Q: What goals are realistic for prospecting to get appointments?
A: Forget phone prospecting for appointments.
Effective lead generation and list building are about qualifying prospects for future contacts.
You are calling to get information -- NOT to book an appointment!
That means finding out if your prospect qualifies being added to the front end of your sales funnel.
Picture a crowded room.
Your goal: find the folks interested --- more or less --- in what you offer.
How to do it? Ask for a show of hands.
There, that's the goal of your cold call ---
- finding the right prospects
- separating them from the crowd
- qualifying their interest level
My goodness --- now you have three goals!
Also, view each call as a means for fine tuning your prospect database.
It's a work in progress that never ends!
How QUALITY Appointments Develop
It is by working your prospect list with emails and real-time follow-up calls that your appointments will develop.
Today's business marketing by phone is about building trust...strengthening relationships...and educating your prospects on how you can help them.
Sure, it's a process.
But it pays you back with higher close rates and more repeat customers than one call telemarketing ever did.
You may have overlooked this appointment setting strategy completely.
Or have been hooked into trying it by call centers that are not suited for your particular industry niche.
But sales prospecting with the right personal touch is a practical way to get new customers and keep your existing customers from drifting away.
B2B Lead Generation Marketing Strategy in Harvard Business Review

Laughed at by many who view it as obsolete, here's a tested B2B lead generation marketing strategy you may want to try.
HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW has an article on this very subject.
Tactics That Increase Sales
Called COLD CALL TACTICS THAT INCREASE SALES it says cold calling "should be utilized by every B2B sales force".
Surprised this b2b lead generation marketing strategy is gaining favor?
You are not alone!
Most B2B marketers overlook this lead development strategy completely...or get hooked into trying it by call centers that are not suited for small business marketers.
The Personal Touch

But sales prospecting with the right personal touch is a practical way to get new customers and keep your existing customers from drifting away.
The secret to effective sales prospecting involves routine follow-up calls. These calls create trust, build your credibility and forward the sales process.
Working the phones and making these calls I establish one to one personal contact with your prospects in a very personal way...ahead of the bigger companies with larger, less personalized sales and marketing organizations.
Pilot Projects
And because I test everything for you with small trial projects you will NEVER waste your money on your b2b lead generation marketing by phone going nowhere.
What my B2B lead generation marketing by phone can do for you
- Build your new business prospect list with introductory cold calls.
- Develop the qualified sales prospects with lead nurturing follow-up calls.
- Get you Appointments by methodically working this new business sales prospecting list.
- Make your lead generation pipeline prospecting process more efficient so every lead gets followed up.
- Give you full notes & clear records of each call at all stages.
- Give you DAILY Call Outcome Reports so you can share information and adjust tactics.
- Save you money…with new business sales prospecting TRIAL PROJECTS.