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Cold calling, in brief

Cold calling still books B2B meetings when the caller has a reason to call that is about the prospect's building, contract or timing, reaches the person who owns the decision, and keeps calling long enough to get there.

Plan on volume. On our sales floor it took 125 dials on average to set one appointment, from 78 in Commercial Fire Protection to 169 in LED Lighting (Abstrakt sales center, Performance Intelligence, 15 commercial service verticals, cumulative through October 2026).

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