I Hate Cold-Calling!

If you're anything like me, you would do almost anything to avoid making them!

Read this article to see why cold-calling doesn't work and what you can do to be much more effective in your business

I have never believed in cold-calling and I'll tell you why; I can't stand it when someone I've never met calls to sell me something that I didn't ask for and never wanted.

Sound familiar? Well, that's probably because this has happened to you plenty of times as well.

I'm sure we are all familiar with the cliché of the over-eager tele-marketer who calls us while we are eating dinner.

They must be successful enough to keep doing this, but I can only imagine that an extremely low percentage of their calls end in sales.

Unless the person on the other end asked to be called, the chances of an angry response and a quick hang-up are great.

Lately I have been getting calls to sell me leads, for example.

It has gotten so bad that whenever I see an unrecognized number on my phone, I hesitate to answer it at all because they are usually from solicitors trying to sell me something I never asked them for.

Even worse, the call is never from a "live" person that I can give a piece of my mind to!

You see, I answer the phone, there is a hesitation, and BAM, a voicemail recording telling me about "real-time qualified leads."

I once had a brief career selling insurance and the reason it was brief is because the job required me to cold-call people as a marketing strategy.

I heard someone describe cold-calling as equivalent to calling a girl that you hardly know to ask her to go out with you. Only, to make things worse, this is done repeatedly throughout the day! This might be okay for Rico Suavé or Don Juan, but I have a tougher time with something like this.

Besides, we all know that the pursued has a lot more power than the pursuer in a relationship.

There is something unattractive about desperate people, and believe me, this is the impression you are giving when making a cold-call. So why does the average sales manager or network marketer suggest this as a strategy?

I can think of a few possible reasons:

1. They don't know any better way.
2. They are too "busy" or lazy to do what it takes to market successfully (or to train us to do so, for that matter).
3. In the case of a network marketer, they might only want to teach what is "duplicatable."
4. One other reason I can think of is that they like to see us suffer, but I don't think that most people are like this. So the first three are the most likely reasons.

So, you may ask, how DO I become the pursued instead of the pursuer?

The hunted instead of the hunter?

The sought after salesperson?

Well, a good place to start is by learning the power of attraction and how to implement this into your business.

Once I learned this, it became clear to me that the "old-school" methods of cold-calling leads, showing my opportunity to everyone with a pulse, and bugging my friends, family and neighbors to sign up is not only ineffective, it is also annoying and will alienate a lot of people.

If you are truly serious about doing this business in a big way, I suggest you take Mike Dillard's Magnetic Sponsoring Course.

This was referred to my wife and I by a friend and it has been the most valuable information I have learned in business, period.

Since we learned this system, our business has become fun again.

We no longer spend time racking our brains trying to figure out who else to talk to and the people we do call are happy to hear from us because we can help them get what they want.

I have made this free video series available to you because it has helped me so much and I hope to be able to help others the same way my friend did for me when he recommended that I get on the program.

Just do me a favor and check out the free videos before you buy, then you can be sure if it's for you or not.

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