Do I have your attention now? OK, 30 seconds sounds a bit far fetched, but I promise that I’m going to help you close more deals faster (that’s basically our mission here at … [Read more...]
The High Cost of Dirty Data: Why Data Hygiene Is Crucial and What the Best Practices Are
I’m not rich enough to buy cheap things, says an old proverb. And this pearl of wisdom is perfectly applicable to our contemporary and modern business ways. Marketers and salespeople … [Read more...]
4 Ways to Make Your Content Work for Your Business
Long gone are the days when traditional marketing could cut it and attract your audience towards considering your product and service. Nowadays everything practically revolves around … [Read more...]
How to Run Successful LinkedIn Live: Best Practices
In our last blog post, we talked about the best LinkedIn Live channels to follow and what to expect once you tune in. This time we’ll put you in a more active role and discuss how you can do … [Read more...]
Top LinkedIn Live Channels to Watch This Week
LinkedIn wasn’t too quick to jump on the video bandwagon. It finally happened in August 2017, but it took the social media platform for professionals almost a year and a half to roll out its … [Read more...]
5 Proven Ways to Boost the Productivity of Your Sales Team
According to a recent survey, sales productivity and performance has been identified as the top challenge when it comes to managing account executive teams. What’s even more interesting is … [Read more...]
6 Tips for B2B Cold Calling Success
In recent years, there has been a widespread debate across the blogosphere concerning cold calling. Some marketing pundits see cold calling as dead due to the changing nature of business … [Read more...]
How I Used My Experience to Get 12 Customers in 19 Days
Here’s a short but useful account on how I managed to land 12 customers in just 19 days. And yeah, it’s not for bragging purposes, but to help you do the same and get your business going in … [Read more...]
How to Sell to Today’s Busy People?
Nowadays ‘busy’ is the new cool. We multitask and do a bunch of things simultaneously – we grab a burger while and have our weekly conference call while driving to our kid’s soccer practice, … [Read more...]
The Most Effective Sales Email Templates with Examples
Our clients frequently ask us what they can do to improve the performance of their campaigns, so let’s dive into the subject and discuss the anatomy of the most effective sales email templates. … [Read more...]
How to Sell Before, At, and After a Trade Show (2019 Update)
1. Start #hashtagging on Twitter & Instagram that your company will be at the trade show Social media is free and a great tool to use before trade shows. Whenever I go to trade shows, I always … [Read more...]
Why It’s Important to Warm Up Your Domain Before Sending Cold Outreach and How to Do It?
Yes, cold outreach is still a thing and it works. Stats (and my experience) say that it’s one of the most effective methods for customer acquisition in the B2B industry. You’ve … [Read more...]
How to Book More Demos and Discovery Calls Today
We’ve already established that being proactive is a make-it-or-break-it factor in sales. If you’re not going out of your way to generate more leads, your business will stall and your revenue … [Read more...]
The Benefits and Dangers of Using Third-Party LinkedIn Automation Tools (browser extensions)
TL;DR Automation has disrupted every industry and allowed companies to boost their productivity and efficiency, as well as to reduce operating costs and offer better user experience to their … [Read more...]
How Sales Serve People and Makes the World a Better Place
Gone are the days when products and services were scarce, hard to obtain, and thus in high demand, and when consumers were delighted just to find out that a solution for their problem actually … [Read more...]
Why Are Your Emails Being Ignored and How to Break the Vicious Circle of Getting the Cold Shoulder?
So, you’ve created a great product or service that can significantly improve the life of your potential customers, and you want to shout about that from the rooftops. But, since that’s not an option, … [Read more...]
How to Generate More Leads and Increase Pipeline Velocity
Salespeople face numerous challenges on a daily basis, and generating more leads and moving them through the sales pipeline quickly are surely among the biggest ones. As for lead generation, … [Read more...]
19 Great Ways to Generate More B2B Leads
Generating leads is a non-stop activity. Luckily, today there are more ways than ever to find potential customers for your business. You just need to do everything you can think of to reach them. … [Read more...]
