What is the difference between lead generation and appointment setting?

Lead generation produces contacts or enquiries. Appointment setting produces a qualified person in your calendar at an agreed time. Combining them means one team is accountable for the whole path.

Can you do just one of the two?

Yes. Most engagements start with whichever stage is failing today.

Where possible, yes — logging into your existing records keeps the reporting where your team already works.

Where do the leads come from?

Targeting built from your best existing clients, then sourced against that definition. We do not buy bulk lists and call them a strategy.

How do you vet the people making the calls?

On evidence rather than CV claims: recorded calls or live role-play against your actual objections, and a written summary of how they would open, qualify and hand over. If a provider cannot show you the person who will be on the phone, you are buying a brochure.

Lead generation and appointment setting, from one accountable team

Splitting lead generation and appointment setting between two suppliers creates a gap where blame lives: the generator says the leads were fine, the setter says they were not. Running both stages in one team removes the argument, because the same people own the list and the meeting.

This is the service where we generate the leads and book the meetings for you. Already have leads and just need them closed? See commission-only closers.

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Why splitting the two stages usually costs more

When lead generation and setting sit with different suppliers, nobody owns the conversion between them. The generator is paid on volume, the setter is paid on meetings, and the number that matters — meetings from the list — belongs to neither.

Combining them means the list gets rebuilt when it isn't converting, instead of defended.

One team owns sourcing, qualifying and booking
List quality is judged by meetings, not by record count
Feedback from calls changes the targeting the same week
One report, one point of contact, one accountable party

How the two stages work together

The sequence is deliberately boring, and the discipline is in doing all of it rather than the interesting parts.

Define the target and the disqualifiers with you
Build or refine the list against that definition
Open conversations across phone, email and LinkedIn
Qualify against criteria you signed off
Book, confirm and remind to protect the show rate
Hand over in writing, then feed call learnings back into targeting

What we report on

Reporting is against outcomes rather than activity: meetings booked, meetings that showed, and what happened after them. Activity volumes are available, but they are diagnostics, not the scoreboard.

If your CRM can accept them, we log against your records so the numbers live where your team already looks.

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