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Real Outbound Numbers, Every Month

One page per channel, refreshed every month from the systems that run Sales Boutique and Contaktly. Anonymised: no client names, no campaign names, aggregates only.

Every page says exactly how a number was counted. If a number isn't there yet, the page says when it will be. Nothing is estimated.

Sales Boutique, By The Numbers

For clients and for ourselves, since February 2024

1,676meetings booked by email, LinkedIn and phone
129meetings in our best month, May 2025
22 minmedian time to answer a prospect's reply
28%of interested replies turned into a meeting

Behind them: 2.09M cold emails and 98,719 LinkedIn connection requests. Meetings come from our gong records: the campaign sheet to December 2025, monthly gong counts for January to August 2026 (a minimum), and our reply desk since September 2026. Reply speed and conversion cover 20 Sep to 27 Oct 2026. Pulled 27 October 2026.

Cold Email Live

49,834cold emails, october 2026 so far1.9%reply rate per person contacted15%of replies positive
Source: Smartlead · updated 27 October 2026 · see the full breakdown

LinkedIn Live

98,719 connection requests across 19 client teams: 21.3% accepted, 4.3% of people approached replied.

Source: GetSales · updated 27 October 2026

Website Visitor Identification Nov 2026

Share of visits tied to a company, hot and warm rates, which pages signal intent.

Source: Contaktly · first numbers November 2026

Calling Nov 2026

Connect rate, conversations per hour, meetings per 100 dials.

Source: CloudTalk · first numbers November 2026

Why Publish This

Almost every outbound benchmark you can find is published by a vendor with a product to defend, or comes from a survey where people report what they remember. These come from the sending tools themselves, from campaigns I'm accountable for, and they go up whether the month was good or bad.

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