Jelisaveta Stanojevic

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Training director

lemlist

🚀 On a mission to scale from $10M to $20M in ARR bootstrapped in 2022 by 🚀
👉 prospecting, 
👉 conducting product demos
👉 focused on building partnerships, user acquisition, community management

Growth

lempire

VICERT

- Lead generation and outreach campaign execution, using Pipedrive and Apollo. 
- Created the entire outbound process and implementation from scratch, from market development to outbound sales
- Coaching the outbound team on best practices alongside sales couches selected by the company
- Working as a liaison between Marketing and Sales

Sales Operations Coordinator

TeleSign

- Full sales cycle from initial call to deal closing as a part of a Sales Pilot project in the SDR team, focused on smaller company targets
- Create and execute go – to market strategy for the assigned region with Sales Executive 
- Actively seeking out new potential client accounts and making the first contact to generate interest 
- Lead management and email campaigns creation through Outreach, Salesforce, and Linkedin Sales Navigator

Business Development 

Network Datasys

- Managed a relationship with an existing customer base in Northern Italy
- Upsell of new SW solutions 
- Lead generation of new potential targets within the industry

Account Manager

Halldis S.p.A.

- Managing client bookings through distribution channels and the company’s website
- Handling requests via phone and making offers to clients
- Assistance during client stay regarding administrative and operational issues

Sales Specialist

SKS365 Malta Ltd

- Resolving client issues and troubleshooting via phone, email, and chat
- Acting as a liaison between clients and various departments inside the company

Customer Care Specialist

Tech lover  💻  and a part-time sommelier 🍷 

A huge advocate of networking and building genuine online relationships! A firm believer that knowledge shouldn't be kept to oneself but shared at all times. 

Over a glass of 🍷 of course. Because who doesn't like wine?

Find me @:

📧 jeli@biginterview.com
📧 LN message

Business Development Manager

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.

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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