How do you keep your sales reps from burning out your market?

We all know that depending solely on the messaging and sequences set by marketing or our sales leader can only take us so far, and sometimes the first mentioned can take things to a spamming frenzy that drives away good prospects. With that said, don't get me wrong I respect the amount of research that is spent time wise and money wise on their campaigns and leads, I do.


However, I feel that sometimes they want to have complete control on the messaging that is being sent and and set automatic emails to be sent after 2 calls or whatever and well here is where things tend to derail and loose complete trust in the process that SDRs and AEs have to go through to create interest and close a deal.


I've been an SDR for a little under a year and have learned a lot, I also work for an outsourcing sales organization so we do have to depend a bit on the messaging set out by marketing from the clients.


How do you guys and gals balance out or minimize spamming your prospects?

🔎 Prospecting
👑 Sales Strategy
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JC10X
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I write memorable, unscalable messaging.
Kinonez
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Make sure your message is relevant, if you have a prospect on your list who after researching you realize your product or service can’t help them, don’t contact them, it will save both yours and their time. 
CoorsKing
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1) Don’t invite them to every marketing event that marketing wants you to. At my old company there were 15 events a quarter. If you got 15 invites a quarter, you would put that domain in the spam folder faster than Paddy opens a Kahlua on Friday. Pick 1-2 that are RELEVANT (not the “oh well there is a 10 min overview then a magician!”)

2) Don’t use canned cadences. All new SDRs on the planet use them, stand out. Do some research, build a business case on why they should talk, and send customized messaging. Can you do 3k emails a day or whatever the absurd KPI is? No. But you will get more meetings in the end and as long as you generate pipe nobody cares how.

3) If you send a “bubble up” email, ADD SOMETHING OF VALUE. Add a new piece of info, a new customer story, anything. Fastest way I’ve found to piss people off is just send 15 “hey did you read my email yet” messages

4) IMO, marketing never has any idea on what actually resonates with the field and they write horrendously poor messaging. I sent their shit to my C accounts and A&Bs get personalized ones.
NoSuperhero
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So true, I've gotten used to in the past couple of weeks of finishing a sequence on purpose so I can personalize my outreach a lot more. Just tired of starting the PC in the morning and seeing that 50 emails were already sent 2 hrs ago...

And I totally agree that marketing is highly disconnected from the messaging that actually resonates in the battlefield. It's almost as disconnected as the democratic and republican parties are from their voters in policy making.
Mr.Pickles
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I wish i could upvote this twice <3
FightingFistDrangon
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Most importantly stay relevant. If it does not fit the prospect, do not use that reachout. 
MaximumRaizer
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I write memorable, unscalable messaging.
Blackwargreymon
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IMO, marketing never has any idea on what actually resonates with the field and they write horrendously poor messaging. I sent their shit to my C accounts and A&Bs get personalized ones.
Clashingsoulsspell
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Don’t use canned cadences. All new SDRs on the planet use them, stand out. Do some research, build a business case on why they should talk, and send customized messaging. Can you do 3k emails a day or whatever the absurd KPI is? No. But you will get more meetings in the end and as long as you generate pipe nobody cares how.
GDO
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Most importantly stay relevant. If it does not fit the prospect, do not use that reachout. 
MR.StretchISR
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User1234567
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need to have a great office atmosphere and good rewards and incentives 
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