I’m an outbound sales specialist with 15+ years of B2B experience. If you need a partner who can pick up the phone, navigate the gatekeeper, build instant rapport with the right decision-maker, and book high-value meetings—that is exactly what I do.
My background is rooted in institutional Financial Services, where I worked with major brands like Old Mutual, Absa Bank, Praxis Financial Services, and Sanlam. Over my career, I’ve built pipelines from scratch, managed high-volume daily call targets, handled complex objections, and consistently closed business. Selling high-consideration products to corporate clients and high-net-worth individuals has trained me to speak the language of executives and business owners with ease.
Here is what I bring to your team:
Strategic Cold Calling: High-volume outbound calling and precise warm follow-ups.
Appointment Setting: Turning cold conversations into qualified, booked meetings on your calendar.
Gatekeeper Navigation: I don't just dodge gatekeepers; I enroll them to get straight to the decision-maker.
Compliance & Precision: Coming from the highly regulated financial sector, I am deeply comfortable with call recording, legal disclosures, script compliance, and strict CRM data integrity.
Seamless US Alignment: US-educated with native English fluency. I understand American corporate culture and communication nuances implicitly.
Logistics & Availability:
I am based in Cape Town, South Africa, but I operate exclusively on US Eastern Standard Time (EST) business hours. There are zero timezone friction points and zero communication barriers. I work your hours, period.
I am disciplined, highly coachable, and I treat every single prospect like they matter—because to your bottom line, they do.
Let’s hop on a brief consultation call to discuss your pipeline goals and how we can hit them.
Lead Generation
Sales Lead Lists
Outbound Call
Cold Calling
Appointment Setting
B2B Marketing
Sales Development
PipelineDeals
Customer Relationship Management
Account Management
Sales Management
Keith D.
Cape Town, South Africa
$17/hr
4.2
35 jobs
⭐ 1600 + HOURS WORKED ⭐ 100% Job Success Score⭐ I ONLY work on projects where I believe I can deliver results.
With 8+ years of experience in sales, recruitment, and appointment setting across U.S., U.K., EU and Canadian markets, I help companies connect with decision-makers, generate qualified leads, and build strong hiring pipelines.
I’ve successfully supported brands like Impact.com (US), Lemon.io (EU), Robertson Bell (UK), A24 Group (UK), LNN (Canada), and Immploy Medical Agency (SA), delivering consistent results through a mix of strategic outreach, relationship-building, and precise follow-ups.
Here’s what I bring to your team:
✅ Appointment Setting & Lead Generation: Skilled at cold calling, CRM management, and booking qualified meetings with key decision-makers.
✅ Recruitment Expertise: Experienced in both tech recruitment (developers, AI, SaaS) and medical recruitment (NHS & private healthcare).
✅ B2B Sales Process:conversations From outreach to pipeline management — I convert conversations into real opportunities.
✅ Global Market Experience: Deep understanding of U.S., U.K., EU and Canadian markets — confident speaking with executives, hiring managers, and founders.
✅ Tools: HubSpot, Outreach.io, Trellus, ZoomInfo, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, and Google Workspace.
Whether you need someone to fill your sales calendar with qualified calls or support your recruitment team with top talent sourcing, I bring reliability, communication excellence, and results-driven focus to every project.
Let’s connect and discuss how I can help you book more meetings, close more deals, or recruit the right people.
Lead Generation
B2B Marketing
Cold Calling
Business Development
Customer Relationship Management
Staff Recruitment & Management
Account Management
Outbound Sales
IT Recruiting
Appointment Setting
Candidate Sourcing
Recruiting
Katleho M.
Cape Town, South Africa
$19/hr
4.5
14 jobs
Hey, my name is Kat. I help businesses continuously grow their revenue and this is what that looks like.
Most businesses aren't struggling because they're not working hard enough. They're struggling because they're talking to the wrong people and don't have a system that fixes that.
I help businesses find the right leads, qualify them properly, and build a process that keeps the pipeline full without it all depending on you.
