Sales ROI Calculator for B2B Cold Calling
To improve your cold calling, first benchmark the ROI of your current efforts. Use our calculator to understand how calls convert to conversations, meetings, and ultimately closed deals.
Understanding Cold Calling ROI
Before investing in cold calling—whether in-house or outsourced—it's crucial to understand the potential return on investment. Cold calling, when executed properly, remains one of the most effective B2B lead generation strategies available.
An average SDR can make approximately 8,400 calls per month, leading to roughly 432 conversations. More conversations mean more meetings, which ultimately result in more closed-won deals for your business.
Calculate Your Cold Calling ROI
💡 Pro Tip
These benchmarks assume proper training, quality scripts, and a well-researched prospect list. Working with an experienced partner like SalesHive can help you optimize each of these variables to maximize your ROI.
Key Factors Affecting Cold Calling ROI
1. List Quality: The quality of your prospect list directly impacts connection rates. Well-researched, targeted lists can double or triple your conversion rates compared to generic contact databases.
2. SDR Training: Properly trained SDRs know how to handle objections, ask qualifying questions, and book meetings effectively. Ongoing coaching and script refinement are essential.
3. Technology Stack: Modern sales platforms with auto-dialers, CRM integration, and call recording capabilities can increase productivity by 50% or more.
4. Call Timing: Research shows the best times to reach B2B decision-makers are Tuesday through Thursday between 10-11 AM and 4-5 PM in the prospect's time zone.
Frequently Asked Questions
Cold calling ROI is calculated by taking the revenue from deals won via cold calls in a given month, subtracting your total cold calling costs for that month, then dividing by those costs: (Won Contract Value – Cold Calling Cost) / Cold Calling Cost. The SalesHive cold calling ROI calculator on this page automates that math so you can quickly see whether your program is profitable and how changes in inputs like close rate or deal size affect ROI.
The calculator assumes a full-time SDR making about 400 calls per day over 21 working days—roughly 8,400 calls per month—with conservative benchmarks of about 4% of calls turning into conversations and 4% of conversations becoming meetings. These defaults give you realistic baselines for calls, conversations, meetings, and revenue, which you can adjust if your team’s numbers are higher or lower.
A healthy cold calling program should produce a clearly positive ROI, meaning monthly contract value from cold calling significantly exceeds what you spend on reps, data, and tools. If your ROI is negative or near break-even, use the calculator to model improvements in connection rate, conversation-to-meeting rate, and average deal size, then act on those insights by tightening your targeting, upgrading your scripts, and improving SDR training. SalesHive helps here with high-quality list building, proven scripts, and ongoing coaching designed specifically to raise these conversion points.
Building an internal SDR team often costs $8,000–$12,000+ per rep per month once you include salary, tools, data, and management, while SalesHive programs typically start around $4,000–$8,000 per month with data, tech, and management bundled in. Our U.S.- and Philippines-based SDRs make 150+ dials per day using our AI-powered calling and email platform, and we’ve booked over 100,000 meetings for hundreds of B2B clients—so you benefit from proven scripts, benchmarks, and processes that usually lower cost per meeting and speed up payback.
Yes. You can use the cold calling ROI calculator (and SalesHive’s pricing tools) to plug in your target revenue, close rates, and average deal value, then translate those outputs into the number of SDRs and monthly meetings required. Our team will review your model with you and recommend a practical plan—whether that’s starting with one SDR or launching a multi-rep program across industries like SaaS, FinTech, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Professional Services, or EdTech.
Recent Cold Calling Posts
Expert research and strategies for B2B sales success.
B2B Sales Blogs: Cold Calling Lessons from the Pros
Cold calling remains one of the most direct and impactful methods for generating B2B leads, but the strategies that drive...
Is Cold Calling Still Effective in 2021?
Is cold calling effective? Can you trust phone calls to boost sales in the 21st century – a time when...
Does B2B Cold Calling Work in 2022?
In a society where remote teams and digital technology are becoming the norm, B2B cold calling is a successful way...
Ready to Scale Your Pipeline?
Schedule a free strategy call with our sales development experts.
Schedule a Meeting with SalesHive!
Pick a time that works for you
Enter Your Details
Select Date & Time
Pick a Day
Pick a Time
Select a date