Here at DLA Ignite, we are always wanting to push forward the boundaries of sales, so we decided to put cold calling and it's results, head to head with social selling.

So we took a team of "cold callers" cross trained them on social selling and here are the results.

It's worth shouting out the team, Alex, Jordan and Jensen and they work for a company called Supero.

If you want to hear the team talk about it then watch our digital download here.

The results with cold calling

The team did whatever they could in terms of warming up the calls with emails or webinars and got about 2 calls a week.  As with any call, your job is to take the call to a next action, which will be a demo, discovery call and they averaged 0.3 of these calls.

The results for social selling

The team is averaging 11 calls per week, the week I am writing this blog, this week, they have got 24 meetings. And the amount of calls that go to a next action is 39.56%, so nearly 40%.

No spam and no automation!

This is NOT connect and pitch!

This is exponential growth!

Just think about scaling that across your organisation?

If Alex's team are achieving an average of 10 new conversations each week and a 37% conversion to a next step... if you have a team of 50 sales people that's 500 conversations per week (26,000 per year) with 185 follow-up calls per week. Forever!

With a win rate of 1 in 3.

With an average deal size of $100,000.

That's an additional ...... you do the maths. 

I've shared these figures before and the feedback is interesting.

1. One person sent me a direct message (DM) saying, these figures are impressive, but cold calling is still effective.  Really? It's clear to see that if you are cold calling you are falling behind.  

Clearly cold calling isn't dead, but I would go so far to say that it's an act of self sabotage if you are still cold calling in your organization.  

2. One person asked, how do you find time to do this? Quite simple, we don't cold call, and have decided that having meetings and driving revenue is far more important than wasting time cold calling. 

Now is the time you need to use social selling for cold outreach!

If you want more information, contact me, or contact the team at Supero, Alex, Jensen and Jordan.  

I guess, you’ll never win with a cold call if your competition is winning the relationship.

Want to know more about social selling, check out my new book

"social selling techniques to influence buyers and changemakers - 2nd edition".

In this brand new edition, I have updated all the text, I have also got 15 practitioners, so people who are doing this already to explain how they are get (practical) business benefit. From the CEO that has been running a digital business for over 18 months to sales leaders who use social selling every day.  

Articles on how these business have and are implementing digital, from Mercer, Telstra Purple, Ring Central, Cyberhawk, Namos, Ericsson, Crux Consulting, DLA Ignite and more.

What does Mark Schaefer, Marketing guru think of the book "social selling - techniques to influence buyers and changemakers - 2nd edition"? watch the video here

It's available on Amazon worldwide.  Link to Amazon.com here and Amazon.co.uk here.