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Templates, guides, downloads and market insights to help you close more deals.

Cold email — Referral ask

Email · 60 words

Classic 'right person?' opener. Consistently the highest reply-rate format for cold outbound.

Cold email — Trigger event

Email · 90 words

Reference a recent funding round, hire, product launch, or earnings comment. Tie it to a relevant outcome.

Cold email — Break-up

Email · 40 words

Last touch in a sequence. Short, no pressure, often gets a reply when nothing else has.

LinkedIn — Connection note

LinkedIn · 300 char max

Short, no pitch. Acceptance rates drop sharply past ~250 characters or when a CTA is included.

Cold call — Opening script

Phone · 30s

Permission-based opener. Names the call as a cold call up front, which removes the objection before it forms.

Discovery call — Question framework

Call · 30-45 min

Sequenced context → pain → impact → vision → next step. Loosely based on MEDDIC and SPIN.

The B2B Prospecting Playbook

Article · 18 min read

End-to-end: defining ICP, sourcing accounts, multi-channel outreach, qualifying, and handoff.

Personalized sales outreach that gets replies

Article · Brief Source

How to research, structure and write outreach that feels one-to-one — at scale.

Building an ICP that actually converts

Article · Lenny Rachitsky

Going past 'mid-market SaaS in North America'. Trigger events, firmographics, and disqualifiers.

Source: lennysnewsletter.com

Designing outreach sequences that don't burn the list

Article · HubSpot

Touch cadence, channel mix, when to drop a contact, and how to re-engage cold accounts later.

Source: blog.hubspot.com

What separates top cold callers

Research · Gong Labs

Gong Labs research on opener structure, talk ratio, and the questions that convert to meetings.

Source: gong.io

Pre-call research checklist

Checklist · 1 page

10 points to run through before any discovery call. Trigger events, news, hires, tech stack.

Follow-up cadence — 7 touches over 21 days

Cadence · 1 page

Day-by-day cadence with channel mix and the angle for each touch.

Gong Labs — sales conversation research

Research hub · Gong

Ongoing analysis of millions of recorded calls and emails: what actually correlates with won deals.

Source: gong.io

HubSpot — B2B sales statistics

Report · HubSpot

Annual roundup of sales performance data across channels, personas, and industries.

Source: blog.hubspot.com

Lavender — cold email data reports

Blog · Lavender

Reply-rate benchmarks by subject-line length, word count, day-of-week, and sender persona.

Source: lavender.ai