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Producer

Cold Calling Games

Cold calling every day is a drag no matter what industry you work in. Me and my coworkers play a game for the first person to get a prospect to say a certain word, gets 20 bucks. Helps the day go by a little fast and could come out 20 bucks richer.

Does anyone else have some cold calling games?

PS: Today's word is kaleidoscope

PSS: Yes I have got hung up because of this and potentially lost a sale but..... its 20 bucks

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BigCheese

Notorious Answer

Agency Recruiter

That’s great lol. Me and my coworker do the opposite; we have to try and fit a certain word into phone calls and whoever says it the most in one call wins. Last word we did was pterodactyl. He somehow got 6 pterodactyls in one call lol.

Kinonez

Celebrated Contributor

War Room Enthusiast

Did he close that call?

BigCheese

Notorious Answer

Agency Recruiter

You can bet your bottom dollar he did not

Kinonez

Celebrated Contributor

War Room Enthusiast

I still say it's worth it! xD

BigCheese

Notorious Answer

Agency Recruiter

Lmao gotta pass the time somehow

CuriousFox

WR Officer

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Twenty dollars is twenty dollars. 🤷‍♀️

How was kaleidoscope successfully used today?

Hotlead

Politicker

Producer

My colleague got it with it "It's a beautiful day today.. the clouds look crazy where I am, it almost looks like uhhh.. what's that thing you looked into as a kid that changed colors"

Bastard fell for it

CuriousFox

WR Officer

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I am living for this right now 🥳

CaneWolf

Politicker

Call me what you want, just sign the damn contract

@CuriousFox asking the big questions.

CuriousFox

WR Officer

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I meeeeaaannnn.......my name is CuriousFox soooooooo......😏

SlinginSoftware

Politicker

Account Executive

Three words - Cold calling BINGO. Create a card with common things that happen (good and bad) and first to get the coverall wins!

Tons of fun and adds a silver lining to someone tell you to "fuck off!"

SaaSam

Politicker

Account Executive

Love it, back when I worked in an office with other folks we used to try and match the other person's tone and enthusiasm without laughing. Every now and again you would have someone super monotone or extremely excited so the sales floor got crazy at times. Especially when calling into Texas

DungeonsNDemos

Big Shot

Rolling 20's all day

I like making tally marks as I go through my calls. Helps me visualize how much I've done even if it's not been a great call block

NoSuperhero

Politicker

BDR LEAD

I like this! I assume it's much easier at the office. Trying to think how it'd work on this remote setting?

CaneWolf

Politicker

Call me what you want, just sign the damn contract

FULLY support this. It's great that you found something to break up the monotony.

Me, one of my buddies who worked for a very important global institution, and another who worked for a big finance firm did "word of the week" for about a year. We would pick words such as gelatinous, evanescence, etc., and see how many times we could fit them in on calls/meetings. Good times.

SaaSsy

Politicker

Love the camaraderie! I might steal this…in my earlier days my work Hubby and I would force each other to annunciate names the wrong way and get points for how many times we said it w/o laughing. Gotta have some fun getting yelled at and hung up on.

Mr.Pickles

Arsonist

Sr. Customer Success Manager

As a Manager, I was claiming 5 USD gift cards here and send the code to the strongest call, or the sharpest dodge when it comes to objection handling - some sort of "little badges/achievements". For example this week the winner was Mr. Diaz - he booked 5 hyper-qualified apts in one day (which is actually savage considering his monthly quota is eight). We also bet a head shave. Whatever to keep the team on track.

Hotlead

Politicker

Producer

I wish you were my manager

Mr.Pickles

Arsonist

Sr. Customer Success Manager

haha I wish I could. The sad part is that my company cares more about revenue than the employees :(

Hotlead

Politicker

Producer

Heard that

Blackwargreymon

Politicker

MDR

Twenty dollars is twenty dollars.

Ninerfan

Member

Partner Ambassador

We used to come up with a category (like animals) and when we repeated back someone’s email address we would use that category to ready it back. “To confirm, your email is J, as in jack rabbit, O, as in ostrich…” we did this when the prospect wouldn’t give us time and had the age old brush off of “just email me some info”! We did it a lot to vendors just to be A-holes 🤣

GDO

Politicker

BDM

I did these games in the past. Not anymore since I wfh

MR.StretchISR

Politicker

ISR

A good cold email template works just as well for me. Relevance, pain point and CTA. I then follow up with a call referring to said email. It's yielded decent results.

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