I would not recommend
I was on the fence about writing this, but I feel like I need to put my experience out there so others know what they're getting into.
Gabriel Baldegger reached out to me promising that their program would deliver direct, leads every month. As an M&A professional, the idea of saving hours pitching cold business owners sounded like a no-brainer. I was told to expect 6 to 8 qualified leads from owners ready to sell within 3 to 36 months.
I stuck with the program for about three months. In all that time, I received exactly one lead. And it gets worse: when I reached out to the owner ahead of our scheduled call, he explicitly told me he had zero intention of selling and just wanted a free valuation.
Honestly, the service completely fell short of what was promised. I actually got better results and more productive conversations from my own cold email outreach than I did from their paid program.
If you’re thinking about signing up, do your homework. Ask hard questions about what they actually guarantee versus what they just use as a sales pitch. Based on my experience, I can't recommend them. I was looking for a long-term strategic source where I could build a decent pipeline.
Update to QCP reply on July 13, 2026:
Hello,
At the end of the day, I shared my experience exactly as it happened from start to finish. I believe your company uses a bait-and-switch approach. The service was presented as access to a network of business coaching clients who were looking to exit their businesses, but the strategy quickly shifted to something entirely different.
Before working with your team, I was already running cold email campaigns and LinkedIn automation. Your service did not add value in those areas. In fact, I consistently generated better results spending $500–$800 per month on my own outreach than I did through your program over the entire engagement.
The positive reviews and the promises made during the sales process are what convinced me to move forward. Unfortunately, those expectations were not met, and the commitments that were made were not delivered.
If necessary, I can also provide the notes from every virtual meeting we had. Those notes were automatically generated by Phantom's AI notetaker, so they provide an objective record of our conversations without relying on memory or interpretation.
I have no reason to misrepresent my experience. I simply shared an honest account of what occurred.
Reply from QCP Marketing Ltd
Hi Wilker,
Thank you for taking the time to leave a review.
We're genuinely sorry that the campaign did not produce the outcome either of us had hoped for, and we understand your disappointment.
However, we feel it is important to provide some additional context for anyone reading this review.
Firstly, your review states that you were promised 6–8 qualified leads every month. That is simply not correct. Neither our Service Level Agreement nor our onboarding process guarantees a fixed number of meetings or leads. Like every reputable outbound marketing provider, we discuss realistic performance benchmarks based on previous campaigns, but no agency can guarantee results as they depend on numerous factors outside anyone's control. Our agreement sets out the services we provide, not guaranteed outcomes.
Secondly, our campaigns are designed around a multi-channel outbound strategy combining LinkedIn, email and outbound calling. Under the agreement, clients are required to provide LinkedIn credentials as part of the campaign setup. Unfortunately, your LinkedIn profile was already connected to a third-party automation platform when we onboarded. To protect your account and avoid the risks associated with combining automated and manual outreach, we made the decision not to use that profile. As a result, one of the campaign's core outreach channels could not be utilised.
In addition, the email account available for the campaign was already sending approximately 10,000 outbound emails per week independently of our activity. High-volume outbound sending significantly impacts deliverability, inbox placement and response rates, inevitably reducing the effectiveness of any additional email outreach.
Despite these challenges, our team continued working throughout the engagement by refining the messaging, adjusting the targeting, conducting outbound calling and making ongoing campaign improvements in an effort to generate better results.
This review was published after we sought payment of outstanding invoices under our agreement. We won't discuss the wider commercial dispute publicly, but we believe it's important readers understand there is additional context. We have always been willing to discuss concerns directly and professionally, and we remain of the view that contractual matters are best resolved through the agreed process rather than in a public forum.
We completely respect your right to share your experience, and we're genuinely sorry we were unable to achieve the outcome you were hoping for. Equally, we believe prospective clients deserve the full picture. Successful outbound campaigns are collaborative by nature, and their success depends not only on the execution of the agency, but also on the availability of the agreed campaign infrastructure, the quality of the communication channels, and close collaboration between both parties.
We sincerely wish you and Hedgestone Business Advisors every success in the future.