I had an amazing day at the ISMM's Successful Selling conference yesterday making several amazing video interviews (watch this space... you're going to love them), meetings many interesting people and all culminating in a motivational sales keynote talk to 500 motivated and professional salespeople. What a great day! Clearing my emails, catching up from a week away and planning for next week, I just received this into my inbox... Just to confirm our shared opinion on the best days to call, I’ve just made an absolute gem of an appt. … [Read more...]
Cold Calling Success
July 25, 2011 By 2 Comments
I say every week when talking at conferences as a sales motivational speaker that you have to Share Sales Success Stories (my powerful 4S Principle) with yourself, with your sales team and within your organization and yet, I don't share very many with you. So I thought it was about time that I rectified that so here's one that I got a couple of days ago. It says all there is to say about cold calling when it's done right (which is of course what I teach) and from the right sales mindset so I suggest you read it several times, imagine what … [Read more...]
Does Cold Calling Work, 2?
June 22, 2011 By 7 Comments
I hope that you’re having a good week, speaking to lots of new clients and winning lots of new business. I want to start this blog post by asking you a question, “What do you think about cold calling?” Now by asking that, what I don’t mean is do you like being rung at home when you’re eating your dinner (tea for us Northerners) and someone trying to sell you timeshares? No, what I mean is, “Do you think cold calling works?” Now I know that this is a very divisive question. It’s divisive for a whole variety of reasons. It’s … [Read more...]
Cold Calling Sucks & It’s Only Going To Get Worse…
April 20, 2011 By 5 Comments
I was the motivational speaker at a sales conference the other day and one of the Sales Directors came up to me to ask about the future of cold calling. He explained that he had a sales team of some 100+ salespeople and that they all had to set up their own appointments and that one of the primary ways of doing this was on the phone. He went on to describe what a nightmare this was and how it was seemingly getting harder every day. I won’t bore you with the whole conversation but I am sure just a few snatches of it will feel … [Read more...]
Talking Sales Success Summit
March 21, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Have you checked out the Talking Sales Success Summit yet? Over two days I will be interviewing 10 experts on what separates sales superstars from sales dreamers and sales rockstars from sales losers. During 10 hours of pure sales training gold I will be seeking to discover secret sales strategies, little known selling tactics and proven techniques that you can use right away to make more sales. And you’ll be pleased to know that I have hand-picked these experts not because of the books they’ve written (although many of them have) nor … [Read more...]
Cold Calling For New Business
March 7, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Anyone who knows me knows what I think about cold calling as part of a balanced diet of lead generation strategies... it's not for everybody, nor is it for every business, few people know how to do it properly BUT done well, with the right mindset, skills and strategies and when focused on being client centric it can form a powerful and effective way of bringing in new business. I have more than enough stats and examples to prove this and I also believe that the more divorced mediocre sales wanabes become from how to do it properly, the more … [Read more...]
How Much Value Do You Add For Your Clients?
February 1, 2011 By 1 Comment
So that’s it, the end of January 2011 and the “shock” news that the economy has shrunk... again. Does it bother you? Has it impacted you? Do you think it will? I cannot answer those questions for you but what I can say is that how you approach these interesting times will have a massive impact on the results that you get in your sales and your business... At GavinIngham.com we have seen changes in the economy, in how clients are spending and on what they are investing in the same as everyone else but we have listened to our clients and … [Read more...]
The Sales Apprentice 2010: Sales Training Tips From The Hit TV Show, Week 8
November 24, 2010 By 5 Comments
Week 8 of The Sales Apprentice and 8 contestants remain. This week their task, should they choose to accept it, was to create new flavours of crisps, produce samples and, representing two small UK crisp companies, travel to Hamburg in Germany and attempt to secure orders. The team with the most orders would be the winner. The line up this week was Stella leading Laura, Joanna and Stuart (who, after last week, was “too tired” to put himself up as project manager!) versus Chris leading Christopher, Jamie and Liz. You had to respect … [Read more...]
Why Cold Calling Doesn’t Work…
October 12, 2010 By 5 Comments
I hear a lot about cold calling not working anymore and, as I say on my sales seminars, for many this is true. It's far too easy to mess cold calls up... badly! If you've been on my seminars or you have used my sales systems you know that this does not have to be the case. In the right industries and with the right approach and mindset, using the phone is still a viable and powerful strategy for developing new prospects and discovering new information. BUT... and it's a big BUT! If you don't do it correctly you will not make any friends, you … [Read more...]
