What’s your go-to opener that turns a cold call into a warm conversation?

I made a post asking how long I should continue to follow up with someone before just giving up. Giulio commented something like "keep calling until one of you dies". And it's still the best advice I've gotten in regards to sales! After TWO YEARS of reaching out to a contact regularly, and getting pushed off every time, I finally got the sale today!!! I had actually just spoke to my contact last week and he pushed me off again, but the next day he reached out and put me in touch with the owner. And he put in a good word for me to the owner, making my job of selling my services that much easier. Just wanted to share the importance of following up regularly (and for eternity lol) with contacts and standing out so when they do have a need, you're the first person they think to reach out to. If nothing else, this should give you hope when you call a contact for the 800th time and get turned down or pushed off for the 800th time-- it'll turn into something... eventually!

Hey Underdogs! How do you handle the "You need to talk to someone else" objection, when you know that they are the right person to talk to? For background, I work for a staffing company that places entry-level talent (college graduates with 0-2 years exp). "You need to talk to HR/recruiting team" is by far the most common objection we hear, and the most difficult to get past. HR teams typically don't want to speak with me, as I'm trying to outsource part of their job. We avoid HR like the plague. Also, the decision to work with outside companies is usually made at a higher level than HR, in my experience. Typically, I ask if they have any oversight of hiring on their team or otherwise, if they don't- truly not the right person to talk to and I try to get a referral. If they do have oversight- I reassure them that they are the right person for me to talk to, but they often hold strong on pushing me off to HR. Any suggestions on how to get past this would be greatly appreciated by me and my sales team!!

I know this is a cold calling community, but are there other outreach strategies that you do? Emails, LinkedIn messages, etc.? I make 50-100 cold calls/day and do all of my lead generation for the week on Mondays, so I have some extra time throughout the week after I finish my calls. I know what you're thinking: "Just make more cold calls!" and I know that I could, but I don't want to burn myself out. So I'm looking for outreach strategies outside of calling that will help me land some meetings! Ideas?

Not sure if there is a proper objection handling there, so I would love to hear it. I get cold calls on my private number all the time and don't see the issue, a cold call is a cold call, it might be B2C and I could be selling them insurance and not B2B, so I don't see the problem there, apart from them brushing you off. This is typical in the US. As if cold calls are reserved only for their business number, lol, I can't process that, since we're calling them during business hours.