How to build an Effective Email Marketing Funnel for your agency

In this blog you will learn about what an email marketing funnel is. You will learn how to build one, and how to use it effectively in this guide!
The top 5 CRM Tools for agencies to manage their Marketing Funnel

In this blog, we share the top 5 CRM tools to simplify your marketing efforts and generate more sales.
A simple Lead Generation Strategy to help your Agency secure startup clients

Let’s get your agency on the path to a successful lead generation strategy. We’ll follow the simple recommendations I’ve laid out in this blog. Just remember that 50% of marketers consider lead generation to be a top priority in their marketing campaigns. I spent 2 years as a Startup founder figuring out how to sell […]
Generate more sales leads with September’s Startup funding updates

In this month’s blog, I share the latest fundraises from Startups around the world. Find out how to use the latest fundraising data to generate sales leads and close deals with newly funded Startups as clients. 💰 At Prelo, we have continued to add funded Startups throughout the month of September. As a result, 960 […]
Sell to more Startups using a proven prospecting process that works for consulting agencies

I was as a consultant for over a decade before I launched Prelo. The best prospecting process I used was always direct outreach. As I’m now a SaaS Startup founder, I’ve been on both sides of the fence. 🤔 In this blog I’m going to share some insights on how to create a solid prospecting […]
The Self Service Prospecting Tool to help you find qualified leads and grow your agency

Running a small business without a self service prospecting tool is like doing your year-end finances without Excel. We found out the hard way when our first Startup failed. That’s why we’ve created Prelo, to help growing businesses find sales qualified leads without breaking the bank. 💳 40% of Salespeople say that prospecting is the […]
Learn how to prospect funded Startups and grow revenue for your digital agency

If you run a digital agency and you don’t prospect funded Startups you need to start. Marketing budgets are the first budgets to get cut during a recession. As a digital agency, it is in your interest to build a solid pipeline of diverse clients to boost revenue. 💪 In this blog, we’ll go deeper […]
How to build a sales prospecting list of under-the-radar Startups fundraising in Aug 2022

My goal in this blog is to highlight where and how to find the latest Startups raising funds. I’ll explore how this will help you build a sales prospecting list and build revenue opportunities for the next quarter. Prelo uploads thousands of Startups every month. We cover Startups raising funds from over 25 countries including […]
Selling to Startups 101 : How to qualify sales leads and boost revenue for your agency

My focus for this blog is to share how to qualify sales leads and get your digital marketing agency or consulting team in front of key decision makers in Startup. We launched Prelo to create a frictionless sales prospecting experience for agencies and businesses looking for funded customers in the Startup industry. 🚀 Did you […]
Selling to Startups 101 : How to use fundraising data to close your next Startup deal

In this blog I will share insights as to how fundraising data can be used to fill your sales pipeline with Startup customers. If you are selling to Startups the first thing you want to know is whether they have a budget. 💳 It’s no secret that Prelo was the result of our failed attempt […]
How to get more sales leads every month using these 8 simple prospecting tips

When we launched Prelo, I had terrible anxiety trying to attract new sales leads on a regular basis. In this blog I will share with you the 8 most important steps you need to take so that you can consistently bring new paying customers from the Startup industry into your business every month. 🚀 Let’s not […]
Sales Prospecting : 8 Steps to find the right customers for your business

There is nothing more demoralizing than going through hundreds of email responses from prospects asking you to remove them from your mailing list. 😥 In this blog I will go through the steps you need to create a time efficient sales prospecting strategy for your small business. To prove this point, when 400 Sales professionals […]
Email Marketing 101 : How to warm up your email account in 5 steps

In this blog we’ll take you through the key prerequisites to give your outreach emails the best chance of getting seen by your customers. Google spam updates have made things a little more difficult for everyone in getting emails delivered into inboxes.
Email Automation : 80 Email Templates to level up your marketing operations

In this blog we are going to cover the core email template categories we use at Prelo. We’ll focus on the key email templates you need to help you operationalise your startup and excite your customers. 🎉 Email marketing is a “grind” for solopreneurs 😬. Building email drip campaigns and creating standard response emails are even […]
🎙Founder Stories : Build a Startup you’re passionate about – Robert’s journey

On Founder Stories today, I will be catching up with non-other than the founder of DataGrab, and one of our partners Robert Balazsi sharing his startup journey with us. DataGrab is a B2B web scraping cloud platform designed to build web scrapers without writing a single line of code 😲 I’m looking forward to learning […]
Email Marketing Starter Kit : 40 cold email subject line examples guaranteed to get opened

In this blog we are going to share 40 cold email subject line examples that will transform your cold outreach game. As the founders of Prelo we have to wear multiple hats. I am the “sales guy”, Emily is our recruitment person with some marketing thrown in, and we deal with everything else in between. […]
🎙Founder Stories : To Quit your day job and build a Startup is hard but Mike did it!

