The joys of selling
Last week, I decided to help out Dave and Stephanie with the selling of various Debatewise side products such as our white label scheme. These products are essential to the future of debatewise, as they will help fund all the various projects we are pursuing, as well as ensuring that the continuing upkeep and maintenance of the site is kept up to date. The plan started off with me and Steph going to the city business library and getting a list of small- medium sized companies (sme's for those of you who like their jargon) that have some sort of environmental bent to them. I cant lie by saying that I was wholly confident when I started yesterday, and approached my first phone call with a real degree of trepidation, however as Alex commented yesterday, what is the worst they can do, hang up on us? I am actually weirdly starting to enjoy this whole process of 'cold calling' and treat each phone call as a challenge that I need to psyche myself up for. We are basically selling the product as a great tool for the various organisations to promote their causes and campaigns to a wider audience. We are selling it on the basis that it will enable organisations to harness contributions, find what arguments will be really persuasive for them, know which of their causes the general public harbour misconceptions over and will result in a large body of material that can be distributed to a wide audience. I am genuinely getting really excited by this prospect, and if any budding sales gurus out there have any tips or pointers please feel free to get in touch.
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