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You Can’t “Just Call It In” To Win In Cold Calling

The Pipeline

They see success, revel in it, and take their foot off the gas and their eyes off the ball. You can hear it in the way they execute the call, you can see it in their posture and body language. They are literally “calling it in”. Making a professional cold call is very different from just “call it in”.

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I Was Neglecting My Customer Relationships

No More Cold Calling

” That’s what a client asked me a couple years ago, and I was baffled by his revelation. The post I Was Neglecting My Customer Relationships appeared first on No More Cold Calling. . “How do I ask for a referral from customers I haven’t spoken with in two years?”

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Cold Calling, Alive And Kicking!

Partners in Excellence

Cold calling is alive—at least when you look at the number of posts proclaiming its death. Also, judging by the number of “cold calls” I get every day. It’s unfortunate that a discussion about cold calling has to start with definitions and semantic disclaimers.

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Relationships Always Rule [Q4 Referral Selling Roundup]

No More Cold Calling

Find out what you might have missed from No More Cold Calling in recent months. In the meantime, here’s what you might have missed from No More Cold Calling this quarter: I Was Neglecting My Customer Relationships. That’s what a client asked me a couple years ago, and I was baffled by his revelation.

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Driving Our Customers/Prospects Away!

Partners in Excellence

We read about how email is failing, phone calls, social, and virtually every other engagement platform. We have continuing debates about “Is cold calling dead?” Yet we revel in the “win,” high fiving each other, looking forward to our commission checks. ” “Is outbound dead?”

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The Truth About Sales People #4 - They Don't Prospect Very Well

Anthony Cole Training

I know this is not a great revelation, and you are probably wondering why I would even add this to the list of truths about sales people. I grew up in a sales world where, if you called yourself a sales person, you prospected for leads. Keep in mind this applies to any and all efforts used to generate leads, not just cold calling.

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Happy 5th Anniversary, Top Sales Experts!

No More Cold Calling

I love to celebrate birthdays and anniversaries (after all, we work so hard, and it feels great to revel in the good things in life). Our friends at Top Sales Experts are celebrating their 5th anniversary, and it’s my pleasure to toast the global sales community’s publication, Top Sales World.