How to Build Great Relationships through Cold Calling

Sometimes the finest solutions are the simplest. Focusing on relationships when making cold calls is one of them. It keeps us genuine, and eliminates our dread of making cold calls. We're real people...

Turn Inquiries Into Solid Sales

This article will give you a series of examples show you how key phrases can turn a common, every day price inquiry into a selling situation, that in turn produces a new customer for your organization

Understanding Telemarketing Advantage

The Big Idea Telemarketing is the most powerful and the most cost-effective marketing available today making it the most interactive marketing medium available. Why? It is mainly because telemarketing is dominating all other forms of marketing like the radios, newspapers, magazines, or even the billboards. Do you have any idea what telemarketing really is? What could be the advantage of it? Basically, it will be the topic we will deal with as we go on with this article.

Inside Sales Tips - Taking Your Prospect All the Way

Inside Sales Tip shows how to close prospects by leading them all the way through the sale. Take control of the close by using these skills.

Inside Sales Tips - Voicemail - The 5 Golden Rules

Inside Sales Tip tells you the 5 things you need to know when leaving a voicemail. Learn how to get your calls returned!

The Power Of Voicemail To Magnetize Your Prospect's Curiosity!

When you leave a voicemail message you are competing for your prospect's time. There are other types of calls that will be returned before they even consider returning your call. What can you do to increase your odds? In this article, you will learn four suggestions that you can use immediately to increase the likelihood of a callback from your sales prospect.

Your Answering Machine is a Method of Telephone Sales

The tele-selling industry sub-sector often called Telemarketing breaks down their category by incoming telemarketing and out-going telemarketing. Out going telemarketing is what folks got so angry about and why we ended up with all the Federal Regulation on Telemarketing.

Sales Speaker Says Cold Calling Advice Is Usually Cheap & Wrong

Show me anybody that ever sold anything by phone, or even came close, and I’ll show you another world expert in cold calling. That bozo who still couldn’t tie his shoelaces by himself, and he was in the fifth grade; he’s a cold calling guru now because someone taught him to read a script and he followed it, word for word, and got lucky, at least once. That “motivational speaker” who had the temerity to get on the phone and to tout his own phoning abilities, yes he, too became a wunderkind of the wired and now wireless world. Talk about someone who had maybe one year of experience and has sold that to other people, since then, year after year! Yes, the one-eyed man is king in the land of the blind, and most salespeople are clueless about the ins and outs of dialing and smiling, says Dr. Gary S. Goodman, best-selling author of 12 books including such classics as REACH OUT & SELL SOMEONE and YOU CAN SELL ANYTHING BY TELEPHONE.

Cold Calling Is Contagious!

Can cold calling actually be contagious? While cold calling is not contagious, there are, however, certain personality traits that we can bring to the telephone conversation that can have a powerful affect on both your prospect’s attitude and behavior.

Telephone Sales From Traveling Salesmen On Cell Phones

Have you ever sat in the lobby of a hotel and listened to a salesman on his cell phone making calls and setting up appointments for the next day? Sure we all have heard people announcing their arrivals, departures, delays and ETAs, but what about when a salesman is in the lobby of a five star...

Five Tips for Making the Phone Your Semi-Automated Income Generator

Just when you thought you had automated yourself past the need for a telephone, you find yourself needing it more than ever. The following 5 tips and power phrases will help you use the phone as nothing more than another tool for automating your business. Do not use the phone to sell. Let the phone be your semi-automated income generator.

Are You Tele-Telling or Tele-Selling?

For those who use telephone calling in their sales career or cold calling to get new customers they need to be careful because when talking on the phone you do not have the visual cues of body language from those you are talking to and you must pay very close attention to make sure you are not boring the person you are talking to or that they have stopped listening to what you are saying.

Teleselling and Static On the Phone Lines

If you do a lot of telephone sales then you know that about the worst thing that can happen is a bad phone line. Any sales person is on the phone constantly setting up meetings, scheduling appointments and perhaps even taking orders and closing deals, but when the phone is full of static the sales person looks foolish and miss communications can lead to catastrophes down the road.

Selling Landscape Services by Phone

If you own a landscape service business you know that the more clientele you have and the more number of accounts you have; the more money and profits you will make. One way to get new clients is to call them on the telephone.