Best Cold Calling Opener Lines and Techniques 2022 

I've just found the exact geezer I was looking for

Great sales insights, as always. About 13 minutes in, I think you really hit it out of the park.... You sound like a business owner. One CEO talking to another. Business owners typically don't hang up on each other. And acting like you are slightly annoyed that you are making a cold call, or talking about recruiting......perfectly matches the prospect's thinking when you call. Masterful training we're getting here.

This is super helpful , i'm currently working as a cold caller and I badly needed this kind of motivation to boost my confidence and I thank you for that. It's actually worth watching.

The comparison with acting is so right - acting requires rehearsals, dress-rehearsals, critique, coaching (method or not) and maybe more.... So many people prospecting by telephone hate to hear the sound of their own voice in recordings, never mind having local theatre critics getting stuck into them. The best actors never tip up on set without having put in the leg work to get there... Loving the content - great stuff altogether. 👍👍👍

Perhaps you're most esoteric follower, I want to say a huge thank you for your helpful videos. I watch them before I begin cold calling for my business each week, and it always helps me to put the feels to the side, and focus on commanding the conversation and not taking anything personally. Rock on you legend.

Thank you I found your videos. I've watched most of them 😊😊

Benjamin. This is just too good. Thank you

Benjamin, you’re the best! I love all your videos, please make more!!

I just found your stuff today> And I'm sure to follow your work. You're a ton of fun.

Love it man, you make my day.

This is class. Thanks for the valuable info

This sounds remarkably trite, but it’s videos like this and content that can really turn telephone anxiety into telephone excitement. Kudos to you chapperoo, I look forward to trying this tomorrow

BRILLIANT !!!👍👍

I need to watch ire of our vids. You give people frameworks and that’s just what every sales guy needs. Not scripts

This is great stuff, educational and fun. Wish I had found your channel 2 years ago :)

My notes: Expect people to answer the phone, and think that you are doing them a favor when you call them. It's all about delivering. No line is 100% bulletproof, Focus on how you deliver. Don't introduce yourself, don't ask how they are, nobody cares. He who asks questions is in control. If they want to hang up now, they gotta go first. Do not hang up. Pick the phone and learn how to talk to people

YOu are the best. I've learned a lotttttt from you. I really enjoyed it.

Great stuff as always!

Benjamin simply brilliant. I've been using your advise and the manner in which you make cold calls, especially the episode where you made live cold calls. I enjoyed and applied every bit of it, working great for me.Thanks.

I didn't know that Mike Myers has changed careers from acting to teaching sales 😂

Thank You for all you do. This video is gold!

Value packed content as always! Keep it coming Ben!

Love it! First ill be joining substack, soon I will be joining the bootcamp.

Life changing

I’ve watched hinders of hours of selling and I can say that you’re The GOAT of selling 👏👏👏👏

This was 😂definitely a gem

Great one Benjamin. Always delivering value!

Brilliant❤

Game changing stuff man!

Great video, been following you since your interview with Mike Winnett. Great mindset for selling and prospecting, always taking little tips from you Benjamin! Keep up the good work

“Gandhi from India”🤣🤣🤣 your analogies are so funny but also so accurate. You sir, are truly a master of delivery. After all, “it’s not what you say, but how you say it!” Well done video, brother

20 minute video and a handful of gold nuggets, thanks! 🙏🏼👍

man you're great

You're such a smart guy

Gold.

Love your content hope to do your course when I get more funds

Love the hat! 😊

The only thing a bit "dodgy" is the psychology thing around minute 15: "you can't feel bad if they hung up, cause you told them to do so". I might have told them to hang up, but only to struck a conversation. Failure is a failure, doesn't matter how you dress it up, I won't fool meself on this one. One of the key things here is "be professional". No emotions, don't get hung up (no pun intended) on things. That could be a life lesson really. Weirdly enough, I read a piece on French legion, and they have this as one of their 7 commandments: "do your thing (ie killing people) without emotions, respect the enemy". Benjamin the Legionnaire!

thank you.

South African here... some variation of "hello, how are you" is a cultural must

best 360p video of the year!

Ben this is incredible, I use the first technique all the time. It works like a charm. Would you consider doing a video on discovery calls?

Hi Benjamin So far the best. Now let me practice in real time.

thanks sir

I think I know the guy you're referring to who did over a million calls in his career. He's a friend and former sales colleague of mine. He's in his 40's now and has been in telemarketing since he was around 18. The way he's gotten to that number is through something called a multi-line autodialer. It usually dials around 3 lines at a time and automatically connects you to the first person that answers the phone... The system can literally dial 100 to 150 numbers per hour and makes it so that there's almost no down time between calls... It's a life-saver, especially if you have a large list of B2C leads. So, if you're dialing for 4 to 6 hrs a day and making 100 dials/ hour over the course of a 20 yr career, you'd easily exceed a million dials... Just an FYI... But I love your content, man. Keep it up.

