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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.

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.