Is anyone still cold calling?

[Mike Schorah]

I tried hand dialing. The first 25 people I called (took an average of 4-5 phone numbers per person) went through fine and I had pretty good results with people picking up. One even led to an appointment. I got a strange message with some of the second 25 that I did and only 2 of the 25 picked up (which meant I dialed over 100 numbers just to get through to 3 people). I have a feeling that my phone is now being marked as “SPAM”.

Is anyone else still cold calling?