What companies are still relying on cold calling?  Are any new startups that use cold calling as their sales and marketing strategy?

Almost all B2B startups are using cold calling. In fact, it's more challenging to come up with a list of B2B startups that don't use cold calling to grow their business than it is to come up with a do-cold-call list. We've all been victims of pesky sales calls, that's why it's easy to dismiss cold calling. But well-executed cold calling is still one of the most effective ways to find new customers. Now that startups have so many different channels to acquire customers many founders confidently proclaim: cold calling is dead! They claim they use more scalable ways to grow like: SEO/SEM Retargeting. Inbound marketing. Word of mouth. Referrals. Viral Strategies Growth hacking Etc. All that shit is awesome. We're using it to get more customers for our http://close.io/ as well. But if you don't pick up the phone and talk to prospects, you're leaving money on the table. Simple as that. Cold calling can be a catalyst for growth. Especially in B2B. Now don't get me wrong, inbound is great. But if you rely on inbound alone to let the leads come in, your competitors can overtake you by executing a solid outbound campaign.

At http://bit.ly/1QYqPeywe have incorporated cold calling into our lead strategy. Here is our guide to improve your cold calling results which may be of use http://bit.ly/1USjtAkCold calling is an early stage technique in the sales process and phone prospecting is still, despite connotations of being out-dated, an imperative part of many businesses sales approach.And that is because there are not enough warm leads to survive off alone. Alongside that,cold calling is still the fastest, most direct and low-cost method to influence a sale. It is also a way to generate leads from absolute scratch in the most simplified form and provides an open platform to access a completely new potential clientele and target pool.Though it may not work every time, there is nothing to say that the next conversation you provoke will not lead to a sale. And that could escalate within a matter of moments if you are lucky enough to pick up the phone to the optimal target.Full disclosure: I work as a content writer for lead generation software company http://bit.ly/1QYqPey. My affiliation does not affect the quality or integrity of my answers.

Great strategy by Hubspot to gather leads who still use cold calling and convince them to try Hubspot :) Anyways, I still believe for some companies (based on their audience demographics), cold calling and offline networking works best (Inbound marketing/content marketing works terrible in most parts of India where users are not yet as web savvy as in the western countries).

All real estate professionals use cold calling techniques each and every day.  It is necessary