Here's what I usually find when a client comes to me. They're doing a ton of outreach but hitting gatekeepers. Or they're booking calls but people aren't showing up. Or they're getting leads but none of them are actually ready to buy. Nine times out of ten the issue isn't the volume. It's that the qualification step is broken or missing entirely.
What I do is go in, figure out exactly where it's breaking down, and build the system around it. That means finding where your best leads actually are, how to reach them, and how to qualify them so that by the time someone gets on a call with you, they already want to be there.
Some results from doing this:
Scaled a private equity firm's appointment funnel by 34% in 6 months
Contributed to $1.5M+ in closed SaaS revenue through outbound systems
Built lead generation and qualification processes for clients across 3 continents
I work best with founders and operators who have already figured out how to monetize. They've got something that works but they're not getting nearly as much out of it as they should be. The system isn't built yet. The growth isn't sticking. And they know it.
If that sounds familiar, then I look forward to seeing what kind of systems you've got setup.
Sales Development
Appointment Setting
Partnership & Collaborations Outreach
Customer Relationship Management
B2B Lead Generation
Telesales
Gavin W.
Cape Town, South Africa
$45/hr
4.9
84 jobs
👋 My name is Gavin Wiener, and over the last 8 years, I’ve helped 100+ B2B & B2C businesses generate more leads, book more sales calls, and scale revenue faster, by building high-converting sales funnels, automating workflows, and managing their paid Facebook and Instagram ads.
I’ve worked with happy clients worldwide, combining my background in Business Science & Computer Science with proven marketing frameworks to deliver systems that don’t just work, they scale.
Many of my clients have gone to multiple seven-figure months by automating their lead generation, lead nurturing, and reporting 💰
I began my career as a software developer at South Africa’s most popular online fashion business Superbalist. I worked closely with the marketing, web development, and HR teams to build internal tools that helped streamline the business.
That experience gave me a strong technical foundation, which I’ve carried into automation and funnel building.
Since 2016, I’ve been running Gavin Wiener Consulting & Automation, where I specialize in building automated sales funnels that convert more leads, automating manual sales processes, and helping clients with their Meta paid ads campaigns, so that they make more money, and save hundred of hours each month.
Some of the results I've generated for clients on Meta:
For a dentist in Atlanta, I ran a landing page campaign with a special offer and generated 29 leads in 28 days at a $23 cost per lead.
A Florida real estate agent needed more buyer leads fast. We ran an instant form campaign and pulled in 17 leads in just 14 days at $5.97 per lead.
Another Florida real estate agent came to me looking for consistent lead flow. Over 4 months, a DM campaign brought in 488 leads at $4.96 per lead.
During a 20-day launch for an online therapist in California, we drove traffic to a landing page and closed out the campaign with 17 leads at $30.39 per lead.
🧩 I work with no-code and automation tools such as:
- N8N
- Zapier
- HubSpot
- Make (Integromat)
- Mailchimp
- ActiveCampaign
- Brevo (SendinBlue)
- Klaviyo
…and more.
With my background in software engineering, I was able to master these tools quickly and apply them to real business growth 👨💻
Here is one of my recent success stories:
1️⃣ Chris runs a freelancing YouTube channel with 13,000+ subscribers. He needed help turning those viewers into paying customers.
First, we built him an opt-in page with a free resource. Viewers had to enter their name and email to get it. This got people on his email list.
Next, we created a sales page for his 14-day freelancing course.
Then we set up email automations that sold the course to his list. We also built automations that onboarded new students automatically.
The result? Chris now has a system that turns subscribers into customers without him lifting a finger.
In addition, over the last 7 years I’ve worked with a wide range of funnels…
🎯 Funnels I Design & Build
- VSL Funnels
- Opt-In Funnels
- Webinar Funnels
- Application Funnels
- Membership Funnels
- Lead Magnet Funnels
- “Book a Call” Funnels
- Low-Ticket Offer Funnels
- Automatic Client (AC) Funnels
🧱Funnel Builders I Work With
- GoHighLevel (HighLevel)
- ClickFunnels
- Kartra
- Carrd
- WordPress + Elementor
Client Testimonials
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
“Gavin made a significant impact… helped us automate, saving money on software costs and lowering expenses… also improved our sales processes so we can generate more revenue.”
