I'll cold call for you.

Try me out for £1,000.

30-50 conversations with your target market.

I'll provide the list, mobile numbers, and reporting.

All I need to know is the problems you solve, who you solve them for, and why they'd be motivated to solve them.

If it goes well, we keep working together.

If not, you walk away.

Mark Bangs

“Just pick up the phone to grow your business.”

It’s ok advice, but it misses most of what actually makes outbound work.

Before a single dial happens, you need to:

- Build a quality list without Sales Nav sprinkling in Yoga Instructors and Chemistry Professors

- Find reliable data that isn't full of wrong numbers

- Set up a CRM so you can stay on top of tasks

- Choose and configure a dialler so you're not manually calling everything

- Write and refine messaging that doesn't make you sound like a call centre in Bangalore

- Track follow ups (it takes us 4.2 dial attempts on avg to get a conversation with someone)

- Work the list consistently

That’s a big ask for a founder who’s already wearing five hats.

What usually happens is this:

A few good sessions, a few missed ones, and that non-negotiable “prospecting time” ends up being quietly removed from the calendar.

At that point, most revert back to relying on referrals or inbound,  neither of which are scaleable or consistent.

The truth is, cold calling works.

But it only works when it’s done systematically, every day, at volume, by people who live and breathe it.

That’s why founders outsource it.

Not because they can’t do it but because it's a ballache.

I book qualified meetings for founders and MDs 📞

Spoke with a company recently who said they don’t cold call as they know everyone in their market. 

Yet I routinely see their MD twerking on every teenager's post to get their super secret AI prompt or n8n workflow for lead gen.

Maybe he just didn't like me.

Or he’d spoken with Céan.

That’s more likely.

🚨 Comment "BRO" to boost my reach. 🚨

If your outbound sales efforts aren’t landing, it might not be your pitch or your people.

It might be your list.

If you’re calling people who don’t feel the pain you solve, or who aren’t motivated to fix it, you’re probably wasting time and money.

Before you invest in outsourcing or hiring salespeople, make sure you know your target market inside and out.

If you don’t, that’s fine.

Just recognise that your goal shifts from selling to learning.

Use outbound to validate your assumptions.

Every “no,” “maybe,” and “tell me more” gives you clues about your market.

The wrong list makes sales impossible.

The right list allows you to learn exactly what matters to your ICP, what questions/objections they're likely to raise, and ultimately what will motivate them to spend money with you.

LinkedIn engagement ≠ quality service

Instead of paying someone to do your outbound sales because their posts get loads of likes and comments, think about:

1. What are their clients saying about them?
(If anything)

2. How many will actually vouch for them?
(We can point to several)

3. What is their overall retention rate?
(Ours is 92.3%)

The "fractional SDR" space is getting more popular as people realise they can just post selfies on LinkedIn and work for themselves.

It's important to vet these people and ask what kind of results their clients are seeing.

If you've got monkeys dialling for you, don't be surprised if it ends up being a banana skin for your business (yeah I know, terrible...)

🙈

The list is the foundation of any outbound campaign.

If the list isn't right, everything else falls apart.

You can have great messaging delivered expertly, but it's all for nought you’re not speaking to the right people.

By “the right people,” I mean those who actually have the problem you solve, and who are motivated to solve it.

This is why clarity on your ICP isn’t optional.

If you’re not clear on who you help and why, you’re probably not ready to hire an outsourced sales agency.

And hiring internally could be disastrous.

That said, outbound can still play a role in finding that clarity.

If you have a working hypothesis of who your ICP is and what your value proposition might be, cold calling is the fastest way to test it.

Every conversation is a data point.

Every objection, question, or nugget of feedback helps you refine your message and/or targeting

By having live conversations you’ll very quickly know whether to pivot or double down.

I'd never do "brand partnership" posts.

Mainly cos I never get asked.

Researching prospects before cold calling can be a waste of time.

Hypothetical A:

+ 6 hours of dialling time
+ 5 mins of research per call
+ 2 min avg. call duration
= 51 dials (assuming you don't eat, drink, or pee)

15% connect rate = 8 connects
80% connect to conversation rate = 6 conversations

Hypothetical B:

+ 6 hours of dialling time
+ 2 min avg. call duration
= 180 dials

15% connect rate = 27 connects
65% connect to conversation rate = 18 conversations

So for all you hyper-personalisation "warm call" advocates, a genuine question:

Is the quality of your 6 conversations higher enough than my 18 conversations to justify having 1/3 as many?

Could it make more sense to build a list and go after it with a relevant message?

Awakening To Love, LLC

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I saw this as an untapped area.   I saw where many individuals were medicating themselves with some drug, legal or illegal, relationships, long hours at work, years in therapy, and were doing nothing more than masking the pain.  I surmised that there were just not enough trained coaches and healers teaching people how easily, quickly, and powerfully they could identify and overcome their life conditions and live the life they truly desire.  As well, I knew there were many individuals out there, as I once was, who no matter how great things looked on the outside, didn’t feel they were worthy of the love, the healing, the success, and the life they wanted.  I could see this consistently showing up in their personal life and business quality.

I made a decision to dedicate my life to freeing the ‘me’ I saw in the face of so many.

Since that time, I have worked with 6-8 figure clients and companies, coaching, and teaching them how to have:

* Greater awareness of who they are.
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If you’d like more information on how I can work with you or your company, please connect with me here:  https://awakeningtolovescheduling.as.me/ignitesession

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One of our client partners lives in New York.  She had been following the testimonials I had been posting about the success of our programs and 1:1 coaching.  Intrigued, she booked two 1:1 sessions with me, two days apart.  We had a very productive first session and we were able to identify and create a strategy around some emotional blocks.  In between the time of our first and next session, she was able to manifest almost 100k (in just two days), and our second session was just a testimonial of everything that happened during those in-between days.

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Site Coordinator

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* Planned, developed, and led projects from inception through completion.  Implemented projects on time and under budget.
* Responsible and accountable for the coordinated management of multiple related projects directed toward strategic ministry and other organizational objectives. 
* Conducted management team training.
* Prepared comparison of expense to budget reports for senior staff.
* Prepared agreement proposals and descriptive expenditure calculations.
* Served as the Young Adult Minister for over 5,000 young adults (18-40)
* Responsible for a staff of 10 persons
* Responsible for officiating weddings and funerals
* Responsible for counseling individuals and couples

Youth Minister/Young Adult Minster/Steward

The ability to break free from our crippling programming is of immense importance.  It is unconsciously leading us into continual unhealthy relationships, failure to reach business goals, and affecting our ability to live...REALLY LIVE.

Using ancient eastern wisdom, along with other heart-centered and higher consciousness modalities, our company AWAKENING TO LOVE, provides conscious business coaching, masterclasses, courses, and a community mastermind to Entrepreneurs, Business Professionals, and everyday individuals who know they were chosen for more and are now ready to take control of their mental, emotional, and more importantly their spiritual well-being, freeing them to manifest the joy, happiness, fun, peace of mind, creativity, confidence, and success they desire

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Wesley, one of our client partners from Texas, recently undertook one of our classes. In a matter of a few sessions, she was able to overcome her emotional blocks and her feeling of unworthiness.  She now knows how to consistently shift into an empowering state of worthiness and deservedness and as a result, she has busted through the financial ceiling that was once over her life, to consistently make six figures in her business.

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