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Sales Training - How is Your Cold Calling Attitude?

Do you face challenges with cold calling and often find that you talk yourself out of ever picking up the phone? You know you really should be doing it but somehow you just can't seem to be doing it. You have hunted the internet for cold calling tips, cold calling techniques, have read the cold calling e books and sales books and know what to say and how to say it. Somehow it just doesn't seem to work for you though. If this is the case then you may need to check your cold calling attitude and mindset.

Because the way You approach cold calling will have a big impact on the success You have. If you're constantly saying to yourself:

"They won't be in"

"They will be in a meeting"

"They will have just come back from lunch"

"They won't want to talk to me"

"They are probably happy with their existing supplier"

"Their project won't be ready yet"

"They probably already have what I am selling"

"No one works on a Friday afternoon"

"No one will be in at that time of the morning"

Then these are the results you will achieve. Remember - In Life Your generally get what you expect. Therefore set yourself up to expect great things. Learn about the power of your subconscious mind. In fact a great book is called exactly that and it is written by Dr Joseph Murphy. You should read it some time. Maybe Now?. Set your self up for success for the day because your positivity, excitement and attitude shine through.

If you can't be excited about the phone call then how on earth do you expect the other person to have some level of interest. Don't go overboard - just be yourself. Well, yourself with a bit of passion! You don't have to be some over hyped lunatic. It shows and will put people off. Just be yourself.

Also, I want to ask you a simple question.

What do you think of cold callers?

Come on be honest! Take 2 minutes and write down some of the things you think about cold callers.

Pushy

Aggressive

Only want to sell something

Only interested in the commission

Won't take no for an answer

Always call at wrong time

Overly friendly

Overly enthusiastic

Wasting my time!

You had some of these - right?

Of course you did.

If this is what you truly believe about cold callers then how big an impact do you think that has on you before you even pick up the phone to call someone. The little voice inside your head is desperately telling you that you are wasting the other persons time and that they won't want to talk to you.

This is the one of the key differences between the worlds top performing appointment makers and people who are just not that good. The world's top performers understand that to enable them to be successful they first have the right mindset.

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