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Cold Email Deliverability Checklist: SPF, DKIM and DMARC
A checklist for setting up and verifying SPF, DKIM and DMARC for cold email, with the common DNS mistakes that break authentication.
Safe Cold Email Volume: How Many Emails Can One Inbox Send a Day?
There's no universal safe number. Learn how to set a per-inbox daily cap, ramp it by domain age and list quality, and scale with more inboxes instead.
Cold Email Reply Rates by Industry: Build Your Own Benchmark
Why published cold email reply rates by industry disagree, how to define and measure a reply, and how to build your own benchmark table by segment.
Cold Email Templates for Professional Services Firms
Four cold email templates for consultancies, agencies and advisory firms: trigger-based opener, referral ask, follow-up and permission close.
lemlist Personalization Variables With Worked Examples
See which lemlist personalization variables earn replies, how to set fallbacks, branch copy by role, and use dynamic images without hurting deliverability.
Testing B2B Contact Data Vendors Before You Buy: A Blind Bake-Off
Run a blind bake-off of B2B contact data vendors: build your own truth set, measure email, phone and title accuracy, and negotiate credits before you sign.
Build an ICP Account Scoring Model: A Worked Walkthrough
Build a points-based ICP scoring model in an afternoon: pick criteria from closed deals, set weights, add disqualifiers, and turn scores into outreach tiers.
Sales Pipeline Stages for a B2B Services Firm
Define pipeline stages by what the buyer has done, not what the rep did. Includes exit criteria, stage weights and loss reasons for consulting and agency sales.
CRM Data Hygiene: What to Check Daily, Weekly and Quarterly
A CRM data hygiene routine by cadence: what to fix weekly, monthly and quarterly, who owns each task, and how to catch duplicates and stale deals early.
Five Pipedrive Automations a Small Sales Team Can Build
Five Pipedrive automation recipes with trigger, condition and action laid out, plus the testing habits that keep automations from emailing the wrong people.
Building a B2B Sales Forecast Worksheet Your Team Will Use
Set up a B2B sales forecast worksheet with deal columns, forecast categories, coverage math and a weekly routine, plus how to measure forecast accuracy.
A 45-Minute Pipeline Review Agenda That Finds Problem Deals
Run a pipeline review that inspects deals instead of reading a list: a timed agenda, deal-selection rules, the questions to ask and how to close out actions.
Deal Risk Signals to Check in Every Open Deal
Warning signs that an open B2B deal is in trouble, grouped by buyer engagement, stakeholders, timeline and commercials, plus what to do about each.
What to Capture on a Discovery Call: A Notes Structure That Works
Discovery call notes structure with the fields that predict deal quality, a filled-in example, and how to keep notes usable in the CRM, handoffs and forecasts.
Vetting an AI Notetaker: Security, SOC 2 and Retention Questions
Questions to ask before approving an AI meeting notetaker: how to read a SOC 2 report, data retention, model training, access controls and recording consent.
How to Write a Sales Playbook for a Small B2B Team
Build a sales playbook a small B2B team will use: what to include, the order to write it in, how to source content from real deals and how to keep it current.
How to Build a One-Page Battlecard for Each Competitor
Build a sales battlecard reps will open mid-deal: the one-page structure, how to gather honest intelligence, trap questions and how to keep each card current.
A 30-60-90 Day Plan for Onboarding a New Sales Rep
A 30-60-90 day plan for a new B2B sales rep with the goals, milestones and manager check-ins for each phase, plus what to prepare before their first day.
How to Design a Discount Approval Matrix for a B2B Sales Team
Design a discount approval matrix: set authority levels, add non-price triggers, require give-gets and track exceptions so discounts stop leaking margin.
Writing a B2B Price Increase Letter: Structure, Timing and Examples
How to write a B2B price increase letter customers accept: the structure, notice timing, sample wording, segment handling and how to answer pushback.
How to Quote Usage-Based Pricing So Buyers Can Predict the Bill
How to quote usage-based pricing without bill shock: define the unit, commitment, tiers and overage, show three scenarios and set guardrails that build trust.
Designing a Commission Plan for Your First Sales Hire
Design a commission plan for your first sales hire: pick pay mix, quota, rate and ramp, test it with worked math and put it in writing before the start date.
OTE Pay Mix for SDRs and AEs: 50/50, 60/40 or 70/30?
Choose a base and variable pay split for SDRs and account executives: how control over the outcome, cycle length and deal size point to 50/50, 60/40 or 70/30.
How to Set Sales Quotas With Capacity Math, Step by Step
Set sales quotas from capacity instead of a top-down split: work through the formula, a worked example, ramp and buffer adjustments, and checks against pay.
How Many Accounts Should One CSM Manage? A Workload Method
Work out a realistic CSM account load from hours per account, segment tiers and risk levels, instead of copying a ratio from another company's model.
A 120-Day Renewal Timeline for Customer Success Teams
A day-by-day renewal timeline from 120 days out to signature and after: what to review, who owns each step, when to escalate and how to handle at-risk renewals.
Building a B2B Customer Onboarding Plan: Phases, Owners, Milestones
Build a B2B customer onboarding plan around the first result the buyer wants: sales handoff, phases, owners, milestones, risks and how to keep it on schedule.
Automating Customer Onboarding in HubSpot: What to Build and What to Keep Human
Set up customer onboarding automation in HubSpot: the closed-won trigger, task creation, welcome emails, stalled-onboarding alerts and what to keep human.
A Cold Calling Script for B2B Services Firms, With Objection Replies
A cold calling script framework for B2B services: opener, reason for the call, a qualifying question, objection replies, voicemail wording and call logging.
How to Build a Mutual Action Plan With Your Buyer
How to build a mutual action plan a buyer will use: when to introduce it, the columns it needs, a worked example, common mistakes and where to keep it.