Struggling to Land Commercial Landscaping Contracts in North Jersey - Need Advice

Been grinding away at residential lawn jobs for 5 years here in North Jersey, but I'm ready to scale up to commercial clients like office parks and strip malls. Quoted a $15k seasonal maintenance deal for a local strip center using my John Deere ZTrak zero-turn, but the manager ghosted me after promising a callback. Watched a video from Lawn Care Millionaire on YouTube where he breaks down cold-calling scripts, and it made sense, but executing it solo is brutal with all the rejections. Anyone else in a dense market like this land their first big commercial gig? What's your go-to pitch for beating out the big boys? FML, feels like I'm spinning my wheels.

Screw those corporate gatekeepers, they lowball everyone until you walk away and they come crawling back at double the rate.