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No One To Call? B t

The Pipeline

Which brings the next retort, “How can I call them, I don’t have the wireless number?” I’ve said all this before, so rather than redoing here are two places you can go right now to master voicemails that get returned, and reconnect with your clients, prospects, friends, competitors. Get used to it kids). The post No One To Call?

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Cavemen Would Have Been Great Salespeople

No More Cold Calling

What can we learn from our ancestors about connecting with prospects and clients? We haven’t rewired ourselves just because the world has gone wireless. We haven’t rewired ourselves just because the world has gone wireless. A 27-year-old told me, “There’s nothing like meeting face to face.” We’ve simply forgotten.

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Has the Death of Selling Finally Arrived?

Understanding the Sales Force

If you are selling something in great demand (iPhone 5), really inexpensive (monthly subscription of $20 or less), significantly lower-priced than your competition (by 20% or more), or that people must have (wireless service), then you can easily replace salespeople with marketers. They may not be prospects today, but that''s OK.

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The Easiest Person To Lie To Is Yourself

The Pipeline

That lie then forces them to lie about the necessity to prospect, after all they tell themselves and their manager, “Just look all the things I have going on in my pipeline.”. There are many other lies, one of my favourites is the wireless rep who had to drive a battery across town right at the time he was scheduled to prospect.

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Lie To Me Like Everyone Else Does

The Pipeline

Some like marketing, may not have as much direct contact with prospects/clients as customer support, implementation and others. We have all had the opportunity to be screwed by a provider, I am not saying wireless, but as an example. You can’t say you are empathetic to a buyer or their concerns, and then behave in an opposite manner.

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3 Things Some Pundits Won’t Tell you about Cold Calling – Part 2

The Pipeline

Whether by fate or chance, the following definition was contained in a marketing piece I received in my inbox yesterday: “By definition, “Cold Calling” is the marketing process of approaching prospective customers or clients, typically via telephone, who were not expecting such an interaction. Just like they used to.

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What’s Your Time Worth

The Pipeline

They not only give away their time; they pay the prospect for the privilege of doing so. You know what I mean, spending all that valuable time with prospects that you know will never buy. You need a miracle, or you need to prospect for new alternative opportunities. Giving It Away. Well you can.

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