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How I used to hunt for leads by cold calling yellow pages numbers back in 2013
Now I just scroll through curated remote job boards over coffee and it still feels weird not hearing dial tones all morning, has anyone else made that switch and felt like they lost some weird skill?
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waderamirez10d ago
Wait, did you just say you miss the dial tones? I used to be one of those guys who swore cold calling was the only real way to find clients. I thought all the automated job boards and remote lists were just lazy shortcuts. But after a few months of using them, I totally changed my mind. I hated how cold calling made me feel like a telemarketer, and the curated boards actually give me better quality leads without all that wasted time and awkwardness. It still feels weird not hearing the silence between rings, but I don't miss the rejection one bit.
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ross.kim10d ago
Honestly, that weird silence between rings is the only thing I can see missing too, @waderamirez. But I think there's a deeper thing nobody talks about. Cold calling gave you this weird feeling you were "working" even when you were just wasting time. The busywork felt like real effort. Curated boards show you results faster so it can feel like you're cheating somehow. But that's just our brains being dumb about what actual work looks like. Real work is getting good leads, not filling your day with uncomfortable phone calls that go nowhere.
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finleym3710d ago
The part about feeling like you're cheating really hits home for me. I used to spend hours on cold calls just to feel like I was putting in the work even though most of them went nowhere. Now with curated boards, @waderamirez, I get a solid lead in like 10 minutes and my brain keeps whispering "this is too easy, you must be doing it wrong." It's like my work ethic is stuck in the 90s and refuses to accept that not wasting time is actually the goal.
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