Never hang up the phone

With advancement of sales tools and our ability to mass outreach via automation, the art of cold-calling has become all but extinct in some orgs. I've always hung my hat on the ol' phone. The way I see it: If I am having a dry week/month/quarter, I'm picking that phone up. It is something I can control. No matter what's happening outside of my control, I can always make a decision to sit down and make phone calls until something good happens in order to shift momentum back my way...

Is the phone underutilized these days?

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CoorsKing
WR Officer
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Retired King of the Coors Knights
Yes, I think the phone is underutilized. I think this has to do with Marketing trying to control all outbound messaging in some orgs, and the new generation of SDRs for some reason is scared of cold calling.

Some good threads:
https://bravado.co/war-room/posts/is-cold-calling-dead
https://bravado.co/war-room/posts/cold-calling-dead-or-alive
https://bravado.co/war-room/posts/cold-calling-is-not-dead
CuChulainn
Catalyst
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SDR Hybrid
There is no doubt about the fear - I've had colleagues literally terrified to cold call. Worried about getting yelled at, hung up on, cursed, etc etc... I find humor in those moments and it's worked well for me. No need to be hard on yourself because someone else is having a bad day...
CoorsKing
WR Officer
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Retired King of the Coors Knights
A fantastic piece of training my SDR manager did for me was spend a day trying to see how fast I could get hung up on. He would time it. By the end of the day, because I was now desensitized to rejection, I wasn't as nervous.ย 

In the end, there is like a one in a billion chance you will ever actually see any of these people that hang up in real life, and a one in a trillion chance they remember the call and somehow recognize you.ย 

Its all in the head :)
Chep
WR Officer
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Bitcoin Adoption Specialist
Man what an SDR manager. Fucking love this idea.
CuChulainn
Catalyst
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SDR Hybrid
Thanks for the threads too, I'll check them out.
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