Andréa Bensaid

CEO at Eskimoz | Building the Future of Digital Marketing

My friends and family will tell you that when they call me, I never hang up until I've delivered my best advices.

Perhaps this comes from my 10+ years in the strategy consulting industry, but this habit also points to the qualities that have made me a reliable partner.

I am driven to find the best possible outcome for my clients, partners and collaborators, and my ability to analyze the big picture allows me to make decisions that lead to optimal results. I am able to leverage my consulting and investment experience to develop business models, conduct due diligence, and build strategic plans that create long term value. And I strive to build productive teams and to empower others in their strengths. I enjoy helping individuals pursue their potential, and aim to inspire growth through positivity and collaboration.

My motivation lies in striving toward the next goal on the horizon, and I look forward to the next opportunity to help businesses reach their potential.

Experienced Founder. Skilled in operations management, internal process modeling, international strategy, strategic ventures, M&A. Tech enthousiast, graduate of EDHEC.

Eskimoz vient de sortir son étude Search Marketing 2026.

Et cette année, nous sommes allés encore plus loin !

On parle de 8 mois de travail et +11,2 milliards de visites analysées 😍 

Pour construire des stratégies Search efficaces, il faut de la Data.

Mais, tout le monde ne peut pas réaliser de grosses analyses…

Pour ça il faut :

→ Des équipes techniques qualifiées
→ Du temps (beaucoup)
→ Des ressources financières
→ Les bons outils
→ Une méthodologie scientifique

Bref, sortir des études de qualité, ce n’est pas si simple.

Alors, avec Eskimoz, on a décidé de se retrousser les manches.

On vient de terminer la plus GROSSE étude Search de notre histoire.

On parle de :

→ 8 industries analysées
→ 37 sous-secteurs analysés
→ +11 milliards de visites examinées à la loupe
→ +6 mois de travail
→ Data Analysts de renom sur le projet
→ L'utilisation de 3 outils in-house dédiés à cette étude
→ Des milliers d’€ d’investissement

Depuis le début de ma carrière dans le Search, j’ai eu l’occasion de voir beaucoup d’analyses.

Mais (honnêtement) celle-ci n’a rien à voir.

Et le meilleur dans tout ça, c’est que cette étude est gratuite !

Voici (une partie) de ce que vous retrouverez dans nos baromètres :

→ Croissance du SEO sur l’ensemble des 8 industries
→ % de trafic généré par le Paid
→ Part de marché par acteurs
→ Top 10 des plus belles progressions de l’année
→ Analyse détaillée des tendances
→ Etc…

Pour recevoir gratuitement notre Baromètre, c’est simple :

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Arnaud Renoux

Co-founder @Scalelist

Co-Founder

All infos are just one click away: www.thescalelab.com

The Scalelab is a Lead Acquisition Agency and Consulting firm helping companies to make the first best impressions in front of their prospects by using cold email and cold LinkedIn messages.

🚀 Interested?

Only 1/3 of sales reps still cold call to build their sales pipeline.
I understand why.

- Cold call is uncomfortable. 
- You can’t edit your words. 
- You can’t hide behind an inbox or a social media platform

It’s just you and the prospect trying to start a real conversation

When I was doing 150 dials a day, I improved faster in 3 months than in 1 year sending cold emails with any automation.

Also,

After constantly hearing the same objections, 

- You start recognizing patterns. 
- You stop taking rejection personally 
- You start testing approaches

Some works; Others don’t

You just adapt.

Cold call is a real life exercise. You try, you learn, you adapt.
Cold calling isn’t magic.

It’s exposure.

And because most reps avoid that discomfort, the few who lean into it build a real edge.

Not because they’re better.

Because they’re willing to stay uncomfortable longer.

Help B2B Sales teams find the best email addresses and mobile numbers worldwide.

