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Best Cold Calling Memes of 2023 (Updated): Pick Your Favorite & Win!

We’re nearing the end of another successful year of cold calling! As always, our persistence, belief in ourselves, and commitment to delivering value has paid off with more meetings and deals.

This is the perfect time to unwind, get loose, and share some laughs around the myths, truths, and common occurrences around cold calling (and sales in general).

We’re not just going to share the most popular cold calling memes with you—we’re going to give you the chance to win a free 3 month subscription to Veloxy!

All you have to do is review the below 35 cold calling memes and fill out the form at the bottom of this page. Enjoy and Good luck.

1. Watch Me Make Another Call

DJ Khaled dancing in place perfectly encapsulates the fearless spirit of successful cold callers. It humorously highlights the resilience required in the face of rejection, a common hurdle given that studies show 48% of people fear making phone calls. It serves as a light-hearted reminder that embracing rejection with a dance is what sets apart the courageous from the crowd.

2. Bite Your Tongue, Smush Your Lips

This meme captures the all-too-familiar moment of a cold caller holding their mouth closed, brilliantly portraying the challenge of maintaining professionalism in the face of adversity. It reflects the reality that cold callers often encounter overly negative or angry prospects and must exercise restraint, biting their tongue instead of responding in kind. It’s a humorous nod to the emotional intelligence and patience required in sales, making it a perfect addition to the list.

3. Don't Make It Harder for Yourself

Brandon Marshall’s famous meme is humorously used to capture a sales manager’s frustration with a sales rep who neglects the gold mine of a well-crafted cold calling script. It highlights a common pitfall in sales where reps might overlook the script’s strategic framework, designed to address prospects’ pain points, establish common ground, and present a unique selling proposition.

4. Dress to Impress, or to Feel Good?

This meme, featuring a sales rep in an uncomfortably tight dress shirt cleverly plays on the reality of cold calling roles where appearance takes a backseat to comfort. It humorously acknowledges the mindset of SDRs/BDRs who, making 60-120 cold calls a day, opt for comfort over formal office attire since their prospects can’t visually see them.

5. Waiting for the Progressive Dialer

Here’s a sales rep earnestly speaking into a microphone in an empty auditorium, perfectly encapsulating the experience of cold callers using progressive dialers. While these dialers are designed to enhance productivity by connecting agents only when a live person answers, they often face periods of waiting, sometimes extending over five minutes, akin to speaking to an empty room. It humorously highlights the anticipation and patience required in modern cold calling, waiting for that moment of connection, making it an apt representation of the silent gaps in a day filled with calls.

6. Supercharging Rate of Answered Calls

The Homelander meme has been one of the most popular GIF memes of this past year. It captures the perfect facial expression of a cold caller when an elusive lead picks up the phone. Thankfully it’s 2024, and dialers are getting smarter at prioritizing cold calls by a lead’s likeliness to answer.

7. When Great Cold Calls Don't End Well

Nothing is more frustrating for a sales rep than when a great cold call ends poorly. I’ve experienced this on calls that last ten or twenty minutes. The lead is repeatedly saying, “Yes!” and “Wow, that’s great!“, but when it comes to conversion time, they get cold feet and end the call. No matter how good of a cold caller you are, you’re apt to run into this problem frequently.

8. Slap Away Salesforce Data Entry

Since the third Salesforce State of Sales report in 2018, non-selling activity has gotten worse. You read that right! It’s hard to believe it couldn’t get better. For cold calling professionals, no non-selling activity is more painful than CRM data entry. Cold callers can spend 30 to 60 minutes a day manually entering data into Salesforce. Even worse—some sales pros wait until they get home to complete this activity.

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9. The Turbulent Sales Tech Stack

Here’s another fact from Salesforce’s latest report: Sales reps are overwhelmed by too many tools. Fortunately for cold callers, sales managers plan to consolidate sales tech stacks sometime in 2024. This will not only improve their stack’s ROI and team’s profitability—it will improve their sales team’s overall morale!

10. When You Get What You've Never Got

The average sales rep makes about 33 cold calls every day. After suffering through hours of voice mail greetings, hangups, and “No thank you.“, salespeople are often shocked when a prospect calls them back. Many times, they’re so surprised they experience reluctance to pick up the phone. We’ve actually found it’s not due to nervousness, but rather a lack of instant access to the incoming call’s contact and account records. Be sure you integrate your dialers with your CRM!

11. When You Sell Like a Human, You Win

If your cold callers are spending 72% of their time not selling, you could say they’re spending that time ‘not being human‘. Humans are not meant to spend hours every day typing in email addresses and other admin work. Salespeople are built to engage with customers and help them improve their daily lives. With this being said, it’s no surprise that sales teams that spend 90%+ of their time on selling activity consistently crush team quota.

12. New Year, New Challenges

New Year’s resolutions are constantly in flux. What you resolved in 2023 is less likely to need your attention in 2024. The same is true regarding sales challenges. New gatekeepers are being hired to block you from the decision maker. Contacts are getting promotions or moving to new companies. The dialer or cold email software you liked is being replaced. Whatever new challenge this year has waiting for you—take it head on!

13. Let's Get Real About Sales Targets

Unrealistic sales targets was the number one reason why sales professionals want to leave their job. However, if that’s their complaint at one job, let’s just say the grass isn’t always greener on the other side. As a cold caller, be proactive and make suggestions to your manager on how you and your cold calling colleagues could be more productive and efficient. Because sometimes sales targets are unrealistic because of inefficiencies in the workplace.

14. Post Covid In-House Competition

When Covid hit and sales reps were forced to work remote and leverage their tech stack, inside sales reps flourished. Remote cold calling and Zoom calls were nothing new to them, and they consistently hit or exceeded their numbers. Outside sales reps on the other hand had trouble adjusting to remote selling due to travel restrictions. However, now that field reps are back to being road warriors, they’re also back to driving success in call blitzes and closing deals.

15. Everything But The Kitchen Sink!

As cold callers, we’re always prepared to bring value to each phone call. Sometimes, the value we offer is not seen in the same light by the prospect. That’s why it’s always best practice to better know your personas so you can personalize the value offered. Your prospects will eventually believe you have everything to offer—even the kitchen sink!

16. Getting Past the Gatekeeper

If you’re an experienced cold caller, you know far too well about the dreaded gatekeeper (aka. receptionist). Some are very skilled at sniffing out a cold caller, but if you’ve read our article on cold calling tips, you know how using their first name is a great way to build familiarity.

17. Sales AI for Cold Calling

There are a lot of misconceptions surrounding the role artificial intelligence plays in sales. Some salespeople fear that AI will displace them. But in 9 out of 10 cases, sales teams that use AI exceed quota and expand in size. Check out our Sales AI guide for more information on the many benefits to cold callers.

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