Sales Call Strategy: Everything You Need to Know
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Phone selling is a must-have skill for salespeople. But unfortunately, in-person sales skills don’t necessarily translate to phone calls, where you don’t get the benefit of seeing your prospect’s expression, body language, and other non-verbal communication. A few of the factors that go into successful phone selling include:
- Developing and deploying effective cold call scripts
- Knowing how to handle getting stuck in a prospect’s voicemail system
- Building rapport when you aren’t face-to-face with your prospect
- Being able to qualify or disqualify prospects
- Maximizing your efficiency by tracking calls and streamlining your outreach process
- Asking the right questions to get the information you need to close the deal
If you’re falling short in any of these areas, the resources below will help get you up to speed. Check them all out, or pick and choose based on your biggest needs:
Cold calling
5-Step Cold-Calling Technique That Gets You to the Sales Conversation
Don’t over complicate the cold calling process. This step-by-step guide gives you an easy-to-follow process that focuses on the core elements of effective cold calls (and helps to keep you from annoying your prospects).
How to Create Your Own Cold Calling Sales Scripts
Cold calling sales scripts are everywhere, but it’s impossible to stand out if you use the same templates as everybody else. In this article, Mailshake founder Sujan Patel shows you how to build your own scripts – without reinventing the wheel.
Planning your call
How to Sell Over the Phone: 5 Essential Phone Sales Tips
Selling over the phone requires a separate skill-set – one where the value of non-verbal communication is taken out of the equation. Check out this article to learn the CAT Framework for mastering your phone-selling mindset.
Call Mapping: What It Is, and How to Incorporate It Into Your Sales Process
Call mapping involves being prepared for future sales calls with bullets and talking points, developed through educated guesses and obstacles you’ve anticipated. Learn how to do it in this article from Sujan Patel.
How to Execute a Good Sales Discovery Call (Simple 7-Step Process)
Make no mistake: even though discovery calls are for qualifying or disqualifying prospects, they’re still sales calls. This seven-step process will show you how to use them correctly in your sales process.
What is a Voicemail Drop and How to Use It to Improve Your Prospecting
80% of calls wind up going to voicemail – and that includes many of your sales calls. Be prepared with a voicemail drop strategy that supports your prospecting goals.
17 Best Call Tracking Software Apps
In the market for a new call tracking software app? Take a look at this round-up of 17 tools that meet our criteria for being intuitive, easy-to-use, scalable, customizable, and feature-rich.
Qualifying leads
8 Questions to Ask on a Sales Discovery Call to Qualify Leads
You’ve got a lead lined up, but how do you know if they’re a good fit? Use these eight qualifying questions as part of your sales discovery process to make sure you’re talking to the right people.
15 Sales Qualifying Questions (And Why They Work)
Expand your sales qualifying arsenal further with these additional questions. Review not just the questions themselves, but the logic behind why they work as well.
A Step-by-Step Process for Qualifying Sales Leads
Even though most salespeople call prospecting a top concern, it’s really lead qualification they should be concerned about. Here’s how to do it well, using this eight-step process.
Handle yourself on the call
How to Listen Actively on the Phone in Sales
It’s easy to understand the value of listening on sales phone calls, but it can be surprisingly difficult to execute. Get back to the basics with these tips on effective listening.
How to Make Sure Prospects Attend Your Sales Calls
There’s nothing worse than holding time on your calendar for no-show prospects. And while the steps in this article won’t guarantee your prospects’ attendance, they’ll go a long way towards minimizing missed meetings.
6 Rapport-building Questions to Ask in Your Next Sales Call
Sick of asking about the weather? The local sports team? These six rapport-building questions will help you engage prospects on your next sales call without falling into small-talk cliches.
How to Ask Probing Sales Questions to Close More Sales
If you can’t get the information you need from your prospects, you can’t close the deal – it’s as simple as that. Learning to ask probing questions as part of your sales process gives you all the ammo needed to land the sale.
How to Leverage Open-ended Sales Questions to Close Your Sales
Stop giving your prospects easy outs with yes-or-no questions. These open-ended sales questions will keep them talking until you have all the information you need to close the sale.
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