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The Acquisitions Manager Playbook
An acquisitions manager runs a small machine: lists go in, conversations come out, and somewhere in the middle a contract appears. The managers who scale aren't the best callers — they're the ones whose notes and reviews make eight callers behave like one.
What to capture on every call
Same six fields, every time — the notes template in full:
- Motivation in the seller's own words.
- Timeline — when they want to be done.
- Price — their number and where it came from.
- Condition — what it needs, in detail.
- Decision makers — who else signs and what they'll ask.
- Next step — who does what, by when.
If it's not in the notes, it didn't happen. "I remember he said around 250" is how deals get misquoted to buyers.
The weekly review routine (90 minutes)
- Three calls per caller. Best, worst, random — pulled from the recordings or the notes.
- Log the objections. Tally last week's objections across the team. The top three get a script update at Friday's standup.
- Check the follow-through. Every call ends with a next step; every next step has an owner. Anything older than 48 hours with no touch goes back into today's dial list.
- Update the dispo side too. Buyer criteria change; your buyer checklist is only useful if it's current.
The numbers a manager actually watches
| Metric | Healthy range | What a miss means |
|---|---|---|
| Dials per caller per day | 60–100 | Capacity or list problem |
| Conversation rate | 15–25% | List quality or call times |
| Conversations per offer | 8–12 | Script or qualification |
| Offers per contract | 3–5 | Pricing or trust |
| Contracts per buyer call | — | Dispo list depth |
Run the numbers weekly and they'll tell you which problem to fix — instead of firing the script at random.
DealWrap gives callers the notes and the coaching automatically, and gives you a review surface that isn't a spreadsheet: every call scored, every objection timestamped. The free plan is enough to run a week of real calls on.
Questions people ask
What separates a good acquisitions manager from an average one?
Review, not volume. The average one makes 80 calls; the good one makes 80 and knows exactly which three objections repeated last week — because the notes were written and read.
What should a team lead review weekly?
Three calls per caller: the best, the worst, and one random. Look at the notes and the objections — the scripts fix themselves when the patterns are visible.
How do call notes help when a deal is stuck?
They're a paper trail: what the seller said, when, and what was promised. Half of stuck deals are a promise nobody wrote down.