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When Is the Best Time to Cold Call?

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Cold Calling Cold calling is instrumental to any outbound sales development operation. Each of our SDRs make an average of 350 dials a week to actively build their sales pipeline.  Through constant work on perfecting gambits, objection handling and closing approaches, SDRs transform calls into conversations. Improving your craft is one way to help get a meeting scheduled, but what about fine-tuning your daily cadence...
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A Year of Massive Growth: Reveneer Looks Back on 2021

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Reveneer had an awesome 2021 with massive growth and 2022 is already off to a hot start. To celebrate our achievements, we wanted to reflect and celebrate the milestones we reached last year: We rebranded ReveneerOne, our managed services Reveneer One is the same completely outsourced inside sales solution that you know and love, powered by our Reveneer team. We added a few enhancements to…

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The Three C’s to Elevate Your Pitch

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The Elevator Pitch, a concept everyone should be familiar with.  For those who are drawing a blank, an Elevator Pitch is essentially taking around 30- 45 seconds to talk about who you are and what you are about. To be clear, an elevator pitch is not going on a big tangent or soliloquy (big middle school word *pats self on back*) about your product or…

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Getting Out of the Quicksand

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We’ve all been there – you’re in the groove, phones are hot, follow-ups are coming through, and meetings are being scheduled. It feels like you have everything all figured out, right? But then one bad day turns into a bad week, which turns into a bad month. Before you realize, you’re in a rut – or what I refer to as quicksand. What does that mean?…

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Three Simple Scatter Plots to Uncover Hidden SDR Performance Breakthroughs

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Most SDR performance dashboards have the same KPIs.  Calls, Connects, Conversations, Meetings Scheduled and conversion rates for each over day, week and month. Nothing wrong with them.  We use them too for our outbound SDR teams and they are excellent for spotting ups and downs in trends over time to identify when something has changed.   But to find breakthroughs – really meaningful insights that point…

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When Will You Schedule Your First Meeting?

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Co-Authored by Melanie Tummino & Christian DiRomualdo Fresh out of onboarding and training, jumping on the phones can be a daunting, yet exciting time for a new BDR or SDR. If you’ve done your job well as a sales manager or trainer, you’ll likely see your reps scheduling meetings fresh out of training, right? Well, I hate to break it to you all, but cold…

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The True Cost of an SDR

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Building a small sales development team from scratch will cost your organization about $11K per SDR per month during the first year.  Most organizations underestimate the true cost of building this function, and overestimate productivity benchmarks and ramp time.  This happens most often due to lack of experience, or outdated ideas of what it takes to be successful today.   So, let’s look at the true…

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The New Normal

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We have heard a lot of talk about what the “new normal” is going to look like when the current pandemic ends. Restaurants and bars out of business, no live concerts, no sporting events with fans, no more movie theaters, businesses shedding office space with most employees working from home, airlines going out of business and airplanes less than half full, retail stores closing, and…

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Unblocking Your Cold Calling Potential

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Back in May 2015, I was brand new to sales and experiencing my first week in the business world. I had just transitioned into sales from a food service role at a grocery store that I had held through college and, as you could imagine, things were certainly different. On the second day of training our CEO, Greg, who ran the training at the time,…

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Why Pausing Your SDR Operation is a Terrible Way to Save Capital

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Most business leaders today, particularly those heading up venture-backed startups or bootstrapped businesses, are looking to preserve capital.  None of us is sure how long this environment will last, and we may need to extend our cash reserves to be able to bridge to a point when we have more clarity. If you spend any time scrolling Linkedin these days, you will likely come across…

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