The Absolute BEST Rebuttal to "I'm Not Interested"...

Yeah. As a telemarketer I know your type... its all good "Cya. Dont want to waste either of our time. Have a nice day". We both get on with our business.

Ummm so you got on the thread just to tell people you would say NO?!?!? Mmmmkay... N-E-X-T!

Sorry, I strongly disagree.

If someone says, "Do you want to buy a motorcycle?" and I say "No, I'm not interested," then I mean EXACTLY that I am not interested. Nothing you can say can get me to be interested. Period. And all the sales maneuvers in your bag will not change that.

Marcia Yudkin

Are you sure? I could have sworn that I truly wasn't interested in most of the telemarketer calls I've received. In fact-the presupposition that nobody could possibly not be interested seems like the kind of salesman arrogance that is largely responsible for the intensity of most people's resistance.

In my opinion, the main reason someone is not interested is the caller gave off that sales vibe that tells the prospect he doesn't see you as a human being, but another "yes or a no" in his numbers game model where he pushes for a sale before connecting with the human.

I've had people read me a 2 or 3 minute script before-so intent on getting me to hear the entire thing that they left no possible room for a response before they get to the part where they are supposed to ask for the sale. This is a huge turn-off.

I'm not usually rude, but I actually tried repeatedly to interrupt on woman who called-increasing the volume until I was shouting, and she still didn't hear. I finally hung up on her-I rarely do that, but when someone cold calls me, I don't accept them monopolizing my time for several minutes while refusing to leave room for a response.

Then there are the ones who argue with you after you tell them you aren't interested. If they wanted to explore why, I'd be willing, but when they interrupt with more reasons I should buy, without exploring my needs or my objections, then they aren't worth my time.

I would have to say that overall, I am truly not interested in probably 95% of all offers that come my way through any medium. If someone calls me and assumes otherwise, especially when they argue that I need what they have before finding out my situation, they just added to the negative impression in my mind of sales people in general-too bad.

Well that's me, and you're right, I would. But then again, not everyone is like me

Yeah Adam, ur spot on! When calling on a biz and they say NI 15 seconds into the convo they're just having a reflex response to a sales call. We all realize how valuable our products or services are and so if you don't get past their "reflex" and just say ok, you're doing that client and yourself a HUGE disservice!

Like you said ALL businesses need more sales, more efficiency or whatever your service provides. It's our job to show discover their needs and fill them. If you're someone who bows after the first NO, you're probably the same person who puts it all on "the leads aren't good" or it's not an ideal time of year of whatever BS story you can sell to your boss and more importantly sell to yourself! Again, just my 2 pennies... ;-)

Are you saying that people who dont want to listen to your reasons are simple?
they just don't want it (or need it). Nothing wrong with that.

and I agree

I agree, and only have one issue.

Here is my issue:

If you work from home, and have no supervisor making you rebuttl....for "most" people... they will stumble over it a few times, become discouraged and never master it.

I had to master it, and so did you and alot of other people, because we had supervisors making us do it... and its effective, no doubt.

But the truth is that most people will never go through the humiliation of messing it up 50 times before they get it... So it wont help many people that work from home...

Knowing where a diamond mine is wont do you any good if you arent willing to make the journey to it. most people wont make the journey to mastering a rebuttal like this.

Success isnt about what you CAN do as much as it is about what you WILL do, so I try to help people find successful techniques that they WILL do.

Thats why I think the easiest rebuttal for this for a home worker is this; if they even rebutt at the greeting at all:

A: I understand
B: Listen you folks have a face book page dontcha?
C: The reason I asked is because...

1: You find out at very least if they have what you are offering or not
2: You get to pitch at least a little because you gave a justification for going further "The reason I asked is because..."

More people will listen because you gave the a reason to.

Personally though I really dont waste my time, if you dig through the pile you will find someone who is glad you called without rebutting anyone... once you learn to rebuttal you will double your conversion, but most newby homeworkers starting out trying to learn to rebuttal on greetings, who arent forced to sit and do it , will intimidate themselves right out of telemarketing altogether... They will walk away from the success they COULD have had, if they had kept dialing and had not gotten discouraged so early.

For that reason I think its better for a newb to just be nice to people, go through alot of numbers and find your laydowns- The guys in EVERY PILE, who say "Yeah Im glad you called...", if you dig deep enough into the pile.

Unlike an hourly telemarketer, you make a thousand bucks per sale, you dont have to get too many appointments for it to be worth your while.

Once you have become encouraged that you CAN succeed, it will get easier to jump out on more limbs and master more techniques, but you will never get there if you discourage yourself out of it from day one.

The faster and easier you can get some sales the better.

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Funny, that would make me laugh...but I wonder if there isn't some type of law that makes it illegal to suggest they won something when they didn't? I just find it's easier to move along if they aren't receptive after a simple rebuttal to that NI.