You've signed up with a reputable work at home program and have purchased your leads. The only you have to now is phone them and convince them to sign up for the work at home program that you are offering. What could be so hard about that? The truth is that many people never make a dime doing this because they dont know how to approach a cold call. Provided below are the strategies and principals that will lead to a successful cold call.
The first thing to do is to learn the thirty second rule of connection. You may be a calling a thousand people, but with every single person you have just 30sec to make the connection. This may sound quick but the truth is after 30sec you are going to start to
lose their interest (that is if you had it in the first place), the 30sec rule must be mastered. In 30 sec you have to get the person to either start feeling good about you, as a person or curious enough to want to hear more.
2. The rule geographical location. Give them a frame of where you are. You want to paint a picture of who you are very quickly. One of the greatest ways to do that is to state where you are from. They will get them to start thinking about where you are from and be able to relate to that.
3. Offer an exist strategy. This is where you give them permission to stop you. You may be thinking why would I want do to do that? It's to take the pressure off. They don't know who you are; you called them, they were not holding their breath waiting for your call. Carefully offer them an exit strategy in the first 30sec and immediately the pressure is off. You get their undivided attention without making them feel like there are backed into a corner.
You want to create a comfortable environment on the telephone. This gives you a more professional image and makes the offer seem much more believable. If they feel pressured they will start to think If you want me that bad, you can not be doing that good. This immediately discredits you as a leader. Leaders are not desperate so they never have to box anyone into a purchase. By giving them a way out you are actually convincing them to stay.
Focus on values in their life. You need to figure out what is valuable to them and then let them know that you can help them to obtain it. Ask them straight up if there was one thing that you could change in your life what would it be? Most times they will tell you what they want and what you need to say to recruit them. The value system is extremely important. You need to decipher where they are in life and where they want to go. Perhaps they want more money, more control over their life, maybe they just want another option whatever it is you need to find out what the value in their life is right up front.
Professionals in the business don't pressure or try to convince they get people to do the work for them. It's not about forcing them into joining you; it's about letting them know that there is an alternative option to whatever it is they have now. You can't go into cold call thinking about money. Think about the fact that you have the power to change the lives of every person on your list. But the only way to change their lives is to find out what they want changed in their lives. These are not leads; they are people who have desires. If you help them obtain their desires and values you then become valuable to them. Focus on value in their life.
You Ve Got Your Troubles Fortunes
Business growth happens for one major reason – more clients want more of your services. Attracting clients requires the dreaded “M” word – marketing. Ah yes, there's the rub. If you want more clients, you have to let them know of your existence in a concerted, consistent way.
It's a paradox, really. Most of the solo professionals I talk to and work with went into business because they wanted to help people (I'm right there with you), and they knew their service, be it coaching, consulting, massage, or something else, would do just that. None of us went into it because we like selling. And yet, that's what has to happen in order for us to provide our service.
So, I'm going to reveal a possibly unappealing, yet definitely significant, truth to you. You actually have two businesses:
1. Marketing your services
2. Providing your services
And if you neglect the first business, you won't have much opportunity for the second.
Again, if you're like most service professionals, you do recognize the necessity of marketing. You work on your business card, you edit your brochure, you plan out your website. Gotta have a website these days, don't you? And it wouldn't be professional to go talk to a prospect without a business card, would it?
Some of us spend hours, days, even weeks moving commas, re-writing text and formatting bullet points in order to perfect these “marketing tools.” The tendency is to think that it all has to be done and done flawlessly before you can actually get out there and start talking to potential clients. Right? Au contraire, mon amie.
It will never be absolutely perfect. And you will never be entirely ready. So just get started now. It's true, business cards are important and having a brochure or website can spell out your services and help you filter potential clients. The danger is spending most of your time on things that support your marketing efforts instead of on those things that really bring people through the door (or on the phone, depending on your service).
These support elements are what I call the “dessert” of advertising and promoting. In the continuum of marketing, they are soft and fluffy tasks that don't require a face-to-face possibility of rejection – yet you can fool yourself into thinking they're critical to your success. But it's the “vegetables” that are going to cause your marketing efforts to pay off and your business to grow.
Vegetable elements of marketing are the tasks that many of us find hard to swallow as a steady diet; we know we should, but they just don't have the flavor of the desserts. Attending a networking meeting (and actually talking to new people), following up on those business cards you've collected, presenting to groups, approaching a possible referral partner – these are what get you noticed.
And getting noticed is what marketing is all about.
So, here's my request for you. Decide on 3 “vegetable” tasks that are the most palatable to you, and do them consistently for 30 days. Actually block time in your calendar each day -you may take weekends off- to get them accomplished. (Yes, you can hold your nose if you have to.)
I guarantee if you do those 3 things, whatever they are, consistently for a month, you'll see results.
You may still work on your “dessert” items; dessert is what makes the meal worthwhile, in my opinion. But just remember, dessert isn't growing food. Eat your vegetables first.
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