What tools do you recommend for cold emailing sequences?
Hi IHs,
I would like to start automating some of our sales outreach process and looking into tools for the job. What do you guys use and recommend?
My use case is fairly simple: I'd just like to send some cold email sequences, and ideally it would stop the sequence if they reply, and that's it.
Also, as bonus, what CRM tool would you recommend so I can keep all the contacts and businesses I approached and all the information and notes about them?
Thanks
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I have a great experience with Mailshake.com (for cases when you have data and you need to send it in mass)
If you don't have the data and you need to get them first, try Apollo.io. You can get the data there and send it directly via your inbox. It will look like a natural email and not just a mass email.
As for CRM, I am at Hubspot now, I think pricing vs features they're the best.
I was also recommended Apollo for similar reasons, it looks that it does the job really well and sending emails like it was from my inbox is my goal. Finding the data of the potential customers is also a blocker sometimes. Will def check it out.
Hubspot is super cool but it gets quite steep expensive when you start adding the add-ons that would make everything amazing.
Hey Miguel, I'm also looking at Apollo. Did you try it out? What do you think so far?
In the meantime someone close to me recommended snov.io which has a small free plan that I'm trying it out. And so far so good, I'm happy.
I set up a small sequence with 10 contacts and it is working well. Also used their tools for contact discovery and that also worked quite well (until now).
I don't want to scale the outreach too much as it quite a niche product, so Snov might work well for me for the time being!
Apollo is definitely high on the list to try as well because I had so many good recommendations from it everywhere.
Got it. Very useful. Thanks!
BreakCold and SuperSend are decent bets. If you want to outsource who can do the heavy lifting, you can checkout ColdEmailStudio.
As a part of my Micro SaaS Ideas Newsletter, I wrote about these tools/niches
Uh, BreakCold looks epic, thanks! And your newsletter is growing like fire 🔥 Good luck with it. Do you do any sponsors or just the paid publication on top of it? Either way, keep it up!
Haven't been doing any sponsors. But I think I am at a point to go for sponsors if someone can come in and do some heavy lifting for me in getting/closing sponsorships for me.
I am using saleshandy tool for cold emailing setup, but they are stopping warm up service
Instantly.ai is by far my favorite email outreach tool
2nd person recommending, will check them out. What's so special about them among the others?
I've worked with a lot of email outreach tools over the past 10 years of doing sales and they're by far the most intuitive for my workflow. I've been able to train SDRs on how to use it faster than any other software, including Outreach.
Ultimately it comes down to the support; all of the founders are active on Twitter and religiously incorporate feedback.
They've got an awesome interview series on youtube where they interview A-players in the Lead-gen agency space and actively take notes on what to incorporate into instantly.
I've seen https://hexospark.com/ recommended on twitter many times
Looks neat and simple, I like that! Thanks for the recommendation.
gmass, mailshake,lemlist....there are tons like that. start with one, and start to warmup the domain
Hi! We use https://instantly.ai/ for this case
It looks nice, will check them out!
Some email sequence idea here: https://medium.com/@marketinflow/10-email-marketing-sequences-every-e-commerce-business-needs-to-boost-sale-c76f5f7e7ee8
Try manyreply.com It's launching soon. Now on beta. Feel free to mail me at [email protected] or DM me on Twitter @harish_deiva. I would like to onboard you as our initial user.
According to my experience try this tool called ' cold-emailing '
I've worked for two start up sale teams who have used Outreach basically for both use cases. It is not great for CRM, but some of the functionality can cover simple use cases for tracking leads to customers and organizing your data. You definitely do not need Salesforce assuming where your growth is based on this post.
One thing I have always found helpful with more bootstrapped tools for email and CRM is having a CSV import/export functionality. Not all of these tools are perfect so getting some data out and ingesting it back in can be very helpful. Outreach is good at that.
Have you thought about a COTS product like Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, SugarCRM or Hubspot? They have email campaign mgmt automation functions and tracking.
I always start with Airtable or Google Sheet for B2B CRM and then move on to HubSpot, Mailchimp, and Apollo. They are a bit more complex, but good if you want to have everything in one platform. E.g. in our case, email communication with end users.
Thanks. I was using Notion, but it is too mnhe for this. Mailchimp I'm also not a big fan. I'll check Hubspot and Apollo :)
MailerLite is good
Thanks, that will look too much like a newsletter IMO
this is a good option
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Don'y know what SMM is. And none of the tools there is what I'm looking for.