Email Vs LinkedIn Outreach: Which is better?
These days, LinkedIn is becoming the go-to place for prospecting leads and getting your message to the right people. So, when it comes to a smart outbound strategy, which is better – email or LinkedIn?
These days, LinkedIn is becoming the go-to place for prospecting leads and getting your message to the right people. So, when it comes to a smart outbound strategy, which is better – email or LinkedIn?
In a recent study, Growthonics analysed the work of a sales rep responding to 2,000 emails sent during a cold outreach campaign. Over a period of 1 month, we wanted to find out how much time was spent sending follow-up emails and managing the campaign, rather than bringing in the money. With this, we focused on positive and negative email responses and everything in between, and how the sales rep reacted toward it.
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OUTbound is where you send a message OUT to your prospects. This could include email outreach, telemarketing, banner advertising etc. INbound is where, by producing informative and engaging content, prospects come IN to your site or mailing list of their own volition. This could be through your blog, to download an ebook, signing up for a newsletter or webinar etc. This article covers four of the ways Outbound can be used to make Inbound more effective.
There are hundreds of articles online proclaiming ‘Outbound is dead’ or that ‘Inbound is a fad’, each tearing the other methodology apart. However, there are pros and cons to both methodologies, and this article aims to give both an honest appraisal so that you can make the right choice for your market and business objectives.