130 - How We Get 35%-50% Response Rates From Our Sales Emails (Will Allred, Co-Founder & COO at Lavender)

Final full episode of 2022!! Hope you've been having a wonderful holiday season and Happy (almost) New Year!

I asked Will Allred (co-founder & COO at Lavender) to join me for this episode and cover some good ole' sales topics that may be top of mind for folks going into 2023. Will is a LinkedIn Top Sales Voice (47K+ followers). Prior to Lavender, Will was co-founder and COO at Sorter and prior to that he was Senior Associate at TopRight, a marketing consulting firm.

Lavender was founded in 2020 and based out of NYC. They've got 8 people on the team and hiring for 2 more marketing roles. Lavender is the #1 sales email assistant. Write better emails, get more replies. 9.9/10 on G2 with 10k+ users.

Here's what we hit on:

Let's start with your website, that homepage header banner (play-doh wizard, listeners please go check it out) it's amazing, who came up with that and how's the performance of your website (HINT: our website converts 15-20% of all traffic);

What’s the biggest but not as widely known mistake salespeople make when they write outbound emails;

You’re PLG-focused so what’s been working really well for you for growth, how do you increase the chances of spreading WOM.

You can find Will on LinkedIn.

Find out more about Lavender.

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