The Ultimate Lead Generation Strategy to help your Agency secure Startup clients

Lead Generation Strategies need accurate data

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 to other Startups. I plan to give you the secrets you will need to sell to someone exactly like me! 🎯

When I launched Prelo, I knew I had to do things differently. So, I started to study patterns and strategies in the marketing space to make sure we were going to be successful.

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October 24, 2022

Sell to more Startups using a proven prospecting process that works for consulting agencies

Build a prospecting process to grow your agency

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 process that will unlock more sales for your consulting agency. The goal is to help you close more deals with Startups.

Did you know that 60% of customers say “NO” four times before they say “YES”. 😲
The big secret is to create email sequences that offer value.

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September 30, 2022

The Self Service Prospecting Tool to help you find qualified leads and grow your agency

Helping agencies and small businesses scale sales prospecting

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 most difficult part of the sales process.

In this blog we are going to give you the breakdown on how Prelo can help you discover qualified leads and grow your agency. 🚀

If you want to work with Startups then you’ve come to the right place. If you’re already working with Startups then you know how difficult it is to find well-funded ones.

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September 23, 2022

Learn how to prospect funded Startups and grow revenue for your digital agency

Funded Startups at an early stage raised an average of $1m

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 into how the Startup industry works. We’ll help you position your agency so that you can attract top funded Startups in your demographic.

Don’t wait to find out your budget has been cut. If your current clients don’t appreciate your services, start connecting with Startups. 🚀

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September 14, 2022

Selling to Startups 101 : How to qualify sales leads and boost revenue for your agency

Discover simple but effective ways to qualify sales leads for your marketing 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 know that over 70% of all sales leads are NOT qualified! As a SaaS Startup founder receiving these unqualified emails I find the experience rather frustrating. 😢

So let’s fix it once and for all!

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August 31, 2022

Selling to Startups 101 : How to use fundraising data to close your next Startup deal

marketing strategy using fundraising data

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 at selling a SaaS Solution to Startups. We struggled to find relevant data, like fundraising data and business contact details which eventually cost us.

After our first Startup failed, I became obsessed with using data to carefully target the right Startups.

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August 19, 2022

Sales Prospecting : 8 Steps to find the right customers for your business

Sales Prospecting is a core activity for small business owners to find potential lookalike customers

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 were asked how successful they were at identifying a good prospect. 70% of them came back and confirmed that only 50% of the prospects they reached out to, turned out to be a good fit. 🎯

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Email Automation : 80 Email Templates to level up your marketing operations

80 email templates to boost your customer retention

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 tougher tasks when you’re also trying to grow your Startup.

That’s why we’ve curated a comprehensive list of easily customizable 80 email templates. These templates have been put together to help you run your business operations effectively.

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🎙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 how Startups and Small Businesses (SMBs) are using DataGrab to build no-code web scrapers at scale.

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Email Marketing Starter Kit : 40 cold email subject line examples guaranteed to get opened

Email Marketing Starter Kit

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. What’s clear for me is this… there’re often times when we’ve had to reach out to strangers to help us achieve a goal.🏆

To do that, we both had to learn how to craft and send cold emails. What we figured out was this, cold emails need to lead with an offer. Our main goal was to make our cold emails a frictionless interaction.

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May 4, 2022

🎙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 Mike’s new venture, Busy To Leveraged can help my Startup community of founders get more done faster.

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🎙Founder Stories : Build, Launch & Exit without fundraising!

Prelo exists to help early-stage startup founders do marketing themselves

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 early enough in our Startup journey. We’d rather wait until we’ve spent 12 months building the tech or $150,000 on development teams. 💳

…but there’s a 10x cheaper alternative, and Go For Vertical is that solution.

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Startup Stories: How to bootstrap a B2B SaaS to $13K MRR in 1 year! Kilian’s Story

Prelo Founder Stories

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 million blog posts published every day! So how do you get your content in front of more customers? This blog will follow the journey of a founder who has built a product to help you do just that.

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January 15, 2022

🎙Founder Stories : James’s Startup journey as the co-founder of NearU

Prelo exists to help early-stage startup founders do marketing themselves

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. 👉 “NearU is an On-Demand Workspace Booking App”

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December 31, 2021

🎙Founder Stories : Sven’s Startup journey as the founder of intribe

Prelo exists to help early-stage startup founders do marketing themselves

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 20^th founder meeting of the month! 🚀

Sven had just finished his working day in Singapore, and as we got on the call, we immediately started kicking around some content marketing ideas. 🔥

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December 15, 2021

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 shared soon) but we launched Prelo days after our previous Startup failed and I have to say, the journey was completely unchartered. 😥

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November 26, 2021

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 Prelo to help founders and product makers put themselves out there.

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October 20, 2021

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