{"id":2188,"date":"2020-01-12T06:24:22","date_gmt":"2020-01-12T14:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/egrabber.com\/blog\/?p=2188"},"modified":"2023-07-26T00:08:32","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T07:08:32","slug":"outbound-prospecting-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.egrabber.com\/blog\/outbound-prospecting-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"How I won at SaaS Outbound Prospecting (and How to make it work for you)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This guest post is by Jonathan Wang &#8211; Lead Generation Expert at Badgeville.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>First, a quick intro. I work at Badgeville. We are a leader in the gamification industry. Our SaaS solution increases the engagement and performance from clients and employees in the organization, thus, enhancing sales productivity.<\/p>\n<p>I prefer <b>Outbound Prospecting<\/b> in my strategy, because Outbound enables me to move that fast and reach my prospects before close competition gets there.<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.egrabber.com\/leadgrabberpro\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Free Download: B2B Prospecting Tool to find your Ideal Prospects<\/a> [Try for FREE]<\/h4>\n<p>In Outbound, I have a small window to get things right. Over time, I have developed a few must-follow rules that I always stick with:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Make sure your <strong>e-mail messages are short<\/strong> because they are often read on a <strong>mobile device<\/strong>. It\u2019s important to get to the point right away.<\/li>\n<li>Set up a <strong>Google News Alert<\/strong> of your prospective company, so you will receive any updated articles written about that company. Use this information to provide reference in the call or message to show that you did your research.<\/li>\n<li>You already know your targeted buyer persona.\u00a0 I often find that the <strong>targets are more important than the messaging and calling<\/strong>, and you will need to spend more time than just looking to make sure the Title and Company are right. Truly look into your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.egrabber.com\/leadgrabberpro\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ideal target profile<\/a> and examine whether or not the prospects fit as close as possible.\u00a0 Otherwise it\u2019s just wasted energy.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>In my case, no company has a <strong>\u201cGamification Expert\u201d<\/strong> to whom we can pitch our services to. 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I prefer Outbound Prospecting in my strategy,&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.egrabber.com\/blog\/outbound-prospecting-tool\/\" rel=\"bookmark\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How I won at SaaS Outbound Prospecting (and How to make it work for you)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":15724,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-b2b-list-building"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.egrabber.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/how-i-won-saas-outbound-prospecting.png?fit=1038%2C576&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.egrabber.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.egrabber.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.egrabber.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.egrabber.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.egrabber.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2188"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.egrabber.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15729,"href":"https:\/\/www.egrabber.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2188\/revisions\/15729"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.egrabber.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.egrabber.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.egrabber.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.egrabber.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}