Cold Calling - Churn and Burn

My question to you is: How you had success with it?

I have.

It may be tough for those who are scared to pick up the phone and give a 30 second pitch to find interest.

But you will find interest.

Have you ever tried Voice Mail Broadcasting (by phone)?

There are some super-cheap, reliable companies out there that allow you to automate your out-bound phone messages for a few pennies per minute, or even for 30-seconds.

You would first need to load your phone numbers (leads) into the system ... and then upload your recorded message ... and then the system will call your leads and automate everything for you.

It's much easier than cold calling.

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I'm curious about your success rate myself. I did a lot of cold calling and direct sales in the past It worked well but these were usually for major companies.

I'll likely at least try it.

@LifeisGood - Do you have a good company in mind for Voice Mail Broadcasting? I can imagine a good ROI with this type of service. Also if you don't mind, does this work by placing a call until VM or a roundabout fashion to just leave the VM?

You could call and if you can sound ok and clear on the phone with a good script, then even the most basic machine gunning of a random list of businesses will get you sales.

If there is any ''hate'', or criticism, it's when it's touted as the only thing you need and the best solution for everyone.

Say you could get 2 sales next with cold calling a random list.

If you reinvested some money in buying a list from a broker with the attributes of your ideal buyers, you'll probably double your sales at least going forward. If you made $100,000 a year with brute force cold calling, you'd make $200,000 for a small change.

If you bought an email list of ideal targets and emailed 500 a day with a good, proven email that generates high responses from interested people at around 50% response rates, you'd be calling people who have already put their hand up and your sales figures will be much better. Seriously, much, much better.

If you ran a facebook ad campaign or direct mail campaign or leaflet drop and bought in 1000 leads into your funnel and was now phoning the highly qualified leads and handling incoming calls too, you'd improve your sales even more.

There are many different ways that are better, faster, yield better leads and can get your figures up to 10-20 sales for every hundred people you get to speak to.

People criticise the type of cold calling that will have you calling 2-300 people to get one or two sales, the hard, long way, because that's often taught to every newcomer here as if everything else is a waste of time. When in fact, doing those things can greatly amplify your sales figures, once you get the systems right.

Cold calling still works its all a matter of how you do it.

Always split test your cold calls.

This trial and error process is how you develop your key talk track and greatly improve your success rates.

Just like anything in life, your first attempt will be your worst attempt. As you keep doing it and learn what and what doesn't work you will find that your success rate greatly increases.

Just keep at it and you will do fine with it.

Which industry would you start with for the fastest results?

I'm selling video advertising creation and management.

Lawyers and dentist take a while. Tried florists. Friendly people but low margins. Other industries? thx