Using Social Media to Prep Your Next Sales Call

Getting your prospect to listen to your first sales call can be a matter of 1-3 seconds.

Success in this first 1-3 seconds is often the result of making some sort of personal connection–you voice, location, common interest–something that makes you seem human and interested in the person you called.

Unfortunately, you are typically calling a complete stranger and that makes it hard to personally connect that fast. Unless you use the power of social media to warm up that relationship.

Here are a few of my suggestions…

What do you think? Do you have proven ways to warm up your sales calls? Leave a comment, we’ll talk about it.

Related posts:

  1. Social Media for Sales: Setting Up Ground Zero
  2. Social Media, Monitoring for Fun and Profit
  3. Social Media for Sales
  4. How to Use Social Media to Boost Your Sales
  5. Pre-Call Checklist for Better Sales Call Results
About Bill Rice

Writer, Speaker, Social Selling, Lead Generation

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  • http://callboxinc.com/ Judy Caroll

    Thanks for sharing the elements of the pre-call planning Bill.  Also social media is a great way to know whom we want to reach and why we think they would be a good prospect.  All the best to you. 

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