Reply Blog on allbound sales automation

Cold recruitment emails (and calls) can be tough. The kind of people your company wants to recruit is already being bombarded with hundreds of emails from other organizations and agencies.

How are you meant to stand out and grab your dream candidates’ attention?

Your recruitment email needs to stand out for all the right reasons, without giving the recipient any reason to ignore it.

Easier said than done, right? That’s why we’ve put together an updated post with 10 essential tips on creating outstanding cold emails for recruiting. As I’m feeling particularly generous today, I’ve also included templates (normally only available to Reply users) you can customize and use in your next campaign.

You know you’ve got a great product or service, one that can change the world (or at the very least make it a little easier for your customers). Yet when you email your prospects, you hear nothing. What gives? How come some people get crazy high reply rates while all you’re getting is digital tumbleweed?

I’m an SDR at Reply, helping fill our sales funnel with qualified leads and booking meetings. We see great results from our cold emails, with reply rates of over 25%. If you’d like to reach more clients and boost your response rate, check out these 9 reasons your emails might be failing.

The robots are taking over.

You can’t read the news without seeing some article about how automation is going to destroy the workforce or AI is going to soon realise it doesn’t need us anymore.

Whether you think advances in automation are fantastic news or the beginning of the end, there’s no denying they’re having a real effect on businesses today. What do these developments mean for businesses like yours? How can you take full advantage, whether you’re a new business or a well-established company?

Every company would love to have more inbound sales.

They represent a steady stream of prospects coming directly to you, signing up and entering your sales funnel, all with the goal of them ultimately becoming loyal, happy customers.

Beyond just sales, they are also a good indicator of a company’s performance and serve as an effective forecast for the health of your business. By checking on the inbound leads coming in, you get a picture of how many deals you can expect to close, what companies you’re attracting, and the revenue you can expect to make in any given month.

But how can you make the most of those leads? I’m going to share with you some of the inbound sales strategies that bring in over 1,000 inbound leads every month to Reply, along with the mistakes you need to avoid.

At Reply.io, we take your security and privacy seriously.

To comply with the upcoming GDPR, we’re committed to ensuring that we and our customers adjust to the scope of the changes by being transparent about our practices and how we protect data and privacy.

To improve security safeguards and support needed processes, we have already implemented (or will complete implementation by May 25, 2018) multiple changes to our services.

If you are a Software-as-A-Service company, no matter what industry you are in, there is a good chance you have an affiliate program.

And in most cases when your affiliate program is starting out, you are very reactive with it, letting affiliates signup on their own if they are interested.

This is fine and dandy until you meet a crossroad where your affiliate program has the potential to be a channel of growth for your company and bring in quality customers through qualified affiliate partners.

But how do you successfully pitch these qualified affiliate partners?

Have sales left you feeling overwhelmed and burned out?

It used to seem so simple. Now there are hundreds of millions of potential clients, along with millions of competitors vying for their attention.

The world of sales is moving faster than anyone can keep track of, leaving only one thing for certain: If you’re using the same methods and tools you were using a few years ago, you’re going to be left behind.

If you’ve spent any time with us at Reply, you’ll know we’re big fans of automation. We’re constantly looking for ways to take care of all the boring or repetitive tasks in sales and marketing, so you can focus on what matters most.

New sales automation tools are released every day, which is another challenge. Some of those apps will make your life easier, while others will waste your time and money.

How are you meant to keep up with it all? We have a solution.

At Reply, we aspire to work and live at our maximum potential. From brainstorming ideas on new product features to building the team and keeping ourselves motivated – we believe there are no limits in what we can do.

So, why should you limit yourself to a single option for getting leads for your email outreach campaigns?

That’s why we’ve created the Reply Data marketplace – one place where one can find various lead generation and data enrichment options, available within your Reply accounts.

You’ve been waiting for it for so long.

We’ve been working on it for three months, spent over 5,500 man hours (just think of this number!) on its development, testing, fixing and polishing.

And now it is here – the long-awaited Reply Team Edition functionality is available for all subscription types at no additional cost.

Team Edition Overview

The feature is designed to get your team to act together in Reply and effectively collaborate on the outreach / communication process steps: campaigns, prospects lists, schedules, email templates, campaign templates, and manage overall access and visibility.

Team owners gain simple tools to manage the workload and responsibilities within teams, assign prospects and campaigns, manage team members, etc.

And last but not least, with Team Edition functionality you’re able to perform account-based selling and collaborate on prospect and company levels for better outreach.

You’re ready to take your business to the next level and you know exactly what you need; the latest cold email software. It looks great, ticks all your boxes, and has the potential to skyrocket your sales faster than Elon Musk with a Tesla.

With great anticipation, you hand over your hard earned money, and then… it all fizzles out.

You can’t find your leads, trying to access the emails crashes the system and your sales team have nothing but complaints. You’re in a worse position than ever before while paying for the privilege of useless software. If you’ve never been through a software switch that hasn’t ended in literal tears, you’re one of the fortunate few.

However, if you’re like most of us, you have the first-hand experience of just how painful switching software can be.

Setting up a cold email solution with follow ups sent automatically can be a huge benefit to your business, but if you’re worried about making the switch then check out our handy guide.