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External SMTP for Cold Emails – Can It Improve My Deliverability?

This one's about deliverability. And I'd say it's for more advanced email senders. I tried to explain things as simply as possible for everyone to get the idea behind the external SMTP services. Check what external SMTP is, when it's a good idea to use it, and if you could be interested in using it to send your cold emails.

How We Actually Rework Our Ideal Customer Profile

At the beginning of 2016, I wrote about the Ideal Customer Profile (ICP) framework that we adopted at Woodpecker and about the way we worked on our marketing personas. At that point, we had around 100 B2B customers. Our customer base has grown to 1000 since then. And it has obviously changed a bit, too. Here's about how we actually measure the changes in our customer base in order to constantly rework our ideal customer profile as our company grows, and why it's important to keep the ICP up to date in general.

New to Sales? How to Learn Cold Email as an SDR

If you’re a fresh SDR hire, or were made the one responsible for outbound email campaigns not so long ago, then this article is for you. I feel your struggle. Outbound can be pretty intimidating at first. You need to read and practice a lot before you're able to do it confidently. With this post, I want to show how to learn cold emailing.

Celebrating 1000+ Customers at Woodpecker.co

This month, we hit the magic number of 1000 B2B customers at Woodpecker.co. We decided to celebrate in a very special way. This time, instead of preparing a rough-numbers report, we decided to surprise you with a natural science article about great spotted woodpecker’s vs. Woodpecker.co's life cycle. Check in what ways Woodpecker resembles its natural counterpart and learn more about Woodpecker's symbionts (a.k.a. customers).

What Mail Merge Custom Fields Can I Use for Clever Outreach?

What are mail merge custom fields, dynamic fields, or snippets? However you call them, these are just the pieces of information about each of your prospects that can be merged into your email templates to make your messages catch people's attention. Oh, and one more thing - successful cold email outreach can't be done without them. In this post, I'm sharing some ideas for custom fields, other than the traditional first name and company name. Learn where to find them and how to add them to your prospect base for more effective personalization at scale.

Lean Approach to Email Outreach, or How Big Should My Cold Email Campaign Be?

Our users sometimes report to us that they couldn't find enough time to run their outbound campaigns. Yes, a well-thought-out cold email campaign takes some time to get prepared. But what we often observe is that cold email senders want to go large from the very beginning: have a prospect base including thousands of addresses, an 8-touch email sequence with A/B testing, and so on. In this post, I'm going to show you why it's more beneficial to start small. Check out what we call the lean approach to cold email, and why it's worth testing.

Prospect List Building Tools Review Vol. 9: Find That Email

We're getting back to our Prospect List Building Tools series. It's vol. 9, in which we're presenting the tool called Find That Email. I've had the pleasure to interview Sagi Strauss – the founder of the service, who told me more about himself and the tool he's been creating. Keep reading to learn how you could use Find That Email in your cold outreach workflow.