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EP02: AI-First Approach to Outbound Growth
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February 28, 2024
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7:30 pm IST | 2:00 pm UTC
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Maruthi M
Co Founder - School of SDR | Rippling | Ex-Remote.com
Rahul Wadhwa
Co Founder - School of SDR | Ex-Slintel | Ex-Salesken
EP02: AI-First Approach to Outbound Growth
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Join our second episode of coach to learn about An Automation-First Approach to Outbound Growth. Explore how to implement automation tools effectively to streamline your outbound processes while maintaining a personalized touch, ensuring efficiency and authenticity in every interaction.
Things you'll learn
1. The Current State of Outbound Sales
- Manual Processes
- Account List Building: Traditional methods involve manual research using multiple databases like LinkedIn, ZoomInfo, Apollo, etc.
- Prioritization: Often done manually based on factors like funding, company size, and revenue.
- Lead Research: Time-consuming process, typically taking 5-10 minutes per lead.
- Email Customization: Manual customization of emails is labor-intensive.
- Validation: Using multiple tools to validate email addresses and manage contacts.
2. Introducing Automation with AI
- Tool Utilization:
- Clay: A versatile tool used for automating various outbound sales processes, significantly reducing time and effort.
- Key Play: Helps in prioritizing accounts based on predefined criteria.
- Automated Processes:
- Job Listings: Automate scraping of job listings from LinkedIn and other sources.
- Email Customization: Use ChatGPT to generate personalized email content based on job descriptions and other scraped data.
- Lead Research and Validation: Automate lead research and validation using a waterfall approach with multiple data sources integrated within Clay.
3. Practical Demonstration
- Job Listings Automation:
- Scraping job listings for specific roles (e.g., SDR) and extracting relevant details like job description, location, and company information.
- Using ChatGPT to summarize job descriptions and customize email introductions based on the extracted data.
- Email Generation:
- Creating automated email sequences with personalized content.
- Example email customization:some text
- “I noticed an open role for an SDR position in [City]. It looks like you want to bring them to [job description summary].”
- Contact Finding and Validation:
- Finding relevant contacts within target companies and validating email addresses using integrated tools within Clay.
- Automating the process of finding the right person to contact by comparing job titles and roles.
4. Key Benefits of AI and Automation
- Time Savings: Significant reduction in time spent on manual tasks such as research, data entry, and email customization.
- Enhanced Productivity: SDRs can focus more on high-value activities like engaging with prospects and closing deals.
- Improved Accuracy: Reduced human error in data collection and email customization.
- Scalability: Ability to scale outbound efforts without proportional increases in resource allocation.
5. Tools Recommended
- Clay: For automating data scraping, lead research, and email customization.
- Key Play: For prioritizing accounts based on criteria like company size, funding, and hiring trends.
- ZeroBounce and DeBounce: For email validation to ensure high deliverability rates.
6. Conclusion
- Embrace AI: AI tools like Clay and Key Play are essential for modern outbound sales strategies, enabling SDRs to work smarter, not harder.
- Continuous Improvement: Regularly update and refine automation processes to align with evolving sales goals and market conditions.
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Speakers
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Maruthi M
Co Founder - School of SDR | Rippling | Ex-Remote.com
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Rahul Wadhwa
Co Founder - School of SDR | Ex-Slintel | Ex-Salesken
Host
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Mahesh
Director of Growth at TripleDart