Qualification notes on every booking
- Reason to meet, stakeholders identified, and the agreed next step. Written before the meeting, not reconstructed after it.
Service
Appointment setting where the meeting actually qualifies
Most appointment setting disappoints for one reason: the provider and the client never agreed what a meeting is. We set the bar before we dial, we hold to it, and we show you every meeting against it.
Best fit: deals worth $5k or more a year
Quick answer
What is B2B appointment setting? B2B appointment setting is the process of identifying decision makers at target accounts, reaching out across phone, email and LinkedIn, qualifying their interest, and booking them onto a sales call. Done well, it turns cold prospects into warm meetings on your calendar.
What is B2B appointment setting?
B2B appointment setting means booking qualified sales meetings between your team and decision makers at your target accounts. Nousu's in-house Sydney team finds the right people, reaches them by phone, email and LinkedIn, qualifies them against criteria you agree, and books meetings straight into your calendar with a handover note. Starting at $7,000 a month, on a 3-month initial term then rolling monthly.
What counts as a qualified meeting?
We agree the definition with you before launch and write it down, so there's no argument later about what counts. By default, a qualified meeting is:
- With someone at an account that fits your ideal customer profile
- With a person who has the authority or strong influence to buy
- With a prospect who has confirmed a relevant problem or interest
- Scheduled for a specific time, with a calendar invite they have accepted
Show rates and meeting quality
Most properly qualified meetings should go ahead, and our best published campaign ran at a 90% show rate. We track show rate every week. If it drops, we tighten qualification and shorten the gap between booking and meeting. Quality shows up after the meeting too: 50% of phone-booked meetings become opportunities.
Source: Nousu Collective operating data, 218,000+ calls, November 2024 to April 2026.
Recent appointment setting results
- Accounting and advisory firm: 18 meetings a month with business owners and practice managers, $432K pipeline in 120 days
- Commercial maintenance contractor: 12 meetings a month with facilities and property buyers across Sydney and NSW, $324K pipeline in 3 months
- Cyber security managed services: 6 meetings a month tied to compliance triggers, $1.08M pipeline in 120 days
Appointment setting or an outsourced SDR?
Appointment setting focuses on turning conversations into booked meetings. An outsourced SDR runs the whole top of the funnel, from list building and multi-channel outreach to qualification and booking. Nousu includes both in every engagement. Appointment setter vs SDR: what's the difference?
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Australian in-house callers
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Performance guarantee from
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Typical campaign launch
The problem
Your team is busy. Your calendar is not.
Most B2B sales teams lose hours every week chasing prospects that never convert. Reps spend their day on admin and research instead of selling. Pipeline coverage drops. Quota slips.
The fix is not more headcount. It is a dedicated outbound function that books qualified meetings every week without pulling your closers off revenue work.
That is what we do. Nousu books meetings with decision makers who match your ideal customer profile. Your reps walk into calls ready to sell, not prospect.
Standards
What counts as a qualified meeting
Meetings booked is the easiest number in B2B to inflate. Here is the standard we hold ourselves to, and how you hold us to it.
A meeting counts when all four are true
- The right person. Director, VP, C-suite or founder, with authority or clear influence over the decision. Not an analyst who agreed to a call to end the conversation.
- The right company. Inside the ICP you signed off, on the criteria you signed off. Not adjacent, not close enough.
- A stated reason to meet. The prospect has articulated a problem, a trigger or an interest in their own words. Curiosity alone does not clear the bar.
- A confirmed time. Accepted in the calendar, and reconfirmed the day before.
What we do not count
Anyone who agreed to a call to get off the phone. Meetings with people who cannot influence a decision. Bookings where the reason to meet came from us rather than the prospect. Rescheduled meetings counted twice.
The numbers we report against
| Measure | Nousu |
|---|---|
| Show rate, best published campaign | 90% |
| Phone-booked meetings becoming opportunities | 50% |
| Meetings flagged by client AEs as wrong fit | 13% |
| Comparable figure for offshore-booked meetings | 39% |
That 13% is not zero, and we publish it deliberately. Any provider claiming a perfect qualification rate is either counting selectively or has not been running long enough. What matters is that you can see it weekly and that the number is trending down.
How reschedules and no-shows are handled
A reschedule is not a new meeting and is never double counted. If a prospect no-shows, we re-engage and rebook at no additional cost. If a prospect no-shows twice, we close them out and tell you why rather than keeping the number up.
Results
What this delivers
Qualified meetings booked direct on your sales calendar every week
Decision maker conversations confirmed on the phone, not just over email
Pre meeting briefing notes so your closers walk in ready to sell
Higher show rates because prospects committed verbally
A repeatable meeting booking engine you can scale
Process
How it works
What happens
Agree the bar before anyone dials
Seniority, company profile, the trigger, and what must be true for the meeting to count. Written down and signed off, so there is no argument in week six.
