Voicemail can work if you create interest and they are expecting your call. But since this forum is about cold calling I suppose there is no way to generate anticipation, is there?
And even when cold-calling you can leave a "hook" in the voicemail.
I suspect that those saying that voicemail is worthless are leaving worthless voicemails?
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