{"id":3544,"date":"2025-04-01T02:15:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T02:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sagaeuropa.com\/?p=3544"},"modified":"2025-11-09T15:58:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T15:58:13","slug":"i-created-an-online-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sagaeuropa.com\/?p=3544","title":{"rendered":"Creating an e-learning storyboard"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"width: 1020px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-3544-1\" width=\"1020\" height=\"400\" preload=\"auto\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/sagaeuropa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Storyboard-intro-video-3.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/sagaeuropa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Storyboard-intro-video-3.mp4\">https:\/\/sagaeuropa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Storyboard-intro-video-3.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>Recently, I created a storyboard for a tutorial about helping salespeople with cold calling. I created \u2018<strong><em>Cold Call Mastery in 5 Easy Steps!<\/em><\/strong>\u2019 based on many of my own experiences as a successful cold caller. Creating a digital learning resource is a requirement for one of my courses: EL6072 &#8211; Interactive Courseware Workshop.<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p>Why did I choose to create a course about cold calling?<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p>I chose the topic after reading data from Baylor University&#8217;s Keller Center for Research that showed newly-trained salespeople often struggle to convert cold calls into product sales. Selling things to strangers over the phone isn\u2019t easy. Many salespeople suffer depression after numerous phone rejections. A few gradually avoid making cold calls altogether. A third, leave before their second year of employment, without meeting their sales targets. In 2022, the US sales employee turnover rate was 35% compared to 13% for other professions (Source: HubSpot). Such low retention impacts company recruiting and increases training costs<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p>Seeing the need for an e-Learning tutorial to fill sales employee knowledge gaps, I created an online tutorial targeted at newly employed sales agents. It focuses on building confidence and overcoming objections &#8211; key components of successful cold calling. Artificial intelligence (AI) was used to generate images in the storyboard. At the bottom of this page is a screen shot of part of my tutorial&#8217;s storyboard.<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p>The tutorial&#8217;s call scripts are tried and tested, and should help salespeople open interactions with potential clients effectively. They helped me. In 2012, while working in financial sales for Bank of America, I cold called a businessman in Denver using a call script. Three follow-up meetings later, he transferred US$250000 to me to manage.<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p>A good call script can make an amazing difference.<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p>Designing a story board isn&#8217;t as easy as it seems. But it was fun. My finished storyboard can be seen <a href=\"https:\/\/sagaeuropa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Storyboard-FINAL.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n<p>Storyboard completed, I used the popular app <em>Powtoon<\/em> to develop it. Below is my first experimental attempt at developing the storyboard on <em>Powtoon. <\/em>I plan to lengthen the video and add text and voice-over-text.<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p>The next few days will be interesting. Wish me luck!\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>Obi Ikeako.<\/p>\r\n<p>April 14, 2025<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video alignwide\"><video style=\"aspect-ratio: 1920 \/ 1080;\" src=\"https:\/\/sagaeuropa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Video-Summary-Cold-Calling.-Powtoon.mp4\" controls=\"controls\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"><\/video><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Recently, I created a storyboard for a tutorial about helping salespeople with cold calling. I created \u2018Cold Call Mastery in 5 Easy Steps!\u2019 based on many of my own experiences as a successful cold caller. Creating a digital learning resource is a requirement for one of my courses: EL6072 &#8211; Interactive Courseware Workshop. 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