What’s the Difference Between CRM and Marketing Automation
In a world where we’re blessed with an abundance of tech solutions for different parts of the marketing and sales process, it can be hard to make up your mind and decide what exactly you need in order … [Read more...]
Tap Into the Power of Tags: How to Leverage Them and Better Organize Your Prospects – NEW Feature
🚀 Autoklose 🚀 has just introduced a new super useful feature called Tagging! If you’re using Gmail, and you probably are, then you should be familiar with this concept. Labels in Gmail allow … [Read more...]
Cold Email Opening Lines That Work Every Time
In one of our earlier posts, we were talking about best email subject lines that will increase the chance of getting your email opened by your prospects. If you haven’t read it yet I suggest you go … [Read more...]
Sales Questions You Should Be Asking
Let us talk a bit about modern buyers. They are well informed and know exactly what they want. On the other hand, they have very little patience, and highly value experience, meaning and … [Read more...]
Steps Involved in Creating an Effective Outbound Sales Strategy
Due to relatively low conversion rates, at least when compared with inbound, outbound sometimes gets treated almost as an afterthought. That’s not to say that people ignore it completely, but … [Read more...]
Mastering the Skill of a Sales Development Representative
In an online world, the sales role has changed dramatically - as customers evolve, so does the sales department. This is why it is of great importance to create roles that bring results to the … [Read more...]
Why You Need to Leave BANT Behind, and What to Replace It With
In the pre-internet age, selling and lead qualification methods used to be so much simpler. Buyers didn’t have as many sources of information on your product, there were fewer competitors, products … [Read more...]
How to Create a Sales Plan
A sales plan is a strategy that defines every part of the sales process and sets clear targets and tactics. An organized sales plan is just the groundwork you need to reach your company’s sales … [Read more...]
The Importance of Timing for Sending Your Emails
On the face of it, email marketing might strike you as outdated. In reality, cold email outreach can boast some incredible success stories. And it can have an ROI that can’t be matched by any other … [Read more...]
5 Ways to Boost Your Outbound Marketing
In a world where everyone seems to be talking about inbound marketing, those looking to boost their outbound tactics can feel a fair bit out of place. In fact, having just googled “how to boost … [Read more...]
6 Types of Video That Will Skyrocket Your Conversions and Profit
Content still rules big time! No matter what industry you’re in, it’s essential to educate, entertain, and compel your prospects as that will get them more attached to your brand and increase … [Read more...]
How to Make the Most of Your Customer Onboarding Process and Prevent Churn
Do you want to hear the good news or the bad news first? OK, let’s go with a downer – the odds are that 75% of your new users will churn within a week. Now the good news – it’s nothing to … [Read more...]
8 Proven Strategies to Reduce Customer Churn Rate
The truth is, some of your customers will take off (or even worse, ghost on you!), no matter what you do to prevent them, as there are some factors you just can't control. However, as a high … [Read more...]
How to Overcome 12 Common Sales Objections
One of the most challenging stages of sales is prospecting and perfecting the art of handling objections coming from our potential clients. Truth be told, at least 50% of our prospects are just not … [Read more...]
11 Tips for Writing Emails That Will Get You Tangible Results
Email marketing is still one of the most important marketing strategies, both in the B2B and B2C industries, and it seems that’s not about to change soon. It is considered one of the most … [Read more...]
13 Effective Sales Strategies And Tips That Get Results
After you have spent resources and time developing a new product, finding people who will buy it is the next important consideration. You might be confused about the best way to approach a customer or … [Read more...]
7 Techniques for Motivating Your Sales Team
A, B, C. Always be closing. Always Be Closing. Always. Be. Closing. Many consider this monologue by Alec Baldwin from the 1992 movie Glengarry Glen Ross … [Read more...]
How to Put Finishing Touches to Your Email If You Want to Klose the Deal
Despite the fact that email has been with us for quite a while now, and that is one of the most popular means of communication, a lot of us are still struggling to find just the right phrasing for … [Read more...]
Best Practices For Writing a Professional Email
Email as a form of communication is so popular that we send around 269 billion emails per day. This also goes for receiving emails. An average professional receives around 121 emails per … [Read more...]
