{"id":8397,"date":"2009-05-13T09:18:54","date_gmt":"2009-05-13T16:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=8397"},"modified":"2009-05-13T09:18:54","modified_gmt":"2009-05-13T16:18:54","slug":"prospecting-numbers-real-and-acutal-in-case-you-wanna-skin-some-cats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/8397\/prospecting-numbers-real-and-acutal-in-case-you-wanna-skin-some-cats\/","title":{"rendered":"Prospecting Numbers, Real And Acutal (In Case You Wanna Skin Some Cats)."},"content":{"rendered":"

Skinning cats requires that I’m on the phone.\u00a0 A lot.\u00a0 I’m all 2.0, that works, but it’s a tool.<\/p>\n

Anyway, the numbers from a week of prospecting where I actually hit the phones each day.<\/p>\n

I’m targeted here, calling folks from twitter and linkedin and others.\u00a0 (People always ask how I get the numbers.\u00a0 Even when the number is prominent on the website).\u00a0 I’m pulling folks into a spreadsheet, and sorting it by called\/uncalled.\u00a0 I’m using Google Docs for much of this.\u00a0 I do it at a stand-up-desk on my old PC.\u00a0 Anyway, if I could bring myself to do it more–and I think I will–then its scalable.<\/p>\n

What I’m doing is feeding people into a database and then I’ll work them from there.\u00a0 My goals are to:\u00a0 1.) Make Direct Sales, 2.) Get people in my database.<\/p>\n

Total Time Calling: 7 hours, 30 minutes.\u00a0 (50 minute hour–25 minutes with 5 minute break, 25 minutes with 5 minute break).<\/p>\n

Total dials:\u00a0 641.\u00a0 (I use Skype to measure this, and I simple went in my call history and sorted by times).<\/p>\n

Total Contacts (where I get a live person and not a voice mail):\u00a0 168<\/p>\n

Leads Generated (people that want an email that’s not just a blowoff):\u00a0 51<\/p>\n

Blogs Sold:\u00a0 9\u00a0 (12 total sold).<\/p>\n

Sales on First Pitch:\u00a0 1 (was a linkedin Acquaintance that had intended to do a blog for a long time).<\/p>\n

Sales off of email\/video:\u00a0 5<\/p>\n

Sales on 2nd-3rd pitch: 2<\/p>\n

Per sale, my revenue is $750ish.\u00a0 My take after fees and stuff is $500ish.\u00a0 This is one of my sources of income, and it’s the most significant one at the moment.<\/p>\n

So…I attempted to call and sell 641 times.\u00a0 That’s a dial every minute and change.\u00a0 I failed all but nine times.\u00a0\u00a0 .014 batting average.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 There is always a serious suck factor when I’m making calls.\u00a0 I don’t always enjoy it.\u00a0 I do procrastinate and try to find something more interesting to do.\u00a0 It is tedious at times.\u00a0 It is hard to stay up and active for an hour and 20 minutes a day.\u00a0 Not impossible.<\/p>\n

I’m telling you all this because it works.\u00a0 Don’t let anyone tell you anything different.\u00a0 Failure Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Skinning cats requires that I’m on the phone.\u00a0 A lot.\u00a0 I’m all 2.0, that works, but it’s a tool. Anyway, the numbers from a week of prospecting where I actually hit the phones each day. I’m targeted here, calling folks from twitter and linkedin and others.\u00a0 (People always ask how I get the numbers.\u00a0 Even […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8397","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-marketing","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13519,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/13519\/i-dont-play-farmville-and-i-dont-disagree-with-brian-brady\/","url_meta":{"origin":8397,"position":0},"title":"I don’t play Farmville and I don’t disagree with Brian Brady!","author":"Al Lorenz","date":"November 5, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"But I do question whether prospecting using facebook is the most efficient way to prospect.\u00a0 I'm sure everything Brian Brady said is correct, he's just that kind of a guy!\u00a0 I'm also a one person office and time spent trolling facebook for leads isn't as quick as calling up expired\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Marketing"","block_context":{"text":"Marketing","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/marketing\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6523,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/6523\/hittin-fat-fastballs-diggin-for-gold-skinnin-cats\/","url_meta":{"origin":8397,"position":1},"title":"Hittin’ Fat Fastballs — Diggin’ For Gold — Skinnin’ Cats","author":"Jeff Brown","date":"January 17, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"I remember something a great football coach once said. 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