Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 26, 2010

As a marketing professional, I am not proud of our reputation as SPAM-ers. It seems as if the lower our outbound marketing response rates get, the greater the number of emails, phone calls, pop-up ads and other interruptions we throw at our weary populace. I refuse to answer cold calls at work or home.

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Hubspot

MARCH 12, 2018

My theory is that someone applied some math to this whole prospecting sales funnel-y thing and realized that spam is actually a decent prospecting method. After all, why should SDRs spend time crafting 100 personalized emails when sending the same generic email to 1,000 people results in the same number of responses? What will happen?

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 1, 2010

How hard can it be? We sent email and made cold calls. Not just a little more, we sent tons of email and cold calls and then we added even more. Lists became “tired&# as response rates drops. Opt-outs increased and our brand image suffered — all because we were spamming our customers.

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Hubspot

OCTOBER 5, 2017

While we (or our team) are racing to hit quota against that clock, though, we can save time and maximize our numbers by investing in the right processes, activities, and skills. Cold calling: Unsolicited calls to sell a product or service. Social spamming: Unsolicited social media messages to sell a product or service.

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Optinmonster

JANUARY 4, 2024

You can buy these lists from email database providers like ZoomInfo and Apollo. Using these email addresses for your marketing campaigns is against the CAN-SPAM Act (Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography And Marketing Act of 2003). But how you use the email data can land you in costly legal battles.

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Hubspot

MAY 24, 2011

The industry has continued to grow, though response rates have been declining and costs increasing, with an estimated 44% of direct mail being discarded before it is even looked at. Do Not Call legislation is passed in 2003, and now there are 200 million numbers on the US do not call list.

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Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

Users can query this widget to find out more about these visitors and decide if they want to purchase full business contact information. I worry that this tool only ends up helping sales pick out cold calls to make, and is not used by marketers enough to segment, collect, and improve their prospecting databases.

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Albacross

JANUARY 17, 2020

When it comes to sales, using the right tool can have a huge impact on your bottom line. There’s an extensive range of sales software out there and figuring out which one you should invest in can be a challenging task. I love their integration with Intercom, so leads can self-serve demos on their own. No need to worry, though.

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DiscoverOrg

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Our more specific follow-up blog was a hit, too: Keep Calm and GDPR on: How Marketers Can Comply with GDPR. 8 Ways to Use BASHO Emails in Cold Email Outreach. We’ll say it: You pretty much have to use cold email as part of your outbound strategy. In this blog, our sales development rep with the 60% response rate (!!)

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markempa

AUGUST 12, 2012

When you send emails and text messages without the recipient’s prior permission, the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing (CAN-SPAM) Act strictly requires the email makes it clear that what the recipient is receiving is advertising. Downside #2: The response rate will be nil.

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Hubspot

OCTOBER 29, 2019

And because it's more the exception than the rule, social selling can become a differentiator for sales organizations that adopt it early. There are several steps reps can take to get started with social selling: 1. Salesy comments are unsolicited, and will annoy group members just as a cold call or email would.

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Single Grain

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Create a personalized pitch of why you can help their business. You will have used up 3-5 hours each day just sending cold emails! Oh, and the average email open rate is between 15.22% and 28.46%. RelocateMe got an immediate 37% reply rate after implementing the software. reply rate and saved nearly 2 hours per day.

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Vidyard

FEBRUARY 2, 1999

We made a video version of this blog so you can do precisely that! Using Video in Sales Emails is More Convincing than Traditional Cold Calling 2.4 Sales videos are when salespeople record videos to send to prospects—via email, LinkedIn, or another channel—to increase responses. Watch and Learn. Master Video for Sales.

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