Warming Up Those Necessary Cold Calls: 5 Tips to Remember When Cold Calling Business Leads
Even though lots of salespeople would like to avoid cold calling altogether, it makes a very effective sales tool. Here are five things you can do to ease your anxiety and make cold calling easier. When most folks think about cold calling, they don’t get
B2B Cold Calling Best Practices
This article re-iterates what we truly believe that cold calling is the most effective way to reach your target audience and ultimately the decision makers. This article talks about best practices but when you don’t have the time to do it yourself
Don’t You Just Love Appointment Setting?
If you have the time to set your own appointments this is a great article that can help you get the appointments with decision makers. If you don’t have the time It’s Your Call helps with b to b appointment
The Insidesales.com/M.I.T. Lead Response Management Study
Recently I was asked when is the best time to call on leads. I shared the results for telemarketing from the study below. We have used the times table below to schedule calls and have had similar results. Not that we
Why Holiday Prospecting Works
Making business to business telemarketing calls during the holidays can be an extremely productive endeavor. The article below states what we explain to our customers and prospects “when they want to hold off until the beginning of the year”. It only makes
There’s No Such Thing as “No Decision”
We do database cleaning for many of our customers. The cleaning is done to their prospect list that at some point had interest but there was “no decision”. When we call on the list we not only determine the correct
Prospecting
This article from Entrepreneur not only defines prospecting but differentiates between cold, warm and hot prospects and how each should be handled. Customers use IT’S YOUR CALL for all aspects of prospecting. Definition: The search for potential customers or buyers . When it comes to drumming up new
Here are 14 Lead Qualification Questions
I just finished a workshop on prospecting and writing a telemarketing scripts. The audience could easily write a description of what their company did and how they help but the biggest issue was developing the lead qualification questions. Below are samples and descriptions to help with creating
Why Prospecting Doesn’t Stop in the Summer
This article is spot on! We not only have clients that are make b to b telemarketing calls for prospecting, cold calling and lead generation we at It’s Your Call are ramping up our prospecting calling too. Summer time and prospecting for business – really? Absolutely. Summer is a great
How to Build Rapport with Sales Prospects
In practically every sales training guide the first step when selling is to create a rapport. One of the under rated results of performing a cold calling campaign is that a rapport is being developed with the prospects. Making calls to an existing database to