"No one's picking up the phone during COVID-19."
“People aren’t answering numbers they don’t recognize.”
“What kind of idiot makes a cold call during a pandemic?”
Sound familiar? I see these statements every day on LinkedIn and our sales reps hear them every day in conversations with B2B companies. Read on to learn why a pandemic actually IS the right time to make cold calls and create new business opportunities.
Auto racing is a great analogy for a sales team. Many companies try to make repairs (or changes) to the sale team while they are performing daily calls. It’s akin to tuning a race car while it’s speeding down the track at 225 MPH. Needless to say, in order to tune the car, it has to go into the pit. Unfortunately with sales teams, coming to a full stop is hardly an option.
However, when some companies come to a full stop (pit time!), they miss fine tuning the lead nurturing process. This issue is amplified at small and mid-size organizations as they don't have enough data in lead management systems to identify and address the proper issues. A good CRM system with carefully captured conversations data adds the right tools to find and fix problems.
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