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The teams that use dispositions as a lever treat every disposition as direction that determines what happens next. “The prospect gets routed to another rep. You call a different contact at the company. You take what you learned and adjust your pitch for that segment.” Repeat after me: dispositions are direction.
Let's clear one thing up: that is NOT dispositioning. That's a pointless data collection ritual that produces exactly nothing. In fact, 37% of CRM users report losing revenue from exactly this kind of data-quality neglect. “If, when you look at a report of last week/month's call dispositions, all you can tell is what already happened, you've got a problem.” "Connected" tells you a line picked up. "Not interested" tells you the call didn't convert. "Left voicemail" tells you nobody answered.
“If your reps actually follow your sales process, they're selecting a disposition at the end of every call they make.” Things like, "left voicemail", "not interested", "connected", "meeting booked".
If your reps actually follow your sales process, they're selecting a disposition at the end of every call they make. “Things like, "left voicemail", "not interested", "connected", "meeting booked".” Those dispositions go live on a report somewhere. You might even have a handy pie chart that tells you how often you get each of them. If you go the extra mile, you might evensegment that pie chart by industry or persona.
Things like, "left voicemail", "not interested", "connected", "meeting booked". “You might even have a handy pie chart that tells you how often you get each of them.” But if you're using call dispositions the same way most sales teams do, you're getting almost nothing out of them.
Things like, "left voicemail", "not interested", "connected", "meeting booked". “If you go the extra mile, you might evensegment that pie chart by industry or persona.” But if you're using call dispositions the same way most sales teams do, you're getting almost nothing out of them.
The Core Problem: Dispositions That Just Say What Already Happened “Most teams treat dispositioning like a sad, "annoying-but-necessary" bookkeeping exercise.” It's rare that a sales manager does anything useful with that data, though, so you have to wonder: how necessary is it, really?
First, the list. We used the referral data to identify the personas reps were consistently getting redirected to. For the next iteration, we pulled more of those titles and fewer of the ones generating not-me outcomes. “With activation at 3% against a 10% meeting rate, we were generating bookings without generating genuine engagement.” We didn't need a full rebuild for either change. We just needed to read the data and respond to it.
You get the most signal about message quality from the "activated" disposition. “You disposition a call as "activated" when the prospect expresses interest, intrigue, or buyer intent.” This prospect is activated because you didn't book meetings from their response. But each of those means something, so you have a clear follow-up path to take.
So what? None of these tell you why. And "why" is the only question that matters when a campaign is underperforming. “You can't coach a rep on objection handling if you can't isolate whether the reps are even reaching the right people.” The teams that use dispositions as a lever treat every disposition as direction that determines what happens next.
You should expect a not-now rate around 15–16%. “What you can do is track them over time, re-engage them on cadence, and distinguish them clearly from the dispositions that actually signal a structural problem with the campaign.” 4. Not Me
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