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3 Resources that Will Help You Ask Better Questions

Sales articles are full of advice on how to skilfully ask questions during sales interview. That's not surprising. Questions are the exact thing that helps us move potential leads through the sales funnel. Cold callers use them during discovery calls and those who prospect might use questions while looking for the ICPs. But how to apply it to cold email senders who have just begun the conversation? Here I gathered 3 resources that will help you learn how to perfect the art of asking questions.

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Woodpecker Meeting III – We Can Call it a Tradition

Even though two months have lapsed, I'd like to recap you on the third Woodpecker Meeting that took place on May 25, 2018, a single day when we all meet together to celebrate and listen to team presentations. It has slowly but surely become a custom for the Woodpecker team. The first meeting was set up to celebrate reaching 150 premium users, the second one -- 800. Read more to find out what we discussed in the third one.

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How to Lower the Bounce Rate of Your Email Outreach with Human-driven Data Enrichment

Time for another guest post on our blog. This time it covers a topic that is very on trend right now, data enrichment. And it shows how to use data to increase your email deliverability. Ok, let's give the stage to Anastasia from CIENCE who's an expert in that field.

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My Open, Reply or Interest Cold Email Metrics are Low, What Can I A/B Test?

Cold outreach needs a lot of experimentation before you get it right. You can tinker with cold email copy, subject line, CTA, and other elements to optimize your cold email. However, how do you know what to focus on?

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How to Warm Up My Domain Before Email Outreach

It's not news for you that we need to warm up an email address. It's actually one of the first things you need to do before you get on email outreach. But an email address isn't the only thing that needs a bit of prep. We need to warm up a fresh domain too. Warming up a domain resembles warming up an email address. Yet, a newly registered domain warm-up takes way longer than that of any mailbox. Don't worry though. The steps you take to prepare a domain for outreach are pretty similar to the ones you go through with a new email address.

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What to Write in an Opening Message to Ace Cold Outreach

This is the blog post for cold email newbies. Or those of you who want to try something new with email outreach but lack inspiration. I'd like to propose that we rethink the ways of writing an opening message.

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GDPR for Product Owners and Developers

GDPR has been a big boom for us all. While browsing the Internet, we can easily find a lot of info about what GDPR is, who and what it applies to, and what requirements we should meet as companies in order to comply with the regulation. But for many of us in the Internet industry, there’s still the question of HOW we should actually apply it to our product.

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What is GDPR-encryption and Why Did We Add It?

Woodpecker has committed itself to help you comply with the General Data Protection Regulation as evident in the GDPR compliance available on the main website. To deliver on that promise, we’ve recently added a new feature to the Woodpecker app. A feature that makes it easier for you to run a GDPR-compliant email campaign and safely process personal data of your prospects in Woodpecker.