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[OldWelshGuy]

I have posted a page on how i cold call in response to another thread, I am not trying to be big or clever, honest i am just doing what was asked of me and what i said i would do.

If it helps one person then it will all be worthwhile

[dragonlady7]

Uh...
I'm feeling kinda dumb today and I don't see the link. Is it on your website then?

Ohh... it's in the other thread. OK, I'll go comment there.

[dragonlady7]

I couldn't resist and printed it out to read the whole thing even though I'm at work. (I've been working hard all morning, don't look at me like that!) So I went through it with my red editing pen and I have to say, I love it the way it is because I like the way you sound when you write. It's like I can hear you talk. And a lot of the immediacy of the piece, that makes it so compelling, is that it sounds like you're talking.
I fixed the run-on sentences with my pen and I'll make the changes on the actual copy tonight, but I don't want to make too many changes to it because then it won't sound like you anymore. I like your voice, man. I'll have to have you guest-write parts of my novel.
I'm putting the link to the article here:
cold calling help
because I can't see where else it's linked to in this thread.

<updated url as files moved>

Edited by OldWelshGuy, 23 December 2003 - 07:50 PM.

[websage]

Great! Thanks for sharing!

[OldWelshGuy]

Thats typical of me, arrange the party, get the invites printed, post them out nice n early, then forget to put the location of the party on them

Cheer for pointing out the link, and i am glad you like the way it is written.

[dragonlady7]

It doesn't matter as long as your contact info's on there!!

[Cygnus]

I actually used to do cold-call selling for SEM services...we had to make at least 60 calls a day. What fun!

At the very least, that first foray into sales made me appreciate the business function.

Cygnus

[projectphp]

Can I tell you my pet hate? Brackets that don't end!!! It started in my days in primary school. I was a bit of a weird kid, and I believed that if I read a bracket that didn't end, I would be stuck in brackets for ever, for the rest of my life. It would all just be sub-commentary. I even used to have extra brackets handy just in case!!! An insane belief, I know, but I was only 6, and those crazy ideas seem hard to shake!

(Always carry a small bit of paper and pen, or a pocket organiser.

[OldWelshGuy]

PRoject, you want to get a beer and watch the rugby world cup mate (he says with a smile on his face,

[OldWelshGuy]

There you go Project, you are now safe, the world is a better place, I have made the bad bracket man go away :halo: the offending sentence now has the missing bracket.

[BrianR]

My very first 'proper job', all those many years ago was...

... selling encyclopedias door to door.

Talk about a baptism by fire - I actually got thrown out of more than one house! But it certainly taught me a lot about cold calling and very quickly getting a measure of a prospect.

Just thought you'd like to know... <sheepish grin!>

BrianR

[qwerty]

PHP, maybe it wasn't an opening bracket (or parenthesis, as we call them up here). It might have been the bottom half of a frown emoticon. Think of a sad person with their eyes shut tight.
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[OldWelshGuy]

Think of a sad person with their eyes shut tight.

That was me when i typed that piece lol

[dragonlady7]

You guys are too much.
I'm working on it now.

<edit>OK, I'm working on it but I was also doing too much other stuff. By "tonight" I meant "very early tomorrow morning" with a long nap in between. </edit>

Edited by dragonlady7, 28 October 2003 - 10:38 PM.

[dragonlady7]

OK, it's done! I ended up writing it into a new webpage just to present the formatting in a way you could use directly, but I don't know how efficient that was. I'm going to have to find out what most editors use as their file-format of choice, as hand-coding a new XHTML document for it probably wasn't the most efficient way of doing it.
I emailed it to the contact info email address on your webpage, OWG.
D'oh! I forgot the spellchecker! Aw. That's what you get when you put it off so late you have to finish it the morning before. Aw. I have got to invest in a clue for myself one of these days.
So, I sent you another version through the board's email feature.