what's up guys today i'm cold calling 100 different businesses
to try to get some new clients for my marketing company hammer forged
lots of people say cold calling is dead but today we're going to put that to the test
and we're going to find out if cold calling really dead or are people just lazy and don't
want to do it because it's the most awkward horrible awkward thing you'll ever experience
in your entire life today we're gonna find out what the answer is so the first strategy i'm
gonna try out is the i sent you a letter and i'm calling the follow-up strategy
uh is this is this land tree or land clear inc
yes oh what did what did you just say city wow congratulations um
um i was calling because i sent you guys a letter about google ads like uh i don't
know like like a month ago and i was calling to see if you guys got it um you just have to talk
to my husband about that and he's on a job over in south carolina oh well that's cool well okay
okay uh do you want to give him my info or do you want to give me his info and just give him a call
yeah i can take down your information and have him give me a call okay my name is jessie j esse
and then eckel e-c-k-e-l okay and um the letters i i'll run like google ads for like
land clearing companies um and if you can like if if your company can handle more business it's
usually like a couple extra clients each month and depending on your guys's prices sometimes it's
like five to like twenty thousand dollars that you guys are able to pull in each month um okay yeah
all right sounds good thank you
so call number one didn't go exactly as i had hoped it would go but i was trying to
remain optimistic my thought was that the more that i called people the better i would get
so it was really only uphill from there but i had no idea how wrong i was call number two
your call has been forwarded to an automated voice messaging system the mailbox is full i
cannot accept any messages at this time hi this is courtney with halloween construction company
please write your name and number and i will call you back thank you so most of the numbers that i
called literally just went to voicemail so i would say my name i would say my number right
at the beginning of the call i would say why i was calling and then i would say my number
two more times at the end of my call and then that was that i got a ridiculous amount of voicemails
and i actually kind of liked the voicemails because the voicemails couldn't reject me the
voicemails they were just like little robots that i liked they took down my number and my name took
down my little message and carried it on to their robot overlords who control them i like that hello
hi i just left you uh a voicemail yeah i was just calling to see if you got
my uh letter i sent like a month ago uh no no
no uh well it's was asking if you're interested in uh marketing help with google ads
hello we are not available now this is easy with dc water construction i am unavailable at this
time hi uh i was calling to see if you got the letter i sent you guys about a month ago it was
a it was about marketing oh yeah we're fine i've got 140 work orders i got to take care of man
oh okay no problem thank you so i'm going to switch up strategies and i'm just going
to tell them exactly why i'm calling like the first thing i say i'm a drop shot hi uh
i was calling to see if you'd be interested in some marketing stuff
uh not at the moment i appreciate it okay thanks
bye hi i help land clearing companies make an extra 10 to 20 000 a month are you interested
hi is this jackson grading yes hi uh i help do you do land clearing too
okay i help land clearing companies make extra money each month
um doing marketing is that something you're interested in
hi i help land clearing businesses make an extra 20 000 a month are you interested that's it that's
all i'm saying not saying anything else this time i feel like it's hard because i'm really i'm a
really good improv guy like i feel like i'm really good like on the phone i mean probably but i have
a script i feel horrible but i also all right what about hey i know hi i help land clearing
companies make hi is this uh land craig blanchard hello hi can you hear me yeah yeah do you do land
clearing yes uh so i run a marketing company that helps land clearing companies make an extra twenty
thousand dollars a month is that something i help land clearing companies make an extra 10 to 20 000
a month using google ads are you interested hi i help land clearing companies make an extra 10 to
20 000 a month using google ads are you interested hi hey eight eight one seven nine three five nine
hello good afternoon lps hi this is uh this is a cold call i was just trying to get home
i suck at this i'm so bad at this hi this is uh hi uh i have a marketing company and i help land
clearing companies make money that's a that was a really bad intro yeah that was generous
hi i uh run a marketing company helping tree service companies make more money
so obviously i didn't get any leads thus far i have had one person call me back since then
but they also weren't interested i i don't know okay i didn't get any leads i didn't personally
get any results but that doesn't mean cold calling is dead that just means that i suck at it like
i was horrible at cold calling but i could imagine if you perfected the art if you're
like you know you're doing it every day you're in the you're in the minefields of cold calling
and you're trying to you've perfected your art right that i imagine you'd be really a lot better
you could i imagine you could grow to be a lot better at it than i was and uh through
that i could definitely see it yielding results because i had a lot of people that picked up
and i had a lot of people that listened to me at least respectfully for a little bit most of them
were ready to say no but that's how a numbers game works most people are gonna say no but
you're gonna looking for one or two or three who are gonna say yes and i definitely think i could
have gotten two or three yeses had i been again a little bit better at it so no i don't think cold
calling is dead but it is just one of the most insanely difficult things you will ever have
to do in your life if you have to do cold calling uh but it also makes you more resilient uh by the
end of it i just felt like a machine i felt like arnold schwarzenegger i felt like the terminator
you can't say anything that is gonna even touch me s dumb people on the phone who are rude to me
it doesn't even hurt me i've like rhinoceros skin right now and i just feel like an animal i feel
like a strong powerful i feel like a dinosaur i feel like a strong dinosaur right like a t-rex
like a like a dog t-rex that's what i feel like after cold calling if you just if you
just feel like you're just somebody who like is constantly just really sensitive to how
people think of you or if you're somebody who just really struggles with rejection
just cold call people it'll that burn that right out of you you'll just you'll come
out of it just a refined warrior ready to face all kinds i just want people to reject me now
it just energizes me somebody rejects me i'm like thank you anyway new videos come
out every single week i'll probably never wear this shirt again see you guys next week
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