Increase Productivity at Work and Make Time Go by Faster
You know those days at work when everything seems hard and when that day just drags on and on while you check your watch in disbelief that it has only been 3 minutes since the last time you checked? … [Read more...]
9 Rules for Excelling at Sales Prospecting
It might be argued that ever since the Industrial Revolution, the gap between the supply and demand in just about any industry you can think of has been widening steadily. This trend only exploded … [Read more...]
Best Out-of-Office Email Templates
It's finally that time of the year - you are going on a much-needed vacation and it's time to sort out your work before you go. One of the most important things to do when leaving office is to create … [Read more...]
Sales Meetings: 14 Ideas to Make Your Sales Team More Motivated
Here’s what’s wrong with sales meetings: not many managers are doing them right. No wonder an average executive spends 23 hours per week in meetings. In this post, we’ll go through 15 sales … [Read more...]
10 Signs That the Prospect Isn’t the Right Fit
Stats say that at least 50% of your prospects aren't a good fit for what you sell. As if generating leads and attracting potential customers isn't complex enough, salespeople have to deal with yet … [Read more...]
How to Create Gmail Labels and Drastically Improve Your Productivity
Even though emails are still one of the most convenient means of communication that we have, practically regardless of the line of work you’re in, they are just as likely to prevent you from doing … [Read more...]
The Art of Crushing Your Sales Goals Explained
No matter what your business is about, there’s one thing that you should always bear in mind: you need to learn how to sell! Honing one’s sales skills isn’t something that’s important for sales … [Read more...]
How to Create a Sales Cadence That Will Keep Your Funnel Full and Your Customers Unannoyed
One of the greatest fears of every decent sales rep is that they will annoy and bore their prospects to death which will result in a number of failed deals. But how to avoid this unpleasant … [Read more...]
How To Send an Email
Everyone can send an email, but not everyone knows how to send an effective email. For an email to be effective and drive desired results we must make it personal, relevant, timely, and … [Read more...]
How to Create a Professional Email Signature
In our previous articles, we tackled some of the most important issues related to sending emails - writing compelling subject lines and structuring follow-up emails. (link to published … [Read more...]
37 Networking Email Subject Lines for Nearly Every Occasion
Networking starts with the desire to build relationships in order to enhance your knowledge, expand your sphere of influence, advance in your career or business, or become the next sales superstar. … [Read more...]
How to Find Every Email You May Ever Need
Doesn’t matter which area of digital marketing you are focused on and which channels you prefer to use for lead generation and sales, you had to have been in a number of situations where having a … [Read more...]
How to Create the Best Follow-Up Email Strategy
Here is a situation you probably experienced a number of times. You are working tirelessly to generate new leads, create the best prospecting strategy, write the perfect outreach email. You send the … [Read more...]
The Best Practices for Increasing Email Engagement
126! That’s the number of emails that an average employee sends and receives. On a daily basis! So, what happens when you send an email with your amazing offer to your target audience? It’s … [Read more...]
Why So Cold? Or How to Boost Your Cold Email Response Rate
We’ve already discussed cold emailing (and cold calling) already, but bearing in mind how tricky this strategy can be in terms of response rates, it won’t hurt to revisit it and talk it through one … [Read more...]
Is it possible to schedule your meetings while you sleep? NEW integration
Believe it or not, but the answer is yes! Enter Calendly <> Autoklose integration. We know that time is money. What we also know is that you should remove any friction from the customer … [Read more...]
The Power of Sales Enablement – How to Turn Your Clunky Sales Process into a Well-Oiled Machine
Only 35% of salespeople believe that marketing knows what they need. Companies that use technology effectively are 57% more successful at sales training and development than those who don’t. … [Read more...]
Have You Read Our B2B-Sales Handbook?
Let’s face it: we live in an age of consumers spoiled by an abundance of different options, choices, and technological advancements. If you don’t step up a gear and respond to their needs and … [Read more...]
