Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

To gather data, analyze your existing customer base by tracking their interactions with your website or blog, social media pages, sales reps, and more. This segmentation could mean setting up different landing pages for different customers, sending customized emails to different groups, etc. A solid mixture of cold and warm outreach.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Key takeaways and reminders: Cold calling doesn’t work well with the CIO. A great cold email can work, though, if it’s really carefully crafted to solve their probem. You will make mistakes. Everyone cited 300+ in-bound pitches a week, with the number seemingly going up every week. Some big ones.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Want to write sales emails like a pro? Kristina and Will look at common email mistakes (using real examples) and rewrite them so that you can learn what to do differently. Watch the re-write, and check out the before and after emails below! Dear Lavender Team, Such a horrible way to start a cold email, I know.

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SaaStr

MARCH 24, 2023

Fill Your Booth With A Strong Sales Presence: Sometimes, teams might make the mistake of sending too few salespeople to hang out at the booth and may instead send other roles, like managers, product, etc. Follow-Up Begins Onsite : Whenever possible, confirm appointments, book space on your calendar, get emails, and save phone numbers.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 15, 2022

Want to write sales emails like a pro? Kristina and Will look at common email mistakes (using real examples) and rewrite them so that you can learn what to do differently. Watch the re-write, and check out the before and after emails below! Will’s Rewrite: Subject : Pay Per Email Option? 2 Days Later….

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Buffer Resources

OCTOBER 24, 2023

But, during my day job, I noticed that quality content (blogs and web copy readers would actually engage with) was missing from most service offerings.    This was a great initial confidence boost - I couldn’t believe some very serious companies across the Atlantic were paying me to write blog posts for them. 

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The last few years and the days of pure, cold outbound from a list of unknown names won’t work anymore because buyers are inundated with too many emails. Let’s look at common mistakes in SaaS GTM playbooks and what to focus on instead. What you need to do instead is leverage more content and intent data.

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The Angel VC

JANUARY 29, 2020

However, I’ve seen plenty of founders miss out on PR opportunities like a funding announcement due to mistakes that would have been easy to avoid. Mike Butcher gets 500 emails a day. I imagine that as a TechCrunch writer: You are inundated with 100s of emails and press releases every day.

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SaaStr

MAY 30, 2022

Know your product cold. Put together a customer case study pack — with actual email testimonials. So you have a chance to make a few mistakes there too, and learn. If a sales rep asked you to “get coffee” about a product you’d never heard of, would you? Probably not …. Sometimes, they really will just invest Later.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 17, 2020

What Goes Into Creating a Successful Cold Email? 10 Sales Email Templates. The 3 Most Important Sales Email Best Practices. Sales emails that land in spam folders have a zero percent conversion rate. It’s becoming increasingly difficult to begin building relationships with cold leads via email.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Enter your email below for the latest SaaStr updates. Most organizations make the mistake of just noticing the average value of each existing account, overlooking another crucial element: the average pitched amount. . What makes a sales organization grow? What’s the best way to grow a sales organization?

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Have you ever cold emailed the CEO of a big company? Did I make a mistake? there, but our classic Answers still perform well. We finally crossed 50,000,000 total views of our Answers. So what are the most popular Answers of all time on Quora? Let’s take a look! What should I do? I turned down a $160k + 0.4%

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 21, 2020

While email still represents one of the most effective channels for opening up a line of communication with your prospects, most salespeople are still sending cold emails like it’s 2015. And if your pitch emails are never even opened, they can’t sell very well either. Use an Intriguing Subject Line.

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Neil Patel

AUGUST 19, 2021

Clients can find you through social media or blog posts, learn more about you, and decide you’re the best accountant for the job. Sick of cold emailing tactics or leads who have no intent on opting in for your services? Create a Blog for Your Website. Your blog posts will rank on search results.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 15, 2019

Cold email is like door-to-door sales. Unless, that is, you learn how to write cold emails that actually convert. Keep reading to get 25 cold email tips — in 4 areas of mastery — that you can start using today: Cold email tips: the basics. Cold email tips for writing a better email.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 22, 2020

Looking for a prospecting email template you can easily personalize and that works for almost any situation? That’s key, because as you and I both know, if you’re sending a prospecting email to just one prospect, you might be able to write an email so personal that the recipient may mistake you for a childhood friend.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 25, 2023

SaaStr Founder and CEO Jason Lemkin shares the 10 worst pieces of SaaS advice, excuses, and mistakes founders make, and what to do instead. #1 Many of those voices are incredible, yet terrible bits of advice pops up again and again. On top of that, founders are full of excuses preventing them from scaling. Ask for money when you want advice.”

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

We made the mistake. We made many, many mistakes that would take a lot more than 30 minutes to go over that. Cold emails and cold calls. So there’s one question, what’s your take on cold emails and cold calls? I’ve personally never replied to a cold email.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 26, 2018

Josh: With the survey software, I made the mistake of not differentiating myself enough from SurveyMonkey or the 10,000 other survey apps out there. I charged too little, and I just made a series of mistakes on the business side. I did not send any cold emails to get the thing off the ground. So they loved sharing it.

