The Real Reason You Hate Cold Calling
Cold calling is hard, and anyone who tells you it’s easy is lying to you. You are interrupting people who were not expecting your call, and some of them will be rude to you. That never feels good.
Cold calling is hard, and anyone who tells you it’s easy is lying to you. You are interrupting people who were not expecting your call, and some of them will be rude to you. That never feels good.
Research perfectionism and paralysis are two of the sneakiest productivity traps in prospecting, because they lead to procrastination.
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To prospect for new clients, stop making random touches and run a consistent five-step system. Work this system every day and you gain control of your pipeline, along with the peace of mind that you’ll have the coverage to hit your number.
Success in sales is paid for in advance with prospecting. If you are not willing to pay this price, get out now. Go do something else. Life is far too short to spend it doing something you hate.
Here’s a question that’ll make every salesperson’s blood pressure spike: What do you do when your cold call gets an objection in the first five
It’s almost that time of the year again. The weather is warming up, and the social calendar—not your sales meeting calendar—is filling up—beach with the
Jon Buehler from Jacksonville asks: “How do you maintain the consistency and intensity with prospecting? I find myself doing these sprints to get momentum, but
If you’re doing any kind of cold calling or prospecting, you’ll eventually hear this objection: “I’m in a meeting right now.” Paul Wise, a heavy
Kyle, a field sales rep from British Columbia, is struggling with a common prospecting challenge: how to consistently prospect when you’re constantly on the move.
Matt from Grand Rapids says, “If I don’t make my cold calls, our pipeline will go dry.” He is juggling everything from operations to customer
If you’ve hung around me for longer than five minutes, you’ve heard me say that sales is about talking with people. The fact is, the