The Complete Idiot's Guide to Cold Calling

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Does this sound familiar? "If I can just get in front of more qualified prospects, the rest of the selling process becomes easier. It's just getting in front of them that's the challenge."

You're no idiot, of course. You can talk shop with any customer who enters your store, asks questions over the phone, or seeks out your specific product or service. But when comes to prospecting for new customers, you'd rather have a root canal!

After coaching thousands of salespeople, Keith Rosen, one of America's favorite Sales coaches and trainers, has developed a proven process that anyone could follow to achieve incredible success at attracting more prospects and it's all outlined in his book, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Cold Calling.

The fact is, most cold calling efforts are doomed from the start. Salespeople lose sales not due to a lack of effort but because they lack a prospecting system they are comfortable with and can trust that generates greater, consistent results.

Anyone can generate new business and make more money with the right prospecting system. So, if you love to sell but hate (or don't like) to prospect, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Cold Calling is your roadmap to cold calling success; showing you exactly how to get in front of the right prospects in less time and create more selling opportunities without the fear, pressure or anxiety associated with cold calling, prospecting or self-promotion. In this guide, you get:

* Tools, templates and strategies to create your own painless prospecting and follow-up system that will attract new prospects-and convert them into sales.
* Advice on how to find the best prospects-and avoid those who aren't qualified.
* Suggestions on coping with rejection, boosting your self confidence, eliminating call reluctance, managing a healthy prospecting mindset, and ensuring prospects will listen to what you have to say.
* Methods for establishing a rapport with prospects, understanding their needs, and getting them interested in how your product or service will benefit them.
* The hidden secrets of effective networking and to generating a steady stream of referrals.
* An infallible follow-up system that will keep your name in front of each prospect and protect you from losing sales to your competitors, up until the time they are ready to buy so that you never "Drop the ball" again.



You will also discover how you can:



* Create your MVP (Most Valuable Proposition) that separates you from your competition.
* Craft the compelling reasons that would motivate a prospect to speak with you.
* Prevent and defuse initial objections such as, "I'm not interested," "We don't have any money now" or "Call me back later."
* Develop the right questions and uncover new selling opportunities in seconds so that you can stop wasting precious time on the wrong prospects.
* Compose winning voice mail messages that will ensure more return calls.



So, whether you are an entrepreneur, a business owner, a non-selling professional, a seasoned sales veteran or are just beginning your career in sales, after reading this book you will actually want to prospect!

PRODUCT DETAILS

Publisher: Alpha
Pub. Date: 3rd August 2004
Catalog: Book
Media: Paperback
Number Of Pages: 336
Ean: 9781592572274
Isbn: 1592572278

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USER REVIEWS

Excellent Prospecting Tools
~ Written on Sep 23, 2009. out of users found this review helpful.

Keith Rosen's tools and strategies for prospecting are extremly effective for any sales person. This book will give you a system to follow in order to first, be more effective in generating new clients and second, provide you with a system that helps you follow through on your prosecting goals.

These techniques also take the stress out of setting appointmens and puts more of the focus on puting new prospects through the system which creates a natural outcome of new qualified clients.

Reading this book made me a lot of money
~ Written on May 11, 2009. out of users found this review helpful.

I started telesales several months ago. I bought this book, and every book I could get my hands on about selling. This book was by far one of the most useful book about telemarketing that I read. I use concepts from it everyday. They've made me a lot of money. Within two months of starting with this company I was #1 in cold-calling sales out of 65 reps.

iI you sell - and want to do better- a very good book for you.
~ Written on Apr 27, 2009. 1 out of 1 users found this review helpful.

I needed to research some sales tactics last week and re-discovered this book on my shelf. It was a treasure as the author - a sales top percentage seller as well as a clear writer has put together a good simple workbook wrto leads and lead generation/prospecting. He gives useful and succinct advice which ties in closely with the research created by Rocket Builders on Precision Sales and Marketing. There are certain things every sales person needs to know before they pick up the telephone. Eg.

* What must you know about this prospect in order to decide that they are a real customer for your product? (Brian Carrolls " a qualifed lead")
* Every salesperson should be able to fluently/truthfully present 5 compelling reasons to buy his/her product - (not compelling - more than different) These should survive the "so what" response.
* Prospects buy what the product does for them ( The drill creates holes). What does yours do (In English? )
* Why should they care what you have to say - what is in it for them?
* How are you (and your product) going to help them become a better , (e.g. Product manager, CEO CFO?) at what they do?
* What is your key differentiator - that no one else/product can do?
* Your no 1 (and 2,3,4,5 ...) sales tools are the stories from wildly satisfied customers.-exactly like the target you are selling to! Is your tool box filled ?
* Prepare to prospect more leads from the prospect before you talk to them, even if they do not become" qualified".
* Gatekeepers are more often information warehouses than barriers- how are you doing with them? Do you know what their day is like?

There is much more here. As in many sales books the essence is presented along with the necessary. So the audience who most needs to know this material (rooky, tired, jaded and wearly) , often skips over the most important parts.
if you sell - and want to do better - this is a good primary resource book

Comprehensive, Straightforward, Excellent
~ Written on Mar 4, 2009. out of users found this review helpful.

Like most people, I approached the cold calling process with the enthusiasm of a dental patient going in for a root canal--the rejection, the time spent, it all feels quite overwhelming if you just sit down at a phone with a list of names and numbers and start dialing with no mindset or plan in place. Keith's book helps establish both the right mindset AND a plan that you tailor to your selling needs; once those are ready, the process becomes quite a bit simpler and the results are very solid. I personally put his fax idea to use in a cold call campaign--it's true, nobody uses them for such purposes anymore--and had a variety of warm calls, several of which turned into legitimate business, waiting for me over the next few weeks. The book itself is full of common sense advice and strategy, all laid out in a very logical progression, and I can't imagine that anyone who follows Keith's plans closely will not find success, even in this current business climate. Highly recommended for anyone and everyone in the sales business; there is no replacing cold calling in the sales process, so you might as well do it right. Keith's book will enable you to do that.

AN ABSOLUTE MUST READ!!!
~ Written on Jan 28, 2009. 1 out of 1 users found this review helpful.

Keith Rosen has produced the most realistic viewpoints of the hangups and mistakes people make everyday that I found myself laughing and nodding to some of the examples he gives. At many times during reading this book, I said, "Yes, this is me. This is something I'm guilty of that I know is holding me back from success." He is no doubt not only an excellent coach but is someone that has also been in the cold-calling trenches and has experienced these same obstacles himself.

After reading this book, I felt a sense of motivation and drive to succeed. This book helps you to put into perspective what is the key ingredient in any cold call - YOU! The information he provides in helping you prepare a positive state of mind is PHENOMENAL!

If you are human like the rest of us and have ever had trouble handling rejection and objections, YOU MUST READ THIS BOOK!

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