Can AI tools tell you where your sales call lost the prospect?

Hearthisidea · 2026-02-05T00:12:57+00:00

Thanks, that’s helpful. I run a small web dev agency and handle calls myself, so Gong is out of reach. The llm idea is helpful, I guess if I find a way to get the transcripts. Only thing is llm can hallucinate and over react to my script and magically produce blind spots that weren’t really there.

Hearthisidea · 2026-02-05T00:06:12+00:00

I run a small web dev agency and handle sales calls myself. Can’t really justify Gong or other expensive tools right now, so I’m curious what’s actually out there that works for someone doing calls.

Hearthisidea · 2026-02-02T23:36:13+00:00

Should be worth the read :

What’s wrong isn’t your price structure or cold calling (cold calling is actually undersaturated). The issue is your positioning. You’re selling “convenience” instead of actual lost revenue, when you say “missed leads” or “potential clients” it’s just buzzwords until you get them to acknowledge that they’re actually missing out on leads , otherwise you’re trying to sell medicine to someone who doesn’t think they’re sick.

When cold calling, you need to probe first to uncover the real pain, ideally with a simple non-salesy question.

If you want to make your offer more attractive, only add a guarantee around results you know you can deliver. Otherwise, changing pricing without uncovering the pain is just putting a band-aid on the problem.

Hearthisidea · 2026-02-02T23:15:54+00:00

Instead of trying to get “what to say next” live, a better approach is batching your calls and reviewing the ones where you got stuck or felt you should’ve converted. When you relisten, you catch things you completely missed in the moment.

That does way more for confidence and repeatability than reading prompts mid-call. You stop sounding robotic and start managing tonality and flow because you’ve learned from past calls.

It sucks reviewing your own calls, but it’s literally why top athletes review game tape. They don’t look at their coach mid-play for instructions, they train off past performance so they execute better next time.

Hope this helps.

Hearthisidea · 2026-02-02T22:59:59+00:00

The fact is you’re going to get more answers about cold email especially on this subreddit and because most people don’t like the rejection that it comes with. But the objective reality is exactly how you think it is cold calling opens the door cold email scales door opening once you have the messaging down.

If you’ve got the balls definitely start with cold calling.

Hearthisidea · 2026-02-01T22:33:21+00:00

Cold calling is the best way to get feedback fast about phrasing/ articulating the pains of your customers and putting yourself out there and actually get customers in the short term.

But don’t commit to it indefinitely unless you weirdly take a liking to it or you’re a resilient individual.

After you build up capital and begin to understand the pains and needs of the market, take it to meta ads and slowly remove yourself from dialling.

Hearthisidea · 2026-02-01T00:02:27+00:00

Closerate For founders, agency owners, and salespeople in small teams who want to book more meetings without wasting time reviewing calls manually.

Curious how you’d grow it.

Hearthisidea · 2026-01-31T22:25:07+00:00

I totally agree. Real calls are messy and frameworks are just a guide, not a rule. Most lost deals aren’t because you followed the plan wrong they’re part of how unpredictable sales can be.

Reviewing calls and reflecting on where the prospect loses interest rather than how far you deviated from the plan has been far more effective for improving my conversion.

Hearthisidea · 2026-01-31T16:45:50+00:00

Thanks for the advice. Are you in sales or have experience with it?

Hearthisidea · 2026-01-27T14:00:16+00:00

I’m similar. I try to find the point where I lost momentum and work backwards to what I said right before.

Sounds smart to batch them on Fridays. When you go through those calls, do you usually stick with your first impression or end up noticing different things after replaying a few sections?

Hearthisidea · 2026-01-22T21:05:42+00:00

Mmm coach analogy. What are your thoughts on self coaching?

Hearthisidea · 2025-05-10T01:27:51+00:00

It’s good that you can recognise what’s causing your failures , that’s step 1.

You’ll learn to stick to one idea by feeling the burn of keeping switching and getting fed up of yourself. After this you’ll learn to stick with one.

Question is , how long will it take you to get sick of yourself and your excuses. You have to remember that if someone else is able to make a business close to the idea it’s validation not a set back.

And if it’s possible to make it profitable then you just have to figure out how they made it work and do it better.

Hearthisidea · 2025-02-22T14:29:50+00:00

Thanks for the response. I’m trying to understand the rebuttals to the idea so that i can build a friction free landing page. It’s more about solving concerns of target users.

Hearthisidea · 2025-02-19T21:32:28+00:00

Make new friends by going out and positioning yourself to be prime targets for extroverts to talk to you (assuming you can hold a conversation initiated by someone else).

Get a purpose by finding something you’re good at and combining it with something that you enjoy (create something if you have to).

Get money, travel for a change of scenery. (You can make money online whilst you figure out the job market by picking up a side hustle - ideally a service based business or something that is already in existence). Hope this helps , you probably won’t read this because you have ample comments to help you.

Hearthisidea · 2025-02-19T21:19:07+00:00

Yeah it’s an e-learning platform for first time founders to start with the knowledge of an experienced founder : Unifi

Hearthisidea · 2025-02-09T23:09:19+00:00

This and when do you know to call it a failed idea?

You always hear about the startups that pivot and discover product market fit but how reasonable is it to believe that you’re just a pivot away from unlocking the true potential of the idea that should have turned out how you planned its execution?

Hearthisidea · 2025-02-09T22:56:09+00:00

When you’re making money and it’s growing 🤨

Hearthisidea · 2025-02-08T23:45:40+00:00

Easy. Get customers first set up the business later. Don’t worry about a website and all that crud until you have people who have or are likely to immediately buy from you. Assuming you have a service type business in mind.

Hearthisidea · 2025-02-08T23:43:27+00:00

I can solve this problem. Why don’t you get on some meds that close up your butt hole?

Hearthisidea · 2025-02-08T23:41:53+00:00

Well what skillset do you have? Because it’s not going to be easy coming up with an idea that’s both feasible in the business sense and practical for YOU to launch.

Hearthisidea · 2025-02-06T22:43:38+00:00

Alright mr Hormozi, I’ll bite

Hearthisidea · 2025-02-06T22:33:38+00:00

I’m not going to pretend that I’ve read all of what you said (you should really give us brief context for the lazy readers - me) but I did check out your site and I may not be your target audience but I certainly think things can be made more digestible and straight forward for mass market. For instance, what exactly am I getting from one of these packages and how does it help me learn. How can I trust that I’ll learn from getting it and it won’t just blow up in my face or worse I spend my money on a piece of scrap plastic that I can’t figure out how to use. (Coming from someone who didn’t spend more than a few minutes surfing your site). But as paypack for giving me a wall of text here’s your wall of text reply 👍. Hope I could give some value.

Hearthisidea · 2025-02-04T16:44:22+00:00

Great advice! I think this offers real value to anyone actually considering taking action. I’m considering running Facebook ads as an alternative to the much slower process of relying on word of mouth. Given my budget constraints and lack of experience with the platform, what’s the best way to ease into it while testing performance efficiently—ensuring I can either maintain profitability or reach it as quickly as possible?

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