outbound sales
12 statements across 11 episodes · 3 bullish · 3 bearish · 11 people on the record · first statement May 25, 2022 by Oliver Jay · across every show →
Everything said about outbound sales, oldest first
May 25, 2022
Cold outbound fails without company-wide marketing and product alignment
“If what you mean by going outbound is you're just going to get some salespeople to go buy some lists and just start cold emailing, LinkedIn bombing people. It won't gonna work because your entire conversion process is designed around a different buyer, articul…”
May 25, 2022
Outbound sales requires distinct buyers, messaging, and larger deal sizes
“For outbound to be successful, generally speaking, you're selling to a different buyer. Probably a more senior persona. You're probably selling a different value. And so therefore you need different messaging. In terms of the sales process, absolutely, you'll …”
Feb 21, 2023 positive
Aug 25, 2023
Howie Liu: Single-User Software Cannot Support Outbound Sales Economics
“If you're taking a single user product out to market it's just harder to make performance marketing work. It's harder to make, you know, you can't really make outbound sales work, right? The economics of, You know, pitching a single user who pays a single and …”
Jan 31, 2024 bearish
Feb 14, 2024
Gonto: Internal tech stack initiatives are stronger outbound triggers than industry verticals
“We realized that the initiative mattered more than the industries. So for example, if a company's upgrading the technology stack, moving from JavaScript to Java, then at that point, it actually made sense for them to think about the authentication provider.”
Apr 12, 2024
Blond: Run late-night, small whiteboard sessions for contrarian sales ideas
“At a ten-person startup, Harry, you're the founder, you're gonna be in this meeting, the two sales reps are gonna be in this meeting, and then maybe we have, like, somebody in growth, that person's gonna be in this meeting. So we've got four people in this mee…”
Apr 24, 2024 bearish
Dec 20, 2024 negative
Plank: People calling outbound sales dead lack experience or seek clout
“I think people that say outbound is dead are either one of two things. Like they're either engagement bathing, you know, looking for a reaction on LinkedIn or whatever that they know that there's a whole army of people out there where that's their profession a…”
Jan 24, 2025
Aug 4, 2025 positive