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Cold calling: How to nail – or blow – that first impression

Selling Essentials RapidLearning Center

Well, consider a cold caller we’ll call Joe. We’re a premium global player in the market. Joe has taken that critical opening of his call and wasted it by going on about how great he and his company are. The key is to talk about your prospect in the first 20 seconds of the call. Is Joe impressive?

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Stop Buying Digital Snake Oil for Your Account Based Sales Team

No More Cold Calling

In research Mahdi Roghanizad of Western University and I conducted, recently published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology , we have found that people tend to overestimate the power of their persuasiveness via text-based communication, and underestimate the power of their persuasiveness via face-to-face communication. Well, sure.

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The Eyes Have It

No More Cold Calling

As Murphy writes: In a study published last month in the journal Environment and Behavior, researchers at Cornell University manipulated the gaze of the cartoon rabbit on Trix cereal boxes and found that adult subjects were more likely to choose Trix over competing brands if the rabbit was looking at them rather than away. Comment Here.

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The Eyes Have It Test

No More Cold Calling

As Murphy writes: In a study published last month in the journal Environment and Behavior, researchers at Cornell University manipulated the gaze of the cartoon rabbit on Trix cereal boxes and found that adult subjects were more likely to choose Trix over competing brands if the rabbit was looking at them rather than away. Comment Here.

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The Eyes Have It

No More Cold Calling

As Murphy writes: In a study published last month in the journal Environment and Behavior, researchers at Cornell University manipulated the gaze of the cartoon rabbit on Trix cereal boxes and found that adult subjects were more likely to choose Trix over competing brands if the rabbit was looking at them rather than away. Comment Here.

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Is Your Online Brand Different than Your In-Person Brand?

No More Cold Calling

Along with social media, many people post to daily blogs, which act as new world journals, making it easier than ever to find out about someone—their likes, dislikes, personal facts, friends, associations, affiliations, and opinions. appeared first on No More Cold Calling.

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What I’ve Learned (and am Still Learning) about Sales

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As I think back to where I started, making hundreds of cold calls a day, it’s clear that while much remains the same (E.g., After graduating with a degree in Journalism, I started my career as an admin at The Advisory Board Company in DC. The sales tool market is consolidating. I’ve spent my whole career in sales.

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