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Introduction. Cold Calling for New Business. Six Essential Prospecting Outreach Formulas. Six Essential Prospecting Outreach Formulas. Six Essential Prospecting Outreach Formulas. Six Essential Prospecting Outreach Formulas. 1. Best Practice Approach. 2. Straight Results Approach. 3. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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RAIN Selling

Cold Calling forNew Business

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Six Essential Prospecting Outreach Formulas

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Best Practice Approach1.

Straight Results Approach2.

New Idea Approach3.

New and Different Approach4.

First Step Approach5.

Can You Help Me Approach6.

Six Essential Prospecting Outreach Formulas

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Capabilities/Demonstration Approach7.

Six Essential Prospecting Outreach Formulas

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My name is John Smith and I’m a strategy and change management

consultant.

What’s In It for Me

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What’s In It for Me

Do you need help building strategy or managing change? Let’s meet.

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What’s In It for Me

My name is John Smith with Arc Strategy. We’ve

never spoken before.

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What’s In It for Me

The reason I’m calling is my firm has recently

conducted a major benchmark study

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What’s In It for Me

on how manufacturing businesses in the Midwest —including your two major

competitors—

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What’s In It for Me

are successfully working with their labor unions in

the face of global outsourcing.

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What’s In It for Me

While there are three practices that are working in general, a few practices fail almost every place we

studied.

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What’s In It for Me

As a way of introducing ourselves, I’d be happy to

come by and take you through what we’ve found.

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The results are eye opening, to say the least.

What’s In It for Me

The prospect has to see value in the meeting itself

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Six Value-Based Prospecting Approaches

1. Best practice approach

2. Straight results approach

3. New idea approach4. New and different method approach5. First step approach

6. Can you help me approach

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Best Practice Approach

Name

Sharon, this is Lee Adama.

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Best Practice Approach

Organization

I’m with Caprica City Technologies

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Best Practice Approach

Introduction—direct

We’ve never spoken before,

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Best Practice Approach

What we do

But we focus on working with pharmaceutical companies to help run the

most efficient clinical trials…

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Best Practice Approach

Aspiration or affliction

The reason I’m calling is we’ve just completed a major benchmark research study to identify the key drivers of cost reduction and speed improvement in clinical trials, and at the same time, maintain high quality standards…

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Best Practice Approach

Offer

I’ll be in southern New Jersey on June 14 and 15 at a client site. As a way of

introducing Caprica, I’d be happy to come by and take a few minutes to share with

you the research results. I think you’ll find them pretty eye opening.

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Call to action

I was looking at the 14th in the afternoon or the 15th in the morning to meet?

Best Practice Approach

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Straight Results Approach

Name

Bill, I’m Helena Cain.

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Straight Results Approach

Organization

I’m with Pegasus Fundraising.

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Straight Results Approach

Introduction—trigger

I read in the Chronicle of Higher Education that you just joined Gemanon College as

their new vice president of development.

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Straight Results Approach

What we do

We focus on working with college and university development organizations…

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Straight Results Approach

Aspiration or affliction

…to help them increase their fundraising results by an average of 15% per campaign.

We recently completed successful campaigns with state university and the

College of Astral Queen…

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Straight Results Approach

Offer

I saw in your alumni magazine that your fundraising goal for this coming year is

about $40 million…a 15% increase would be $6 million more.

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Straight Results Approach

Call to action

Are you available next Tuesday or Wednesday in the morning to see how we

might get those results for you?

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New Idea Approach

Name

Saul, my name is Aaron Doral.

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New Idea Approach

Organization

I’m with Basestar Innovation.

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New Idea Approach

Introduction—direct

We’ve never spoken before,

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New Idea Approach

But we focus on working with consumer packaged goods companies to help them

Innovate…

What we do

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New Idea Approach

The reason I’m calling is I was just on your website and saw a note in a press release that you were looking for any and all ideas on how you can leverage open innovation…

Aspiration or affliction

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New Idea Approach

Open innovation is what we do, and, given your strategy to lead in dental products, we

have three ideas that we think you might find intriguing. Perhaps these three ideas

could spark some interesting conversation.

Offer

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Are you available to discuss these ideas next Tuesday morning or Wednesday

morning?

Call to action

New Idea Approach

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New And Different Method Approach

Name

Karl, I’m Laura Roslin.

