Dedicated, not shared
One named person who works only for you, full-time, in your systems and on UK hours — not a shared resource split across clients.
Customer & Sales Support
Appointment Setting Services: Hire a Dedicated Appointment Setter
Get a dedicated, full-time appointment setter whose entire focus is filling your closers' calendars — reaching out to leads by phone and email, qualifying them and booking quality meetings, working from your CRM on UK hours, exclusively for you. Your salespeople should be closing, not chasing first meetings; a dedicated setter feeds them booked, qualified appointments. Save up to 67% versus a UK hire, live in as little as 4 weeks.
Appointment SetterSDRLead-to-Meeting SpecialistBooking SpecialistOutbound Coordinator
- Outreach to leads by phone, email and LinkedIn
- Qualifying against your ideal-customer criteria
- Booking meetings straight into your calendar
- Reminders and reducing no-shows
- Logging all activity in your CRM
At a glance
A dedicated appointment setter, working only for you
| Cost saving | From | Deployment | Best for | UK salary replaced |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Up to 67% | £950 / month, all-inclusive — full-time, from a managed secure facility | ~4 weeks | Booked, qualified meetings | £27k–£38k |
✓ Up to 67% · ✓ ~4 weeks · ✓ On UK hours · ✓ In your CRM · ✓ GDPR & NDA · ✓ Dedicated, not shared
✦ Skills • Responsibilities • Tools
What Can Your Offshore Appointment Setter Do — and Which Tools Do They Know?
Screened on outreach, qualification and the sales-engagement tools UK teams run. Example skills and tools by level (we match specifics to your role):
★ MOST POPULAR
Junior
1–2 yrs
Works outreach sequences and books meetings to clear criteria under coaching.
- Multi-channel outreach
- qualification to criteria
- meeting booking
- reminders
- CRM logging
Tools: CRM · sales-engagement/email tools · clear English (C1+) · LinkedIn
Mid-Level
3–5 yrs
Owns lead-to-meeting with minimal supervision — multi-channel outreach, qualification and consistent booking with low no-shows.
- Full outreach cadences
- qualification and discovery
- calendar booking
- no-show reduction
- conversion reporting
Tools: Sales-engagement platforms · CRM · LinkedIn Sales Navigator · strong English (C1/C2)
Senior
6+ yrs
Optimises the booking motion — cadences, messaging, targeting and reporting.
- Cadence/messaging design
- targeting strategy
- conversion reporting
- mentoring
- high-value outreach
Tools: Outreach/Apollo/HubSpot sequences · CRM · reporting · process design
✓ Clear English (C1/C2) · ✓ GDPR/PECR-aware · ✓ UK hours · ✓ NDA on file · ✓ Quality-of-meeting focus · ✓ Activity reporting
What They Handle
What Can a Dedicated Appointment Setter Take Off Your Plate?
The gap between a lead and a booked meeting is where most pipeline dies. A dedicated setter closes that gap, every day.
Outreach
- Multi-channel outreach
- Lead qualification
- Meeting booking
- No-show reduction
Process
- CRM logging
- Cadence management
- Calendar coordination
- Conversion reporting
Prospect Support
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- Admin:
- Inbound enquiry handling
- Reschedules
- &
- reminders
- Lead nurture follow-up
- Notes
Core activities owned by this role
- ✓ Phone/email/LinkedIn outreach · ✓ Lead qualification to your criteria · ✓ Booking meetings into closers' calendars · ✓ Reminders & no-show reduction · ✓ CRM logging · ✓ Cadence management · ✓ Conversion reporting
Our Process
How Do We Hire and Set Up Your Offshore Appointment Setter?
We find the right person for your role, vet them properly, and have them working in your business in about four weeks.
