Archive for 'Cold Calling Tips'

Does the idea of prospecting scare you? Are you a fearless salesperson or do you procrastinate the activities that will enable you to achieve your sales goals? Even if you’re hiding behind Social Media as your primary lead generation strategy, you eventually need to speak with every prospect! Here’s how to overcome sales and prospecting …

              Of course, we’re not going to abandon our sales goals, just the toxic thinking that surrounds them! We all feel the pressure to generate results. What if the real source of prospecting failure is focusing too much on the result rather than your process. The finish line isn’t …

Butting heads with some people, co-workers or clients you can’t stand working with? Stressed and frustrated because they prevent you from getting your job done rather than help? This stagnates growth, productivity and revenue. There’s no reason to tolerate toxic relationships when all it takes is a conversation to repair and reinvent it. Here’s how …

Professional networking functions provide access to qualified prospects—fast. However, when attending an event, are you the wallflower sitting in the corner, waiting for someone to approach you or do you have a networking strategy in place that gives you the confidence and ability to leave with a stack of business cards from prospects that are …

Are you spending a lot of time following up with prospects to see if they have received the information you sent them? Learn why the hasty and untimely use of brochures and other marketing material can easily spoil even the best prospecting efforts. Marty was well into his conversation with a prospect that he cold …

Do you know exactly what to say to a prospect or customer that captures their attention so succinctly and effectively that they want to talk with you and are actually asking for more? If you are being honest with yourself, the answer is probably “No.” If that is the case, then how can you expect …

Developing an email template compelling enough to elicit a response from a prospect is hard enough. Unfortunately, this is only part of the challenge. What compounds this challenge are spam filters, firewalls and a slew of other devices that channel our innocent solicitation into the prospect’s spam folder or worse, the trash; never to find …

Winning Strategies for Email Campaigns Developing an email template compelling enough to elicit a response from a prospect is hard enough. Unfortunately, this is only part of the challenge. What compounds this challenge are spam filters, firewalls and a slew of other devices that channel our innocent solicitation into the prospect’s spam folder or worse, …