{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Operator's Canon","title":"I Blast Thousands and Nobody Bites, the Dream 100","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":558,"description":"A commercial landscaping company is buying lead lists and cold-emailing and cold-calling thousands of businesses across a fifty-mile radius — and getting near silence. The usual advice is a bigger list and more volume. Brian and Dave get into why that's a concentration problem, not a volume one: the idea, popularized by Chet Holmes in \"The Ultimate Sales Machine,\" that you win by working a finite, named list of your best-fit \"dream\" accounts — repeatedly, for months — instead of spraying the whole market. They cover why the same effort aimed at fewer, higher-value accounts (or the referral partners who serve them) beats blasting everyone, what it actually costs in ego and patience, where the four-month drought in Holmes's own campaign fits, and where the Dream 100 doesn't apply. Monday Move: pick the single account you most wish you had, spend fifteen minutes learning their business, and send one genuinely useful note — no pitch, no ask.\nWritten version and this week's Monday Move: The Operator's Library at mmsvegas.com.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/aQIfTzLICsQKCtBAGh5CfKZmI8srAf5E3AuKQIGsZ9E/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9jM2E0/MDA5N2EzMWVlYTVk/NTNiYTIwYThlY2Yy/NTQ2YS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}