Junior Sales Specialist - Cold calling
Hi all,
I just started my first job, I'm a Junior Sales Specialist in freight forwarding company.
I work from 8 am to 4 pm, so I do have 8 hours every single day. My job is to looking for new customers which would be interested to contract out their loads, so we can organize a truck for them. Company ears by adding margin, for example manufacturer gives us 33 pallets of frozen meat to ship and pays 1000 £, we organize a truck and pay a transport company 950 £, so 50 £ stay in our pocket. I'm kind of broker.
I have been trained but I feel I'm not effective enough. These are my numbers:
- I make 100 cold calls
- 45 people say they are not interested because they already have a transport company and do not see additional value to change them towards us
- 40 people say I need to send email to info@theircompany and never come back to me
- 10 people ask for tough stuff we cannot organize, like one pallet from UK to Turkey, they pay 100 £, I'm not able to organise that without my own logistics network like warehouses, own trucks etc., so they are wrong prospects
- 5 people want to speak with me, but usually our price is higher than others gave
The thing is current sales people and freight forwarders base on customers they found many years ago, they have been working with them since forever.
Nowadays the market is hard, there is a big competition, a lot of freight forwarding company are calling and making ridiculous prices.
Please help me with following questions:
1. What is the best way to find manufactures or trading companies in food industry which can have loads for companies like us?
2. We are not different than other forwarding agents, what value I can create and pull potential customers? What do they want to hear from me? What is the best coll calling script?
3. How many times should I follow them up after cold calling and sendig company presentation and how should I act?
4. What skills I can learn in order to be more effective?
I need your advises!
I just started my first job, I'm a Junior Sales Specialist in freight forwarding company.
I work from 8 am to 4 pm, so I do have 8 hours every single day. My job is to looking for new customers which would be interested to contract out their loads, so we can organize a truck for them. Company ears by adding margin, for example manufacturer gives us 33 pallets of frozen meat to ship and pays 1000 £, we organize a truck and pay a transport company 950 £, so 50 £ stay in our pocket. I'm kind of broker.
I have been trained but I feel I'm not effective enough. These are my numbers:
- I make 100 cold calls
- 45 people say they are not interested because they already have a transport company and do not see additional value to change them towards us
- 40 people say I need to send email to info@theircompany and never come back to me
- 10 people ask for tough stuff we cannot organize, like one pallet from UK to Turkey, they pay 100 £, I'm not able to organise that without my own logistics network like warehouses, own trucks etc., so they are wrong prospects
- 5 people want to speak with me, but usually our price is higher than others gave
The thing is current sales people and freight forwarders base on customers they found many years ago, they have been working with them since forever.
Nowadays the market is hard, there is a big competition, a lot of freight forwarding company are calling and making ridiculous prices.
Please help me with following questions:
1. What is the best way to find manufactures or trading companies in food industry which can have loads for companies like us?
2. We are not different than other forwarding agents, what value I can create and pull potential customers? What do they want to hear from me? What is the best coll calling script?
3. How many times should I follow them up after cold calling and sendig company presentation and how should I act?
4. What skills I can learn in order to be more effective?
I need your advises!
