Number of Cold Calls for Brokerage

Procrastinating my research paper so am posting questions on here... Just curious, what is considered the substantial amount of cold calls expected to make daily to start actually seeing things come together. Over the summer I averaged 75-100 calls daily (was working in NYC IS brokerage) and by the end achieved only one in person meeting (owner decided to hold off due to covid uncertainty). So as a person new to the business, what is the typical amount I should try to reach per day? Some say they do 250-300 daily but not sure if that's true. Obviously as you get older a lot of leads come from referrals. What are your thoughts? 

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It depends. If you're on a middle market team, regardless of the firm you will most likely be doing cold calling. If you're working on an institutional team you will be a salaried analyst and the job is more akin to IB putting together memos, powerpoint, models etc while the senior guys are the ones sourcing all the deals. I work at a CBRE/C&W/JLL team on the institutional side for reference. Most of the guys on the middle market teams are commission based and are "brokers" from day one. 

 

Good to know. Forgot to add, I am focusing on middle market IS. I ideally want to land a role in CW/JLL/CB because of their reputation and the offered base salary as an associate which would be super helpful starting out. Have heard from anyone on the middle market side of your firm what it's like day to day as an entry level broker? Want to be prepared and have better chances getting into those great firms

 

There was an interesting thread here about two years ago where a guy from a Southern California M&M (not sure if I'm remembering correctly) office broke down their goals for cold calling. Then, as mysteriously as he had arrived, he disappeared.

I'll see if I can find it later and post, but worth looking for if you're able.

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Talk to 10-15 people a day. Get 2-3 meetings a week. Counting calls doesn’t exactly quantify quality.

 

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