Cold calling isn’t dead, it’s just evolved. While digital channels dominate modern sales conversations, picking up the phone to start a relationship with a prospect who’s never heard of you remains ...

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Cold calling is a sales strategy that involves phoning a potential customer unsolicited in the hopes of getting them to buy your goods or services. Granted, cold calling isn’t always the most popular ...

Sales techniques are vital in boosting your revenue, supporting customers, and raising your business profile. Because 71% of buyers want to hear from sellers early in the buying process, cold-calling ...

Cold calling is still a widespread outreach strategy for many businesses today. But the process has become much harder over the past few decades. People now are less receptive and more resistant to ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Even if you run a scalable Internet business, you should still look beyond online channels for product validation and sales strategy ...

It happens every day of the week and on Sundays in the radio business. Local radio sales reps talk themselves out of cold calling. It’s not your fault. Cold calling is hard. See. There I go. Talking ...

For many professionals, cold-calling is a tall hurdle. They dread having to make the calls, worried they'll be rejected or forget what they need to say. They know the person on the other end isn't ...