Your prospect’s inbox is a war zone. Hundreds of SDRs fighting for attention — and 90% sound identical. You’re losing replies not because your offer’s bad… …but because your first line is. Here’s how to fix it 👇 1️⃣ Open with relevance, not rapport. ❌ “Hope you’re well!” ✅ “Saw you just launched a new sales team — noticed you’re hiring 3 SDRs.” 2️⃣ Ditch the pitch, sell curiosity. ❌ “We help companies like yours book more meetings.” ✅ “Most teams we speak to hit a wall around 25% connect rate. Curious if that’s familiar?” 3️⃣ Make it short enough to read on a phone. Three lines max before the scroll. Every extra sentence is another chance to delete. Your goal isn’t to convince. It’s to earn a reply. 🎯 Try this tomorrow: Rewrite your best-performing email using only 50 words. If it still makes sense, you’re closer to a reply. Reply to this post with your best opener

Every SDR starts with the same mistake: “Hi, this is [Name] from [Company], how are you today?” That line kills your call before it starts. It’s not confidence — it’s camouflage. In outbound, your first 10 seconds decide everything. You’re not selling a meeting. You’re selling a conversation. Here’s the operator move 👇 1️⃣ Start like a human. “Hey — Louis here, quick one. You got 20 seconds?” → Fast, natural, no fake smiles in your voice. 2️⃣ State your intent. “I’ll be brief — we help SDR teams lift connect-to-meeting rate without adding headcount.” → Clear, calm, confident. 3️⃣ Earn permission. If they sound open, then dig in. If not, reschedule and move on — that’s pipeline hygiene. Elite SDRs don’t wing it. They control tone, pace, and purpose in those first 10 seconds. 🎯 Try this tomorrow: Record three calls and replay your openers. Would you stay on the line? Add your best one below.

Never underestimate the power of a good cold call. We did loads of research and knew who they were. But it was cold in the sense that they didn’t know us. 4K per project for 4 projects for 3 months each. $1000 profit per project per month. Any wins for you guys?

I spent a bit part of last night scraping leads from Google Maps building out lists of very targeted business sets so that I can start campaigns directly to individual niches. These include plumbers Electrition‘s accountants lawyers etc. The goal is to start peppering different communication methods including email SMS and calls to these different businesses with stacked offers starting with something low and easily accessible and then expanding into more elaborate service sets and ongoing subscription plans for maintenance programs. We also have a loan product that allows us to take a commission on any settle deals as a part of the process.

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