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New And Different Method Approach

Organization

I’m with Picon Strategies.

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New And Different Method Approach

Introduction—referral

Your COO Jim Smith suggested that I give you a call.

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New And Different Method Approach

We work with technology companies to help them get their salespeople up to

speed as experts in their fields and selling full tilt very quickly after they are hired.

What we do

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New And Different Method Approach

The reason I’m calling is that we’ve been working with companies such as Centurion &

Viper Systems to help them reduce their ramp-up times for new sales reps by 50%, while at

the same time decreasing new rep turnover by 15% in a breakthrough new way…

Aspiration or affliction

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New And Different Method Approach

How we’ve solved the problem is pretty different than, I’m guessing, anything

you’ve seen. But we won’t know that until we share it with you.

Offer

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Right now I am looking to discuss our approach next Tuesday morning or

Wednesday morning—which works best for you?

Call to action

New And Different Method Approach

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First Step Approach

Name

Kara, this is Felix Gaeta.

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First Step Approach

Organization

I’m with C-Bucks Financial.

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First Step Approach

Introduction—referral

Sam Anders in your Springfield office suggested I give you a call.

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First Step Approach

What we do

For the past 12 years we’ve focused on helping owners of family businesses in the $10 million to $50 million range transfer

ownership of their firms and realize a liquidity event when they want one…

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First Step Approach

Aspiration or affliction

The reason I’m calling is we are having a private, CEO only dinner and speaker event at the Copley Plaza in downtown Boston where

CEOs will have a chance to talk with each other and enjoy our speaker, the dean of

Triton University Business School…

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First Step Approach

Offer

As we’ve never met, I’d look forward to doing so by having you come to the event

as my guest.

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First Step Approach

Call to action

Can I put you down as a yes for the event?

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Can You Help Me Approach

Name

Callie, this is Tory Foster.

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Can You Help Me Approach

Organization

I’m with Colonial One.

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Can You Help Me Approach

Introduction

We’ve never spoken before,

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Can You Help Me Approach

What we do

But we focus on helping HR leaders hire the best candidates for leadership positions

using our proprietary assessment instruments.

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Can You Help Me Approach

Aspiration or affliction

We have been able to increase new hire retention and success rates at companies in

the banking industry by 25%.

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Can You Help Me Approach

Offer

I’m calling to see if you might be interested in engaging a discussion about how we

achieve these results, but I don’t know who at your company would be the right person

to talk to.

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Call to action

Can you point me in the right direction?

Can You Help Me Approach

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[PAUSE]

o People like to fill silence

o Gives prospect a chance to ask you a question

Before I let you go, though, can I ask you one question?

Use Pauses

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Push Backs

1. Best practice approach

2. Straight results approach

3. New idea approach4. New and different method approach5. First step approach

6. Can you help me approach

Don’t retreat immediately

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“I’m Not Interested”

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“Now’s Not a Good Time”

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“We Already Have a Provider”

We already work with another provider to do this,

and they’re doing well.

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Buyers Switch Providers

“We Already Have a Provider”

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Buyers Switch Providers

“We Already Have a Provider”

48% of buyers are “very satisfied”

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Responding to Push Backs

Good to hear. I’m curious, what do you think makes the

relationship work so well?

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Responding to Push Backs

I’m curious to know…

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Responding to Push Backs

What topics do you cover in your monthly meetings with

your current provider?

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Oh I didn’t realize that. Here’s what we cover in the monthly meetings we have with clients.

Responding to Push Backs

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It sounds like things are pretty good. But you didn’t say they were doing an amazing job. What would it look like if a

company was doing an amazing job by your standards?

Responding to Push Backs

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Responding to Push Backs

Glad to hear that things are going well. While I am not too familiar with their process, I do know it’s always worthwhile to

have a second set of eyes to look things over.

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Responding to Push Backs

The next time you have something like this, I’d be happy to give it a quick review to see if we’d approach it any differently.

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If nothing else, you’ll get a different perspective and we may

even be able to find you some additional improvement.

Responding to Push Backs

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Responding to Push Backs

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33%

Overcoming Call Reluctance

97% of salespeople with call reluctance got over itonce they started actually making calls

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Overcoming Call Reluctance

Start calling!

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Conclusion

Cold Calling for New Business