Outbound, cold email and pipeline - explained.
Straight answers on cold email, appointment setting and B2B outbound - written from running these campaigns for 100+ clients.
Best cold email agencies for out-of-home and DOOH companies
Ten compared on price, proof and terms, plus why only one of them can name an out-of-home client.
Best lead generation agencies for companies selling to gyms
Ten compared, plus why 94% of gym owners have no marketing team and what that means for outbound.
Best lead generation agencies for companies selling to home services
Ten compared, plus why almost every result you find is solving the opposite problem.
Best lead generation agencies for companies selling to restaurants
Ten compared, plus why every provider that knows restaurants sells data instead of running your outbound.
Best cold email agencies for web design and creative agencies
Ten compared on price, proof and terms, plus why the average web design client leaves at month seven.
Best cold email agencies for PPC agencies
Ten compared on price, proof and terms, plus what a click in your own category actually costs.
Best cold email agencies for SEO agencies
Ten compared, split into the two opposite products that share this search term. Plus why appointment volume is the wrong metric when month six is where clients leave.
Read more →Best cold email agencies for ad tech
Ten compared for the hardest inbox in B2B, where 71% of replies are robots. Plus the campaign that beat the vertical average twelvefold, and how.
Read more →Best cold email agencies for commercial cleaning
Ten compared, with six publishing real prices. Plus why one janitorial appointment costs $130 and another $1,310, and which end of the market you are actually selling to.
Read more →Best cold email agencies for manufacturers
Ten compared, plus why the reply rates published for manufacturing are roughly ten times too high and what a meeting really costs in emails.
Read more →Best AI SDR agencies and tools
Ten compared, with every price read off the vendor's own site. Four of the figures in circulation turned out to be wrong.
Read more →Best cold email agencies for consulting firms
Ten agencies compared for consultancies, plus why 70% of the replies consultants get are robots and what a meeting really costs in emails.
Read more →Best cold email agencies for financial services
Ten agencies judged on named finance clients, published pricing and who actually reviews your copy before it sends.
Read more →Best B2B appointment setting companies
Ten companies compared on what they charge, what they can prove, and whether you can see it work before you pay.
Read more →Cold email reply rate benchmarks
What 6,074,430 emails actually returned, by industry, with both denominators. Half of all replies are out-of-office.
Read more →Martal Group alternatives
Eight alternatives sorted by why people leave, including what a three to four month pilot really commits you to.
Read more →SalesRoads alternatives
Eight alternatives for teams who want calling, and the published tiers that make the economics work or not.
Read more →Cleverly alternatives
Eight alternatives, and why the $397 pricing in every roundup appears nowhere on Cleverly's own website.
Read more →CIENCE alternatives
Eight alternatives sorted by why people leave, including why their Clutch, G2 and Trustpilot ratings disagree so violently.
Read more →Belkins alternatives
Eight alternatives sorted by the reason people actually leave: the price, the three to six month commitment, or the account manager they got.
Read more →Best cold email agencies
Ten agencies compared on named proof, published pricing, and whether you can see the work produce meetings before you pay.
Read more →Best lead generation agencies for marketing agencies
Ten agencies judged on the question that matters if you run an agency: can they name an agency they have actually sold for?
Read more →Best B2B SaaS cold email agencies
Ten agencies compared for SaaS buyers, including who has built real buying-signal infrastructure and who is faking it.
Read more →B2B appointment setting
How B2B appointment setting actually works, from list to booked call.
Read more →Lead generation for marketing agencies
How marketing agencies build their own pipeline without hiring more SDRs.
Read more →Cold email best practices
The cold email practices that actually move reply rates - not the generic list.
Read more →Outbound sales strategy
A working outbound sales strategy, not just theory.
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