SPAM – Every SDR’s worst nightmare. Have you ever found yourself saying things like: “I spent hours working on crafting the perfect message and the email didn’t even get opened!” Writing copy for sales emails is no-longer ONLY about engaging with a prospect, adding value and asking for a meeting. Half of the battle has […]
Email Marketing
How to Write a Badass Cold Email to a Brand New Industry
Changing your voice when approaching a new vertical is an often overlooked and important factor in the success of a sales email cadence. I began selling into manufacturing in Q2 of 2018 with an email formula in mind that I was certain would not fail. It’s a formula that most sales development professionals are familiar […]
Your Emails Are Going to Spam
As sales reps, it’s impossible to deny the value in cold email. Nearly every B2B sales organization use cold email to prospect for opportunities, set meetings and hit quota. With the steep decline in cold-call answer rates and the introduction of “Scam Likely” filtering of unrecognized phone calls on cell phones, writing quality cold email […]
How An Email Copy A/B Test Resulted In 300% More Meetings Per Month
At the end of Q2, I was working with a client that was struggling to get traction. This client was selling a very niche product into a notoriously difficult space to reach through email (IT). Although they had a wide total addressable market, the copy wasn’t producing nearly enough meetings. By reworking some of the […]
Using Data To Evaluate Your Cold Emails Effectiveness
Forward: If you’re the kind of person that skips ahead in books to see what happens to the main character, I made a nice summary at the end of each section and at the end. Let’s face it, writing effective cold emails in 2018 is tough. With the implementation of GDPR, increasingly stringent spam filters […]
What is an Email Cadence? – Crafting the Perfect Email Cadence
Introducing Email Cadence Email cadences are defined by three things: text-based, email scheduling/automation, and reply detection. In combination, these give you a distinct advantage in making those connections and increasing your success rates. Alright, let’s talk reply detection. Typically, if you batch and blast 200 emails in a campaign, you hit Send and then sit back […]