Crafting a compelling offer in outbound messaging, what NOT to do on a cold call, asking a crucial question about demos, validating your offer, and tips for outbound messaging and scaling.
Research the prospect's profile and identify their pain points to craft a relevant offer that addresses their specific challenges.
Validate the offer by understanding the market, competitor strengths and weaknesses, and soliciting feedback from the target audience.
Deep dives
Crafting a Compelling Offer for Outbound Messaging
When it comes to outbound sales, the offer or pitch is crucial for success. The problem with many outbound messages is that they are weak and fail to align with what the prospect cares about. To improve the offer, it is important to spend time researching the prospect's profile and identify their pain points and interests. Starting with a hypothesis based on this research can help build enough trust to engage the prospect. Crafting a relevant offer means addressing specific challenges or asking thought-provoking questions related to the prospect's situation. By helping the prospect solve part of the problem for free, trust is built, making them more open to exploring the full solution or product being offered.
Validating and Fine-Tuning the Offer
To ensure the offer is effective, validation is necessary. This involves understanding the market, competitor strengths and weaknesses, and aligning them with the prospect's pain points. It is essential to solicit feedback from the target audience to refine the offer. Tools like Winter can be used to get feedback on messaging and to iterate based on the response. Starting with the B-list of prospects before targeting the A-list can help test the offer and make necessary adjustments. Testing and fine-tuning the offer before scaling is crucial for success.
Starting with a Hypothesis and Testing the Offer
When reaching out to prospects, having a hypothesis about the problems they face is key. This hypothesis can be formed through research and understanding their pain points. Once potential offers are identified, it is important to test them with the target audience. This can be done by seeking feedback from sales leaders and prospects, either through 15-minute calls or email exchanges. Testing the offer helps in understanding the response and making adjustments before fully committing to it. Scaling the offer can then be done based on the feedback and success observed during testing.
Mastering the offer for outbound messaging is a topic that often gets pushed to the side. But most of us have stories about terrible pitches we have gotten from cold calls or emails. And this can be fixed by simply spending an extra 30 seconds on someone’s LinkedIn profile. So on the show today, we are going to spend 15 minutes helping you create a better cold outreach offer.
Timestamps:
[0:01] Intro
[1:26] What NOT to do on a cold call
[2:52] Crafting an offer for cold outreach
[4:03] Ask this one question about your demos
[6:42] Validating your offer
Follow us on social: https://www.linkedin.com/company/mailshake/
Jed's Newsletter: https://jed.substack.com/
Get the Snipd podcast app
Unlock the knowledge in podcasts with the podcast player of the future.
AI-powered podcast player
Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features
Discover highlights
Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode
Save any moment
Hear something you like? Tap your headphones to save it with AI-generated key takeaways
Share & Export
Send highlights to Twitter, WhatsApp or export them to Notion, Readwise & more
AI-powered podcast player
Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features
Discover highlights
Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode