Forum: Offline Marketing 
3rd December 2012, 10:00 AM
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Replies: 38
Views: 1,527 Re: Cold Calling R U getting desperate?
Depends how the calls are delivered. Most calls are so awful, especially the way they are begun, that a) the experience is bad for both sides and b) there IS NO "rest of the call."
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Forum: Offline Marketing
3rd December 2012, 02:31 AM
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Forum: Offline Marketing
3rd December 2012, 12:04 AM
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Replies: 38
Views: 1,527 Re: Cold Calling R U getting desperate?
I don't think lack of confidence is just a marketing problem. A lot (if not all) things in business require confidence. You may need confidence to be a marketer but you also need it to be a...
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Forum: Offline Marketing
2nd December 2012, 01:11 AM
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Replies: 38
Views: 1,527 Re: Cold Calling R U getting desperate?
Jeez guys what are you doing up? It's 2AM on a Saturday night. As a matter of fact, what am I doing up??
Anyway, if you look at the offline subforum lately, it's stagnant. Nothing's really moving....
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Forum: Offline Marketing
2nd December 2012, 01:07 AM
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Replies: 38
Views: 1,527 Re: Cold Calling R U getting desperate?
You guys may get tired of my recommending books, but I just re-read this classic from my library. If you are cold calling, teaching cold calling, or run a call center...this is a must read.
The...
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Forum: Offline Marketing
2nd December 2012, 12:42 AM
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Forum: Offline Marketing
2nd December 2012, 12:32 AM
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Replies: 38
Views: 1,527 Re: Cold Calling R U getting desperate?
Sue; I don't need confidence, I have experience. My only advice on training (to do any selling) is to let the new person see sales made. After they see that nobody really yells at them, and that...
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Forum: Offline Marketing
2nd December 2012, 12:21 AM
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Replies: 38
Views: 1,527 Re: Cold Calling R U getting desperate?
My mental breakthrough for cold calling was when
I took over my present business.
The previous owner didn't have any more drive than me,
probably less charisma and social skills than me,
but...
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Forum: Offline Marketing
2nd December 2012, 12:01 AM
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Replies: 38
Views: 1,527 Re: Cold Calling R U getting desperate?
Here is the best offline marketing advice I can give PERIOD!
Call 200 people....forget your techniques and all that....just be nice....and tell them what you offer and see if they could use some...
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Forum: Offline Marketing
1st December 2012, 11:52 PM
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Replies: 38
Views: 1,527 Re: Cold Calling R U getting desperate?
Yup. If you are talking about marketing to strangers (non referrals) there is nothing that will take the place of cold calling. Every time I added something to make it easier; e-mails, direct mail,...
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Forum: Offline Marketing
1st December 2012, 11:31 PM
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Replies: 38
Views: 1,527 Re: Cold Calling R U getting desperate?
It use to be. Until the subject started getting attention from the main forum. Now it has gotten lumped in with all the other junk. The concentrated simple truth hasnt gone anywhere and still works...
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Forum: Offline Marketing
1st December 2012, 11:20 PM
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Replies: 38
Views: 1,527 Re: Cold Calling R U getting desperate?
What has happened Sue is that we started teaching the real value of cold calling, and people were getting sales left and right...it was simple and focused.
Then a bunch of IM'rs came in and...
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Forum: Offline Marketing
29th November 2012, 10:54 AM
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Replies: 38
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Forum: Offline Marketing
29th November 2012, 09:45 AM
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Replies: 38
Views: 1,527 Re: Cold Calling R U getting desperate?
I have done my best to give away the info people need to comfortably get started.
http://www.warriorforum.com/offline-marketing-discussions/702718-my-2-000th-post-cold-calling-beginners.html
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Forum: Offline Marketing
29th November 2012, 12:21 AM
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Replies: 38
Views: 1,527 Re: Cold Calling R U getting desperate?
What it really comes down to is;
People don't WANT it bad enough. Or they don't NEED it bad enough.
If you are truly desperate to build a recurring income or a successful business, you will...
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Forum: Offline Marketing
28th November 2012, 09:08 PM
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Replies: 38
Views: 1,527 Re: Cold Calling R U getting desperate?
Apparently a lot of the forum members, browsers, lurkers can't. That's why they keep asking for ways to "be successful."
Could have read the tea leaves wrong but don't think so. Cold calling is...
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Forum: Offline Marketing
25th November 2012, 04:13 AM
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Replies: 5
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Forum: Offline Marketing
23rd November 2012, 01:28 AM
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Replies: 7
Views: 1,086 Exploit This Gap In Your Market
I haven't yet found a market where this could not be used.
Except where there are strict Government regulations.
I'm talking about verbalizing the strongest feelings
your market has.
Here's...
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Forum: Offline Marketing
22nd November 2012, 10:16 AM
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Replies: 15
Views: 1,931 Want to embed COOL LOOKING Youtube videos?
So this morning I'm screwing around with embedding youtube videos.
Yep. We all know how to do that already, right?
Turns out, in my research, I found a bunch of parameters...
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Forum: Offline Marketing
20th November 2012, 05:23 PM
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Replies: 61
Views: 3,575 OFFLINE Q&A - ASK ME ANYTHING!!!
Hey what's up guys?
Some of you guys might know me and some of you guys dont... but either way I've been around the offline niche for a while and I learned most of my stuff from the forum so I...
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Forum: Offline Marketing
13th November 2012, 08:38 AM
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Replies: 72
Views: 4,880 |
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Forum: Offline Marketing
13th November 2012, 08:25 AM
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Replies: 20
Views: 1,931 |
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Forum: Offline Marketing
11th November 2012, 01:19 PM
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Replies: 36
Views: 2,590 Re: So After Hundreds Of Cold Calls. . .
This is not a joke. I walked into a retail store and said "Hi, Claude Whitacre. I help retail businesses like yours get more people finding you online and get them coming through your door....." (Not...
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Forum: Offline Marketing
1st November 2012, 07:01 PM
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Replies: 331
Views: 14,550 Re: Closers Only -- Rebuttle Game / Training --
Sue: I haven't had the "Ask my wife" problem for decades because I refused to talk to "one leggers". But that was selling in people's home. Now I sell in offices to CEOs and business owners.
I...
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Forum: Offline Marketing
1st November 2012, 09:05 AM
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Replies: 6
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Forum: Offline Marketing
1st November 2012, 08:46 AM
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Replies: 331
Views: 14,550 Re: Closers Only -- Rebuttle Game / Training --
Sue: Thank you, but that's not what I meant by "wrong".
They were one of the very few times I've sold, where I knew, in my gut, that I took advantage of them. It's not that the vacuum was a bad...
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Forum: Offline Marketing
1st November 2012, 05:53 AM
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Replies: 6
Views: 451 |
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Forum: Offline Marketing
31st October 2012, 01:14 AM
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Replies: 331
Views: 14,550 Re: Closers Only -- Rebuttle Game / Training --
I could, but no.
Bob i know that sounds harsh ...
but your a busy person, you have your business, you have a life, things will get
in the way, i know, i know you will promise to read it, and you...
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Forum: Offline Marketing
28th October 2012, 05:46 AM
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Replies: 65
Views: 12,921 My 2,000th Post: For Cold Calling Beginners
If you're new to the idea of "cold calling"...which I suggest you change the name of to "prospecting" so that it stops viscerally screwing your head up...
...and you're struggling with that "I...
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Forum: Offline Marketing
24th October 2012, 01:15 PM
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Replies: 20
Views: 1,769 Taking LinkedIn to Another Level
If you promote web design (or branding or anything visual) as part of what you offer clients, you'll notice that LinkedIn has no real way of you being able to show off the work that you can do...
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Forum: Offline Marketing
23rd October 2012, 03:27 PM
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Replies: 69
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Forum: Offline Marketing
10th October 2012, 12:06 PM
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Replies: 16
Views: 804 Your missing 53% for your clients!
Hey Offliners...
This report just came out from Compete.com on how much a first page search result is worth, in terms of clicks.
Here's the article: 53% of Organic Search Clicks Go to First...
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Forum: Offline Marketing
2nd October 2012, 06:09 PM
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Replies: 13
Views: 1,271 (24 hours left) FREE Gift for Offline Warriors
ATTENTION; I'm taking down the link to this product in 24 hours
(Exactly 8:30am central time, Tuesday Oct 15th)
A while back I created a referral guide for offline businesses... I
actually sold...
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Forum: Offline Marketing
2nd October 2012, 02:19 PM
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Replies: 60
Views: 1,965 Re: I am bored, anybody want to talk about sales?
Good thought. Make hiring and recruiting a crucial part of his job description and let HIM figure it out and build your sales force. If its the job he was hired for, he will be obligated to fulfill...
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Forum: Offline Marketing
2nd October 2012, 02:16 PM
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Replies: 60
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Forum: Offline Marketing
31st August 2012, 05:27 AM
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Replies: 16
Views: 1,590 |
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Forum: Offline Marketing
29th August 2012, 06:44 PM
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Replies: 13
Views: 1,260 War Stories And The Dirty Truth Of Consulting
From a million dollar a year consultant.
He's put out a video on the no BS,
take no prisoners world of biz consulting.
Topics include...
War Stories
Value v's Price
Price Shoppers
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Forum: Offline Marketing
29th August 2012, 08:43 AM
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Replies: 57
Views: 41,041 My EXACT script i use for Cold Calling
Hello fellow Warriors.
It's been more than 2 years now that i 've been a member of the Warrior Forum. I feel that i've gained more than A LOT from this forum and it's members. I have learned...
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Forum: Offline Marketing
28th August 2012, 02:30 PM
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Replies: 25
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
28th August 2012, 12:39 PM
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Replies: 34
Views: 1,111 All it took was a year.
I joined the Warrior Forum on the 24th of July 2011, desperate to climb out the septic tank I had fallen into. My life was such a disaster that we were living on the charity of friends and family....
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Forum: Offline Marketing
27th August 2012, 03:56 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 461 |
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Forum: Offline Marketing
24th August 2012, 07:54 AM
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Replies: 109
Views: 15,050 |
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Forum: Offline Marketing
17th August 2012, 07:44 PM
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Replies: 21
Views: 1,115 Never NEED another client again...
I want to speak out to those that may be so hungry for a sale, they're willing to take on any business.
Like I'm sure many of us have been, you may be in a situation where you need business to...
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Forum: Offline Marketing
17th August 2012, 02:58 AM
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Replies: 39
Views: 3,326 |
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Forum: Offline Marketing
13th August 2012, 04:42 PM
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Replies: 66
Views: 2,500 Re: Cold Calling Let Me Count The Ways
yes brotha, you are 1000% correct.
On another note, i sell what i sell because i believe in it 110% , and if i am talking to you
its because you need it, even if you don't know it at first.
My...
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Forum: Offline Marketing
13th August 2012, 04:39 PM
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Replies: 66
Views: 2,500 Re: Cold Calling Let Me Count The Ways
want to be concise here.
clint eastwood I think said in a movie "a man has to know his weaknesses"
IMO - weall have to sell ourselves.
you can't sell a stranger, and you have to know...
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Forum: Offline Marketing
12th August 2012, 08:56 PM
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Replies: 66
Views: 2,500 Re: Cold Calling Let Me Count The Ways
You know Sue that is a great question and I'll give you a couple of ways I get past the gatekeeper.
Dealing with a gate keeper is an art just in itself and you need to really pay attention when...
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Forum: Offline Marketing
12th August 2012, 12:42 PM
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Replies: 14
Views: 1,114 Re: Do you have overdue bills?
It's coincidental that I stumbled upon this thread today -- I was just thinking about this concept myself last night. How we all partake in "selling" whether our conscious mind is aware of it or not....
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Forum: Offline Marketing
12th August 2012, 12:03 PM
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Forum: Offline Marketing
12th August 2012, 09:48 AM
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Replies: 66
Views: 2,500 Cold Calling Let Me Count The Ways
I have noticed recently a lot of activity in the forum about Cold Calling and I wanted to offer up a little of my many years of experience in particular for those who are new to the game.
So let...
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Forum: Offline Marketing
11th August 2012, 11:43 AM
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Replies: 116
Views: 6,539 |
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Forum: Offline Marketing
10th August 2012, 01:06 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 520 Great blog on Sales and Cold Calling
I don't know if it's been posted but there's some good info in there:)
Cold Calls | Fearless Selling Kelley Robertson (http://fearless-selling.ca/tag/cold-calls/)
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Forum: Offline Marketing
8th August 2012, 05:25 PM
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Replies: 49
Views: 1,960 6 Things I wish I knew in the beginning!
What's going on my friends?
I want to go ahead and share with you a few Tips/Tricks that I’ve learned over the last few years that have really helped my business grow!
1.) One of the many ways...
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Forum: Offline Marketing
31st July 2012, 08:45 PM
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Replies: 66
Views: 15,446 |
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Forum: Offline Marketing
25th July 2012, 03:19 PM
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Replies: 80
Views: 10,965 |
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Forum: Offline Marketing
18th July 2012, 08:27 AM
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Replies: 15
Views: 1,933 Re: Critique my telemarketing script - PLEASE!!
Jason, just wanted to say that your WSO helped me actually pick up the phone and start calling. Many thanks my friend - you've helped me more than you know!
Thanks Sue, this is exactly the...
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