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“The big thing with a cold call is you want to create a pattern interruption. You want to say something different at the beginning of that call that will grab their attention” – Jason Bay in today’s Tip 515<\/p>\n“The big thing with a cold call is you want to create a pattern interruption. You want to say something different at the beginning of that call that will grab their attention” – Jason Bay in today’s Tip 515<\/p>\n
How do you call cold during this pandemic?<\/strong><\/p>\n Join the conversation below<\/a> and go check out the link to the virtual tour!<\/p>\n Blissful Prospecting<\/a> Have feedback? Want to share a sales tip? Call or text the Sales Success Hotline: 512-777-1442<\/strong> or Email: scott@top1.fm<\/strong><\/p>\n Scott Ingram: You\u2019re listening to the Daily Sales Tips podcast and I\u2019m your host, Scott Ingram. Today Jason Bay is back. Jason is the Chief Prospecting Officer at Blissful Prospecting<\/a> and he\u2019s also hosting the Think Outside the Script Summer Virtual Tour<\/a> which you\u2019ll hear more about in just a couple of minutes. Here\u2019s Jason:<\/p>\n Jason Bay: Hey, this is Jason with Blissful Prospecting. I hope you’re doing safe and great. How you been during this COVID-19 thing? Terrible way to open up your cold calls. Now I’m going to talk about intro lines and things that you can use here, but the reason why those lines are so bad is one, you’re talking about COVID 19 and Coronavirus in your opening line. You’re automatically getting the call off to a negative start, right? You’re talking about something that people probably aren’t super stoked about, but two, it’s really insincere. When you say I hope you’re doing safe and great. I’m assuming this person you’re cold calling you don’t know. So do you actually hope that they are doing safe and great when you don’t even know who this person is? And lastly, it’s what everyone’s saying right now. So the big thing with a cold call is you want to create a pattern interruption. You want to say something different at the beginning of that call that will grab their attention, right? You want them to focus on what you’re saying and really grab their attention that first 10 seconds, right? So your job is to be different. So I want to share just real quick, a couple of lines, there’s five of them that a combination of our clients are using and people on our podcasts have shared and I am personally using all of these and we’re coaching our clients to use these lines as well.<\/p>\n So the first one is from Sarah Brasier over at Gong, who I did an interview with and she’s also been interviewed on Scott’s podcast. She’s just a freaking rock star. I don’t know if I’m allowed to use profanity on this podcast. I’m going to say rockstar, but she’s super awesome. And here’s what she says.<\/p>\n So after she does the, you know \u201cHey, this is Jason Bay with Blissful Prospecting.\u201d These are lines that are gonna come right after you introduce yourself. And she says \u201cHey, I know it’s kinda weird to be making calls when there’s a pandemic going on but\u2026\u201d And then she goes into an upfront contract, right? So she does talk about the pandemic, but she acknowledges that “Hey, it might be kind of weird.” And that’s a variation of a line that you can use. That’s really effective. Like, “Hey, I know it might be kind of weird to be giving you a cold call right now.” It’s a really, really great one. You’re acknowledging the elephant in the room.<\/p>\n The second one is someone that Jonathan Mehan over at BombBomb who I’m coaching he prefers this line that’s like very, very upfront about the fact that it’s a cold call and he uses a Sandler style upfront contract. And his sounds like this \u201cHey, so I’m cold calling you right now. It should take me about 30 seconds to tell you why I called and about 30 seconds for you to tell me if you want to keep talking, sound fair?\u201d So it’s got that upfront contract, which I’m a huge fan of, but he just says, \u201cHey, I’m cold calling you right now.\u201d And the response he gets to that is really, really good.<\/p>\n So a couple of these other ones are ones that I don’t even know. I think I’ve either heard of, or just have figured out how to do myself. But my favorite one to use is, \u201cHey, this is Jason with Blissful Prospecting. You know, I probably caught you at home in the middle of something, but\u2026\u201d The reason for my call and then I go into the call. That’s my favorite one. I know I probably caught you at home in the middle of something.<\/p>\n So a great way to kind of acknowledge the situation that people are working from home without having to talk about Corona or COVID or any of that other BS.<\/p>\n Number four, this is a really cool one too. \u201cHey Jason, with blissful prospecting, you know, I’m sure the last thing you’re expecting right now is to get a cold call, but the reason for my call is this.\u201d And then you can either go into an upfront contract or go into your pitch or whatever it might be.<\/p>\n Okay. There’s another one that works really well to you. And this last one is more of a getting straight to business, you know, kind of approach. So you could say something like, \u201cHey Jason with blissful prospecting. You know, I know this call is probably unexpected, so I’ll get right to it.\u201d I always use this line when I could hear the other person like inpatients on the line from the other person’s or I get a sense that they’re just extremely busy and I can hear it in their tone of voice, but “Hey, I know this call is probably unexpected..” Sell get right to it. You’re acknowledging the elephant in the room. You’re letting them know that this was not a call from someone that they know. And you’re also letting them know that you’re going to get right to it.<\/p>\n So those are five lines that you can try right now that are working really well for our clients in their cold calls and before I take off one quick update, I wanted to give you an announcement is we’re hosting a Summer Virtual Tour called Think Outside the Script. And it’s 100% focused on prospecting. It’s actually rounded up Scott Ingram was one of them. I rounded up 40 of the top sales speakers, and sales reps to talk about how they cold email cold calls, use LinkedIn, how they do social selling. And it’s all focused on prospecting and how you can prospect better, smarter, more efficiently to book more meetings. And it’s free. It’s live. The events are not condensed down into two or three days. Nothing’s prerecorded. It’s spread out over the entire summer and there’s true, three of them per week. And you can pick the ones that you want to go to and you can check that out at TOUR, So that’s tour.blissfulprospecting.com<\/a>. 40 talks. Like I said, they’re live, they’re free. Go check it out. There’s likely going to be a handful of people in there that you recognize, and that you’re a big fan of, Scott’s one of those. So tour.blissfulprospecting.com<\/a>. And thanks for tuning in, I’ll talk to you later.<\/p>\n
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