B2B prospecting is always a challenge but there are some shortcuts to success. I’ve put together some tips for boosting your chances with some simple but effective improvements you can make to your cold outreach.
16 mins readGetting your message noticed in a crowded inbox is a tough battle. Most messages get ignored, deleted, or lost in busy inboxes. A strong prospecting email changes that. It grabs attention, creates interest, and drives action — all in just a few lines.
12 mins readList building is the outreach phase when we should learn as much as we can about our prospects so that we know what to put in our cold email copy. But what if we don't know what type of information to look for besides simple facts, such as company name, size, the number of employees, etc.? How to structure the research process to squeeze out the most of it?
10 mins readGood email copy is important. In 2015, I wrote over 40 posts on various aspects of good cold email copy. But even with the best copy but no people to send it to -- we're stuck. So except for good copy, we need a list of contacts for our outbound prospecting. Outbound prospecting isn't easy. Building a prospect list is hard. It requires lots of time and effort. And with respect to your time and effort, there's one thing you need to do before you roll up your sleeves and start collecting contacts. Actually, it's a question you need to answer to yourself. Here's the question and how to find the answer.
10 mins readOutbound emailing requires a lot of research into a target group and A/B testing before it can take off and become truly predictable. It's not unusual that a sales team (ours included) loses its motivation before that happens. Either that or they lose focus and target prospects ad hoc, just to get their numbers right. There is something that helped us. It is a proper goal setting.
5 mins readDesktop cluttered with dozens of CSV files, their copies, and copies of their copies. Sending CSVs back and forth between your team members. Time wasted on finding a way to stay organized despite the chaos. Sounds like a nightmare, right? Indeed, for many salespeople, it is a daily struggle. So why not ditch the CSVs for something easier to manage and more teamwork-friendly? For example, build your prospect list in Google Sheets and have it integrated with your follow-up automation tool? No more copying, importing and exporting. Let me show you how to make your prospecting more productive with the new Google Sheets integration, we’ve just rolled out.
5 mins readRemember the time we reviewed LeadFuze for our prospecting tool review series? Now I can finally announce that Woodpecker has integrated with LeadFuze. And in this guest post, Justin McGill himself will tell you what you can do with the integration. Keep on reading to discover how you can benefit from using Woodpecker and LeadFuze according to Justin.
9 mins readChoosing an email prospecting tool is like buying a used car. You grab the best one off the lot, hoping everything works well, but you only find out if it runs well a few months later. Unfortunately, the email marketing tool market is huge, and choosing the right platform can take months of consideration.
9 mins readLooking for ideas to level up your prospecting game in 2020? Here you are -- I put together a list of 5 sales prospecting tips worth implementing into your lead generation strategy this year and onwards since I believe they are pretty much everlasting. Get yourself a nice cup of coffee and read on.
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