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Cold calling isn’t dead, it’s just evolved. While digital channels dominate modern sales conversations, picking up the phone ...
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Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. “The leads are weak!” says Shelly. “The leads are weak; you’re weak,” exclaims Blake from downtown. This dialogue from Glengarry Glen ...
With so many forms of digital communication available, the traditional cold phone call may seem like a lesser form of gaining a sale or finding a business partnership. Some people may believe that ...
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. John Lee Dumas (JLD), founder and host of the Entrepreneur on Fire podcast and author of Common Path to Uncommon Success, has some great ...
You know the rep. Cold calling is intimidating and hard. Unless it isn’t. How can you and I reshape how we feel about cold calling and use it as an expandable tool to grow our sales?The real ...
Cold calling is a sales strategy that involves phoning a potential customer unsolicited in the hopes of getting them to buy your goods or services. Granted, cold calling isn’t always the most popular ...
The cold call is dead, at least for smartphones. But the phone conversation itself hasn’t lost its value; only the path to it has changed. Apple and Google have now both introduced technology that ...
Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. There is a growing debate among business executives from the SaaS world about the ...