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Appointment Booking Websites: Why Your Business Needs it in 2024

G2

Learn essential features, best practices, and software options for appointment booking websites to streamline appointment scheduling and boost efficiency.

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To Research Or Not To Research?

Tibor Shanto

But how much do you really need to know to get an appointment? This makes the “getting the appointment” the primary goal of a meeting. If you can ‘spend’ time on things leading to prospecting, you can pretend. Unless you have a one call sale, you will need to secure the second meeting even if you have success on call 1.

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Usually The Best Choice Is No Choice

Tibor Shanto

A prospecting call or email is a binary event, you either get the appointment, or you don’t. It is important to approach things in a way most likely to leads to getting the appointment. As always there is a difference in prospecting and selling.

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5 Patterns To Interrupt In Prospecting Outreach

Tibor Shanto

Salespeople see it as familiar, and take their eyes off the appointment, and go for the sale, mistake. But many seek the shelter of “selling” as a means of confirming the appointment. Once they figure out it is a salesperson, and that’s early based on many scripts I have review, 70% go into “sales-defence” mode.

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Cold Calling Tips and Tricks

However, there is also strong evidence which points to the contrary - 78% of decision-makers have taken an appointment or attended an event as a result of a cold call. In fact, less than 2% of today’s cold calls actually result in meetings, and 63% of sales professionals say it’s what they dislike most about their jobs. What’s the verdict?

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Please Stop Apologizing – It’s OK To Do Your Job

Tibor Shanto

So, when you ask for the appointment, ask with pride and confidence. I am call specifically to set a time, book an appointment, schedule a meeting, but none of the softy stuff. It is that very knowledge that will make them look good in the end. Don’t say “I am hoping we may book a time to meet.”

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How Good is Your Team at Prospecting for New Leads?

Anthony Cole Training

The call or outreach to set up an appointment is key. Most say "No" when we ask that question, which means that something in your client outreach and sales process has to change. And that change, we believe, starts at the very beginning.