- 1. Briefing
A short call to understand the role, the tasks, the tools you use and the kind of person who'll fit your team. We get the brief right before we start looking. - 2. Sourcing
We go out and recruit specifically for your role — fresh candidates matched to your brief from our talent pool in India, not assigned from a generic bench. - 3. Screening
We run the first two interview rounds and skills tests ourselves, assessing ability, experience and business English, so only genuinely capable candidates reach you. - 4. Final interview
You take the final interview and make the decision on who joins your team. If you'd rather we place the strongest screened candidate, we can do that too. - 5. Onboarding
We set your hire up properly — your systems and logins, SOPs, NDA, time tracking and UK working hours — so they're ready to work from day one. - 6. Ongoing support
Your dedicated account manager stays involved with regular check-ins and reporting, handles additional hires as you scale, and puts things right if you're ever unhappy.
Compare Your Options
Appointment Setting, the Dedicated Way — vs the Alternatives
See how a dedicated offshore appointment setter with Aspire compares to a UK in-house hire, a UK agency, or hiring a freelancer directly — on cost, speed, and how they work with your team.
| Factor | UK In-House SDR | Aspire (dedicated offshore) | Lead-gen Agency | Freelancer |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly cost | £2,638 | From £950 | Per-meeting/retainer | Variable |
| Works only for you | Yes | Yes | No — shared | No |
| Quality over quantity | Yes | Yes | Often quantity | Varies |
| In your CRM | Yes | Yes | Often theirs | Sometimes |
| Time to deploy | 6–12 weeks | ~4 weeks | Weeks | 1–2 weeks |
| Predictable monthly fee | No | Yes | Per-meeting | No |
UK in-house cost is the fully-loaded monthly cost (salary, employer NI, pension, overhead) of a UK SDR/appointment setter at the junior band, matching our savings calculator. Agency/freelancer columns reflect typical market rates.
Calculate Your Savings
See What a Dedicated Appointment Setter Saves You
Check any UK salary band and seniority against a dedicated Aspire hire — single or a full team — and see your exact annual saving.
Why Aspire
Why UK businesses choose Aspire Offshore
Properly vetted
Multi-stage interviews, skills tests and business-English assessment. You interview and approve your hire before they start.
Live in ~4 weeks
From brief to a working team member in around four weeks — recruited to your role, onboarded into your processes.
Secure & guaranteed
ISO 27001-certified facilities, GDPR-aligned processes, and a replacement guarantee if a hire isn't the right fit.
FAQs
Frequently Asked Questions
Cost vs a UK SDR?
From £950/month (~£11,400/yr) vs ~£35k+ UK fully loaded — up to 67% less.
What does an appointment setter do?
Reaches out to leads, qualifies them and books quality meetings into your closers' calendars, then manages reminders to reduce no-shows.
Appointment setter vs telesales?
An appointment setter focuses specifically on booking qualified meetings; telesales is broader outbound including full qualification and follow-up. Setters are the lower-cost, meeting-focused option.
Per-meeting agency vs a dedicated setter?
Agencies bill per meeting and optimise for volume, often delivering low-quality bookings. A dedicated setter learns your ICP and optimises for meetings that actually convert — on a predictable fee.
Which tools?
Your CRM plus outreach tools (Apollo, Outreach, HubSpot sequences, LinkedIn Sales Navigator) — in your setup.
UK hours?
Yes — outreach and calls land during the UK working day. Standard hours are 9–6 with a one-hour lunch; if you don't run on typical hours, your hire can work whatever full-time hours you need.
Is lead data safe?
Yes — NDAs, GDPR/PECR awareness, our ISO 27001-certified offshore facility, permissions you control.
How fast to start?
3–4 weeks typically.
How do you keep meeting quality high?
We brief them tightly on your ideal customer and qualification criteria, and they report conversion so you can refine.
Not the right fit?
90-day guarantee — if you're unhappy in the first 90 days, we replace within two weeks at no extra cost.
Appointment Setter Support by Industry
Learn more: Security & GDPR · How we vet candidates · Replacement guarantee · Client examples
Why UK Businesses Trust Aspire Offshore
Fill Your Closers
' Calendars. Save up to 67%, live in ~4 weeks.