Cold Call Opener
by mbfinotti1ef68881b2edMITListed Oct 8, 2026Updated Oct 8, 2026Repository updated 3 weeks ago
Writes the opening 5-30 seconds of a live outbound cold call - a tailored opener for a named persona and pain point, with 2-3 testable variants, delivery notes, and a measurement plan. Covers B2B and B2C phone outreach, including do-not-call scrubbing. Use whenever the user mentions a cold call opener, cold call script, phone opener, dialer talk track, "what do I say when they pick up", or opening a call for a persona, even if they don't say "opener" explicitly. Do NOT use for rebuttals later in the call (use mbfinotti/sales-skills@sales-objection-handling), grading a recorded call (mbfinotti/sales-skills@sales-call-review), or cadence planning (mbfinotti/sales-skills@sales-outbound-sequence).
Only the file list is public. File contents are available once the skill is installed in a workspace.
| Path | Size | Type |
|---|---|---|
| evals/evals.json | 30 KB | application/json |
| references/consumer-calling-constraints.md | 3.4 KB | text/markdown |
| references/example-openers.md | 6.5 KB | text/markdown |
| references/opener-patterns-and-evidence.md | 9.2 KB | text/markdown |
| SKILL.md | 22.2 KB | text/markdown |
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Source:mbfinotti/sales-skillsinskills/cold-call-openerat commit1ef6888
License: MIT
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