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Field notes from the inside sales floor.

Practical writing for founders and revenue leaders — what's working in outbound right now, and what isn't.

01

The 60-day rule for a new SDR hire

Why most SDR hires fail before day 90 — and the four ramp-program checkpoints that separate ramping reps from ones quietly drowning.

May 2026 · 6 min read

02

Cold email isn't dead. Lazy cold email is.

A line-by-line teardown of one of our highest-replying sequences from Q1, and the three research signals we used to write it.

April 2026 · 9 min read

03

What "qualified meeting" should actually mean

Most teams disagree internally on this and don't realize it. Our four-part definition, plus a simple SLA between SDRs and AEs.

March 2026 · 5 min read

04

Building outbound around RevOps, not the other way around

Why messy data makes good copy useless, and where to start cleaning when your CRM has years of debt.

February 2026 · 8 min read

05

The case against the 30-touch sequence

Why longer isn't better, and the seven-touch sequence we default to for most B2B SaaS engagements.

January 2026 · 7 min read

06

How we price an outbound engagement

A transparent walk-through of how we put a number on a 90-day pilot — and what changes after the pilot ends.

December 2025 · 4 min read

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