100 cold call a day challenge,

Whelp, how'd your calling go today??

There is no do not call list for businesses.

Anyway, congrats on taking steps. Gotta crawl before you can walk.

Are you broke? If you have money, you should be leveraging that money so you don't even have to rely on cold calling. Nothing wrong with calling, but I just don't see why those that have money are so inclined to use that as their lead gen strategy.

Day 2

5 calls made( had to go to work, i should have woke up earlier, and left the house and go to a starbucks)

a few gatekeepers,
one decision maker, stuttered and hanged up.

learning experience, make time for cold calling, and practice a script which i didn't obviously.


Day 3


41 calls made(still making more)

mostly called craigslist web developers, and pitched my seo.

These conversations lasted longer because i was trying to negotiate a my service for their clients, for a percentage of a sale.

a few not interest
a few "i do seo it myself". I really have to learn how to handle objections quickly. its like i get stunned.
a few disconnects,
a few voicemails.

learning experience

there is little fear when talking normally, but fear and anxiety arises when you are going to sell and pitch, if that makes sense.

Take aways

I actaully had fun calling, but still didn't have a script in place, i get caught up in script paralysis,

talk slower, people will actually listen

Cold calling is alot more effective than putting an ad up on craigslist and waiting for people to come in.

I called this one guy on craigslist, and he showed me a case study, and i was ready to buy his services, and he wasn't even that great of talking, he just kept talking about seo, i guess his tonality made me like him or even continue to listen to him.



I know these calls aren't 100, but thats how i usually start doing shit, i start off slow, and crank high volumes in process of days, im the same when lifing weights. i start with the light work, then work up.

? Way Back when I was Knee High, were not these follow me threads banned ?

anyway

How are no results a lot more effective than placing targeted ads ? because at this point there are no results and you say they may be coming but why would you not have effective ads out there as well, have people call you wanting your service and you may find you can close more of those down.

Get an iron in every fire you can and see what's working best for you and expand on it.

Further to that if you are very good at SEO why not build your own sites selling your own products and make more money that way, and by that if your pitch is along the lines of, "I bring the SEO at a cost effective rate that will place you on giggle and make your site sing and dance and you will double your visitors / sales / conversions" type thing then if that is so then peddle some of your own wares or if not other peoples affiliate products.

I'm sure since my post count is low, this post will be discredited. So I won't give you the stern reply that I would have on here years ago. (forgot my account info).

I've been where you are, stood in your shoes, and ate the same shitty ramen noodels you're probably eating right now while reading this. But I managed to build one hell of a company and sold it for a nice chunk 5 years later. So, forgive me if I'm wrong as my wheels are a bit rusty and I haven't got the motivation to oil them anymore.

But I think you're going at this with the wrong mindset entirely.

First things first, $15k/mo is a hell of a lot of money for your first goal. How about you try to shoot for landing 3 clients. That is do-able, and very easy to accomplish. On month 2 make it your goal to land 4 clients. by the end of month 2 you will have 7 clients. If you're selling SEO (at least back in my day) $500/mo/client would be a good, rough average. So at minimum, by the end of month 2 you should have $3,500. I can't really think of a service that I offered that yielded less than $500 for a client.

$3,500 is not a ton of money, no. But it's more than what you have right now. Most importantly, it's 100% do-able!

Next is this issue I have with your calling. I preached this over and over here to people just like you. If you want this bad enough, the anxiety, phone shock bs is just that...bs. When I was in this situation i didn't give a shit what people said or thought. i needed to eat and the only way I was going to eat was if I sat my ass on the phone all day long and called.

Another note: your numbers are terrible. If no one else is going to say it, I will. (I don't have much of a reputation to lose, lol) You're not going to get anywhere with 30-50 calls per day. I know you're going to rebutt saying "I'm working my way up, that's how I work" well newsflash, the world doesn't revolve around how you work. I bring this point up because I know the typical routine of a newbie like you trying your hand at the ol cold calling. You'll keep these small numbers up, get small results, and end up discouraged eventually...it's human nature...not your fault.

I like to keep my replies more constructive than criticism so here's what I would do...

Scratch your 30-40 calls/day, ball it up and toss it in the back seat with all the other dreamy eyed losers who failed. Pull your pants up and hit 100 dials/day for the first week. Then ramp it up to 150-200 the following weeks. I get you have a day job, I did too. But that's not an excuse at all. Get up early, call on lunch, stay up late. That should be your routine If you really want this bad enough.

Cold calling is a numbers game. You can read all the crap you want on here and follow as many gurus as you please, but with your numbers, even the best couldn't preform. If they claim they can, they are liars. You will see results when you call the numbers I'm suggesting. If you use those numbers, you will hit the numbers I projected to you above...give or take.

Cold calling is like lifting weights. There's no such thing as "over-training the biceps" when you're nothing more than a toothpick.

At any rate, I'm not trying to discourage you here. Don't take my post out of context please. I'm just trying to open your eyes to the road ahead. Because I grantee you, there are 100 others working 10 times as hard as you competing against you. This is a cutthroat industry. I'd rather be the knife, wouldn't you?

I am following this journey with you. Cold calling is a real hit and miss unless the targeted scraped leads are worth to go for.

I liked this quote -

Day 4
targeted ****, who was paying for adsense and was not on the first page

1 call,

1 appointment, he gave me the "i already got a guy working on my marketing". I handled it by letting him know that he isn't on the first and on the second page, and that he is probably wasting his money on adsense, he agreed.

and gave me another objection, i handled it, he tried his best to get me off the phone, but he listen after a few minutes, we ended the call, to meetup at a local starbucks, i texted him the address and he said i will see you there, i followed up with him on appointment day, he responded 5 hours prior to meetup ,however at the time of the appointment, i didn't see him nor did he reply back.

So the lesson to learn, sell on the phone, and fill the pipeline, cause i literally, got so proud of myself after i set an appointment that i didn't make any more calls the whole day.

Fill your pipeline is the lesson i got out of it,"set as many appointments as you can, so you wont ever get disappointed that one doesn't come out you will be instead relieved- Sell or be sold to"- grant cardone


Day 5

Got comfortable i thought i was going to make bank at that appointment, this was before the appointment i mentioned above

Next week im going harder.

I got a script that made me set that lost appointment lol


Targeting the right people, would you save you alot of calls.

CLAUDE WITACRE is the man, sell me a VACCUM, and make an ebook on selling seo