Gong.io

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Objections. Objections. Objections. Cold call objections are par for the course for outbound sales reps. Follow this 3-point framework to overcome any and all cold call objections you will face. Bonus: We’ll also share 4 cold calling tips to avoid cold call objections entirely.

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Mr. Inside Sales

JANUARY 23, 2020

I received an email last week from a real estate rep asking me if cold calling was dead. Then ask yourself: if your phone were taken away, would it affect your sales? Cold calling isn’t dead. The real question should be: how can you “cold call” more effectively? So, is cold calling dead?

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2023

In a perfect world, sales professionals would spend most of their time talking with eager prospects who’ve done the homework, seen the marketing campaign, and asked for a meeting. In the real world, cold outreach is still a necessity — even the strongest business relationships have to start somewhere. Is that fair?

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Jeffrey Gitomer

JANUARY 14, 2019

You will no longer dread the dreaded cold call after you read this column several hundred thousand times. There is a fear and dislike many salespeople have when it comes to cold calling. It was suggested to him that his strategy should be to only cold call on one-story buildings. Fear of cold calling.

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MTD Sales Training

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Want some tips on cold calling? Here’s the cold calling cheat sheet! I must receive about 20+ emails each month that ask me for specific help and guidance on cold calling so here are some top tips: Sound Like A Human Being. Try not to sound like a robotic cold caller. Stick to your objective!

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Mr. Inside Sales

JULY 13, 2018

Discover sales training with best tips, rebuttal techniques and responses on how to go about handling and overcoming most common objections in phone cold call prospecting. I’m going to give you one proven sales technique to use that will allow you to overcome many of the sales objections you’re getting now.

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Score More Sales

AUGUST 16, 2019

Let’s get some sales activity going! Cold Calling Tips from Gong’s research – 17 Proven Techniques. 21 Cold Calling Secrets From the Sales Masters. Cold Call Objection Handling – Outreach (is gated). 14 Actionable Cold Calling Tips and Techniques – Sales Hacker.

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Allego

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

How do you transform someone who has no cold calling experience whatsoever into a fully competent and confident prospecting superstar? How to Create Cold Calling Confidence in 10 Steps For sales reps to succeed at cold calling, companies must have a structured process for training them.

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 21, 2023

Before the end of the day, you need to make 100 calls. Your sales manager has given your team a big pep talk encouraging you to dial, dial, dial. Now all you need is a cold call script. And not just any script … the best cold call script ever. What is a cold call?

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The Pipeline

JANUARY 13, 2014

Well it seems that cold calling is coming back into fashion. Many closet callers are coming out and proudly proclaiming not only that they regularly part take in cold calling, but that it producing results that exceed the expectations many, and helping many exceed quota. gang, inviting me to a webinar on cold calling.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

AUGUST 10, 2016

Here’s the thing: Cold-calling prospects gets a bad rap. Today, buzzwords like “social selling” drown out the importance of actually calling prospects. In fact, as a direct result of social selling entering the scene, it isn’t uncommon to hear statements like “ cold-calling is dead.

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Pipeline

APRIL 1, 2024

Add cold calling to your sales outreach strategy. Reports show that cold calling is still among the top five outreach methods in terms of effectiveness. You can get up to 82% of buyers to accept a meeting by starting a series of communication with sales cold calls. What is Cold Calling?

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MTD Sales Training

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Sometimes, even the words ‘cold call’ can send shivers down salespeople’s’ spines. But, if it’s done in the correct way with the correct prospects, making a call to a prospect can be one of the best ways to build you sales confidence, increase your pipeline and open up sales opportunities.

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Marc Wayshak

JANUARY 13, 2021

If you’re making cold calls—or any type of prospecting call, for that matter—chances are you’re dealing with a lot of objections. In fact, cold calling objections are just a natural part of making dials. They receive a phone call from a total stranger. It’s human nature.

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One of a Kind Sales

MARCH 17, 2021

‘Send me an email’ – are YOU hearing this Cold Calling Objection? It is always one of the top five Cold Calling Objections Salespeople face. In this post I will address why you may be getting this objection and how to deal with it. Send me an email Does this sound familiar?

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The Pipeline

JULY 14, 2014

It’s not that people don’t like cold calling, mostly they don’t like the outcome, which often is very little, leading to disappointed, and anemic pipelines. Frustrated, they seek expert advice on how to get more buyer engagement while avoiding the dreaded cold call. Sales Execution Sales Skills Tibor Shanto'

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Allego

MAY 11, 2022

I had the opportunity to talk with Chris Beall, CEO of ConnectAndSell, about the benefits of cold calling during a recent webinar, How to Improve Cold Call Success Rates. What follows are some insights he shared, as well as cold calling techniques that top-performing sellers use to get meetings with prospects.

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LeadFuze

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Do you remember that moment, right before making a cold call , when your heart raced like a sprinter at the starting line? Cold calling can be daunting. Get ready for some transformative cold calling tips and techniques. What are the 3 C’s of cold calling?

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 11, 2014

We talked for a few minutes, she told me why the company had decided to become active, how she got the job, and some of her objectives. I asked if that included their sales team, and how the sales team was leveraging her work and social media in general. She smiled and said I would have to ask the VP of sales about that.

