I Love Cold-Calling -- Do You?

I love cold-calling. 

Of course, I'm saying that after a successful call.  Did I set up an appointment?  No, but the decision -maker, the president of the company, is talking with the intended recipient of my services to make a decision -- so I believe.  In my case, I was calling an old contact who had since left the company and instead of hanging up, I chose to hang on and turn my call into a success by asking for a decision maker.

When do I use cold-calling?

• When I have targeted a company or person and have no other leveraged way of introduction
• When my natural urge to travel, hunt and explore take over to create a desire to meet someone I've never spoken with before
• When I don't feel like it
• When I want to practice and get better
• When the call turns cold because my intended contact is either not there or not picking up the phone
• When I want to see how good I really am at persuading or influencing someone who doesn't know me, doesn't trust me yet, and is looking for a reason not to like me
• When I want to grow a thicker skin
• When I want to face greater odds of failure to feel a greater reward of success
• When I want to lessen the chance of feeling rejected if the call doesn't blossom into a next step

Lessen the chance of rejection?  Sure.  It's harder for me to call someone I know and like and ask them for business than someone I don't know because, if I'm turned down, I KNOW they're not rejecting ME -- how could they?  They don't know me.  I get to re-establish the understanding that sales isn't about me.  It never is and never will be.  I just have to do my job, just like a batter in a baseball game, and practice hitting balls and play the game every day without taking the outcome of the game personally.

And I don't know a better way to test how good of a sales consultant I really am than to convert someone who doesn't know me, has never heard of me, doesn't know he needs me as much as I believe he needs me, into a client.

So, how much do you cold call and what's your average outcome?

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