Who to Call, How to Find Them, and Why the Phone Still Wins (Ask Jeb)
About this episode
Jeb Blount addresses prospecting challenges faced by callers Calvin and Dennis, emphasizing the importance of multithreading accounts and providing data to support cold calling effectiveness.
On this episode of Ask Jeb on the Sales Gravy Podcast, two callers bring Jeb Blount their prospecting problems. Calvin sells keynote speeches into a niche market and is stuck trying to find the one right person to call inside each organization. Dennis runs a sales outsourcing company and wants hard proof, not opinion, that cold calling still works so he can convince his own team. Jeb's answer to Calvin is that there is no single right contact, there is a buying group, and the job is to multithread the account and reach all of them. His answer to Dennis is backed by real numbers, including a $250,000 day his own team generated from structured outbound calling when everyone had written off cold calling as dead. What You'll Learn: Why the real question in niche prospecting is not who to call, but how many people in the org you need to reach How to multithread an account so you are not depending on one decision maker How Jeb's team turned a missed plan into a $250,000 day using nothing but structured outbound calling blocks What real cold calling conversion data looks like, from dials made to pickups to booked appointments Why mornings should be reserved for dials and afternoons for…
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