Over the past 2 weeks, I have done an outbound experimentation for Scalelist. It got us 29 high qualified meetings with our ICP + 2 joined webinars / email list promo + our biggest annual deal of 2026 so far. 👇 

Here’s exactly what I did:

1- I stopped all automated outbound campaigns.

2- I went back to manual outreach.
 One by one. Emails. DMs. Calls.

3- I visited every single LinkedIn profile of every person I contacted. Just to find one real angle.

4- I checked the SEO of every company I reached out to.
Why?
 Because for larger companies with overlap in our space, it often makes more sense to start with content: joint webinars, email swaps, blog posts, backlinks.

5- I personally wrote every freaking email and DM.

That’s it. I tried doing this with AI.

Didn’t get the results I wanted.

So I went back to what I know works.

And I did more of it.

Maybe I’m just not good enough with AI.

But if you are…

DM me.

Cheers,
 
A.

3 days ago, someone sent this to our support team: “How do I cancel my free trial m*ther f*cker” (yeah… 2026 is intense already 😅 )

Chris from our team replied right away.

He said two things clearly:
- don’t speak to our team like that,
- and your account will not be charged at the end of the trial unless you upgrade.

(the prospect didn’t even take 1.5 sec to read what they were signing up for lol)

A bit later, the person apologized. He said he thought it was an AI chat.

That part almost makes it worse.

People tend to forget that they are humans behind the tools/AI we used.

If you talk trash to your LLM in your corner. That’s your problem.

But they are obviously people behind the customer support of a data company like Scalelist.

Be respectful to support teams. They exist to “support” you.

I’d rather lose customers than teach my team that disrespect is part of the job.

The first 5 sec of a cold call decide whether the chat continues or dies.
Since 2015, I’ve opened every cold call with the same line.
(And yes — it still works in March 2026.) 👇 


Script:

- Prospect: “Allo?”
- Me: “John?” (or whatever your prospect’s first name is)
- Prospect: “Yes.”
- Me: “This is Arnaud from Scalelist, how are you doing?”

That’s it. Simple. Human. Natural.

From there, the replies are almost always one of these:

- “Arnaud from where?”
- “Good, and you?”
- “What is this regarding?”
- “Scale—what?”
- “Is this a cold call?”

And so on…

The secret? Repetition. You don’t get better at handling these without hearing them again and again. (I’ll break that down in another post.)

But if you want to boost your results right now:

1- Get mobile numbers from Scalelist.
2- Call on WhatsApp. People pick up more often there.
3- Smile. (Yes, they hear it in your voice.)
4- Be confident.
5- If they hang up, keep smiling. Then dial again.

Cold calling isn’t dead.

It just requires consistency, confidence, and the right opener.

PS: Show you an example of how I use that script into the video below 👇

If you sell in APAC, you already know that cold calling is a big acquisition channel. Your mobile numbers coverage can’t suck. This is my thought after 11 years doing sales in APAC:

Prospect data is less structured more fragmented in APAC

Last week, we ran a simple test to compare Scalelist to others:

We took 100 CEOs in the Software Development industry with 51–200 employees located in every past of APAC

Our goal was to test our mobile coverage:

This is what we got:

- Scalelist — 95/100 
- SmartE — 91/100 
- Datagma — 81/100 
- Wiza — 74/100 
- Prospeo — 61/100 
- Firmable — 12/100 
- Forager — 8/100

This isn’t a “we’re the best” post.

Most providers are extremely strong in the US and Europe and in other specific countries

But APAC exposes gaps.

If this region is part of your pipeline, don’t rely on global averages.

PS: Check out Scalelist

Next time you think: “I don’t have time to cold call”
I had a 45 min after lunch today (Friday) 
Made 11 calls, booked 2 meetings.

lol,

Maybe I got a bit lucky,
But,

It just shows that there’s no rule,

I call and that’s it.

- I get great mobile numbers in APAC (but not only) using Scalelist
- I call on WhatsApp (free)
- I grow my pipeline 1 day after another.

Have a good weekend, I’m off

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