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KLA Group

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The hot topic in sales recently is that cold calling is DEAD. Don’t bother with calling. Cold calling is not […]. The lead generation landscape has changed. Publish good campaign content and people will flock to you. Engage on social media to begin prospecting conversations.

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The Pipeline

APRIL 3, 2018

No one like objections, including those who have learned to see objections as a means of moving the call forward, they just understand, appreciate and leverage pushback differently than those who are crushed by the same response. Some of you will say “Well, of course, cold calling doesn’t work.” By Tibor Shanto.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 25, 2023

Cold calling is the bread and butter of sales reps in real estate. So, how should you cold call in real estate? In this post, we'll share 11 cold-calling scripts for real estate agents. Though cold calling is time-consuming, it can prove very beneficial in real estate.

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Sales Gravy

AUGUST 18, 2023

Curiosity Is Your Key To Effective Cold Calling On this episode of the Sales Gravy podcast, Ulysses Price, filling in for Jeb Blount, interviews Chris Beall, CEO of ConnectAndSell. Beall explains how market dominance and the humble cold call are connected. To start a conversation, we need to gain someone's trust.

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Mr. Inside Sales

SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

Learn the best cold calling and sales prospecting tips, ideas, techniques, strategies, tools and methods on how to make effective successful business calls for sales. It was a guy who read my latest book, Power Phone Scripts , and wanted to know how to handle a situation/objection he was getting.

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The Pipeline

JULY 14, 2014

It’s not that people don’t like cold calling, mostly they don’t like the outcome, which often is very little, leading to disappointed, and anemic pipelines. Frustrated, they seek expert advice on how to get more buyer engagement while avoiding the dreaded cold call. Sales Execution Sales Skills Tibor Shanto'

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Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

I began debunking sales articles when the first ones predicting the death of selling appeared circa 2008. Later, articles predicting the end of selling became both more prolific and more specific including the certain death of: Solution Selling Cold Calling Consultative Selling Sales Process SPIN Selling and more.

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Mr. Inside Sales

OCTOBER 28, 2022

If you’re ever challenged with the objection, “Your price is pretty high for that…” and you are tempted to see if you can lower your price to compete, what is the most important bit of information you need? I was listening to a training call the last week, and the prospect told the rep that his price was quite high for a certain item.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 29, 2021

A cold call can either break you into a new account — or break your spirit, just a bit. Join Jason Bay of Blissful Prospecting for an interactive workshop designed to give you all his best practices for more engaging (and less daunting) cold calls. Highlights: How 2020 affected sales [5:55]. Is cold calling dead?

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

In a recent survey of 1,000 IT decision makers at Fortune ranked, small and medium-sized companies, DiscoverOrg found cold – sales calls and e-mails affect and “more importantly disrupt vendor selection.”. This webinar will focus on the critical elements of executing a Proactive Prospecting sales call.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Now comes the hard part — the cold call. Daily, sales reps (mostly SDRs) face the daunting task of turning cold calls into warm calls. Sales reps look to increase conversion rates by upping their cold call game. And If you haven’t tried out cold calling scripts yet, now’s the time.

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Download your copy of the Objection Handling Handbook. The challenge for most sales people, and the reason the call leaves them feeling cold, is that they are unprepared for the series of events and reactions their interruption sets into process. When the objection comes, most sales people take the rejection personally.

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Gong.io

AUGUST 16, 2021

Our data team analyzed thousands of cold calls to get these cold call stats. Stat #1: Successful cold calls last 2x longer. The data proves that successful cold calls are nearly twice as long as unsuccessful cold calls: Some ways to earn that 5 min, 50-sec call?

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Gong.io

AUGUST 4, 2021

7 seconds is all you get on a cold call. That’s why I put together these 6 cold calling examples. Disclaimer: These examples rely 100% on hard data on hundreds of thousands of successful cold calls and 0% on opinions, it’s what you need to actually stand a chance of hitting quota. Sales blogs (good ones too!)

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The Pipeline

JANUARY 10, 2014

To help you, I am will presenting a webinar on January 30, at 3:00 pm Eastern, for Fearless Selling , titled “Cold Calling: How to get from Interruption to Conversation”. We will cover core elements of telephone prospecting success, including: Developing client/prospect objectives (this is critical yet most sales people don’t do it).

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Janek Performance Group

JULY 11, 2023

A sales manager recently asked, “Is cold calling effective?” My answer was not an attempt to be glib or elusive, but rather a factual observation from working with hundreds of sales teams. There are sales teams who find cold calling effective, while there are others who think it is useless.

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Women Sales Pros

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

But in cold calling, how do you assess if what you’re or your salesperson is doing is right? Assess Your Cold Calling You need a checklist that works well for cold calls, just like you have for emails. So, how do you assess your cold call effectiveness? Record cold calls!

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Mr. Inside Sales

AUGUST 27, 2021

Want a quick and easy way to handle objections like a pro? Simply seek out the top closer in your company, organization, or industry, and then role play with them and write down how they answer the same objections that are frustrating you now. It’s no wonder I was struggling and not closing many sales! Get Access Today.

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