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Success In Cold Calling Comes From Solving People's Problems!

By: Adam Price

When cold calling, you can now experience a wonderful new process of joy, by focussing on your prospects problems and not pitching your solutions. If you take their problems and make them specific and compelling to them to solve, then you'll experience a great new breakthrough with your cold calls.

You have to be aware of not going into pithc mode, which is what traditional cold call training teaches. What you need to remember is what you have and offer aren't relevant right now.

The only thing that matters is solving the potential problems of your prospect, and keeping the door open for future interactions in case there's a fit between you and them.

It may be hard for you to imagine what this sort of call is like until you try it. But just imagine receiving such a call yourself. If the discussion were about issues that matter to you, wouldn't you react with curiosity rather than suspicion? And wouldn't you be more likely to continue into a deeper conversation?

Make it Concrete

So when preparing for your cold call, focus on a problem that you believe the other person has. Address one specific, concrete, tactical problem that you know affects most businesses in their industry.

The best way to come up with a compelling problem is to put yourself in the other person's shoes and think about problems that your product or service can solve for them.

For example, instead of offering " office productivity problems," you could say, "I'm just giving you a call to see if you're still having issues around paper-based filing systems which slow you and your team down."

A statement like this gives the other person an immediate, vivid mental image of the problem.

If you know your industry well enough, and the problem you suggest is very real for them, then they can start to relax and enter into a further dialogue with you.

Compelling Examples

So, ideally, the problem you bring up in your cold call is something that prospects can relate to based on their real work life.

To come up with a compelling solution is nowhere near as hard as you think once you get the hang of it. If you've been working with your product or service for any period of time, you already have the answers. You most likely know many of the specific issues your prospects experience day in and day out. It's never really crossed your mind before.

So you could begin a conversation with a question similar to:

- "I'm just calling to see if you'd be open to looking at any possible hidden gaps in your business that might be causing sales losses?" (to a business owner)

- "I'm just calling to see if you're grappling with problems of employee performance related to a lack of training support?" (to a human resource department representative)

- "I'm just calling to see if you're open to looking at whether any department in your company might be losing revenue due to vendor overcharges?" (to an accounting manager)

Don't Slip Back

After this, you might be tempted to slip back into the traditional sales mindset and launch into a mini-presentation about the services you offer. That would be premature at this stage of your conversation.

You still don't have enough information about the problems of the person your talking to. Offering a solution before the other person even acknowledges having a specific problem is part of the old traditional sales mindset.

So what happens next? The two of you may start asking some questions back and forth. There'll be a natural rhythm to your dialogue. And you'll realize that you're not having the typical rejection with your cold calls.

Basically, you're building a cold calling relationship around the other person's world. You're not sinking into the push-pull scenario of buyer and seller. Most people react warmly and unhesitatingly to a conversation that feels natural to them and revolves around their issues. When you finally get the hang of focussing on problems you'll find cold calling much more enjoyable and fulfilling than before.

Article Source: http://www.newagelivingarticles.com

Adam Price is a professional online business networker, sales trainer and author around effective referral networking & internet marketing. Learn how tap into the powerful online world of networking, sales and trust building by visiting: www.Law-Of-Attraction-And-Success.com/SalesSuccess.html

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