I used to think more cold calls was the answer. More dials. More outreach. More hustle. Until the data told me otherwise. We had surplus funds and the instinct was to pour it into more activity — bigger lists, more reps, more volume. But when I actually looked at the numbers, the problem wasn't how many calls we were making. It was who we were calling and when. So instead of scaling the noise, we invested in better data. The result? Fewer calls. Better conversations. Higher close rates. The shift happened when I stopped asking "how do we do more?" and started asking "what does the data actually tell us?" Cold calling isn't dead. Undisciplined cold calling is. If you have surplus funds to reinvest in your sales process — don't just add volume. Audit the data first. What's one sales assumption you've had to unlearn?