8 Rules for a High-Performance Sales Development Team
Sales is challenging. Having proven rules to follow adds to predictability which is of paramount importance to every high-performance sales development team. Moreover, distinguishing between … [Read more...]
We Call it: The Autoklose Template Analyzer!
Hear ye, hear ye, Klosers! We are super excited to introduce this new part of the Autoclose platform to you. We had two things in mind while working extremely hard to ship this game-changing … [Read more...]
How to Overcome the Hurdles of Running a Successful SAAS While Getting Punched in the Mouth: Part 2
This is the second part of our extensive blog post created after a webinar co-hosted by Shawn Finder, CEO of Autoklose, and Kyle Racki, CEO of Proposify. Read the first part here. How to Set … [Read more...]
How to Overcome the Hurdles of Running a Successful SAAS While Getting Punched in the Mouth: Part 1
The only way you are going to have success is to have lots of failures first. — Sergey Brin, President of Alphabet Inc. By 2021, 75% of the total cloud workloads and compute instances … [Read more...]
The Best Social Selling Tips from the Industry Experts
Sales has come a long way since those much-maligned door-to-door salespeople who tried to push their agenda and sell you something the first (and most probably the last) time they saw you. Now … [Read more...]
The Ultimate Sales Podcast List for 2019
Sales is a tricky business. Making the right moves at the right time can change the whole game. On the other hand, a single wrong word can ruin it all. Get to know the well-kept secrets … [Read more...]
7 Easy and Effective Rules for Sales Prospecting on LinkedIn
Generating new prospects is one of the most important parts of the whole sales process. Many salespeople admit that they find it difficult to get new prospects. To be more precise, 63% of B2B … [Read more...]
Should You Send Late-Night Emails to Your Employees?
Elon Musk, Tesla’s hard-working CEO, recently sent an email to his employees at 1:20 AM. Many internet portals discussed this gesture and questioned how suitable and appropriate it was. What’s … [Read more...]
Sales Lead Generation Strategies to Watch Out For in 2019
It’s that challenging new-year-new-me time again, and we need to summon all our knowledge, courage, and motivation to reinvent our sales process and Klose like never before. We’re lucky to be … [Read more...]
What Great Salespeople Always Do & What Average Salespeople Only Think About
"You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them."— Michael Jordan What makes a great salesperson? What differentiates them from an average one? That’s the … [Read more...]
Drive Engagement and Conversions by Adding Personal Video to Your Sales Outreach
Video killed the radio star! Ever since this medium appeared, it caused stir and excitement and even after more than a century later, it’s still fresh and attention-grabbing. It’s exactly … [Read more...]
7 Door-to-Door Secrets of Outbound Sales Success
A guest blog post by Tom Jenkins, Content Writer at CloudTask Growth is the mantra of the modern economy: every sales manager wants to build the team that will lead their business to the … [Read more...]
4 Most Common Pain Points Sales Reps Face and How to Solve Them
Prospecting – find the man with the problem.Ben Friedman This laconic quote hits the nail on the head and distills the essence of prospecting. But, what if you, a sales rep, are that person with … [Read more...]
Autoklose — Major Product Upgrade
Continuity is an essential element of a successful business. That’s why we decided to help you step up your game and never miss a beat. Autoklose got a new, major update which will allow you … [Read more...]
Do You Know What We Did Last Summer?
And it’s a wrap! September has finally come, so let’s have a quick recap of all the good things that happened this spring and summer. First of all, we received some well-deserved accolades which … [Read more...]
6 Ways to Boost Your Sales During the Summer Slump
Many businesses face stagnation during the summer months while people are away on vacation. This unpleasant slump can heavily affect a company’s bottom line, so waving the white flag and thinking to … [Read more...]
Free EBook: 673 Years Of Sales Excellence
The book represents an ingenious guide on how to achieve peak performance in sales, your career, and life. It is written by 27 exceptional entrepreneurs and sales leaders. If finding excellence in … [Read more...]
New Integration: Elevate Your Automation Efforts to a Whole New Level with Zapier
Over the past few months, we have been growing tremendously. Yes, it’s been busy, but we love every second of it. We interact with each and every team and individual on our platform. We care. That’s … [Read more...]
