<p>Here are twenty-two quick ideas on how to be better when selling over the phone.</p>
<p>1. Arrange a specific time each day to make calls. Honor that time. Keep it as an appointment with yourself.</p>
<p>2. Determine the number of calls you&#8217;re going to make and stick to that number.</p>
<p>3. Establish an objective or goal for each call before picking up the telephone.</p>
<p>4. Fine-tune your script or outline until it&#8217;s perfect for you.</p>
<p>5. Internalize the script so it sounds natural and you feel comfortable delivering it.</p>
<p>6. Develop a pleasing voice, which comes from a pleasing attitude. <span class="post-teaser-more"><br /><br />&nbsp;=>> <a href="https://www.getmotivation.com/motivationblog/2019/08/telephone-sales-skills-jim-cathcart/" title="Permanent Link: Important Telephone Sales Skills By Jim Cathcart" rel="bookmark">Click to read the full article...</a> <i></span></p>{"id":3419,"date":"2019-08-10T07:43:59","date_gmt":"2019-08-10T12:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/?p=3419"},"modified":"2019-08-10T07:43:59","modified_gmt":"2019-08-10T12:43:59","slug":"telephone-sales-skills-jim-cathcart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2019\/08\/telephone-sales-skills-jim-cathcart\/","title":{"rendered":"Important Telephone Sales Skills By Jim Cathcart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are twenty-two quick ideas on how to be better when selling over the phone.<\/p>\n<p>1. Arrange a specific time each day to make calls. Honor that time. Keep it as an appointment with yourself.<\/p>\n<p>2. Determine the number of calls you&#8217;re going to make and stick to that number.<\/p>\n<p>3. Establish an objective or goal for each call before picking up the telephone.<\/p>\n<p>4. Fine-tune your script or outline until it&#8217;s perfect for you.<\/p>\n<p>5. Internalize the script so it sounds natural and you feel comfortable delivering it.<\/p>\n<p>6. Develop a pleasing voice, which comes from a pleasing attitude. <span class=\"post-teaser-more\"><br \/><br \/>&nbsp;=>> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2019\/08\/telephone-sales-skills-jim-cathcart\/\" title=\"Permanent Link: Important Telephone Sales Skills By Jim Cathcart\" rel=\"bookmark\">Click to read the full article...<\/a> <i><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3419"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}