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Sales Math – Quality vs. Quantity

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For example, cold emails vs cold calls. Warm calls vs. cold calls. If 10% of our calls turn into appointments … 1,000 calls per month. 1,000 calls per month = approximately 46 contacts per day. Your choice of activities can also affect your ratios. Email blast vs. personalized outreach.

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Is it Time to Bring Cold Calls and Donuts Back?

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So, that leaves us with direct mail, SMS, attraction marketing, and face-to-face cold calls. And … we are now back to 1977 when I first got started in B2B selling … Face-to-Face Cold Calls. Bring donuts and you have Enhanced Face-to-Face Cold Calls. The post Is it Time to Bring Cold Calls and Donuts Back?

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Returning to My Roots … Networking

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In the past, I have owned and operated three professional networking groups as a for-profit business. Who likes cold calling? The post Returning to My Roots … Networking appeared first on Adaptive Business Services. I have always been an effective networker. I am a referral junkie. Stay tuned.

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On Door Knockin’ and Donuts

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So, that leaves us with direct mail, SMS, attraction marketing, and face-to-face cold calls. And … we are now back to 1977 when I first got started in B2B selling … Face-to-Face Cold Calls. Bring donuts and you have Enhanced Face-to-Face Cold Calls. Subsequent offers are … see above. Direct mail? Get active.

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Going from Strangers to Handshakes – The Art of Warm Calling

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of people find annoying … getting cold called to be sold on something. Getting over this hump is probably one of the most difficult processes as you’re essentially calling people who are 99.5% The short answer is…cold calling doesn’t work, or work well enough to make it worth it, without you really knowing your stuff.

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It’s All About the Ratios

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I made thirty cold calls, I would get five demos. The post It’s All About the Ratios appeared first on Adaptive Business Services. We need to prospect more!”. I’m shocked since I have focused on my ratios since I was a B2B sales newbie back in 1977. Even then I knew that if ….

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Make More Calls or Better Calls? Sales 101

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Cold – A cold call or a cold lead generally employs a shotgun vs. targeted approach. The ability to properly identify and to qualify quality opportunities will allow me to better target those who are more likely to invest in my services or who can refer me to those who will.