Cold Quote by Shahid Khan

“Making the field salespeople do cold calls means having your highest-cost (per hour) sales resource perform the lowest-value (per hour) activity.”

— Aaron Ross

Try to sell cold callers something and be very insistent. Works well. Also good for door-to-door sales people, especially if they're wearing poor shoes.

— Sean O'Grady

“I’ve seen some horrific disconnects on sales calls. Rapid-fire, fast-talking, passion-driven salespeople calling on reserved, data-seeking technical buyers. Ouch! Sometimes salespeople fail to develop…

— Mike Weinberg

What drove me nuts was the cold-calling.

— Billy Donovan

“The pitiful effort comes from salespeople who actually make their calls, but are so nervous and uncomfortable that they’re completely ineffective. Lack of confidence…

— Mike Weinberg

Call centres employ mainly out-of-work actors because vocal skills plus low self-esteem equals reliable cold caller.

— Sara Pascoe

“Picking up the phone to call prospects tends to be a key delineator between legitimate new business salespeople and posers.”

— Mike Weinberg

I used to be terrified of phone calls. Now I love a cold call, calling someone I haven't talked to in ages.

— Rachel Sennott

Give a cold shoulder to cold callers. Never invest in anything based on a phone call from someone you don't know or whose office…

— Nancy Dunnan

I was desperate really for people not to accuse me of coldness. It was taboo.

— Thomas Dolby

Be tenacious. One thing that has allowed me to have some level of success is that I am fine with cold-calling people. It doesn't…

— Blake Mycoskie

A calling is the place where your gifts, abilities, desires, and feelings of worth all meet. When you follow your calling, you feel at…

— Mike Yaconelli