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Tips, strategies and news about phone prospecting and B2B sales.

Marketing agencies

Cold Calling for Marketing Agencies: The 2026 Playbook to Win New Clients

Cold calling for marketing agencies in 2026 — scripts, targeting, objection handling, and the stack that turns dials into signed retainers.

By Charles Baldet

Mortgage

Cold Calling for Mortgage Brokers: TCPA Compliance, Speed-to-Lead, and Scripts

The 5-minute speed-to-lead window decides 78% of mortgage closes. TCPA + state mini-TCPAs, scripts that win, and the dialer stack that keeps LOs compliant.

By Charles Baldet

Real estate

Cold Calling for Real Estate Agents: FSBO, Expired Listings, Circle Prospecting

Cold calling for real estate in 2026: scripts that win on FSBO and expired listings, the 24-hour speed window, TCPA + DNC compliance and the right dialer.

By Charles Baldet

Recruiting

Cold Calling for Recruiters: How to Reach Passive Candidates Without Annoying Them

Passive candidates make up 75% of qualified talent — Indeed recruiter guide style. The cold call structure, scripts by seniority, ATS sync, dialer stack.

By Charles Baldet

Staffing agency

Cold Calling for Staffing Agencies in 2026: The Recruiter's Playbook

Cold calling for staffing agencies in 2026: BD scripts, candidate outreach cadences, the dialer that fills 3× more jobs and TCPA compliance for recruiters.

By Charles Baldet

iPhone

Cold Calling iPhone Users: How to Get Past Silence Unknown Callers in 2026

iPhone call screening bypass for cold calling: 40-50% of US B2B decision-makers silence unknown calls. 4 workarounds and the iOS 18 Live Voicemail fix.

By Charles Baldet

Conversation intelligence

Conversation Intelligence for Sales: Why Your Reps Can't Improve Without It

Why conversation intelligence is non-negotiable for sales coaching in 2026 — how Gong, Chorus, Modjo work, and the ROI on recorded call analysis.

By Charles Baldet

SDR

How Many Cold Calls Per Day Should an SDR Make? (50-80, or 4.4 Quality Conversations)

An SDR should make 50-80 cold calls per day on a power dialer, 80-120 on parallel — but the real KPI is 4.4 quality conversations. By segment and tooling.

By Charles Baldet

SDR metrics

How Many Cold Calls to Book a Meeting? 33-50 Dials on Average (Cut to 12-15)

How many cold calls to book a meeting in 2026? Real benchmarks, the math behind the spread between average and top SDRs, and the levers to cut your number.

By Charles Baldet

Cold calling

How to Cold Call in B2B: The 6-Step Playbook That Books 11% to Meeting

Average cold calls convert 2.5%, top SDRs hit 11%+. The 6-step cold call structure (open, hook, value, ask, objection, close), 5 scripts, top 10 objections.

By Charles Baldet

Cold calling

How to Follow Up on a Cold Call: The 5-Touch Phone Cadence That Closes 80% of Wins

Follow up call script + 5-touch phone cadence: 80% of B2B sales close between touches 4-11. Scripts per touch, voicemail strategy, when to stop.

By Charles Baldet

SDR

How to Improve SDR Performance: The Diagnostic That Finds the Real Bottleneck

Pipeline dropping? The 5-stage SDR diagnostic (activity, reachability, conversion, motion, comp) finds the real bottleneck: dials, data, scripts, or time.

By Charles Baldet