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Dials it takes to set one appointment

By vertical, from our SDRs' own calls. Fewer is easier.

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Dials per appointment by vertical
VerticalDials per appointment
Commercial Fire Protection78
Concrete/Asphalt Services86
Landscape Services88
Power Washing95
Commercial Electric96
HVAC98
Pest Control101
Painting115
Commercial Flooring122
Commercial Roofing140
Commercial Cleaning142
Solar161
IT/Cyber Security/MSP162
Physical Security164
LED Lighting169
All 15 verticals125
Abstrakt sales center, Performance Intelligence: 3,140,107 calls and 25,151 appointments set, cumulative through October 2026. Bars start at zero. Method and limits.
Research and benchmarks

What 3,140,107 sales calls say about booking B2B meetings.

Our SDRs log every dial, appointment, proposal and win. Here is what that record shows, with the method and the limits written next to every number.

The benchmarks report →
  • 125dials per appointment set, on average, across 15 commercial service verticals.
  • 78 to 169the range by vertical: Commercial Fire Protection books fastest, LED Lighting slowest.
  • 12 of 13verticals where the fastest title to book is a facilities, maintenance, engineering or property role; presidents, CEOs and owners took a median 2.4 times as many dials.

Benchmarks: Abstrakt sales center, Performance Intelligence, cumulative program history through October 2026 (no start date in the export). Appointments are appointments set, not held. Annual report figures are for calendar 2025 across all outbound client programs, so the two are not directly comparable: see how the datasets differ.

Resource finder

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Sales development strategies

Buyer guides for the decisions that cost the most.

Written for owners and sales leaders deciding how to build pipeline: what a qualified meeting is, what it costs, how to reach the people who sign, and how to judge an outsourced partner.

Outsourced sales development hub →
Guides, templates and checklists

52 free PDF guides from our sales floor

Cold calling, building an SDR team, lead generation, sales strategy and inbound. Each page says what is inside, and every PDF is free.

Every guide in the library →

The technology behind the research

Every number here comes out of Abstrakt Intelligence.

Our SDRs work in one platform: territory sizing, target lists, the dialer, follow-up and the appointment record. That is why we can publish dials per appointment by title and building size, and why every client sees the same record in their Results Portal.

  • Territories sized and lists reviewed before anyone dials
  • Every call, appointment and outcome logged against the account
  • Benchmarks refreshed from the same record
Abstrakt Intelligence prospect list for commercial roofing in Dallas-Fort Worth, showing names, titles, companies, employees and roof square footage.
Abstrakt Intelligence, demo environment. Names and companies are sample records, not clients or prospects.
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