{"id":27,"date":"2017-02-21T14:58:33","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T14:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alexgberry.com\/?page_id=27"},"modified":"2019-07-02T17:49:01","modified_gmt":"2019-07-02T17:49:01","slug":"cold-calling","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/alexgberry.com\/?page_id=27","title":{"rendered":"Cold Calling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row content_aligment=&#8221;center&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/6&#8243;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;60px&#8221;]\n<div class=\"edgtf-section-title edgtf-section-align-center\" style=\"font-size: 50px\">\n\tCold <span class=\"edgtf-section-highlighted\" style=\"color: #ef214c\">Calling<\/span><\/div>[vc_empty_space height=&#8221;60px&#8221;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The phrase that drives fear into sales people and sales managers alike.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It has a terrible image but in reality is a significant and very efficient tool for any direct sales organisation. The most surprising thing about what is labelled cold calling is that it is actually a perfectly natural process, and one that we engage in daily, and often with enthusiasm.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">If you, and most importantly your team, truly believe that your product will ultimately benefit your customers then cold calling or communication using the telephone, as I prefer to call it, is merely a way of introducing something positive to your potential customers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Getting sales people \u201con the phone\u201d is often cited as one of the most significant challenges. With a shift in thought process, and as always intelligent thought and preparation put into targeting, this simply becomes another tool in your sales box.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In the current electronic communication driven world, actually speaking to people is now, more than ever before, rare, valued and more powerful than ever when done correctly, thoughtfully and with a purpose.<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;60px&#8221;][vc_text_separator title=&#8221;Want more information?&#8221;][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;60px&#8221;]<a href=\"\/?page_id=1342\" target=\"_self\" style=\"color: #ffffff;background-color: #ef214c\" class=\"edgtf-btn edgtf-btn-large edgtf-btn-solid edgtf-btn-bckg-hover\"  >\n\t\t\t<span class=\"edgtf-btn-text\">Contact Alex<\/span>\n\t    <\/a>[vc_empty_space height=&#8221;60px&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/6&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row content_aligment=&#8221;center&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/6&#8243;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;60px&#8221;][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;60px&#8221;][vc_column_text] The phrase that drives fear into sales people and sales managers alike. It has a terrible image but in reality is a significant and very efficient tool for any direct sales organisation. The most surprising thing about what is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":15,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-27","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexgberry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexgberry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexgberry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexgberry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexgberry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/alexgberry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6123,"href":"https:\/\/alexgberry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27\/revisions\/6123"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexgberry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexgberry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}