5 Tips on How to Find Your Way Into Your Prospects’ Inboxes
Many marketers, especially newbies, frequently find themselves questioning the effectiveness of email marketing. This marketing strategy has been around for quite some time and it managed to survive … [Read more...]
6 Simple and Bulletproof Strategies for Nurturing Your Leads
Back in the 20th century, when traditional marketing was peaking, salespeople and marketers used pushy ads and commercials to attract their potential customers. So, it was perfectly normal to barge in … [Read more...]
11 Ways to Speed Up Your Sales Cycle
A salesperson’s schedule is very hectic, we all know that, but no matter what by the end of the month we have to hit our targets. Only closing counts, which means that all your efforts are worthwhile … [Read more...]
10 Closing Mistakes That Could Cost You a Deal
Closing is, undoubtedly, the hardest part of the whole sales process. Even the best salespeople have to try hard and invest a great deal of effort into getting their prospects to seal a deal. The … [Read more...]
From a Cold Lead to A Hot Deal: How to Automate Your Way Through the Sales Process
Believe it or not, but sales reps spend only 36.6% of their time selling! Isn’t it ironic that instead of calling their prospects, following up with them, nurturing them, closing deals and, you know, … [Read more...]
5 Most Important Email Metrics You Should Track and How to Improve Them
OK, so far we have established that email marketing is still huge and that its importance hasn’t been diminished by social media and other communication channels. For example, consumers who decide … [Read more...]
How to Create an Ideal Customer Profile and Buyer Personas for Your Business
Believe it or not, but even some business professionals tend to mix these two important concepts and use them interchangeably. However, despite being seemingly similar, ideal customer profiles and … [Read more...]
How to Slice Your Contact Database and Segment Your Email List for the Best Results
Your database is packed with relevant leads and yet your open and click rates aren’t exactly something to brag about, while your bottom line has hit the rock bottom. Is it possible that those who … [Read more...]
Why It’s Important to Keep Your Database Clean and How to Do That
Did you know that 66% of people change their job every year? In addition to that, almost 20% of addresses and 18% of telephone numbers change every year. We can sum it up by saying that customer data … [Read more...]
How to Create an Effective and Memorable Email Signature
Creating a good email signature is usually the last thing on your mind when you simply want to communicate a message via email. How hard can it be, you ask yourself. I’ll put my name, title, email … [Read more...]
How to Master the Fine Art of Creating Effective Call-to-Action Buttons
Click. This sound is music to marketers’ ears as they eagerly wait for conversions. How to entice visitors of your site into clicking the CTA button and purchasing your product or service? Now, … [Read more...]
Follow-up: 11 Rules to Get it Right
Cold calling is at the top of salespeople’s hate list, that’s for sure, but it seems that "follow-up" upholds second place. However, statistics show that 80% of sales require 5 follow-up phone … [Read more...]
How to Create Effective and Compelling Email Copy That Sells
In the first installment of the Best Email Marketing Practices series, we discussed the craft (or should we say art) of composing subject lines which intrigue recipients enough to open the email. Many … [Read more...]
Crafting Killer Subject Lines
Life is about the little things that make a big difference. The same can be applied to email marketing. Those couple of little words that make up a subject line are major factors when it comes to … [Read more...]
9 Outreach Strategies That Will Seriously Engage Your Audience and Land You More Sales
Reaching out to your prospects, potential business partners, influencers, and pretty much anybody you want to establish some kind of connection with can be pretty tricky. There are lots of reasons for … [Read more...]
How to Implement 7 Easy DIY Growth Hacking Tactics and Increase Your Sales
"I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work." This quote by Thomas Edison perfectly sums up the essence of growth hacking. Relentlessly focusing on achieving rapid and sustainable … [Read more...]
How to Sabotage Your Chances of Closing Across the Sales Process
The road to hell is paved with good intentions, and sometimes with well-meaning advice. Sales is a tough game, full of challenges and rough patches, which is why you need to think everything through … [Read more...]
