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  <title>Phone sales blog: call lists, CRM and commissions | LOT App</title>
  <subtitle>Articles for people who make sales calls and the people who run them: building call lists, choosing a CRM, GDPR in B2B calling, commission models.</subtitle>
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    <title>Sales commission: four models, four traps</title>
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    <published>2026-08-28T00:00:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-08-28T00:00:00Z</updated>
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    <summary>Revenue, margin, tiered and stage-based commission: what each one actually rewards. Plus the single thing that breaks all four at once.</summary>
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    <title>B2B calling lists and GDPR</title>
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    <published>2026-08-27T00:00:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-08-27T00:00:00Z</updated>
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    <summary>Company data from public registers, legitimate interest, the Article 14 notice, and the limits of cold calling. A guide to the mechanism, not legal advice.</summary>
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    <title>What a hand-built call list actually costs</title>
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    <published>2026-08-26T00:00:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-10-21T00:00:00Z</updated>
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    <summary>A hand-built call list never reaches an invoice, so it never reaches the budget. A costing with its assumptions in the open, and what a system changes.</summary>
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    <title>Calling CRM vs Pipedrive and HubSpot</title>
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    <published>2026-08-25T00:00:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-10-21T00:00:00Z</updated>
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    <summary>How a CRM built around calling differs from pipeline-first tools like Pipedrive and HubSpot. Not a feature table — a question of where each one starts.</summary>
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