Cold calls, gatekeepers, and thirty-second windows. Practice the opener and the brush-off recoveries until dial reluctance disappears.
An SDR's entire craft happens in a window most sales jobs would consider a failure: thirty seconds of a stranger's attention, usually mid-task, often mid-sigh. The difference between 2% and 8% conversion isn't the script; it's how many times the rep has heard "we're all set" and answered it out loud before it was real.
The buyer
What you'll drill
“We already use a competitor and we're happy.”
The incumbent objection: a curiosity gap, not a feature war, in two sentences or less.
“Just send me an email.”
The polite hang-up; drill the pivot that earns fifteen more seconds instead.
“How did you get this number?”
The hostility spike: composure and honesty, practiced until it doesn't rattle.
“We have no budget this year.”
Budget as brush-off vs. budget as fact: discover which one you're hearing.
Sign up and ColdOpen builds a practice buyer around your own business, from a few quick questions about what you sell, or straight from your website. It works from your offer, your prices, and a library of 12 objections, easy to hard, including the one your team hears most. Pick a cold, warm, or booked call, by phone or in person, and a difficulty from Gentle to Brutal. On every plan, our team also hand-tunes that buyer with you to match how your team actually sells.
No site? Skip this. A few quick questions do the same job.
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