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We’ve Been Featured on Siftery.com

This week, Woodpecker got featured by Siftery, the platform for sharing work tool stacks and recommending software. The guys at Siftery have been creating a series of interviews with product creators and company founders, and the interview with Matt has been published in their Stories section at the beginning of this week. We're sharing the interview with you here as well. Keep reading to find out more about Woodpecker customers, our greatest challenges, and the "why" behind Woodpecker.

What Should I Learn About a Company Before Sending Them a B2B Sales Email?

This is a piece inspired by a very good question I've come across on Quora. It will be especially helpful to those of you who either prepare to start their first sales email copy, or they've been sending cold emails that don't bring the desired effects.

A Comprehensive Guide to Cold Email

This week we have a little special. I've been writing about cold emails for over 2 years. Last week I realized that I've written over 100 posts on this blog so far. That's a lot of material. So this week I decided to prepare a kind of a table of contents, so you have a place on this blog where you can easily and quickly find what you're looking for. Plus, maybe it will allow you to discover some posts you haven't read before. Check out the collection that makes a comprehensive guide to cold email.

Woodpecker Meeting II – or What We Did after Reaching 800 Customers

Not even a year ago, I wrote here about Woodpecker Meeting I. We had 150 customers then. This year, we met again. And we were talking about new challenges that we'll be facing as a SaaS company with over 800 B2B companies as premium customers on board. Keep on reading to learn about the people of Woodpecker – our daily routines, challenges, plans, and visions. Take a peek at some photos of our team at Woodpecker Meeting II.

How to Use High-Level Personalization in Influencer Outreach? Tips for SaaS companies

We already know that personalization boosts deliverability, as well as open and reply rates. But how to get about personalizing your messages? A few weeks ago, I asked Magdalena Urbaniak, a Global Communications Manager at Brand24 -a SaaS app for social media monitoring, to tell me a bit more about it. Taking care of influencer outreach, Magda contacts people who get tons of cold emails every day. Yet, she gets responses and starts valuable relations which often turn into business opportunities. Read on to learn how to use high-level personalization to start conversations with influencers.

Step-by-Step Practical Guide to a Cold Email Campaign That Gets Delivered

Sending an automated cold email campaign is just a start. In the end, you want your emails to actually get to your prospects' inboxes. And to make that happen, it's crucial that you properly plan and set up your cold email campaign in every detail. I wrote this post in cooperation with our Support team and our Head of Integration & Deliverability, because we observed that many of our users still need help when it comes to properly adjusting their cold email campaign settings.

How Does Personalization Affect Cold Email Deliverability?

I've already written a few pieces on personalization in cold email. I've given numerous reasons why personalization is a must. Yet, here's another one: deliverability of your cold email campaigns. This is something you can't just ignore or omit, because if you do – your emails will simply stop being sent. Here's more about the link between personalization and deliverability. Check how it works and how to personalize your cold email campaigns to make sure your emails get sent and delivered.