Today I’ll be talking with the one and only Mike Cardona about his founder journey. Specifically how he quit his 9-5 job to become an entrepreneur. Mike is a good friend who is an absolute genius when it comes to building automation for Startups and Small businesses. 🔥 I can’t wait to find out how […]
🎙Founder Stories : How a non-tech founder built a fundraising tech platform with no-code!

It’s 7pm in London and Stephane Nasser just hopped on a zoom call to discuss the venture capital ecosystem and how his fundraising platform, OpenVC is opening doors for founders and accelerating their fundraising. With OpenVC, Steph has set out to advocate for founders by democratizing access to investors. 🎉 Stephane is the cofounder of OpenVC, […]
🎙Founder Stories : Build, Launch & Exit without fundraising!

A staggering 90% of Startups fail, and 45% of them fail because there’s no need for the product. Finding a steady stream of customers interested in buying your product requires more than just a good product. It requires good marketing, and most of us founders suck at this. 😏 As founders we don’t employ marketing […]
🎙Founder Stories: How Tanya built a global social music platform called Lishash.

It was a tough start to the year, needless to say that I had to put a lot of things on hold to focus on recovering from COVID 😷 . I’m happy to tell you that I’m back to 100% and I’m so pumped to get back speaking to my founder friends. This afternoon, […]
Startup Stories: How to bootstrap a B2B SaaS to $13K MRR in 1 year! Kilian’s Story

I’m super excited to share my very first podcast of the year!?🎙 It’s a special one with a good friend of mine Kilian Poulin. Kilian is the founder of Mark (MarkCopyAI). Mark helps you write blogs, articles and short form content three times faster than you’ve ever done before.🎉 There are over 4.4 […]
🎙Founder Stories : James’s Startup journey as the co-founder of NearU

Five minutes before my podcast, I crashed around our dining area trying to get my headphones and microphone connected in time, tech was letting me down once again. I’m meeting James Solomides, the co-founder of NearU. I like to think of them as the Uber for on demand workspaces, but James describes it very well. […]
🎙Founder Stories : Sven’s Startup journey as the founder of intribe

11am on a rainy Monday morning in London, I jumped on a zoom call to talk “marketing” with my friend and founder of intribe – Sven Radavics. Would you believe it, this is my 20th founder meeting of the month! 🚀 Sven had just finished his working day in Singapore, and as we got on […]
Product Insights : 7 Things customers wanted to know about Prelo !

We launched Prelo in August 2021, the journey to date has been challenging but exciting. Ask any founder bootstrapping and they’ll tell you how hectic it is when you have to wear multiple hats in a Startup 🤹♀️ I personally did a lot of growing up in the last 3 months. Interesting story (to be […]
Fundraising 101 : Startup funding stages, Pre-Seed to Series D Explained

I share a lot of information about Startups and funding 💰, so I figured it was time to write something that broke down startup funding stages means, how much is typically raised and what the investors tend to look for at each stage of funding. I had a secondary reason, I want to help Prelo […]
6 Marketing memes : Mistakes founders make when launching a Startup !

I’m a 2x founder who failed with my first SaaS Startup, I did zero marketing myself. This blog was exactly what I needed when I was busy building product features🙄 . The reality was, I should have spent more time marketing my Startup. Most people aren’t too comfortable with marketing and that’s why we created […]
How to find ceo email addresses for free if you’re a digital marketing agency

We spent several months trying to find CEO email addresses so that we could send introductory emails and pitch Prelo to decision makers. We had to do this completely free of charge and yes, I know this is kind of par for the cause when you are bootstrapping 😥 This blog was something I’d wanted […]
Easy growth tips for startup founders building on Twitter

So here’s the thing, in May 2021 we didn’t have Prelo, I was busy getting over the failure of my previous Startup where we had tried everything, nursed it for 2yrs adding features and hoping
Get your startup funded with a kick ass pitch deck

Perfect time to write this blog as we’re right in the middle of kicking off a fundraise for our startup, and naturally you’d expect this blog to be an easy one to write… Well, it’s proving to be a little more challenging than I’d expected. I know what you’re thinking hmmm… “he’s not a YCombinator […]
4 Free marketing sites to boost web traffic for your startup!

If you’re a founder bootsrapping your tech startup, you may just want to pull up a chair