LEAKED: Why Amazon Took Down Cold Call ALGO
Yesterday, Cold Call ALGO broke into the Top 10 on Amazon in sales books. It was surging—with no ads, no PR team, just raw momentum. Then it vanished.
Gone. Flagged. Removed from search.
No warning. No copyright claim. Just buried like radioactive material.
And if you’re wondering why a book would disappear right as it was blowing up...
It’s because the industry couldn’t afford to let this one breathe.
The Book They Don’t Want You To Read
Cold Call ALGO isn’t another templated, regurgitated, fluff-heavy sales manual with a cartoon cover and a 6-week pre-recorded cohort to upsell.
It’s a direct threat to the playbook that props up most of the modern sales training industry.
It doesn’t teach you how to be liked. It teaches you how to be lethal.
It doesn't tell you to "personalize." It tells you when, why, and how, based on neuroscience, AI, and the tension of the live call.
It doesn’t treat cold calling as a lost art. It shows you how to dominate it in the era of AI.
And it doesn’t stop at theory. It’s built from 20,000+ hours of real calls, tested live, with scripts burned and rewritten nightly.
So when Cold Call ALGO started climbing the charts, the old gods of sales enablement noticed. And panicked.
What Art Sobczak Said That Broke The Internet
Art Sobczak, the author of Smart Calling and a living legend in the cold calling world, didn’t just like the book. He detonated a full-throttle endorsement.
“Let’s face it, it’s difficult to write a sales book that is truly revolutionary.
Unless, you’re Justin Michael, who just released Cold Call ALGO.Justin is one of the deepest sales thinkers I know. I had to look up the term I was thinking of for him, and I found it. He’s truly a sales polymath.
He’s the kind of sales 'scientist' who doesn’t just talk theory—he combines deep performance art with neuroscience and technology, and relentlessly tests in real-world conversations, and refines his methods to maximize results.”
Art went on to say:
“We see eye-to-eye on a few big things:
– Don’t act desperate. Top decision-makers roll their eyes at the goofy, status-lowering gimmicks reps use today. High-level buyers want equals.
– Cold calling wasn’t dead; it was killed. Justin nails it: all-the-bells-and-whistles software and automated sequences have become more prevalent than actual human connection and skill.
– Likes don’t equal leads. Just because someone’s got a ‘best-seller’ badge or 50,000 followers doesn’t mean their advice works when it matters—in the live fire of cold calls, pipelines, and quota.
That’s why Cold Call ALGO hits differently.
This isn’t fluff. This isn’t recycled platitudes.
It’s a neural operating system for prospecting, built in the trenches and proven with real results.”
You can read the full post here: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/artsob_lets-face-it-its-difficult-to-write-a-activity-7337912252701790208-nOIp
That post went viral. And that's when the takedown came.
Why They Pulled It
Books don’t get pulled off Amazon because they’re bad.
They get pulled because they’re right.
Cold Call ALGO doesn’t recycle the same safe material from 2016:
No tip-of-the-day fluff
No vague metaphors or overused icebreakers
No AI hype theater or funnel cosplay
It names names. It dismantles the playbooks.
The Books We Called Out:
Fanatical Prospecting by Jeb Blount
The granddaddy of hustle porn. Still telling reps to “smile and dial” like it’s 2004. Jeb's playbook teaches grind for grind’s sake, celebrating activity without acknowledging diminishing returns in modern, signal-flooded markets. It's cardio disguised as strategy.
Outbound Sales, No Fluff by Ryan Reisert
The irony? It’s 80% fluff. No defined system. Just recycled LinkedIn jargon packaged as tactical wisdom. If Cold Call ALGO is a scalpel, this is a damp napkin. No frameworks, no edge, no actual path to predictable revenue—just storytelling with no spine.
Cold Calling Sucks by Armand & Nick (aka the Wrestler Bros)
Built on gimmicks, tone-deaf humor, and a self-deprecating brand voice that tries too hard. The book is more about being relatable than being right. They talk “opener psychology” without ever owning the frame. The title says it all: these are guys who hate the phone—and it shows.
Gap Prospecting by Keenan & Will Aitken
Dropping soon, but already dead on arrival. A clumsy mashup of Challenger Sale leftovers with TikTok-ified content packaging. Style over substance, all day. It’s like someone dumped a Gong report and a meme folder into ChatGPT and called it thought leadership.
We didn’t critique their styles. We exposed their absence of systems. We showed how their content dies on live calls—where it counts. We pointed to actual metrics: calls booked, meetings landed, deals closed.
We gave reps what those books never did: real control, real frameworks, real outcomes.
And they couldn’t risk letting that message spread.
Charles Needham’s Full Circle Moment
My co-author Charles Needham said it best:
“There was a time in my life that Art Sobczak's Smart Calling was THE bible.
Unlike the panoply of short-sighted schlock gracing the market, Art spoke better than anybody on what it means to wield the headset as a professional of conversation—no different than a painter and his brush or the blacksmith with his hammer.
Art didn't just offer techniques, he provided an entire perspective on the importance of open conversations between buyer and seller in a world sitting at the paradox between interconnectedness and isolation.
To have someone of Art's caliber acknowledge the work feels like coming full circle. From student to practitioner to now having the craft recognized by the master himself.
Sometimes the universe has a beautiful way of connecting the dots backward... the ripple effects of one great teacher, one great book, one person willing to elevate the profession.”
You Can Still Read It
It’s off Amazon. But it’s not gone.
We’ve made the full PDF version available for just $3 at:
https://coldcallalgo.com
No upsell. No cohort. No gated webinar.
Just the book they didn’t want you to see.
This isn’t about clicks. This is about control.
Your tone. Your timing. Your mental models. Your presence.
It’s about doing battle on the phones like a professional. Not a persona.
It’s for the reps who actually pick up the phone.
The ones who don’t need a LinkedIn post to feel valuable.
The ones who want to win.
What Comes Next
We’re not done.
I’m still waiting on the cease and desist from Jeb. Still a free country.
But let it be known:
Every time you try to bury this book, ten more reps download it.
This isn’t just a book anymore. It’s a signal.
To the sellers who want more.
To the leaders who demand better.
To the profession that deserves respect.
And to the algorithmic thought leaders: we're not scared of you.
The war has already begun.
Get the book. Get dangerous. And get on the phones.
https://coldcallalgo.com
Justin Michael
Author, Cold Call ALGO
The John Wick of B2B
Still standing. Still dialing. Still closing.
If it hit you hard, leave a review—before they take it down again.
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