Cold Calling

[michaelg]

Hi,

If you dont know, a cold call, is a call out of the blue where someone has got your number out of either a phone book or a mailing list and are trying to sell you something.

We all get them, and most of the time they are irritating.

But what if you have something you can sell?

I mean is the call unsolcited when they call you and you try a sales pitch on them?

My niche is wraps and I will soon be at that stage where I'm looking for investors to do joint ventures.

I wonder about the legal implications of hawking to hawkers?, if nothing else, its sounds satisfying at lease ? :P

What are other people's opinion?

Imagine you had a nice deal, where the deposit required was 20%+, wouldnt some external funds help?, how would you cut the hawker off to pitch your deal to them?

This could be a nice online tutorial/exercise.

Michael G

[aam]

Hi Michael,

Originally posted by michaelg
I wonder about the legal implications of hawking to hawkers?, if nothing else, its sounds satisfying at lease ? :P

I don't know what the legal implications are, but I always try to turn the situation around. I run two businesses selling too, so I view any cold caller as a potential customer. By making that cold caller see something beneficial in what I have to offer for them personally, then I take the whole lot off line. They are, after all, paid to do what they do, so I do not want to get them into trouble. We swap numbers and take it from there.

Imagine you had a nice deal, where the deposit required was 20%+, wouldnt some external funds help?, how would you cut the hawker off to pitch your deal to them?

I always respond initially with: "hey, sounds like a good product. Do you have it yourself?" 90% of the time they don't. "Why not?" More often that not it is a question of finance. You then become someone with something to offer, and they can benefit, especially with your wrap deals!

Cheers
Apprentice Millionaire

[paulzag]

My guess MG is you will be more likely to find wrapp buyers than finance partners from Telemarketers.

Even gun telesales pros spend 105% of their income.

Nothing wrong with pitching an investment to an outbound call centre, it's their dime but it's your time.

Regards

Paul Zag
Dreamspinner

[Glenn]

Micael,

Upon returning to Perth last year, I was out of work with 2 tenantless IP's and a wife about to give birth to our daughter. The IT industry was at it's bottom and we were living in a cramped house with family.

During a 2 week period, I made 153 cold calls to software companies in Perth with the intention of selling my services for profit (wages)....I can't see the difference between this and selling houses/encyclopedias/thongs/bbq's etc

As long as you are selling a product openly and honestly, I can't see a problem with it.

Glenn