The Oechsli Institute’s 2014 Financial Advisor Social Media research found that LinkedIn is a powerful marketing tool when a personal introduction isn’t possible. The following is an excerpt from The ...

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Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Do you like receiving cold calls? Of course you don’t — nobody does. The phone is still a valuable tool, but traditional cold calling ...

Cold calling is a sales strategy that involves phoning a potential customer unsolicited in the hopes of getting them to buy your goods or services. Granted, cold calling isn’t always the most popular ...

Cold calling is still a widespread outreach strategy for many businesses today. But the process has become much harder over the past few decades. People now are less receptive and more resistant to ...

You know the rep. Cold calling is intimidating and hard. Unless it isn’t. How can you and I reshape how we feel about cold calling and use it as an expandable tool to grow our sales?The real ...