Winter Overhaul: 289 Qualified Leads in Six Months

Case Study · Outbound Lead Generation

A six-month fall-to-spring calling campaign generated 289 qualified leads, nearly half of them for overhaul work, as lead conversion climbed to 23.2% and list quality held at 98%.

Campaign periodOct 2025 – Mar 2026
Starting list2,813 prospects
Calling hours848.75
Total calls19,917
289Qualified leads
1,654Qualified decision makers reached
23.2%Peak lead-to-QDM rate (Feb 2026)
98.2%List quality

Overview

The Winter Overhaul campaign was a six-month outbound calling program that ran from October 2025 through March 2026. Working a curated list of 2,813 prospects, the team placed 19,917 calls over 848.75 hours, reached 1,654 qualified decision makers (QDMs), and generated 289 qualified leads, a 17.5% lead-to-QDM rate.

Early months delivered reach, and later months delivered conversion. As the most reachable prospects were contacted first, the contact rate eased, but the share of conversations that became leads kept rising, peaking at 23.2% in February.

Results by the numbers

Month-by-month results
MonthCallsQDMsLeadsLead-to-QDMContact rate
Oct 20252,7344476514.5%16.3%
Nov 20254,2164417817.7%10.5%
Dec 20253,2072053718.0%6.4%
Jan 20264,6663837218.8%8.2%
Feb 20264,0241383223.2%3.4%
Mar 2026*1,07040512.5%3.7%
Total19,9171,65428917.5%8.3%

*March 2026 was a partial month (35 hours).

Key results

Conversion rose as the list matured

The lead-to-QDM rate climbed from 14.5% in October to 23.2% in February, even as fewer calls reached a decision maker.

Overhaul demand confirmed

Overhaul work produced 138 leads (47.8% of the total), followed by Equipment (81) and Harvest Equipment (50), confirming strong seasonal demand for the campaign's core offer.

Faster, more productive calling

Calls per hour rose from 19.5 in October to 25.9 in February as the team settled into the list.

A clean, reliable list

List quality averaged 98.2%. Bad numbers, duplicates, do-not-solicit and out-of-territory records together made up just 1.3% of all calls.

Looking ahead

With 1,088 prospects (38.7% of the list) still remaining and 131 special handling contacts ready for tailored follow-up, the campaign ends with a ready-made pipeline for its next phase.

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