Cold\nCalling\u2026 I cannot stand it. It is not that I do not like to speak on the phone,\nor that I am afraid to speak to someone I have never met. It is the fact that\nyou are reaching out to someone who 1. probably is not interested in talking to\na salesperson and 2. probably is not interested in your product and 3. the\nsuccess rate is extremely low. Now I may be a little biased because I worked an\ninternship that required me to make between 25 and 50 calls every single day. I\nwas miserable and in the end I only converted one customer successfully the\nentire summer, through cold calls. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Golf\u2026\none of my absolute favorite things about business. I am an avid golfer, but I\nhad a ton of success selling by working a booth on a cold course, rather than\nactually playing with the potential clients. You would not believe the\nbusinesses that have website or IT issues. By working a business golf outing I\nwas able to create many contacts and get business in a very laid back and fun\natmosphere. There is also new opportunities for golf and business to collide\noutside of the standard golf outing. The opening of TopGolf has brought a group\narcade style of golf with the possibility of a night life experience. This can\nbe a great place to take clients or just have team building activity for your\ncompany. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Patience\u2026\nin sales you have to have it. When I started last summer as an outside sales\nintern I struggled to produce in the beginning. It is really hard to hit the\nground running in sales. You are going to take your lumps and that is okay. It\nhappens to everyone. Eventually I did have a break through and made up for my\nshort coming in the months before. You just have to keep grinding and doing\nthings the right way, eventually someone will notice and you too will have that\nbreakthrough. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Cold Calling\u2026 I cannot stand it. It is not that I do not like to speak on the phone, or that I am afraid to speak to someone I have never met. It is the fact that you are reaching out to someone who 1. probably is not interested in talking to a salesperson and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":5046,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sales-struggles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5275,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5231\/revisions\/5275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}