Cold calling
Openers, gatekeepers, voicemail and the activity it takes to book a meeting.
Cold calling, in brief
Cold calling still books B2B meetings when the caller has a reason to call that is about the prospect's building, contract or timing, reaches the person who owns the decision, and keeps calling long enough to get there.
Plan on volume. On our sales floor it took 125 dials on average to set one appointment, from 78 in Commercial Fire Protection to 169 in LED Lighting (Abstrakt sales center, Performance Intelligence, 15 commercial service verticals, cumulative through October 2026).
Start here
- What Is Cold Calling? How It Works and Why It Still ConvertsArticle · Aug 2026 · 9 min
- Your Ultimate Cold Call Script to Converting Prospects into SalesArticle · Oct 2022 · 14 min
- How To Get Past a Gatekeeper During Sales CallsArticle · Sep 2026 · 6 min
- How to Reach Facility Managers and Get MeetingsGuide
- Best Time to Cold Call: Maximize Your SuccessArticle · Sep 2024 · 8 min
- Cold Email vs. Cold Call: What Solution Makes the Most Sense for My Business?Article · May 2024 · 18 min
- The Cold Calling Playbook: Strategies for Smarter SellingArticle · Sep 2024 · 11 min
- Is Cold Calling Illegal? Here are Some Cold Calling Laws to Be Aware ofArticle · Mar 2024 · 13 min
Tools for the calls
Hear a sample appointment-setting call
Dramatized calls for each industry, written from our talk tracks and voiced by AI, with every line tagged by its step.
Hear a sample call →More on cold calling
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Older articles
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Photos on this page: the Abstrakt Intelligence dialer, demo screen with sample data.
