{"id":1186,"date":"2007-09-14T15:53:53","date_gmt":"2007-09-14T20:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/09\/cold-call-potpourri\/"},"modified":"2007-09-14T15:53:53","modified_gmt":"2007-09-14T20:53:53","slug":"cold-call-potpourri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/09\/cold-call-potpourri\/","title":{"rendered":"Cold Call Potpourri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some more general points from this&nbsp;morning&#8217;s&nbsp;cold calling discussion:<\/p>\n<p>Some other items to consider:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>-Be positive &#8211; it is only a phone call <\/p>\n<p>-Stand up-your tonality is better, you&#8217;ll be less anxious and less distracted <\/p>\n<p>-Don&#8217;t get verbal diarrhea <\/p>\n<p>-Have a hook, don&#8217;t try to do a data dump <\/p>\n<p>-Qualify the next step &#8211; no fuzzy phrases (&#8220;I&#8217;ll think it over&#8221;)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In the end, you need to be able to answer (well) this question from the prospect: <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>What do you know about our company?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>We use a modified approach when phone screening candidates.&nbsp; We ask them how their skills and experience fit the criteria listed in our ad.&nbsp; The Rock Star pulls his hair out on some calls since it is obvious the respondent does not recall the ad nor do they have it in front of them.&nbsp; Since our phone screens are prescheduled, we&#8217;re always a bit concerned about salespeople who do not have the ad available during the call.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some more general points from this&nbsp;morning&#8217;s&nbsp;cold calling discussion: Some other items to consider: -Be positive &#8211; it is only a phone call -Stand up-your tonality is better, you&#8217;ll be less anxious and less distracted -Don&#8217;t get verbal diarrhea -Have a hook, don&#8217;t try to do a data dump -Qualify the next step &#8211; no fuzzy phrases (&#8220;I&#8217;ll think it over&#8221;) In the end, you need to be able to answer (well) this question from the prospect: What do you know about our company? We use a modified approach when phone screening candidates.&nbsp; We ask them how their skills and experience fit the criteria listed in our ad.&nbsp; The Rock Star&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/09\/cold-call-potpourri\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16,9],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-j8","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->