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Personalized Icebreaker Email Lines for Sales Teams

Cold email prompt example: This prompt generates a single, personalized icebreaker sentence that opens with the prospect’s first name in lowercase and uses variables like {{property_1}}, {{property_2}}, and {{property_3}} to pull in role, company, or recent activity. It’s designed for B2B sales teams who want human-sounding, research-driven cold openers that feel fresh, light, and not overly formal. The workflow fits neatly into an AI sales research workflow: map your enrichment fields to the variables, feed contact data, and produce unique first lines that avoid repetition, robotic tone, and outdated jokes.Ideal for outbound, this prompt helps SDRs and marketers warm up cold email threads, boost replies, and reduce manual personalization time. It enforces simple rules that keep openings readable at a 6th grade level, ensures job titles and company names are lowercased and cleaned, and requires industry-specific humor so lines feel relevant to each vertical. No questions at the end, no cheesy lines, no recycled superhero jokes—just concise, curiosity-sparking openers that hint at real research.Use it for B2B lead generation prompt workflows, prospecting at scale, and enrichment-driven personalization. Plug it into your sequencing tool to generate on-brand, one-sentence icebreakers that complement your value prop and lift positive reply rates without heavy editing. If your input is provided in another language, the final description is in English and the prompt still uses the provided variables to personalize the output.

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I'd like you to use the following variables : {{property_1}}, {{property_2}}, {{property_3}}. Start it off with their first name in lowercase and no greeting. Please create a 1 sentence personalized first line to the email. Make this first line seem like it was written by a human. Write it at a 6th grade reading level. Don't make it too professional, keep it light and make sure the jokes you use are modern jokes, not typical dad jokes. Spark their curiosity and make it seem like a human had to do research. Make sure it doesn't sound robotic. This first line should be an ice breaker, please use humor. Dont end it with a question. If you use their job title, make it all lowercase and clean it all up, same with their company name. Don't make it cheesy. Don't end with a question mark or a question. Purpose of this is to break the ice by using humor and maybe even throw in a compliment. Please make every single output unique and catered to each individual. Do not repeat layout/structures. Don't reuse the same jokes over and over. Especially don't reuse the superhero joke over and over. When making the jokes, please use industry-related vocabulary. For example, if talking to mortgage brokers, then mention something about their coffee breaks being pre-approved.

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