Cold calling is not your aim

Do you think cold calling is dead? I surely do when it comes to calling consumers at home, cold. Absolutely no one wants to receive these calls so if you’re involved in this area of selling, stop it. But if you’re doing B2B cold calling, you can still do so, but...don’t make it sound cold, otherwise you’ll be on the same losing side as consumer cold calling. How can you make it non cold or warm? Here’s a few ideas: Sound scruffy and tangled, mince your words a little, uhm…

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Beware of selling the way you buy

I always wondered why I never really enjoyed cold calling, or when a customer wanted to think things through, my heart said they should. Now these two aspects of sales are really important. Cold calling hasn’t completely died and still forms the basis of many sellers’ prospecting methods. And of course, preventing the customer from thinking it through is essential, if you want to close. But I still am not a fan of cold calling or preventing my customer from thinking things through. Let me explain the reason which is…

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