Our no-show rate dropped dramatically thanks to their reminders — prospects actually show up now, and my reps stopped wasting mornings on empty slots.
Mara booked 22 qualified calls in 18 days from a dead list. We closed 4 deals at $3k each.
Professional, polite and relentless in the best way — they follow up like a closer, not a bot.
They handle US, UK and Gulf prospects seamlessly — one desk, three time zones, zero missed follow-ups.
We'd worked with two agencies before MARA and honestly expected more slide decks than meetings. Within six weeks our calendar had more qualified demos booked than the previous two quarters combined. The follow-up discipline alone changed how our own sales team works.
We sell into US, UK and APAC accounts across several time zones. MARA's setters worked every lead in the prospect's business hours and my calendar filled without the chaos. First month: twenty-two confirmed meetings.
Their calendar management is the quiet hero. No-shows basically disappeared — confirmations, reminders, reschedules, all handled before I even notice. Our partners keep remarking how smooth our scheduling feels.
Onboarding took five days and our first meetings landed in week two. Reporting is completely transparent — I see every touch, every reply, every booking. It's the accountability we could never build in-house at this price.
Full Partnership gave us three specialists for the price of half a hire. They embedded with our team, learned our pitch, and now run follow-up better than we ever did. Our sales cycle shortened by a full three weeks.
As a boutique firm, discretion matters as much as volume. MARA books meetings under our name, in our tone — clients never realise we didn't send the email ourselves. Forty-plus advisory sessions booked this year.
I run a coaching practice and used to lose whole afternoons chasing prospects. MARA's setters took over the follow-up and my calendar now shows twelve to fifteen qualified calls a month, every month. The context notes before each call are better than anything my old VA produced.
Our prospects are busy financial advisors who ignore cold emails. MARA worked the list politely and persistently — forty-one qualified appointments in one quarter, and our advisors actually show up because the confirmations and reminders are handled for them.
What sold me was the free trial — three qualified calls in three days before I paid anything. Six months in, Scale Duo keeps my consulting calendar full across US and UK clients, and the weekly pipeline reviews are the clearest reporting I've had from any agency.
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A closer look at three clients whose calendars we manage — what they came to us with, and the numbers since.
We came to MARA with a cold list of 400 leads that our two-person team had no time to work. Their setters revived the entire list, booked us solid for a quarter, and the follow-up rhythm they built is still running today.
Selling into the US, UK and the Gulf meant our outreach was landing at all hours. MARA worked each region in its own business hours — every meeting arrived in my local time, confirmed, with full context attached.
No-shows were quietly destroying our pipeline. MARA took over confirmations, reminders and reschedules end to end — our calendar now feels like it manages itself, and demos actually happen when they're booked.
That's how we built MARA. Christine owns outreach, Charles owns operations. You get 1 team, not freelancers.
