5 Deadly Phone Sales Mistakes Most Salespeople Make

Phone sales can be a huge boon to your pipeline—if you do it right. Here are the five deadliest phone sales mistakes to avoid.

While many social media gurus want us to believe that the phone is dead, they couldn’t be more wrong. With all your competitors making fewer calls than ever before, the phone is a jackpot of opportunity. But it needs to be done well—or else, quite frankly, it’s useless.

If you can master phone sales, you’re going to watch your pipeline fill over the brim.

In this video, I’m going to show you five deadly phone sales mistakes most salespeople make—and then, more importantly, how to avoid them. Check it out!

So, there are the five deadly phone sales mistakes most salespeople make. Have you ever made one of these mistakes before? If so, what happened? Be sure to share below in the comments section. I’ll get to as many comments as I possibly can.

[andycc]

well i'm now doin b2b sales for first time, feelin quite uncomfortable to start. especially PICKING UP the phone after i made a few bad calls, instead i feel better to send out emails but when i finished the target a day its already not a gd time to call! so true from ur notes.

i'll start with calling from tmr and put sending emails the second priority. thx for ur advice :)

[katrinae]

Hello im a final expense agent. I has my lincense for 2 year. Working the phones thru our telesales division, has it great points but its harder to close clients. My question is how to keep the client engage? What should i do when the client say send me some information after they called into our corporate office?

[renerichards]

Do you suggest that there is a better time to cold call ? Morning b4 9am or afternoon close to 4pm ot 5pm ? Never on Monday morning or lunch time ?? Or take a chance any time ?

[smack]

I am going to write a script. I flubbed a call last week leaving a VM. I was getting an incoming call and got distracted. I probably could have stayed on track if I had a script.

[randomactivities]

I understand not being to hype and excited at the beginning. Do you feel asking how they are doing at a more calming tone and conversational tone is ok to do.