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Giulio Segantini filming a whiteboard breakdown of sales objections

Short-form content case study

@underdogsales

The Most Followed and Weirdest Cold Calling Trainer · Instagram Reels

Nov 2025 - Mar 2026 · his 8 biggest reels from 2 rounds · 10+ months working together

Giulio teaches cold calling and B2B sales. One of the most competitive niches on the internet. We turned his content into 2.48 million views, with one reel passing 1 million. Same lessons he always taught. Packaged like something people want to watch.

2.48M
total views
1.02M
top reel
72.7K
total engagements
2.93%
avg engagement rate

His 8 biggest reels

Views per reel · top 8 · in posting order

549K
176K
1.02M
113K
134K
205K
127K
156K
Nov 6Nov 21Nov 25Jan 12Jan 21Feb 10Feb 25Mar 11

Two breakout hits (1.02M and 549K) pulled in the new audience. The other six kept winning after them.

Same idea · different packaging

I repackaged one video. Nothing else changed.

The original was a talking head video. Solid idea, but it only got 109K views. We re-shot the same script as a clone video, Giulio arguing with himself on screen. It blew up. Same words, new package, over 1 million views.

109K
views before
1M+
views after
Before: the talking-head version of the video at 109K views
Before · Talking head
109K
After: the same idea repackaged as a clone video, past 1 million views
After · The clone
1M+

The strategy I built

A system, not one-off videos

The signature "contrast" hook

Split-screen skits that show the skill gap. $3K caller vs $15K caller. You see the gap in two seconds and you have to know how it ends.

Repeatable formats and series

Tier lists. 60-second objection breakdowns. Live cold call roleplays. Formats his audience learns to expect and comes back for.

Hook-first scripting

Every script has to win its first two seconds. "Would I completely ruin your Tuesday if I mentioned this is a sales call?" If the hook can't stop the scroll, the video doesn't get made.

Humour in a serious niche

Cold calling is dry. The videos aren't. Memes and characters pull in people from outside the B2B bubble, without losing the coaching message.

Top performers

The biggest reels, and why they worked

Each row links to the live reel on Instagram.

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