{"id":524,"date":"2015-02-23T15:29:49","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T15:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/?p=524"},"modified":"2015-02-23T15:29:49","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T15:29:49","slug":"cold-calling-nerves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/cold-calling-nerves\/","title":{"rendered":"Cold Calling Nerves"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the summer, I had an internship at State Farm. It was a small office with only 4 other employees so it was very laid back and fun. My boss was very laid back and barely ever spent a whole day at the office. She would give me a list of things to do; mostly auto quotes and sending follow up emails. One time she asked me to call a list of people who had motorcycles and wanted me to call them to see if they wanted to refinance with State Farm Bank. I had no idea what I was supposed to say and she didn’t really give me any directions of what to do. I’m \"\"<\/a>sure I sounded so nervous on the phone which probably made it easy for people to turn me down right away. Afterwards, I was just\u00a0relieved to have the list done and I didn’t care\u00a0much that nobody sounded interested. A couple days later, one person called back and ended up refinancing. My boss was so proud of me for getting one person out of around 30 to actually refinance. I didn’t think that was a very good success\u00a0number, but after talking about this in class I realized maybe that wasn’t too bad. Even though I hated doing it, I got a little experience doing cold calls and if I’m put in that position again I’ll have somewhat of an idea what I’m doing and what type of numbers to expect.<\/p>\n

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Over the summer, I had an internship at State Farm. It was a small office with only 4 other employees so it was very laid back and fun. My boss was very laid back and barely ever spent a whole day at the office. She would give me a list of things to do; mostly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sales-struggles","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524","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\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":526,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions\/526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}