Can We Agree: It Is Better To Be Scripted Than To Be Unscripted?

There is a threshold idea that you simply need to embrace if you are going to consider yourself to be a professional on the phone, whether you prospect, sell, set appointments, perform customer service, or collect past due accounts through this medium. You’ll perform better, get more done in less time, and reap greater rewards when you use a top-notch script than when you try to improvise from call to call, says Dr. Gary S. Goodman, top speaker, international consultant, popular radio and TV commentator, and best-selling author.

Cold Calling is a HIGH Percentage Game!

If you go to Vegas, Atlantic City, or even Monte Carlo, it pays to find the high percentage games and to play them. Typically, Blackjack is among them, which means it returns generally more money in winnings than say, the slot machines. One of the main objections of ardent Anti-Cold Callers is that they believe cold calling is a low percentage play, that when you do it you’re phoning people with brick homes and trying to sell aluminum siding to them. If you’re doing that, you’re more than stupid. Do cold calling the right way and you will carefully select your list, having pre-qualified those that appear for vital characteristics, such as income, need, and a positive predisposition to say “Yes,” says Dr. Gary S. Goodman, pRESIDENT OF cUSTOMERSATISFACTION.COM, top speaker and consultant, and best-selling author of 12 books, including REACH OUT & SELL SOMEONE and YOU CAN SELL ANYTHING BY TELEPHONE!

Cold Calling The Amazingly Simple Secret for Successful Cold Calls to Company Presidents

In this business environment with collapsed organizational structures, the elimination of middle management, and the increased workload for executive assistants—it’s even more challenging to break through to the inner-circle of decision-makers.

Cold Calling: How To Put An End To Voice Mail Jail

Use these tips to circumvent voice mail, be relentless in your pursuit for a human, and get ready to smile as you make personal contact with a real, live, person who wants to do business with you!

Cold Calling Supplement - How to Generate Sales Leads

Generating leads by cold calling can be a tough process. This article goes into the various alternative methods to generating leads without having to pick up the phone to bug strangers.

Webconference Applications For Sales

The traveling time lost in getting to a prospect is expensive and not necessarily justified due to various reasons, such as when the prospect is insufficiently qualified or when the prospect's role in the acquisitions process is not clear.

Cold Calling Strategies For Beginners

Cold calling is not an enjoyable task. Most people dislike having to call up new prospects because you never know how the person on the other end will react. Rejection is a hard thing to take. There are ways to make your cold calling tasks easier and a little more effective.

5 Reasons Right Now is the Best Time to Cold Call!

I love those timid trainers that try to convince sales novices that there are good, better, and best times to make sales calls. Baloney! There are 5 reasons this advice is utterly bogus and RIGHT NOW is the best time to cold call according to top speaker and best selling author of such classics as YOU CAN SELL ANYTHING BY TELEPHONE! and REACH OUT & SELL SOMEONE.

Cold Calling Techniques – How to Increase Sales

Cold calling techniques to increase more sales and give a 50% success rate?! Hardly. Learn the truth about cold calling techniques.

Cold Calling Methods to Radically Increase Sales

Some of the most effective cold calling methods are not what you expect. You need to revolutionize your methods if you want to stay ahead of the pack.

Cold Calling Pro Says Don't Ask Questions Too Soon!

The best-selling author of REACH OUT & SELL SOMEONE and YOU CAN SELL ANYTHING BY TELEPHONE! says we can overdo the amount of participation we require on the part of buyers and create more problems than we solve. Specifically, we should avoid asking too many questions up-front, particularly during cold calls, this international cold calling pro explains.

Seven Benefits Of Cell Phone Marketing

When the first internet store was launched, it was a revolution that leveled the playing field between big corporations and small business.

5 Reasons Sales & Service Reps Don't Follow Scripts

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him cold call, or follow a script to the letter, or stay at his desk allowing absolutely no distractions to intrude into his work process until an official break time arrives. How come? Why is it that the front lines in sales and service, the work-horses of business and industry- why is it that they bray and buck and perennially bite the hands that feed them? In other words, even when they're shown a more effective way of handling conversations to produce higher sales volumes or more consistent customer satisfaction, why do they revert to indirect, seat-of-the-pants means? There are five reasons, according to the best-selling author of REACH OUT & SELL SOMEONE, YOU CAN SELL ANYTHING BY TELEPHONE! and MONITORING, MEASURING & MANAGING CUSTOMER SERVICE.