— Liam K, Coaching Business
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
“Within days Gavin had all my systems running — Facebook ads, chatbot, and email sequence — after I’d been stuck for weeks.”
— Billy W, Fitness Coach
🤝 My Promise to You
If you’re not happy, I’m not happy.
I’ll work with you until you’re satisfied, at no additional charge.
If you’re ready to save time and grow your business with automation, let’s connect.
Next steps:
1. Save my profile to follow my work
2. Click the green “Message” button and we'll map out how to optimize your funnels and workflows for maximum ROI.
-Gavin Wiener
CRM Automation
Zapier
HubSpot
ClickFunnels
ActiveCampaign
Email Automation
Marketing Automation Strategy
Web Development
Make.com
Google Apps Script
Google Sheets
Automation
Sales Funnel
ConvertKit
Landing Page Optimization
Stefan V.
Cape Town, South Africa
$49/hr
5.0
2 jobs
I help established service businesses, e-commerce brands and education companies turn paid traffic into a complete client-acquisition system.
That means looking beyond individual campaigns. I connect the offer, creative strategy, Meta and Google Ads, landing pages, conversion tracking and follow-up systems so the entire journey produces more qualified leads and customers.
I can take ownership of:
• Meta and Google Ads strategy and management
• Creative testing and campaign messaging
• Offer positioning and funnel strategy
• Landing pages and conversion-rate improvements
• Pixel, CAPI, GA4 and Google Tag Manager tracking
• GoHighLevel lead nurturing and follow-up systems
• Reporting around revenue, qualified leads, CPA and ROAS
I’m best suited to established businesses with a proven offer, a realistic advertising budget and the need for ongoing strategic support.
If you only need someone to follow a list of media-buying tasks, I’m probably not the right fit. If you want someone to identify what is restricting acquisition and take ownership of improving it, let’s have a brief call or I can record a Loom with my initial observations.
Lead Generation
Social Media Lead Generation
Media Buying
HighLevel
Facebook Ads Manager
TikTok Ad
Content Creation
Facebook Advertising
Paid Media
Marketing Strategy
Google Ads
Advertising Strategy
Sales Funnel
Lead Generation Analysis
PPC Campaign Setup & Management
Ecommerce Marketing
Mandy H.
Cape Town, South Africa
$30/hr
4.8
78 jobs
Booking meetings and sourcing top talent through structured outreach and relationship-driven conversations.
With 10+ years supporting a London-based Private Equity search firm, I’ve built strong experience in both recruitment sourcing and high-quality outreach, working directly with senior candidates and decision-makers.
What I can help with:
Sales / Appointment Setting
• Cold calling and warm outreach
• Booking qualified meetings with decision-makers
• Lead generation and list building
• Follow-ups and pipeline management
Recruitment Support
• LinkedIn Recruiter sourcing (senior / niche roles)
• Candidate outreach and engagement
• Screening coordination and shortlist support
• Pipeline tracking and CRM updates
Results & Experience:
• 10+ years supporting Private Equity, Hedge Fund, and Credit hiring
• Successfully placed candidates into high-level finance roles
• Built long-term relationships with senior professionals
• Consistently generated leads and booked meetings across multiple industries
Industries:
Private Equity | Hedge Funds | Real Estate | SEO | Home Improvement | Wellness & Beauty
Tools:
LinkedIn Recruiter | CRM systems | RMS Tracker
I focus on quality conversations and consistency, whether engaging candidates or booking meetings.
I’m confident speaking with senior stakeholders and building trust quickly through clear, professional communication.
Strong fit if you need:
• A reliable cold caller who can book meetings consistently
• Help sourcing candidates for finance or business roles
• Someone experienced working with high-level professionals
• Support managing outreach and pipelines
Lead Generation
Telemarketing
Sales
Cold Calling
Appointment Setting
Recruiting
Candidate Sourcing
LinkedIn
CRM Software
Sales Development
Cold Email
Real Estate Cold Calling
Appointment Scheduling
Staff Recruitment & Management
LinkedIn Sales Navigator
HubSpot
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