Woodpecker Blog

What is Data-as-a-Service And Why Would You Use It? Interview with EasyLeadz

Usually, I reach out to prospect list building tools like Hunter, LeadFuze or UpLead to review them for our Prospect List Building Series which has become a regular segment on our blog. As a side note, Hunter was our 14th installment. But when I found EasyLeadz, I thought it would be a nice addition to our "prospect list building" family. They're not a tool. Actually, they changed their business models to offer "Data-as-a-service". I was intrigued enough to ask Tushar Jawa from EasyLeadz for an interview and here it is. Let's go.

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Getting Started With Outbound Outreach: Are You on the Right Track?

Getting a good grasp of email deliverability from the very beginning is essential not only for the future success of your campaigns but also for your domain safety. I’ve conducted some research to find out what cold email senders should pay attention to when they want to increase their cold email deliverability rate. Let’s see what I’ve found out.

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How Email Automation Can Help You Scale PR in Your SaaS Startup?

A company at an early development stage needs publicity to become recognizable in its business niche. However, hiring a PR agency while on a bootstrapped budget may be a challenge for a SaaS startup. If you can relate to that, learn how you can scale your PR efforts in a more startup-friendly way.

9 mins read

Perfect CTA, or How to Write a Persuasive Cold Email? (Updated)

Whereas a well-crafted subject is key for boosting our opening rates, the CTA (call to action) is the key to boosting the reply rates. That’s the sentence, or a question, the addressee reads at the end of our message. That’s the part that persuade them to undertake some action – send us a reply, click the provided link, sign up for a trial. If you want to know how to write effective CTAs, keep reading.

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Follow-up After a Form Submission: How to Convert Inbound Leads Into Sales Vol. 2

Lead forms have become a website staple. They don't require a lot of effort on our part. We just put them up, make sure they comply with GDPR or any other law that's binding in our country and then, reach out to those who filled out a contact form. But do you know how to convert leads who submitted a form into customers? Keep reading to learn how to do that.

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Can You Still Create a Predictable Sales Process? The Evolution of Predictable Revenue

I had an immense pleasure to talk with Collin Stewart, a Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Predictable Revenue, who hosts their podcast, interviewing B2B sales leaders on the biggest opportunities and challenges in the industry.

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Get your Prospects’ Email Addresses Verified: Native Bouncer Integration

We’re excited to announce that Woodpecker has joined forces with Bouncer to help you decrease your bounce rate, boost deliverability and protect your sender’s reputation. What is Bouncer? It’s a tool that verifies your prospects’ email addresses and sends messages only to validated email addresses, ensuring not a single unwelcome email address slips through. We’ve been testing Bouncer and other email verification tools for some time to choose the one that works best for us and offers the most value to our users, and Bouncer turned out to be the one we were looking for.

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Best Signatures for Sales Emails: Let’s Analyze What Makes Them Effective

Email signature may seem like no big deal. After all, there are plenty of signature templates to choose from. You could just pick the one you like, customize it and paste into your email, right? This could be enough in the case of a regular business email signature. A signature for a sales email, however, requires a bit more attention as it serves an extra purpose -- it should increase your credibility in the eyes of your prospects and encourage them to reply to you.

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2 Quick Tricks to Speed Up a Cold Email Campaign in Woodpecker

I get it. You've connected your email address, wrote an outstanding email sequence, uploaded a long list of verified prospects and conducted a 5-minute campaign audit to check if everything's right, but Woodpecker has sent very few of your emails so far. Let's go through all the steps together and discover what can be improved to boost your sending.