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Smart Calling
Book

Smart Calling

Eliminate the Fear, Failure, and Rejection from Cold Calling

Wiley, 2013 more...


Editorial Rating

8

Qualities

  • Applicable
  • Well Structured
  • For Beginners

Recommendation

Art Sobczak has been successfully selling over the telephone since he was 14. Now in his 50s, he seems to know practically everything about cold calling – make that, telephone prospecting – and selling. In the second edition of his manual, Sobczak shares his trade secrets. His original book reached number one in Amazon’s sales the first day it was listed and, in 2010, Top Sales Awards named it the year’s best sales book. Sobczak specializes in “Smart Calling,” a strategy that sales professionals can follow to turn phone prospecting into a positive experience for everyone involved. Sobczak offers compelling conversational methods that elevate prospecting into an activity requiring skill, intelligence and an agile wit. He transforms phone sales – an activity most salespeople avoid – into a rewarding or, at least, more tolerable and productive, experience. getAbstract recommends his program and commends his engaging outlines and explanations. Salespeople should relish reading these insights, which should be required texts for anyone who must use phone calls to convince strangers to do what they want them to do, including job seekers, freelancers, recruiters and fundraisers.

Take-Aways

  • Traditional cold calling does not work.
  • The salesperson’s job, like it or not, is to speak to prospects.
  • Most salespeople don’t know how to talk to prospects on the phone, so they hate and fear cold calling.

About the Author

Art Sobczak, the founder of Business By Phone, has taught phone prospecting and sales for more than 30 years.