How to win sales remotely

Interview on virtual selling success Surprise! How buyers like being contacted is proactively — by phone! And the more senior the buyer you are trying to contact the more that buyer prefers you reach out by phone. Stats, research and interviews prove it’s a preferred way buyers — especially the senior buyers with more buying authority — want you to contact them. To be sure you will need more than an introductory phone call to make virtual selling work for you. But the initial outreach by phone is something way too many sales organizations overlook because they either do not want to do […]

getting appointments phone prospecting

Is your “phone voice” suited for new client outreach? Easy to fool yourself into making mistakes. Getting appointments phone prospecting on the first call is rare. Regardless of whether you outsource your appointment setting or do it yourself, don’t try getting appointments by phone prospecting on the first call. Q: What goals are realistic for getting appointments by phone prospecting? A: Effective lead generation and list building are about qualifying prospects for future contacts. Once you realize that B2B appointment setting is not the goal of your first call, the monkey is off your back. You are calling to get information. That means finding […]

COVID-19 and telecommuting

Technology can connect you with almost anyone around the block or around the world. But there’s something unique that we humans get from interacting with one another that doesn’t come across as well through technology. In face-to-face communication, you are sharing a moment in time and space with someone. That is incredibly compelling for our ancient brains. This one-on-one “sharing a moment in time” with someone is how I approach real-time phone prospecting. It’s a moment in which you are able to connect with a prospect in a way that cuts across the technology great divide…and builds a rapport you just cannot get with even the coolest web-based technology. […]

Build Custom Lead Lists

An Effective Way You Can Build Custom Lead Lists  If you want to build custom lead lists of prospects with a proven interest in what you offer try old school phone prospecting —-developing a base of well-qualified prospects interested in meeting you and learning what you can do for them. Yes, it’s a process! But you’ll discover it get’s you in-the-door to make your sales and get more customers with far greater success than one-call telemarketing ever did. To build these custom lead lists here’s the process I use and recommend. Phase One:  Introductory warm-cold calls to find prospects worth pursuing. Phase […]

Your lost customers

Get back lost customers —- clients you have spoken with or sent a proposal to in the past but didn’t win the business.  I have something that might help you win back a few lost clients. I am suggesting you gently re-establish your presence in a way that builds trust. That way you have a better chance to develop a relationship with some of these clients. And from there incrementally edge your way back by taking on smaller pieces of business. Letting them drift away and giving up on them for good or waiting too long before reconnecting are mistakes […]

Find New High-end Clients

Can You Find New High-end Clients Prospecting By Phone? How does your business find new high-end clients? With online marketing and cloud-related media making headlines, there’s a very responsive marketing platform you may have overlooked.  What I’m talking about is phone prospecting — a tested direct marketing medium for getting and keeping customers. You might call it “old school” but phone prospecting — like social media marketing — can be an engaging and interactive medium….enabling you to find new high-end clients and develop them — over time — into becoming your customer. The Personal Touch The secret is making your calls with a […]

Marketing Direct High-end Prospecting

 What makes Marketing Direct High-end Prospecting  effective? First of all, it’s a tested  process that eliminates completely the stigma of old way telemarketing and how cold calls are received.  How I contact your prospects is low key…one-to-one and not at all like you’d expect from cold call prospecting. This approach makes your prospects open to learning more about what you can do for him or her. Custom Phone Prospecting Tailor Made to Your Specific Industry Niche But first I learn from you about your customers, your business and how you service your customers —- what they want and expect from you […]

Getting Appointments By Phone Prospecting

Getting Appointments Phone Prospecting Getting appointments by phone prospecting to senior-level decision makers and influencers on the first call is rare. An enlightened prospect can use the Internet to learn about your competitors and all the easily available options to what you are selling. Regardless of whether you outsource your appointment setting or do it yourself, don’t try getting appointments by phone prospecting on the first call. Q: What goals are realistic for getting appointments by phone prospecting? A: Effective lead generation and list building are about qualifying prospects for future contacts. Once you realize that B2B appointment setting is not the goal […]

Ways To Attract and Keep Customers

When it comes to ways to attract and keep customers high-end custom phone prospecting can be a good solution. Done with meaningful, purposeful conversation — the same way you would want to interact with your customer and prospect base if you were making those calls yourself —is what my high-end phone prospecting is all about. Ways To Attract & Keep Customers Explained I do your hunting plus warm-cold calling & pre-sales qualifying with lead management & lead scoring with REAL-TIME follow-up calls for you. I give you full notes & clear records of each call at all stages…plus Daily Call […]