Iannarino

MARCH 28, 2024

The Beginnings of a Sales Career: Learning Through Cold Calls I started selling when I was 15. I made cold calls for a non-profit. Making calls was no different than washing dishes. I was not given any training, just a script and a list of phone numbers. That said, I was the only person to win two deals.

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Iannarino

MAY 19, 2023

Knocking on doors is a real cold call. My first job, which I started at age 12, was delivering newspapers. Making money meant knocking on every door in three apartment complexes and asking the person that answered to subscribe to the paper.

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Veloxy

JUNE 21, 2021

Are your cold call scripts costing you potential qualified leads? Cold call scripts are not one-size-fits-all, so what works for one team may not work for the next. If you sell telecommunications, your cold calls could and should be different than a salesperson selling software. Introduction.

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Iannarino

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Cold calling gets a bad rap these days. You may have seen the statistic that most cold calling professionals report a 2% success rate. The truth is, with the right scripts, you can make cold calling work for your business.

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Iannarino

MAY 12, 2022

Yet, cold calling remains. Should it, or is it finally time to put cold calling out to pasture with the typewriter and the Rolodex? Customer expectations change. Technology changes. Sales changes.

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Iannarino

JULY 3, 2021

You can make the same mistakes when making a cold call by using the same flawed techniques. As a professional courtesy, I accept cold calls. I even take the spam calls that reach my iPhone, working very hard to persuade the person trying to steal from me to quit their job and find a more honorable profession.

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Iannarino

JULY 29, 2021

The Gist: Salespeople are being taught to fear cold calling by people who should know better. There is never a reason to fear calling a stranger, especially since every won deal starts by meeting a stranger. Many believe that cold calling is dead, but the successful use it to outproduce their competitors.

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Iannarino

MAY 11, 2022

If your cold calling attempts are leading to an endless string of rejections, it’s time to check out some cold calling examples and try something new. Nobody likes rejection. If there’s one statement I can make that I think is universal to the human experience, it’s this one.

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Veloxy

APRIL 25, 2022

While there are statistics that share voicemail’s decline in the business world , we can’t avoid the fact that 80% of all cold calls will reach the decision maker’s voicemail inbox. As we’ve shared in past blog posts on cold calling , saying that something is ‘dead’ is becoming a catchy headline and a trend.

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Iannarino

MAY 4, 2022

Does cold calling apply in the modern B2B sales development space? That’s where my B2B cold calling tips come into play. Considering that more than half of C-level execs want sales professionals to reach out to them via phone, I’d say it does. But how can you use this method to maximize sales?

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Iannarino

APRIL 24, 2022

Are cold calls your least favorite part of the job? What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you think about cold calls? But cold calls don’t have to be the most dreaded part of your schedule. They don’t have to be. You might be thinking of rejection, or tedium, or something similarly negative.

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Iannarino

MARCH 23, 2022

The good news is that means you have a lot of options when it comes to selecting a book to help you with cold calling. Each year, publishers release somewhere in the ballpark of 11 thousand new business-related books. The bad news is that it can be hard to tell which books are actually going to help you.

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Veloxy

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Cold calling is not dead! This is the golden key to cold calling! We’ve got you covered with the ultimate guide on everything you need to know about cold calling. What is Cold Calling? Is Cold Calling Dead? What Is Cold Calling? Is Cold Calling Dead?

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Veloxy

APRIL 5, 2022

Couple the aforementioned facts with the reluctance on the part of inside sales and outside sales reps to call leads, and the phone can collect dust faster than a broom. Yet, 82% of buyers still accept meetings with sellers who cold call. Why are sales professionals reluctant to cold call? What is a Hot Call?

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Iannarino

APRIL 25, 2022

What if your team’s cold call close rate could be 10% or higher? With the right B2B cold calling tips and tricks, that figure can be your team’s reality.

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Iannarino

JUNE 13, 2022

You know cold calling can work… maybe you just haven’t seen it for yourself just yet. And that’s not for lack of trying.

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Iannarino

JANUARY 30, 2023

If you’re not prepared, making a cold call can leave you feeling like a deer in headlights.

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Iannarino

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

How would you like for cold calling to become the best part of your job?

