Margaret Sikora
Chief Operating Officer at Woodpecker.co
Product Manager and DPO at Woodpecker. A lawyer who gets the SaaS business, understands customers' needs, and speaks the language of IT guys.
I got the pleasure to talk with one of our customers, Kwesi from Katallyze.io, who uses the Woodpecker Agency Panel. Kwesi answered all of my questions about cold emailing at their company, and I'm sure you can get a lot of useful advice from it.
As with any form of business communication, there are a couple of rules you need to follow to make your email outreach professional. I took some time to research the requirements for a proper email outreach in countries, such as Canada, China, Australia, New Zealand, not to mention the United States (with recently updated California law), Norway, Germany, Switzerland, and of course, the rest of the countries that are a part of the European Union (read about GDPR here).
Marketing and sales used to be portrayed in stark contrast. Nowadays, there's an ongoing trend to go for "sales and marketing alignment" -- that is, making the two teams work together. There's little information on how to do it exactly. Many focus on improving the flow of information between the two departments. Is that all that can be done? Today, I'll show you a couple of ways the Woodpecker marketing and sales teams cooperate to create a streamlined lead generation process.
Having a business blog is good for establishing your expertise and driving traffic to your main website and increasing conversions. So writes the inbound powerhouse, HubSpot. But can it boost the results of your email outreach campaign? Can it persuade somebody to reply? Let's find out.
Generating first customers for your SaaS startup requires a lot of time. Time in the early days of any is scarce. There's so much work to be done that you don't know what to work on first. But in order to stay afloat, you need a steady flow of customers. Woodpecker got its first customers through cold emailing. Yet, there are other ways that can support the lead generation process in your company. In today's article, Deepti Jain from Aeroleads will tell you a bit about those other ways of generating leads for your startup.
California Consumer Privacy Act goes into effect on January 1, 2020. Since major tech companies are based in California, the law may set standards in the whole US. Let’s take a closer look at the requirements of the new law and how it differs from GDPR.