You Can be Great If You Really Want To

In the old way of making cold calls, we offer a sales pitch to a perfect stranger, cross our fingers, and hope for the best! This really doesn’t work very well in building a business relationship (or any other relationship, for that matter). This is done best by stepping into the world of the other person and finding a problem we can solve for him or her.

That’s how we begin a conversation with another person – talking about them rather than talking about ourselves. It’s just a very common dynamic that occurs in any human interaction. When you’re dating somebody, for instance, if you just talk about yourself, they’re not going to like you very much!

It’s the same in cold calling. Don’t talk about your solution for a while. Talk instead about their problems for a bit.

It’s a movement of dialogue. This dialogue is around talking about their world and not about your product. That’s the shift. All you have to do is identify three or four major problems that your product solves, and use those problems as phrases to begin the dialogue of your cold call.

You see, this new cold calling approach has to be tied to a specific, real problem that the person experiences in their world. This is needed in order for them to feel comfortable having a conversation with you. When you’re relevant to them and their world, they trust you. They sense that you’re there to help them solve a problem – not sell a product.

So remove yourself for a moment from what you have to sell, and think about what problem your solution solves for somebody.

For example, if you’re in the a coaching industry, think about what problem you’re solving for your clients. And then in your cold calling, address the problem right away. You might say, “I’m just calling to see if your company’s open to the idea of using coaches to improve management performance.”

When you use the word “open,” people respond positively. Who would say “no” to being open? You’re not challenging them. You’re not forcing a solution. You’re not even saying what you’re offering to sell. You’re simply asking a question around whether they have a particular problem.

This also invites a question back to you. Potential clients will often ask at this point who you are and what you do. They might say that they already have a service, but they may need some more help. So it opens up even more conversation.

Here’s an example of how salespeople focus their cold calling around something that appears to be a need, but they haven’t tied it to a specific problem.

Let’s look at financial services. In this case, people who sell financial services start cold calls with a focus on the future of the person’s situation. They might say, “I’m just calling to see if you’d be open to some new ideas to help you increase your income.”

The better approach here would be to problem solve. For example, “I’m just calling to see if you’d be open to identifying any gaps in your portfolio that might be holding you back in some way.”

It’s about problem solving and closing gaps, as opposed to promoting a beautiful future. “Hire me and I’ll make you a lot of money!” Everyone does that. That’s the problem. It gets old and very tiring

You see, there’s no push here. There’s no sales pitch. There’s no presentation. The conversation is focused on really seeing if the person has a problem, and if they want to solve it.

After the first few phrases, you have a natural conversation back and forth. They may say, “What’s your service?” “How much does it cost?” And that’s the time to begin to really tell about your service—but not before that.

If you don’t talk about your solution for a while and instead talk about their problems, you’ll find yourself having better and deeper dialogue, with more trust.

So be careful not to immediately go into a presentation and spend the conversation talking about your service. In this new way of cold calling, you’re asking in a very conversational tone whether the other person has a problem that you can solve.

You won’t believe how this simple technique can make such a difference in the way potential clients receive your cold calls. Tension and resistance are vastly reduced, and results are vastly improved.

Computer troubles can happen at the most inconvenient moments, and the appearance of a “userinit exe has encountered a problem and needs to close” can really catch you off guard; but if you’ll just read the next few paragraphs, I’ll demonstrate a user-friendly procedure that will enable you to get rid of it quite fast.

In the majority of instances, this type of error is centered in your computer’s “registry” – this is the tool that windows uses to ‘register’ your software & hardware each time you perform installations or updates or remove items. Over time, when you fill your computer with more and more applications, it is not uncommon to experience an improper installation/uninstallation of a program; this can sometimes cause the appearance of a “userinit exe has encountered a problem and needs to close”, a drop in your computer’s level of performance, and more.

The root of the problem is that segments of the registry can become either damaged or corrupted, causing your windows to fail when it tries to operate one or few of your applications; in this case, windows displays those error messages you so hate to see. Anyway, you don’t need to worry about it, as we told you earlier that this trouble is in most cases repairable.

Before you decide to get the problem solved by an expensive repair service, or risk trying to fix your Damaged registry without help – hang on! It is entirely feasible for you to correct a “userinit exe has encountered a problem and needs to close”; even if your technical skills are minimal, there are simple and effective utilities called registry fixers which quickly search for registry errors and then automatically fix them for you. The majority of these professional utilities will offer you the chance to search and repair your registry at no charge, so there’s no reason not to download such a tool and discover how easy it is to fix these problems; there are good chances that in just a minute or two from now you’ll rid your computer of those frustrating errors once and for all.

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Anger is a perfectly normal emotion. We feel angry when we have been hurt physically or emotionally, have been wronged by someone or when we feel really frustrated. Anger is a normal human expression in response to an event or person.

We all have been angry at some time or another. Like of our other emotions: love, sadness, happiness, desire, pride and fear; we can experience anger at different levels of intensity, depending on the experience that triggered the emotion.

As children our emotions can overwhelm us because we have not figured out what to do with them or how to manage them. As we age from childhood to adulthood, we are expected to learn how to manage our emotions, including anger. Managing our anger is essential when living in societal groups because allowing anger to become out of control can infringe on the rights of others.

Uncontrolled anger can cause harm to others or to property. The harm we cause others can cost us not only in monetary terms but also in emotional terms or even in loss of our freedoms. It is wise for all of us to learn how to manage our emotions, especially anger.

Statistics:

According to the Sunday Times of London, anger is widespread amongst Americans:

45% of Americans lose their temper in the workplace on a regular basis

80% of American drivers have been involved in an act of road rage (witness or actual participant)

1 in 5 adults has an anger management problem

According to the 2002 WHO report, in the age group 15 to 44, violence triggered by anger causes about 14% of all deaths among males and 7% of deaths among women.

These alarming statistics can be attributed to individuals who cannot effectively manage their anger. This uncontrolled anger causes people to lash out and perpetrate acts of violence that cause pain and destruction to others and to themselves. This lack of control results in the statistics we see above: road rage, violence in the workplace and even murder.

The emotion of anger is not an entirely bad thing. Sometimes we can reap benefits from encounters with this emotion. An example would be when you find out that someone has been taking advantage of you. The anger that rises in you can spur you on to take healthy actions that protect you from future abuse by this person.

Anger is an emotional-physiological-cognitive internal state; it is separate from the behavior it might prompt. In some instances, angry emotions are beneficial; if we are being taken advantage of, anger motivates us to take action (not necessarily aggressive) to correct the situation. Aggression results from righteous anger, and is a healthy defense mechanism.

Anger is not behavior; it is an emotion that we feel in response to a stimulus (event or person). Anger may prompt someone to take action to correct a situation and that action can be constructive or destructive.

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