Prospecting - self or supported?

how many of you savages are doing all your own prospecting?


how many of you work with a sdr/bdr/lead development rep to obtain your leads?



🔎 Prospecting
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CoorsKing
WR Officer
2
Retired King of the Coors Knights
I have two SDRs, but most of my closed deals come from my own prospecting efforts. Not to say my SDRs don't source good meetings, but historically the closed deals were ones I sourced.
Rallier
Politicker
2
SDR Manager and Consultant
Our marketing team actually gets us leads. First company I've been at where this is the case
Queen_of_the_funnel
Opinionated
1
Director of Sales Development
My former company did the same. BDRs we’re under the CMO and Marketing umbrella. They qualified hard and leads were legit. 
Incognito
WR Officer
2
Master of Disaster
I get zero leads. Everything is on me. 
CuriousFox
WR Officer
1
🦊
I do my own.
Nairobi
Politicker
1
AE
Me, myself and I. All outbound, no marketing team, no inbounds, nada.
DaveGreen
Arsonist
0
Head of Sales
I like both. But ideally (depending on the product) I’d have one or two really good SDRs who are hunting for me. From experience, I was never super effective doing both but my conversation rate is always higher with self sourced deals. 
GDO
Politicker
0
BDM
My first job we had a call Center booking meetings for us. Would love to have an sdr now. 
DaveGreen
Arsonist
0
Head of Sales
How was the quality of those meetings? I never worked with outsourced SDRs and generally I hear that the quality of those meetings set are not great.

Guess it depends on the complexity of your product, but still curious :) 
Smithy
Politicker
0
Director of Sales
We only have one SDR now as it’s being built out as a function, so pretty much all self sourced for now. 
HappyGilmore
Politicker
0
Account Executive
Currently doing my own
SalesSage
Valued Contributor
0
National Account Manager
All my own
Beans
Big Shot
0
Enterprise Account Executive
3 BDR's work my accounts with me, however I'm constantly looking to top up the funnel myself. 
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I prefer prospecting when
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