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icon for podpress  CCP034 - Overcoming the Limitations of Remote Selling [25:57m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Remote sellingIn today’s edition of The Cold Calling Podcast, we look at some of the issues that come up when you are selling to people you cannot actually meet face-to-face. How do you get around the issues of trust when you are selling exclusively via remote channels such as telephone and e-mail?

Thanks to Dan from Australia by the way, for the audio comment that inspired the theme of this episode.

Cold calling can be difficult at the best of times but remote selling, where you have to do everything over the phone and via e-mail (when a meeting is not possible because of geographic limitations for example), can present a whole bunch of challenges of its own.

In this episode of The Cold Calling Podcast, sales coaching experts Mike O’Hara and Greg Grimer discuss some of the the sales techniques you can use in those situations, when selling over the telephone is your only option. How do you build trust and credibility with a prospect you can’t meet? How can you use supporting materials (for example new media like web-based video) to enhance your telephone pitch and value proposition? What can you do with case studies and references? Where do business networks like LinkedIn fit into the equation? Is personalised collateral the key to helping support your remote selling activities?

Greg and Mike discuss all of this and more, so just click on the play icon above to listen to the podcast.

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

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CCP032 – Pros & Cons of Outsourcing Telephone Prospecting

 
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In this week’s episode of The Cold Calling Podcast, we talk about the pros and cons of outsourcing your telephone prospecting activities to a third party or agency.
Under what circumstances should you consider doing this? What qualities should you be looking for in the person or company who will be calling prospects on your behalf? [...]

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CCP030 – When to Stop Cold Calling

 
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In this week’s episode of The Cold Calling Podcast, we talk about valid and invalid reasons for stopping cold-calling specific individuals and moving on to new targets.
We discuss sincere objections versus insincere objections, and ways to pre-empt sales objections so that you’re staying on track during the cold call and not moving away from what [...]

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CCP029 – Hitting The Streets (Real Cold Calling!)

 
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This week on The Cold Calling Podcast, we talk about the toughest kind of cold calling – actually hitting the streets and making cold calls for real, i.e. calling on your prospects face-to-face, unannounced.
Cold calling is not always about telemarketing. Sometimes unsolicited sales calls have to be made in person. And this can be one [...]

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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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CCP009 – Cold Calling For Newbies

 
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Following requests from a number of listeners, this week we go right back to basics and talk about the key things to take into consideration if you are new to business cold calling. Here are the first few pieces of advice. Listen to the podcast to pick up some more…

Don’t believe people who tell you [...]

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