{"id":11198,"date":"2012-05-13T16:02:06","date_gmt":"2012-05-13T21:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/37d57f8fa2.nxcli.io\/blog\/?p=11198"},"modified":"2012-05-14T13:35:49","modified_gmt":"2012-05-14T18:35:49","slug":"fear-of-cold-calling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/sales\/fear-of-cold-calling\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Steps To Getting Over Your Fear of Cold Calling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone\u2019s afraid of the unknown. It\u2019s natural. Personally I won\u2019t eat squid&#8230;not because I don\u2019t like it but, I\u2019m afraid of what it might taste like. But that\u2019s just plain silly.<\/p>\n<p>Use the 5 steps below to get the clients you want by using the phone.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/sales\/fear-of-cold-calling\/attachment\/coldcalling1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11225\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-11225\" title=\"ColdCalling1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/ColdCalling11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/ColdCalling11.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/ColdCalling11-150x122.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/sales\/selling-time\/\">1. Discover How Much You Could Make (Hint: Mark Cuban made over a billion)<br \/>\n<\/a> In the 1980s he formed a company that helped small businesses link their personal computers. In 1995 he and Todd Wagner, a college classmate, had an idea: Use the Internet to allow sports fans to hear local broadcasts of their favorite teams even if they are far away. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/sales\/selling-time\/\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/sales\/cold-calling\/cold-calling-more-sales\/\">2. Get Over Your Fear of Cold Calling And Get More Clients This Week<\/a><br \/>\nThere\u2019s one area of sales that everybody hates to do\u2026Cold calling \u2013 the dreaded task of picking up the phone and calling someone they\u2019ve never spoken to before. Why? ?Because they\u2019re afraid of being rejected. So What! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/sales\/cold-calling\/cold-calling-more-sales\/\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/sales\/cold-calling\/customers-feel-special\/\">3. Make Your Prospects Feel Important (use this secret strategy)<\/a><br \/>\nI was sitting at my desk diligently working on another success essay when the phone rang. Being programmed like Pavlov\u2019s dogs to answer an incoming call hen the bell rings, I picked up the phone \u2013 interrupting myself (not a very good time management technique) \u2013 and said, \u201cHello, this is Jeff Mayer.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/sales\/cold-calling\/customers-feel-special\/\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.15secondmarketing.com  \">4. Have a Quick Easy To Remember Marketing Message To Share<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/marketing-strategy\/the-biggest-waste-of-your-time\/\">5. Find Out How To Get Return Calls (Instead of 0% you can get 25%)<\/a>\u00a0\u201cVoice mail messages. Nobody ever returns my voice mail messages. I\u2019m on the phone all day long. Leaving messages. But nobody calls me back.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/marketing-strategy\/the-biggest-waste-of-your-time\/\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone\u2019s afraid of the unknown. It\u2019s natural. Personally I won\u2019t eat squid&#8230;not because I don\u2019t like it but, I\u2019m afraid of what it might taste like. But that\u2019s just plain silly. Use the 5 steps below to get the clients you want by using the phone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[234,13],"tags":[402,384],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11198"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}