will not only make it easier for you to create your script but also help you create one that is good and works. 1. Don’t sound like a salesperson trying to sell something. The first tip for [...]
Here are a few easy-to-follow tips for how to create a telephone script template. Create an outline for the call When many salespeople think of a sales script, they think of a page with a number of sentences and paragraphs that the salesperson can read from when on a call. This format is not [...]
"Does cold calling work?" is one of the most commonly asked or debated questions. If you have asked this question, check out our webinar recording, which is simply titled "Does cold calling work?" You can probably guess how we will answer that question, but we will spend this time together to discuss the challenges that [...]
We recently held a webinar on "How to Outsource Your Cold Calling to Work-at-Home Agents," and you can find a video and slides from that webinar here. Why it Makes Sense to Outsource It is probably not a hard case to make to a salesperson or business owner that they should outsource their cold [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]