What happens
Book, then confirm properly
A booked meeting is not a held meeting. Every appointment is confirmed, and reconfirmed the day before. Show rate is a process, not luck.
What happens
Hand over with context
Your AE gets the reason for the meeting, who else is involved, what the prospect said, and what they expect to discuss. Nobody walks into a cold room.
What is included
Everything you need to book qualified meetings
- Target account list building from your ICP
- Decision maker identification and verification
- Multi touch outreach across phone, email, and LinkedIn
- Live qualification on every call
- Meeting booking direct to your calendar
- Pre meeting briefing notes for your closers
- Weekly reporting and pipeline review
Deliverables
What you get
Show rate reporting
- Booked, held, rescheduled and no-showed, tracked weekly. Reported whether the number is good or not.
A rejection route
- If a meeting does not meet the agreed bar, you flag it and it does not count. That is the mechanism that keeps the standard honest.
Fit check
Is this for you?
Best for
- You want qualified meetings on your calendar without hiring SDRs in house
- Your closers should be selling, not prospecting
- You sell to decision makers and want phone first conversations, not email blasts
Not for
- You want raw lead lists rather than booked meetings
- Your team cannot handle the meeting volume or follow up
- Your ACV is too low for outbound economics to work
Why phone first
Why phone first beats email only outreach
Email only agencies
- Low reply rates as inboxes get more crowded
- No real conversation, no real qualification
- Decision makers ignore generic templates
- Meetings booked are often unqualified
Nousu phone first approach
- Direct conversations with decision makers
- Live qualification before the meeting is booked
- Higher show rates because prospects committed verbally
- Real market feedback informs your messaging
The phone is still the fastest way to a qualified meeting. We picked it on purpose.
Who we book meetings for
Built for B2B teams that sell to decision makers
We work with B2B companies across these industries.
What makes us different
Why choose Nousu for appointment setting
100% Australian team
Every SDR is based in Australia. Local accents, local market knowledge, local time zones. No offshore call centres. No script readers.
Phone first methodology
While other agencies hide behind email automation, we still pick up the phone. It is the highest converting outbound channel and we have built our entire model around it.
Weekly iteration
Outbound is not set and forget. We review messaging, lists, and channel mix every week so campaigns get sharper over time, not staler.
Full transparency
You get call notes, weekly reports, and direct access to your SDR team. No black box. No filtered metrics.
Process timeline
From sign-off to first calls in 2 weeks
Week 1
Onboarding, ICP workshop, list build kickoff
Week 2
Messaging finalised and scripts approved. First calls at the 2-week mark
Week 3
First qualified meetings booked
Ongoing
Weekly reporting, iteration, scale
Compare
Nousu vs the alternatives
Most teams comparing appointment setting options have three real choices. Here is how we stack up.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about our appointment setting services.
Still have questions?
Book a 30-minute callMost clients see their first qualified meetings in week 3. Our onboarding takes 2 weeks to nail your ICP, messaging, and target list. After that, calls start and meetings follow.
Lead generation produces interested prospects. Appointment setting produces booked meetings with qualified decision makers on your calendar. Appointment setting is the higher value outcome and what we focus on.
No. Every SDR on the Nousu team is based in Australia. We believe local market knowledge and accents matter when you are selling to Australian decision makers.
Every prospect is qualified live on the call against your criteria. We confirm budget, authority, need, and timing before a meeting is booked. You only get meetings that match your ideal customer profile.
We track show rates closely and follow up on no shows to reschedule. Most clients see show rates above 75 percent. If a meeting is a no show, we work to recover it.
Yes. We integrate with HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, and most major CRMs. Meetings, notes, and call notes are logged directly into your system.
B2B SaaS, FinTech, Cybersecurity, professional services, MarTech, AI, and Enterprise software. Our team has direct experience selling into decision makers in these categories.
Three month initial term, then rolling monthly. We ask for three months because that is how long it takes to properly build, test, and iterate an outbound campaign.
It depends on your market, offer and deal size, and we agree a target with you before launch. Our service, starting at $7,000 a month, averages about 8 qualified meetings a month from month two, and our published client campaigns range from 6 to 20 a month depending on market and deal size.
Yes. Meetings go straight into your team's calendar with a handover note, and each one is handed over CRM-ready.
No. We charge a flat monthly retainer, starting at $7,000 a month with no per-appointment fees, and we set meeting and pipeline targets with you before launch.
Mostly B2B SaaS, fintech, cybersecurity, AI technology and professional services, selling to mid-market and enterprise buyers in Australia, New Zealand and beyond.
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