Benjamin- It is all your fault! I FINALLY got my first job as an SDR in SaaS, booking demo's for real estate agents. The only opening line provided to me was : Hi, my name is Blair from ABC company. How are you today? (it gets worse from there). I listened to your advice in this video and loved what I heard. I experimented with the crazy idea that my job was actually to get a human being a little bit emotional about what I fix...My boss disagreed with your approach and now I'm unemployed again... I could use any encouraging words of support

I use your opening lines i Germany

Great advice as always Benjamin. You'll need to add a section on your bootcamp "how to sound like a Kiwi"

I work in insurance and I’d love insight on this technique in the B2C scenario. This is a great start

Oh Hi Barry !!! I just spit out my coffee 😂

Benjamin do you have any content specifically for recruiters? Absolutely love the video and the information that you have packed into it . Really awesome .

Best on the net.

Hi It’s Ghandi from India 😂

Great video. I have a question though. If you were a doing marketing for a radio station, can these techniques be used.?

He sounds like the driver from jamanji movie

Woah! Listened to this in my lunch and felt like a new salesperson. How does one pay for further training (in the us)?Videos? Courses? Masterclass?

@10:26

5:57

Great strategy. Any advice about cold texting people? I own a small video production company. What I noticed is that most people don't care about video marketing so I feel like I need to do one more extra step to explain/educate them about how this can help them get more sales/build trust and so on. I get answers like "I'll think about it" "we will consider this in the future" but we all know this is bull$hit.. Thank you

What do you recommend for cold emails?

@16:32 recruiters

17:48 Before you hang up CAN I ask you a question? No, LET ME ask you a question.

12:57

18:30

I am just a newbie doing cold calls and actually this is great. I’m screwing it a lot and I just want to be emotionally detached. Sounds ez, it is not tho

Hi Ben, thanks for the videos! I have a question that’s been on my mind and make me wonder what approach to take when cold calling companies. I’m in sales in a SaaS company and we help customers improve efficiency in their accounting and operational departments. Now I agree that the decision makers are the ones you should target because they are the only one that can actually buy the service. However from my experience I would say at least 50% of these decision makers don’t actually know the issues their staff are facing, because the system in place “works”. When I speak with desk level employees however, it doesn’t take long to discover these issues. So my question is this: should I still target decision makers even though they usually don’t understand or are aware of the problem we could solve, or should I first target desk level people, discover these issues and then target the decision makers. The issue I see with the second option is that it makes the sales cycle way longer. Would love your thoughts on that, thanks!!

First saw you on Mike Winnett and been following ever since. Any idea what happened to Mike??

🤘👍💯

I literally watched the video of the guy who has done that 1-million-call statement before this one 😃

When are you going to record a training seminar so the rest of us can get your training without having to travel to Old Blighty?

I am in love with you.

3:40 to be fair, if he's using an auto dialer he very well could have made 1 million cold calls, but that's just dialing not necessarily picking up the phone.

Does this opener work for b2c?

Ok so when the person give me 30s to him or her time can I now introduce myself and y am calling them

You said prospecting sucks, and that a person who says they like it is either lying or a masochist. Hmmm. But you do it because you are good at it. I just came across your videos, and you got some good content it seems. It also seems that on some calls you enjoy the convo. I think you may mean…and I could be wrong….that prospecting sucks because one doesn’t like the rejection. For if all prospect calls were leaning toward a “yes”, one would prospect longer perhaps, and may even enjoy the process. But it’s the “no’s” that one may dislike a lot. But it comes to perspective. One is prospecting knowing it can either be a yes or a no, and one takes that risk. That doesn’t mean they should think prospecting sucks. There is enjoyment in some calls, and others can “suck.” But “in all labor there is profit.” Which may be a reason you do it. God bless you! Thank you for being you.

what if you get hit by gatekeepers because you dont have the number of the business owner or c suite

It actually doesn’t happen a lot for a director to present himself by name.

I'd take a sales call from Ghandi

Please help- Everyday People object and hang up right away How to respond to that? I am an Energy broker for UK and find hard to maneuver my way When people don't even let me give my rebuttal statement Please help God bless

Hi daddy

These tactics assume the decision maker answers the phone. If a secretary answers, he/she will tell the decision maker who it's and none of this works.

The "million cold calls guy" was blatantly exaggerating, when if they were genuine with their intent to have a win/win outcome. They would build up the skill of communication, cuz that's the whole ballgame!!!

They don't have a dog in the fight

we have to do 300+ calls a shift for charity fund raising and must introduce and mention call is being recorded ...

they don't have a dog in the fight.