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Cold Calling Techniques

Cold calling isn’t dead, it’s just evolved. While digital channels dominate modern sales conversations, picking up the phone to start a relationship with a prospect who’s never heard of you remains ...
For many professionals, cold-calling is a tall hurdle. They dread having to make the calls, worried they'll be rejected or forget what they need to say. They know the person on the other end isn't ...
Believe it or not, cold calling can be an exciting part of your job. Throughout my career, on my way to the C-Suite, I was asked more than once to turn around sales teams I might lovingly call the Bad ...
Cold calling usually isn’t a part of what real estate agents look forward to, but it still works if you do it right. Picking up the phone and having a direct conversation is one of the quickest ways ...
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Do you like receiving cold calls? Of course you don’t — nobody does. The phone is still a valuable tool, but traditional cold calling ...
Today many wealth management firms have ended the practice of using unsolicited outbound calls to find new customers, or cold calling. Not so C. James Taylor, who manages a team of 18 people and more ...