Door knocking

[Lisa Peach-Hill]

Hi All,

Tomorrow I'm heading into town with a lot of leaflets introducing our new IT services company and offering a free interior clean and PC tune when they spend £35 with us. I'm going to target local business first, mostly round the shops etc - however Ive not done this before and I'm starting to get nervous trying to think of good opening lines etc. Can any of you help me out with ideas?

 

[ServWise]

"Hi, my name is <insert your name here>, I have just started a local computer services business and I am looking for new potential customers, if you have a minute could I quickly tell you about what we do?"

 

[marketingquotes]

Hi Lisa,

Just be yourself; people buy people.

Do not worry about lines - just be friendly and offer the leaflet. It will come and I am sure you will do well from it

Regards,

Marketing Quotes Support.

 

[Lisa Peach-Hill]

ok thanks guys. I appreciate it - I'm nervous as hell but I guess I'll get into the swing of it eventually. I mean whats to worst that can happen?

 

[Ralph at NWL]

Hi Lisa

The suggestion from Serv Wise is a good one. Have that opening line ready and rehearse it a bit so that you can just say it.

I also agree with the advice to be yourself. Be friendly and open and above all smile!

One final tip, have a clipboard or a notepad and pen with you. When you get people that seem interested get their details (name, e mail and phone number) so you can follow up with them

 

[sitandstay]

Hi Lisa

The suggestion from Serv Wise is a good one. Have that opening line ready and rehearse it a bit so that you can just say it.

I also agree with the advice to be yourself. Be friendly and open and above all smile!

One final tip, have a clipboard or a notepad and pen with you. When you get people that seem interested get their details (name, e mail and phone number) so you can follow up with them

I like this idea about taking a pen etc to follow up.

the main thing is to just be yourself, once you have gone into 1-2 shops you will feel much for at ease

couldn't you do a special offer for all new customers or the first x amount of customers?

Anyway, good luck and keep us all updated

 

[MikeJ]

You could ask what they do currently for IT support. How many computers they have. What they use them for. How critical they are to the business.

 

[MikeJ]

Oh, and have a thick skin. You're going to get plenty of knock-backs going door to door, but that's life. Just pick yourself up and get on to the next one.

 

[safesys]

How did you get on Lisa? Hope it went well!

Cheers

Chris

 

[sitandstay]

Hi,

How did the door knocking go?

 

[paydayadvisor]

Hi,

How did the door knocking go?

I too am interested, I hope they didnt feel you were too upfront with this method!

 

[nightmare4471]

Be calm and pleasant while interacting to the potentials...ease them with a smile if you could

 

[sitandstay]

So how did it go? I think a few of us are very interested in knowing

 

[FrankCott]

I'm interested , as I'm going to do the same next monday. So nervous!

 

[astutiumRob]

people buy people.

Maybe they got sold, hence why there's been no followup post