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Predictable Revenue

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Curious about cold calling best practices? In this post, we’re sharing our favorite cold calling methods, on-call best practices, and must-haves for effective cold calling. The post Cold Calling Best Practices appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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Predictable Revenue

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The goal of a cold call is attention + interest, not selling. The post Cold Calling in 2021 appeared first on Predictable Revenue. That means we have to ask the question: How do I get this person to want to speak with me?

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Gong.io

JANUARY 25, 2022

COLD CALLING. . Cold calling never works. That’s a true statement IF you don’t listen to what the data tells you about cold calling. The goal: Moving a deal through the sales funnel — cold call to booked meeting and meeting to negotiation and proposal & pricing conversation to a new logo.

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Salesforce

JANUARY 24, 2024

Ask a sales pro if they want to do some cold calling, and you’ll likely get some form of, “Do I have to?” For many, the idea of calling a stranger out of the blue isn’t so appealing. But mastering the art of the cold call can spell sales success, and it doesn’t have to be painful.

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RAIN Group

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Many people want to believe that cold calling doesn't work because they don't want to have to get on the phone. Many cold callers use deceptive tactics to get through and leave a bad taste in buyers' mouths. Indeed, there are many ways to do it wrong and fail.

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Iannarino

AUGUST 26, 2022

At a company event, two engineers were elated to share that two of their dream clients had downloaded a lead-generation piece from the website. The company’s entire staff applauded the good news. In the next sentence, the engineers disclosed they had been hoping for an event like this for five years.

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The 5% Institute

AUGUST 8, 2021

In this article, you’ll learn our six proven and effective sales tips for B2B cold calling. B2B cold calling can be an effective way to get in touch with your ideal clients, because it allows you to cut through all the noise and get in direct contact with the potential decision maker. Tip #3 – The Actual Call.

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The 5% Institute

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Cold calling incorrectly can potentially harm your sales efforts – which is why in this article, we’ll go through our recommended cold call sales training, to help you win more sales. Cold Call Sales Training – The Outline Explained. What Is Cold Calling? Do Cold Call Sales Scripts Work?

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A Sales Guy

JULY 22, 2020

Too many salespeople miss amazing opportunities to improve their cold calling success and conversions. Cold calling is about establishing credibility as quickly as possible. The post The Only Thing That Matters When Cold Calling appeared first on A Sales Guy.

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The 5% Institute

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Cold calling incorrectly can potentially harm your sales efforts – which is why in this article, we’ll go through our recommended cold calling process, to help you win more sales. The Cold Calling Process – A Step By Step Guide. What Is Cold Calling? Do Cold Call Sales Scripts Work?

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The 5% Institute

JANUARY 10, 2022

Cold calling incorrectly can potentially harm your sales efforts – which is why in this article, we’ll go through our recommended cold call script, to help you win more sales. What Is Cold Calling? Before we go into our cold called script it’s important to learn and define what cold calling actually is.

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SaaStr

MARCH 13, 2023

So even after doing SaaS all this years, and being perhaps the biggest fan of SaaS sales and sales processes out there … I still struggle with the idea of cold calling. Personally, I never answer a cold call, and want at least my initial discovery to be done over email. A lot of phone-based cold calling isn’t 100% cold.

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Salesforce

MAY 18, 2023

We may live in the time of TikTok, where an unknown number calling your phone strikes fear, but in my 13 years of training sales teams, I’ve found nothing is more impactful than the cold call. In fact, cold calling accounts for up to 50% of new deals , according to Dale Carnegie Training. What is cold calling?

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Sales Gravy

AUGUST 18, 2023

Curiosity Is Your Key To Effective Cold Calling On this episode of the Sales Gravy podcast, Ulysses Price, filling in for Jeb Blount, interviews Chris Beall, CEO of ConnectAndSell. Beall explains how market dominance and the humble cold call are connected. To start a conversation, we need to gain someone's trust.

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The 5% Institute

AUGUST 3, 2021

In this article, you’ll learn our six proven and effective sales techniques for cold calling. Cold calling can be an effective way to get in touch with your ideal clients, because it allows you to cut through all the noise and get in direct contact with the potential decision maker. Tip #3 – The Call.

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