Cold Calling: Stop Pitching the Gatekeeper

[ahlam1399]

I was talking with a client last week about some of his new employees. He told me that some of them are struggling to get through to decision makers, and he thought it was because they were "pitching the gatekeeper." I listened to some of his calls, and he was right! Here is the mistake: Many sales reps have never been taught the proper way to deal with gatekeepers, so after being screened out by them, they take the attitude that "If only they (the gatekeeper) knew how much this would benefit the (decision maker), then they'd put me through!" So they start pitching them...

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