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Sales Prospecting. Cold Calling Even With Referrals. Referral Prospecting.

Sales Prospecting. Cold Calling Even When Working With Referrals. Cold Call Prospecting Tip.

The best way to prospect is by asking for referrals, getting introduced, and seeing referrals from people who have bought from you.

The huge advantage is that the people that refer you, is that they transfer some of the trust they have in you to the referred lead. By introducing you to the referral, that makes the relationship stronger and now you are a trusted adviser, instead of a salesperson (In the mind of the referred lead). And because the client that referred you bought from you, there is the strong likelihood that the referral will buy from you as well, because the referral see the fact that their friend bought from you as a strong endorsement...

So why should you cold call as well? Even when you have plenty of referrals?

Because customers tend to give you referrals that share something in common with them. For example, you may be getting mostly names of business owners in the same business, members of the same club, people employed at the same place, family members. And what happens eventually is that you start seeing the same names over and over again.

One way to make sure that doesn't happen is to ask for referrals outside the core group. For example, you keep getting referrals that are employed at the same business..or in the same industry. That pool of referrals isn't infinite. Eventually you will be getting the same names repeatedly. So asking these people to refer people outside of their place of employment or outside of their industry is a good way to get "new blood" in your bank of referrals.

But another way to guarantee a fresh supply of places to call is by going some cold calling. A cold call outside of the core group of referrals. These new customers will then give you referrals of their own. A fresh supply of referrals in a new "referral chain" that will dilute your "Putting all your eggs in one basket" referral program.

When I cold call, I like to talk to people outside my immediate area, and outside the core business I'm working with. The reason is...if the economy changes...or demand changes...or you get replaced with another supplier..or "gasp" a new salesperson with talent......you still have a pool of leads that you can call without skipping a beat.

The added benefit of occasionally cold calling, even when you don't need to...is that you retain the skill in case you move out of your area, and need to start this prospecting process anew.

Claude’s Books;
One Call Closing: The Ultimate Guide To Closing Any Sale In Just One Sales Call https://amzn.to/3Ack5f4

Sales Prospecting: The Ultimate Guide To Referral Prospecting, Social Contact Marketing, Telephone Prospecting, And Cold Calling To Find Highly Likely Prospects You Can Close In One Call https://amzn.to/3u21EpO

Selling Essentials: Your First 90 Days In Selling https://amzn.to/3OqKxpK

Selling Local Advertising: The Best Kept Insider Secrets To Create Local Advertising Sales, FAST! https://amzn.to/3NnAUa7

Instant Sales Boost Podcast Website https://www.instantsalesboost.com/

Claude Whitacre has over 40 years of direct sales experience. In that time, he has trained hundreds of salespeople He is the author of six books on the subject of selling, as well as hundreds of articles. He has spoken to over 200 audiences across the US on how to how to find highly likely prospects and closing in one sales call.

Retiring in 2022 from actively selling, Claude wanted to give back to the sales and marketing fields by teaching the strategies and techniques that have proven so effective in his own selling.
One of the many strategies and practices Claude implemented over the decades is working with over 200 top salespeople on real sales appointments, in 71 different industries. He would work with them for a day, prospecting and going on sales appointments, with them. Then they would work with him in the field for a day. Eventually, Claude determined that about 98% of everything he used in his own selling was actually learned from top salespeople outside of his own core industry.

To pay forward what Claude has learned, he wanted to give salespeople the opportunity to benefit from what he did....learn from the best salespeople, experts, sales authors, and trainers from all over the country.
This podcast is that effort.

Claude has videos and articles on the following subjects.
Sales prospecting, cold calling, referral prospecting, social selling, referral selling, sales prospecting training, referral prospecting training, sales prospecting techniques, how to get the best referrals, how to cold call strategically, best cold calling techniques, sales training, best closing techniques, answering sales objections, and one call closing.