{"id":1088,"date":"2016-03-02T12:57:16","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T17:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/matriximpact.com\/site\/?p=1088"},"modified":"2016-03-03T14:30:25","modified_gmt":"2016-03-03T19:30:25","slug":"how-improve-your-conversion-rate-50-when-calling-prospects-part-1-of-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matriximpact.com\/site\/2016\/03\/02\/how-improve-your-conversion-rate-50-when-calling-prospects-part-1-of-3\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Improve Your Conversion Rate 50% When Calling Prospects Part 1 of 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

I do not believe in classically defined cold calls; Picking up the phone and calling a list of contacts that we know nothing about. We live in a digital age and those types of calls are analog. I do believe, as professional sales\/business people, that we absolutely NEED to make as many calls to potential clients as possible. The question is how we do it.\"contact\"<\/a><\/h4>\n

There is soooo much we can do to warm up these calls and to make them more impactful than our predecessors could possibly imagine. The first part of this strategy starts with our willingness to put in the time to do research BEFORE picking up the phone. I am not talking about writing a thesis on each potential but there is work to be done BEFORE we pick up the phone.<\/h4>\n

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The Library and Linked In<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Almost every suburb now has state of the art library facilities that you don\u2019t even have to go the building to use and it only costs you a trip to the library to get a library card to allow you access. They have online research tools like Reference USA, Regional Business News or Glassdoor, any one of these will give you more information than you can possibly imagine.<\/h4>\n

Then there is Linked In. This is the greatest free research tool ever invented. You can find out, in great detail, the professional specifics of virtually anybody or any company. The search tool is also top notch. What I like most is being able to search by school as well as other categories. I mean why not start with people you either went to school with or attended your school?<\/h4>\n

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End of Part 1<\/strong><\/h4>\n

The bottom line is with a minimal time investment you can learn gigabytes of information about potential clients before ever talking to them. All it takes is the want to on your part, the desire to differentiate yourself and services to the potential BEFORE they even know who you are.<\/h4>\n

Each piece of this process builds the needed momentum to get an increase of 50% in your conversion rate. My next post will teach you the most impactful way to get a potential client\u2019s attention before you call.<\/h4>\n

In the meantime, you can either make sales or make excuses but you can\u2019t do both!<\/strong><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I do not believe in classically defined cold calls; Picking up the phone and calling a list of contacts that we know nothing about. We live in a digital age and those types of calls are analog. I do believe, as professional sales\/business people, that we absolutely NEED to make as many calls to potential […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[17,25,39,53,29,56,31,32,33,44,54,40,45,46,47,48,42,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-players","category-best-practice","category-change","category-cold-call","category-communication-skills","category-continual-development","category-drive","category-guts","category-intelligence","category-lead-generation","category-leads","category-motivation","category-new-contact-touches","category-prospects","category-s-i-t-nurture-prospecting-system","category-sit-touch","category-sales-3-0","category-skill-sets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matriximpact.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matriximpact.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matriximpact.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matriximpact.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matriximpact.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1088"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/matriximpact.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1096,"href":"https:\/\/matriximpact.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088\/revisions\/1096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matriximpact.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matriximpact.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matriximpact.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}