Cold calls per meeting calculator

This cold calls per meeting calculator shows how many dials it takes to get one held meeting, and how many dials a month you need to reach a meeting target. Enter your own call rates to get your numbers.

Your calling plan

The starting values are examples chosen to make the math easy to follow. They are not benchmarks. Replace them with rates from your own call logs.

Dials per dayCalls placed per rep per calling day.

Calling days per monthDays you actually make calls.

Connect rateShare of dials where you speak with the person.

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Conversation-to-meeting rateShare of conversations that book a meeting.

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Show rateShare of booked meetings that happen.

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Target meetings held per monthUsed for the dials-needed results.

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Results

Dials per held meeting

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Dials per month to hit target

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Dials per day to hit target

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Dials per booked meeting

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Dials per month at your pace

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Conversations per month

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Meetings booked per month

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Meetings held per month

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How many cold calls does it take to book a meeting?

Divide 1 by your connect rate multiplied by your conversation-to-meeting rate. With example rates of 10% and 20%, that is 50 dials per booked meeting. Divide again by your show rate for dials per held meeting: at an example 80% show rate, it is 62.5 dials. Use your own rates for a real plan.

What is a connect rate?

Connect rate is the share of dials where you reach and speak with the person you called, rather than a voicemail or a gatekeeper. Teams define it differently, so write your definition down. If you count gatekeeper conversations as connects, your conversation-to-meeting rate will be lower to match, and the result stays similar.

How do you plan monthly dial volume?

Multiply your monthly held-meeting target by your dials per held meeting, then divide by calling days for a daily number. At the example rates, 10 held meetings a month need 625 dials, or 32 dials a day across 20 calling days. The calculator rounds the dials-needed results up to whole calls.

Why are the default numbers not benchmarks?

Connect and meeting rates change a lot with the market, the list, the time of day, phone data quality, and how a team defines a connect. A single average would mislead more plans than it helps. The defaults are round numbers so you can check the arithmetic. Pull your real rates from your dialer or CRM.

The formula

Expected results at your pace are shown to one decimal place. Dials needed to hit the target are rounded up to whole calls.

Frequently asked questions