Cold email — Referral ask
Classic 'right person?' opener. Consistently the highest reply-rate format for cold outbound.
Templates, guides, downloads and market insights to help you close more deals.
Classic 'right person?' opener. Consistently the highest reply-rate format for cold outbound.
Reference a recent funding round, hire, product launch, or earnings comment. Tie it to a relevant outcome.
Last touch in a sequence. Short, no pressure, often gets a reply when nothing else has.
Short, no pitch. Acceptance rates drop sharply past ~250 characters or when a CTA is included.
Permission-based opener. Names the call as a cold call up front, which removes the objection before it forms.
Sequenced context → pain → impact → vision → next step. Loosely based on MEDDIC and SPIN.
End-to-end: defining ICP, sourcing accounts, multi-channel outreach, qualifying, and handoff.
How to research, structure and write outreach that feels one-to-one — at scale.
Going past 'mid-market SaaS in North America'. Trigger events, firmographics, and disqualifiers.
Touch cadence, channel mix, when to drop a contact, and how to re-engage cold accounts later.
Gong Labs research on opener structure, talk ratio, and the questions that convert to meetings.
10 points to run through before any discovery call. Trigger events, news, hires, tech stack.
Day-by-day cadence with channel mix and the angle for each touch.
Ongoing analysis of millions of recorded calls and emails: what actually correlates with won deals.
Annual roundup of sales performance data across channels, personas, and industries.
Reply-rate benchmarks by subject-line length, word count, day-of-week, and sender persona.