{"id":8796,"date":"2022-03-06T18:41:18","date_gmt":"2022-03-06T18:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/?p=8796"},"modified":"2022-03-06T18:41:18","modified_gmt":"2022-03-06T18:41:18","slug":"cold-calls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/cold-calls\/","title":{"rendered":"Cold Calls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cold Calling is the art of either calling or starting a conversation with someone who you do not know or has not been given to you by a lead in the sales world. This act is often seen as pitiful, aggravating, and unrewarding by the public, but that is not the case. If you take a deeper dive into the art of cold calling it can be rewarding and foster sales relationships for years to come. The first thing to understand about cold calling is that failure is going to happen. This idea that failure is okay is not one that is accepted by the general public, but in this case it is okay. Failure is okay because the people who you contact when cold calling do not always fit your target demographic.<a href=\"http:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/michael-scott.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8793 alignleft lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/michael-scott-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/michael-scott-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/michael-scott-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/michael-scott-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/michael-scott-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/michael-scott-624x351.jpg 624w, https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/michael-scott.jpg 1920w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/169;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When looking at the tactics of cold callers it is often the case that the company has a script that is going to be used in order to sell you their products. This is seen in movies and TV shows such as The Wolf of Wall Street as well as The Office. In an episode of The Office, we are able to see the downfall of these scripts when Michael Scott gets a second job as a cold caller. As a good salesman he knows that in order to get sales he must create a relationship with his customers, however this means going off script. This does not please his employer and is reflected in his number of sales because of company policies that restrict how long a call can be. If cold calls are allowed to operate unrestricted they are able to be powerful tools to the sales process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cold Calling is the art of either calling or starting a conversation with someone who you do not know or has not been given to you by a lead in the sales world. This act is often seen as pitiful, aggravating, and unrewarding by the public, but that is not the case. If you take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":568,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8796","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\/568"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8797,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8796\/revisions\/8797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}