Hey, everyone! So, I just landed a new job that requires me to make over 200 cold calls a day for B2B sales. Some say it’s doable, others think I’m in for a rough ride. I start on Monday with a base salary of 60k, which is a nice change from the unpredictable commission pay I was dealing with before. It seems like a more laid-back environment, but I’m still a little nervous about the workload. Just wanted to share my thoughts with you all.
Here are some possible solutions that I’ve come up with for handling the high volume of cold calls:
– Prioritize your leads and focus on the most promising prospects first 🎯
– Take breaks in between calls to recharge and stay fresh 💆♂️
– Use a CRM tool to keep track of your calls and interactions with each lead 📊
– Practice your pitch and objection handling skills to increase your success rate 🗣️
Wish me luck on my new endeavor, and I’d love to hear any tips or advice you all have for making those 200+ calls a day more manageable! Let’s crush it together! 💪 #SalesSuccess #CareerGrowth
It’s not too hard.. I’ve done that before. And we didn’t have auto dialers back then.. if you can’t do a full day change careers Good luck 🤞 😜👍
It can be done, but I’d be looking for a new job because fuck that.
I couldn’t do it even for 60k. I have to make outbound calls that are not cold calls for my job and I want to quit after an hour.
You should be grateful to get any job at all in this market tbh
I hate receiving cold calls, so I would hate subjecting them on anyone else. Definitely not something I would be interested in but the salary is decent.
Best of luck its possible and once you get your book going im sure the pressure will come off –
Making 200 cold calls a day is relaxing? Dude, fuck that.
cold calls should be illegal. under a government for the people, they would be illegal.
That’s like 2 min Long call all 9 hours without any break.
Get some of that open-source AI software. (Just don’t use Scarlett Johansson’s voice)
How long have other people been there? Do they just use people up and drum them out after a few months? Maybe there’s one or two poor sops with a family and nothing else to do that are stuck there?
Do you have software making the calls and connecting you when a human answers? If not, F that.
Average of 30 dials an hour for 7 hours.
My advice is to do 30 on the hour then take a break.
On a 8h day you have to call someone every 2.4 minutes. What is this job? Are you an SDR? Why not pay you based on revenue or „demos booked“?
Bro what are you selling? If they’re making you do 200 cold calls a day it sounds like a trash product. They should have you spending more time prospecting better leads, unless it’s something like MCA loans which are a ripoff and you’re just trying to get lucky by finding a business dumb enough to do it.
This is one of those jobs that are easy for some, impossible for others.
I had one b2b job selling overpriced videos to nursing homes, lasted 1 day. It just wasn’t for me.
Old school boiler room back in the mid 90s. 300 dial outs mandatory per day. If you only did 200 they’d subtract 1/3 your base.
Those days sucked
So do you get the Cadillac or the steak knives
– 200 cold calls a day.
– 1000 cold calls per week.
– 40 hours a week.
– 25 cold calls per hour.
2 minutes and 24 seconds per call.
You’re in for a treat, starting tomorrow life will take a turn for you, you will learn to enjoy the good moments, words won’t hurt you. Best of luck.
What a bad way to invest in a business… are they a startup?
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That is a ridiculous and unrealistic expectation. Clearly the higher ups are incompetent nepo failsons. There is no logic in that. Its not possible to have a sale be successful in the exact same amount of time, every time. Some could take as long as 10 to 25 minutes explaining services and rates. Some days you would be lucky if you got 20 calls in and a couple of them were successful.
Fuck that
200 cold calls a day is crazy. I did 100 warm calls a day for 6 months and I got burned out.
I’d rather be flipping burgers than 200 cold calls a day. Also, on the receiving end of such calls, no sympathy for the caller either. It can be an absolute nuisance !
Tons of other jobs out there but you won’t be sitting behind a desk !
Be careful. I worked for one of these places out of college and the supervisors will just take your leads, close the sale and fire you.
Think of it as a game that changes some variables every time you reload a save. You win if you get a sale, but the game is a bit different every reload. As a game it doesn’t exist outside the work, or outside of a phone call.
That’s at least how I survived my telemarketing job without going insane.
200? I worked for a call center for all of 4 and a half months and I averaged about 20-25 calls a day and my calls were generally around 10-15 minutes or so. That sounds like hell man, good luck.
200 calls a day and you think this new job will be relaxing? wtf.
At least you get a base salary. My commission job wanted like 100 a day with no salary, and if none of those turned into an appointment they’d be like “well, why don’t you try for 200 tomorrow?” But my experience with sales with an hourly base wasn’t much better. They’d set unrealistic goals and if you missed them get extremely blamey and start documenting things. And my absolute dunce of a manager came from a background as a call center manager. If you’re working in a call center, which it sounds like you might be, look out.
Don’t want to rain on your parade, I’m just completely disenchanted with sales. All the best luck, but keep your head on a swivel.
Ive done around 150 calls a day for poltiical campaigns. You can definitely do it in eight hours but it won’t be fun.
There is a certain type of person that can thrive on rapid fire cold calling, but most won’t. You will find out very quickly which you are, I’d probably keep looking while collecting the base
I’d rather be dead.