I also got a call from them. Sounds scary... I heard the basic is only around RM500 ? @@ how to survive... I think i'm not going for the interview already.. ==

Nowadays people has been complaining that they receive tons and tons of cold calls asking them to go to this workshop and that workshop, bla bla bla (especially those extreme Marcus Evans guys). Even the operator has now been trained/requested to verify the caller first before they put through any call. Even if you can bypass those secretary/operator by lying or anyhow, chances are the person that you actually spoke to wont want to listen to you and will have very negative feelings towards your company because they have already ask you NOT TO CALL! If they are to entertain each and every of them, they would be sitting in their place all day long just to answer these ppl calls! So what makes you think this type of cold calling still works? Do you think working in this area still a wise idea? I doubted it.

Feel free to comment if you think I'm wrong.

How2Success, I believe to reach to those top management would involves a lot of lying+bullshit. I don't think there is much use of developing this kind of skill set as I believe this way would eventually destroy your company reputation. But I do agree with you there's some selling skills you can learn from there. However, if you are talking selling training events here, I think nowadays there're too much of training events in the market, its very congested. Company are receiving tons of calls, e-mails and faxes, I think a lot of time chances of you getting deals would be just by luck not by skills, because I think there's ntg much u cn do to show that your events are different from others because it's not.

So the thing you can do would be just, bullshit to get to those top management, talk a little bit(you wont event come to the phase of persuasion as they receive the same hundred calls selling same types of events everyday) and hope they give you their email or whatever, send over to them, and hope that they will chose your training instead of others, not much by persuasion skills because there isin't much of space for you to persuade, unless you lie to them or your event is really something special, than that's a different story.

This post has been edited by alxcnq: May 11 2008, 12:02 PM