D'Souza: Cold outreach remains underutilized because SMBs find setup too complex
“Cold outreach itself, though we think it's a very saturated space, it's still pretty new out there. A lot of businesses still don't use cold outreach because Using Google ads, using Facebook ads is pretty simple for SMB. Cold outreach still feels like rocket s…”
dataroomHQ shifted GTM from cold outreach to in-person events and content
“Cold outreach is gonna be a great channel. It's proved out to not be a great channel for us actually, because it's very noisy. It's very hard to get people's attention these days. So we've actually shifted more towards things like events and actually meeting p…”
Abel: Relevancy matters more than personalization in sales outreach
“First and foremost is relevancy. I think that matters even more so than personalization right now, because I think it's so easy to personalize anything.”
Walling: Cold outreach does not work for a $29/month product
“Like, you can't make money on a product doing cold outreach at 29.”
Martens: Tally Achieved Around 20% Response Rate on Early Cold DMs
“And we managed, like we, I think we got around a 20% response rate to our cold outreach, which is pretty crazy.”
Isenberg: Researching targets' likes and interviews enables tailored outreach
“If you can see what people like, and you can watch interviews of them, you could understand how to position it so that you have an offer that connects with them.”
Wilkinson: Public reputation drives M&A deal flow far better than cold outreach
“We've realized that, like, cold outreach is not the way to go. Like, we would much rather go and have a public presence and a reputation and have people actually seek us out and say, hey, I want to sell you my company.”
Cassidy: Mass quasi-personalized cold outbound email is waning in effectiveness
“The sort of cold sort of outreach playbook, right, of like, let's just sort of spam the market with sort of quasi personalized communication is waning in effectiveness, right? You should do it, by the way. It's sort of table stakes. You have to do it. On some …”
Finkelstein recommends donating to a target's charity to bypass outreach filters
“One other way that's super simple is almost everyone you want to meet has some sort of not everyone, but most people will have some sort of philanthropic charity foundation they're connected to that means a lot to them. And if you do research on them, it is ve…”
Ogden: Advanced personalization lifts cold email response rates to 13-15%
“So like the standard response rate to cold outreach is somewhere between seven and 8.5%. But because of the advanced personalization, we get a 13 to 15% response rate generally.”