Salute to John Durham & Iamnameless

I just want to say thank you to John Durham & Iamnameless for inspiring me to pick up the phone and make cold calls. Yesterday I cracked open the Yellow Pages and made 117 calls to fashion businesses. It wasn't until the 97th call that a guy was interested and told me to call him back today.

Today I called him back but he was really busy but he said he wants me to come in and meet him on Monday. He said to call him back then and set up a specific time. Besides this follow up call, I called 147 other businesses and on the 95th call, another business owner said, "Yes I am interested." He checked out my website while asking me questions over the phone and he said he also wants me to meet up with him on Monday so call him back then.

I'm praying that I can close those sales and get 2 checks right away.

Last week was actually my first attempt at cold calling and I only made about 50 calls over the course of 2 days and gave up. But deep down I knew 50 calls wasn't going to put a dent in anything, so this week I knew I had to come back stronger. And I still feel like it's not enough. I want to start earlier in the day and call like 500 businesses LOL.

My initial plan was to approach businesses by email but that hasn't really gotten me anywhere so far. I spent the whole month of June sending out emails with only 1 response and she didn't even end up hiring me. I don't have time for that. My back is up against the wall because my bills are due -- like right now.

IMO, it's better to cold call. Because you'll know right away if they're interested or not. You can get a yes or no right away instead of waiting on their email response... that is, if they even bother to respond. Most of the people I called (about 95%) are nice and polite. They'll just say no thank you....no thanks sweetie....no that's ok....or something like that. I only had about 3 rude people hang up on me. But I just brushed it off and kept "dialing for dollars".

Thank you both for helping me overcome my fears. This is coming from an extremely shy and introverted girl from the hood who just wants to start a prosperous fashion business. I have a spiral notebook of business notes with plenty of tips from your posts on here. You've been a tremendous help to me as far as breaking out my shell and getting out of my comfort zone.

Cold calling works.