What would be a good cold calling script?

Article ID: 143

Last updated: 20 Nov, 2019

Under no circumstance should you ever make a cold call. If you have had success cold-calling then you most certainly have the communication skills and the self-confidence to go to your existing clients, your friends, your family, and every person you meet in the course of running your life, i.e.: your dry cleaner, your dentist, your doctors, etc. and do a Financial Road Map® with them. There are specific scripts that teach you how to do this.

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