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Cold Calling Mastery

via LinkedIn Learning

Overview

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Become an expert at cold calling: making cold calls for lead generation, sales, and business development.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Getting over the fear of cold calling
1. Initial Tips
  • Cold calling mindset
  • Finding your sales style
  • Cold calling techniques
  • What is a salesperson's talent?
  • Three cold calling tips
2. Getting over the Fear
  • Cold calling confidence
  • The best and worst case scenarios of a cold call
  • Getting on with sales calls
  • Always have a reason to cold call
  • Gamification of cold calling
  • Selling to other humans
  • Personalizing cold calls
3. Preparation and Scripting
  • Preparing for cold calls
  • Researching your prospect
  • Your sales environment
  • Have a great elevator pitch
  • Pitching your product well
  • Why preparing for a cold call is important
4. Gatekeepers
  • Dealing with the gatekeepers
  • Who gatekeepers are
  • How to get past gatekeepers
  • Winning over gatekeepers
5. Script and Structure
  • How to write a cold call script
  • Writing an opener and hook
  • Writing a bridge and qualifying question
  • How to close a cold call
  • Tips for cold call scripts and structure
6. Qualifying
  • How to qualify sales opportunities
  • Using the BUNTA sales technique
  • The best sales question to ask
  • Using open questions in sales
  • Listening during cold calls
  • Why sales qualification is so important
7. Rejection and Objection
  • How to overcome sales objections
  • Call calling rejection and getting past it
  • Getting around objections and rejection in sales
  • Using the "peel the onion" technique in cold calls
  • Using the "feel, felt, found" technique in cold calls
  • Tips for rejection and objections in cold calls
8. Aftercare
  • How to keep servicing the prospect
  • Getting next steps in cold calls
  • Using your calendar to find sales leads
  • Maintaining relationships with prospects with sales calls
  • Cold calling time management
Conclusion
  • Cold calling tips and advice

Taught by

Miles Croft

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