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Cold Email Personalization at Scale - Becc Holland
Cold Email Personalization at Scale - Becc Holland
Cold Email Personalization at Scale - Becc Holland
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po26RWh5MQ4
30 Minute Version (this presentation) -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YADKi6lI2GE
TRANSCRIPT:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_kBnPVyrQ3xVc3ywiHbdCD-UyhqEXrNNu6I-3ec4yBU/edit
Becc Holland
Head of Sales Development, Chorus
A.K.A.
THE
PREMISE
BUCKETS
Typically you are personalizing on three different buckets: 1) Demographic principles. B2C : age gender, income, profession, education background.
2) Firmographic: Company Size, INdustry segment, vertical, sophistication (for example, building case studies to someone who is in their vertical). 3)
Technographic: what kind of tech stack do they have, who does it integrate with and how can I personalize my messaging based on that. 4) the Fourth
Sneaky graphic is psychographic principle: anything that someone believes, someeone is interested in, resonates at their core.
One rule here: BE DETAILED AND
whatever you pick you BRIEF HERE IF
have to relate to what YOU'RE USING THIS:
your company does.
Least potency because
it's firmographic only.
The more detailed and
brief the better: You've
been growing at 63%
and you just added 17
reps on your sales
Schools Attended M&A team..
1) Self-authored: Any kind of article, webinar, post that they authored. This is the most heavily
responded to - STRONGEST RESPONSE RATE IF YOU CAN HOOK THIS BACK INTO WHAT YOUR
COMPANY DOES. Linkedin > ARTICLES + POSTS
2) ENGAGED CONTENT: Something they engaged with. Linkedin > ALL ACTIVITY
3) SELF-ATTRIBUTED TRAITS: Find this anywhere on their Linkedin resume. This is a place where
they list their accomplishments. In their headline they often talk about what their company does or
what they do. Linkedin > PROFILE > Headline, About, Company Line
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4) THE JUNK DRAWER: Hobbies, School, Hobbies, Interests. Everything that doesn't have to do with
business. Twitter, instagram, "I noticed that you're a connoisseur of pizza..." now connect your
company to pizza (or risk sounding salesly). Linkedin > Groups, Schools, Clubs,Honors, etc.
5) COMPANY LEVEL: If you still can't find anything, then go here. Linkedin>Company Page. Website>
M+A, Blogs, Posts, Website Language, Hiring (this is the weakest level)
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXNaqLxmmWQ
Here are the SDR Step-by-Steps:
STEP 1: View the Linkedin Profile and Source Premises. OBJECTIVE: Source 5 premises in under 5
minutes. Then add them to the outreach system so that it fuels the rest of the sequence.
STEP 2: For example (Taylor Scotto): Go to their article, Grab the title and paste into the outreach platform
PREMISE 1:
"Hi Taylor, the reason for my outreach is I couldn't stop reading your article, "My Language Story: Why
Language Deeply Connects Us. One line that stood out to me was "Language has the power to connect
us" What if you could make sure that your reps were connecting with their prospects in the exact same way
in their sales conversations by using the language about your value prop to ensure more closed deals?
PREMISE 2:
How to Pick 5 Premises for Your Prospects in Under 5 Minutes (ft. Becc Holland)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXNaqLxmmWQ
This is when they did
POSTBOUND:
something related to
Anything that's not truly our company but didn't
inbound (like a demo truly go inbound
request) and NOT
TRULY outbound
because they know
who your company is.
For EXAMPLE:
Event Leads
Webinar Leads
eBook downloads
Resource Downloads
We don't directly
message about this,
– Whitepapers – Conference Attendees – Company funding but this is for internal
data only.
– Ebooks – Past User – Buyer Intent Data
– Resource Downloads – Demoed in the Past – Email Opens
– Webinar Registrants – Mutual Connections
– Webinar Attendees
If someone
downloaded your This is how you can
content but didn't hit pair these together to
request demo, it's for a This is for pure have a reason for
reason. They just cold outreach outreach....
wanted your content,
so you would say for
example:
HAVE AGGRESSION
ON KNOWING YOUR
EVEN BETTER PREMISE TEMPLATE:
BUYER TO THE NTH
I noticed that you took this action that has to do with my company, but more importantly let's
DEGREE: WHAT
talk about you. (I don't want to talk about me, I want to talk about you. Flip the script from all
THEY DO, WHAT
about your company to all about your prospect.)
THEIR DAY TO DAY
LOOKS LIKE.
Structure of Emails
Google did a study on the engagement of emails:
START: You start at 2 o'clock and you go clockwise.
Prospects will read the end of the first line first, then they
loop around to the CTA, then loop to the beginning of your
CTA, then they're gonna finish with what your company does
1) The premise line should in the middle.
be the longest line.
The reason for my outreach is I saw your Linkedin article and I couldn't get enough. One line that stood out to me
was "when it comes down to scaling teams, it's all about having great conversations"
“Let me know”
“Scott…”
“I’d be happy to…”
Being too casual GIFs
“Hey Scott”
or too silly The “List”
Questioning Making your prospect
prospect’s authority feel, “Not-OK”
Glorifying
“Are you the DM?” “I’ve emailed you 7 times, but you
haven’t responded…” yourself
“I guess you’re not the
right person” Mudslinging against competitors
your prospects use
“We are the …”
“We are the #1…”
Social proof where
YOU’RE the hero
Making your prospect “Do you know what we do?”
“Does that make sense?”
feel, stupid INSTEAD: AM I making any sense?
Structure of Cold-Calls
This is ___ calling
from Chorus, how
have you been?
Hi this is Becc calling on a recorded line, how have you been? So, I was curious if
you’ve come across
Chorus before?
Glad to hear
that! The
reason for
my call is:
Hey, I noticed that you went to the sales development conference,
more importantly I saw that you were a part of this webinar and it really stood out to me
so I was curious if you've come across Chorus before
How about this, you give me the next 30 seconds and I'll
about .
meetings
know what their reps are saying
get more meetings
wrong on the phone