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Buffer Resources

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

My first clients came through cold emailing and applying through job boards. After landing a gig writing blog posts about storage units for $40 a pop, I had a lightbulb moment: “Oh, companies need content in order to get in front of their customers.” What are some of your most impactful marketing strategies now?

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SaaStr

JULY 15, 2020

So the earlier we get involved, hopefully we can help avoid unnecessary mistakes versus inheriting this die being cast in a solid form where you’re distracted, fixing prior mistakes. ” Other people will be calling you and dailies you with emails. Whatever it is. Is that a negative if things don’t go perfectly?

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Chaotic Flow

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

The problem is that most sales reps treat LinkedIn like a prospecting database for cold calling. It’s just too enticing when all your target prospects are out there showing off their company names, titles, areas of expertise, blogs, and opinions. Stick to direct cold calls and email for prospecting.

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OpenView Labs

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Editor’s Note: This article is Part 1 of a 4-part series that was first published on the Product Led Institute blog here. Even non-trivial steps like activation emails can put a significant dent in your free trial to paid conversion rate if you’re not careful. This is what the activation email looked like.

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Neil Patel

MARCH 26, 2019

Case in point, here are the traffic stats during the last 7 days for the Portuguese version of my blog: And here are my traffic stats during the last 7 days for Spanish: I get a whopping 238% more traffic on the Portuguese version of NeilPatel.com than I do on the Spanish version. I had to learn this the hard way. Localizing. Build links.

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Hacking Revenue

MAY 14, 2017

Try sending 100 people a cold email or a cold Linkedin InMail. Let’s think about that moment you’re getting an email from someone you don’t know. If you don’t have any public references such as an article you wrote, an interview you gave, a blog or something you can credit to your name – try and make one.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 28, 2019

And it leads to a lot of mistakes. The number-one mistake we see is Account Executives expecting their SDRs to hand them over meetings. Cold calls are good, but they’re not all you have. Chances are, it’s white papers, blog posts, tweets, and so on. Don’t reduce them to writing blog posts. Join their email lists.

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The Marketing & Growth Hacking Publication

MARCH 10, 2019

Image via Instagram Native Cold Pressed, a company that specializes in juice, smoothie bowls, and smoothies, believes in healthy living. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: 56 Influencers Share Their Biggest Mistakes and How to Avoid Them 2. Every time that keyword is mentioned on the web, you will automatically receive an email about it.

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Buffer Resources

JANUARY 31, 2023

Question: I’ve recently started an email newsletter but haven’t been receiving as many subscribers as I hoped. While it’s true that email marketing has always been an important tool for business growth, in recent years the popularity of platforms like Substack has made it clear that this medium is in demand.

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SaaStr

JUNE 19, 2020

There’s something in the email, in the subject line, in the deck that’s interesting. And I wanted to review 16 rookie errors that I see founders make again and again, when pitching investors, where there’s no need to make these mistakes. Jason Lemkin: But the best VCs read their cold emails.

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Kraftblick

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

First, the customer understands well that someone else has already paid for your initial research and mistakes. 2) Spread the word on your website, your blog and via cold emails, mentioning that you are able to solve these problems. Expertise in the customer’s field is a serious advantage.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The same is true for podcasts, emails, drip marketing, etc. The co-founders of Hubspot were at SaaStr Annual last year and said that for two years, they each had to write a blog post every single day. So many founders make the mistake of finding the number one AE who closed a lot and hiring them as VP of Sales.

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SaaStr

JULY 13, 2023

Q: What Does It Take To Write A Great Cold Email In 2023? Finding unicorn SDRs is one thing, but writing a great cold email is simple. Amazing, great emails that are perfect, that solve your problems as a buyer for real right now, or are a jaw-dropping investment, get opened,” says Lemkin. It always gets opened.

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SaaStr

JULY 12, 2022

What I want to talk about today is perhaps the mistake that most of us make, by my nonstatistical study, 70 percent of us make, which is not hiring the right VP of sales. One of maybe the top 10 mistakes everybody makes is they want to hire this VP of sales too early. More power to you. They get this thing going. Don’t wait.

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Incredo

JANUARY 7, 2020

8 SaaS lead nurturing mistakes that may cost you new users Here you will find the top 8 mistakes that SaaS companies tend to make while trying to nurture their leads: Need a solid lead nurturing strategy for your SaaS? You can’t treat all leads equally, send them generic emails, and hope for a positive reaction.

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Neil Patel

MARCH 30, 2023

In this post, we’re going to go through some of the common Facebook ad mistakes that people make when running Facebook Ad campaigns of their own. Creating a custom audience that is not custom enough is one of the biggest mistakes you can make when managing Facebook ads. then this post is for you! Lookalike audiences are pretty simple.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Whether you’re looking for a podcast to listen to on your morning commute, or you need a free tool to help send better cold emails, we have something here for you. The Cold Email Grader. The Cold Email Grader is a tool created by Outreach and REGIE to help sales reps write and send better cold emails.

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SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

I mean, obviously in person’s better, but I think a slowing, and I’m also think the velocity and optimizing for speed and just low overhead check… I think there are plenty of founders who will tell other founders that that was a mistake. So you can email hello@cowboy.vc. So we read all of our inbounds.

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