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A Pain of Cold Emailing in Finance and Real Estate: How to Get Through SPAM Filters?

What differentiates cold emailing from other types of 1-to-1 outbound practices is that a huge chunk of a cold emailing process can be automated. You just come up with an email copy, insert a few snippets, add your prospects, and there you have it. A campaign is ready to be sent. You don’t need to send it manually. Still, outreach by email may quickly backfire when you riddle your copy with words that trigger SPAM filters. Words such as ‘insurance’, ‘financial’, ‘medicine’, ‘mortgage’ all alarm SPAM filters. But what if that is the vocabulary you use in your profession on a daily basis? How to avoid going to SPAM then?

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Should You Worry About SPAM Trigger Words? (Updated)

I've seen a lot of cases where an email copy has destroyed a cold email campaign's deliverability. The scenario usually goes like this. A cold email sender writes an email copy, unintentionally riddled with SPAM words. They purchase an email list online and using an email address that hadn't been properly warmed up, they click 'Send'. And thus they are in trouble.

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How to Scale New Client Onboarding Process in Your SaaS without Losing a Personal Touch?

Your sales team puts a lot of effort into finding the right prospects and starting a relationship with them, warming them up from cold to sales-ready. But conversion is not the end of a customer journey. It’s actually just the beginning. And if you want to maintain the relationship your sales team has started, it’s very important to take care of your customers’ experience from the very beginning.

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How to Write a Cold Email Subject Line That Prospects Can’t Resist

The crucial question. The question we all should ask ourselves as the very first step of crafting our cold email sequence. Here’s how to choose the best subject lines for cold emails, and how we've crafted our subject lines at 52Challenges to boost our open rate.

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15 Best Subject Line Examples We’ve Come Across (Updated)

We always say that a cold email subject line is like a key to a door. Today, I present to you examples of attention-grabbing subject lines that will work like the right key to the right door and open up a conversation with your prospect. We analyzed the best sales email subject lines at Woodpecker and uncovered a really interesting thing that may help you. Keep on reading to find out what it is.

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SaaS Partner Program – How to Find and Pitch to Partners?

Getting new partners for your SaaS Partner Program might be challenging. Getting new partners that fall within your Ideal Partner Profile might be even more difficult. With the right tools in the box, though, you might find it as easy as can be. Follow this clear 3-step path to get more partners and an increasing stream of new leads. Let’s start, shall we?

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How to Build a Sales Pipeline to Turn Your Outbound Leads into Customers?

In business, nothing can be left to chance. Otherwise, you won’t make much progress. When it comes to sales, in order to turn more leads into customers, you need to set your internal guideposts that will make the whole process more effective. That’s what a sales pipeline is at its core. Let me show you how to build a sales pipeline from scratch following this six-step tutorial.

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8 Things to Take Care of In the Meantime You Warm up a Domain for Outreach

Warming up the domain is a necessary step you need to take before kicking off your first cold email campaign. You can’t speed up the process, nor shorten it. But in the meantime, you can take care of your brand, figure out your campaign objective, build a prospect database, and draft your follow-up sequence to have it all set before your domain is ready for outreach.

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Cold Email Benchmarks by Campaign Size & Industry: What Makes Cold Emails Effective?

Cold emailing has changed a lot since its early days. So did the definition of an effective cold email campaign. Let’s see how to approach cold emailing to get the most out of it in 2020. Take a look at the benchmarks I’ve prepared and compare your results with the average stats to make sure you’re on the right track for success.

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