Qobra · B2B · sales commission software
Cold call prospects yourself to win the first customers
Main early channel per founder; no numbers
Unknownoutbound-sales
What they did
For the early customer base the founder mostly did outbound phone calls alone, plus a little personal network. No scripts, volumes or lists described in the body.
- Stage
- Early (Early customers)
“I was mostly doing, uh, you know, outbound calls, so it was just me on my phone, and then a little bit of network as well.”
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