From the monthly archives:

October 2006

CCP016 – Is The Water Too Cold?

by mike on 31 October, 2006

 
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This week, we talk about the difficulties of actually dipping more than a toe into the Cold Calling water. We are aware that a lot of our listeners find it hard to actually submerge themselves in cold calling, so we talk through some tips and techniques to actually get yourself more into it.

And for the “old hands” who have been cold calling for a long time, we talk about the dangers of getting complacent, and provide some pointers on ways to stop that from happening.

If you would like personal, one-on-one cold call training from Mike or Greg, please visit our sales coaching page to find out more.

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CCP015 – The Numbers Game

 
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This week, we talk about numbers. Can you really double the number of appointments you get by doubling your number of calls? What if it is not possible to double your calls? We look at three other ways you can get your numbers up, namely:

Reaching the decision maker more often
Making your value statement more compelling
Doing [...]

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CCP014 – Cold Calling For Business Owners

 
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This weeks episode of The Cold Calling Podcast is directed squarely at business owners. If you own your own business, and you are hitting the phones in order to find new customers, what are some of the key things you should be thinking about? How can you use the fact that you are the President [...]

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CCP Special Edition – Zubka

 
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This week, we have a special edition of the Cold Calling Podcast, where we focus exclusively on Zubka, a new company that will allow listeners to find better jobs for people they know and to find people for jobs they know about.
The reason we are devoting an entire episode of the Cold Calling Podcast to [...]

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CCP013 – Questioning Techniques on the Cold Call

 
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In this weeks podcast, we talk about various different types of questioning techniques and when to use them. We dicsuss open and closed direct questions, as well as the following types of indirect or inferred questions:

Tonal
Latent
Assumptative
Injected/Interrupting
Mindset

We also introduce the concept of “Creditability”, and Greg does some poetry reading (!)
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