telefonkramp

English translation: fear of cold calling

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Swedish term or phrase:telefonkramp
English translation:fear of cold calling
Entered by: Åsa Schoening

12:58 Sep 5, 2011
Swedish to English translations [Non-PRO]
Marketing - Idioms / Maxims / Sayings
Swedish term or phrase: telefonkramp
marknadssammanhang. En säljare t.ex. kan få "telefonkramp", jag antar att det är liknande som skrivkramp (writer's block) men heter "telefonkramp" något speciellt på engelska? Eller finns det något bra uttryck?
Yvette Holman
Sweden
Local time: 09:38
fear of cold calling
Explanation:
Compare book in Swedish, Första hjälpen vid telefonkramp av Max Söderpalm, and articles/seminars/books in English on the topic of how to overcome the challenges of cold calling, e.g.:
Sales Therapy 101: Breaking your Fear of Cold Calling
Overcoming the Fear of Cold Calling (book)

From link below:
"Almost every day, visitors to my Unlock The Game™ website click on my live instant-messenger chat button, which invites them to "Ask Ari a selling question."
And do you know what their most common question is?

Yes, you guessed it: "Is there any way I can break through or overcome my fear of cold calling?"

Most of us have at least some resistance to cold calling, and some people I talk with have such a paralyzing visceral and emotional fear of cold calling that they can't even consider doing it."

Google also has references to fear of (making) sales calls, sales call anxiety and sales call reluctance, but I would opt for fear or cold calling.
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Åsa Schoening
United States
Local time: 04:38
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Summary of answers provided
4fear of cold calling
Åsa Schoening
3repetative strain injury
lena helson
1telephone hand-cramping
George Hopkins


Discussion entries: 5





  

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telephone hand-cramping


Explanation:
A telephone cannot suffer from cramp, so it's most likely some sort of user's cramp.

George Hopkins
Local time: 09:38
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 7
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fear of cold calling


Explanation:
Compare book in Swedish, Första hjälpen vid telefonkramp av Max Söderpalm, and articles/seminars/books in English on the topic of how to overcome the challenges of cold calling, e.g.:
Sales Therapy 101: Breaking your Fear of Cold Calling
Overcoming the Fear of Cold Calling (book)

From link below:
"Almost every day, visitors to my Unlock The Game™ website click on my live instant-messenger chat button, which invites them to "Ask Ari a selling question."
And do you know what their most common question is?

Yes, you guessed it: "Is there any way I can break through or overcome my fear of cold calling?"

Most of us have at least some resistance to cold calling, and some people I talk with have such a paralyzing visceral and emotional fear of cold calling that they can't even consider doing it."

Google also has references to fear of (making) sales calls, sales call anxiety and sales call reluctance, but I would opt for fear or cold calling.



    Reference: http://marketing.about.com/od/salestraining/a/coldcallfear.h...
    Reference: http://www.seanet.com/~darrendare/SelfImprovement/ColdCallin...
Åsa Schoening
United States
Local time: 04:38
Native speaker of: Swedish
PRO pts in category: 2
Grading comment
Thanks!
Notes to answerer
Asker: Thanks, good answer as well!

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repetative strain injury


Explanation:
maybe

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Note added at 4 days (2011-09-10 11:30:38 GMT)
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probably should be repetative strain , not injury

lena helson
Local time: 08:38
Native speaker of: Native in SwedishSwedish, Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  George Hopkins: Possibly repetitive
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