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Saleswhale + 6sense: Our next play begins

This is the beginning of Saleswhale and 6sense coming together, joining forces to create something really unique. This is a chance to upend the entire sales...

20 JAN 2022

Just enough system: Rebuilding Saleswhale’s design system

How we rebuilt Saleswhale's designs system and why small companies can also benefit from a design system.

8 DEC 2021

Balancing User Impact and Tech Debt in Feature Development (from an...

An engineer's perspective on balancing user impact and tech debt in feature development at Saleswhale.

2 DEC 2021

Design Sprint Yay or Nay?

Product management can be a strange beast. On one hand, you work your butt off to get your team motivated, aligned, and focus on building the right product for...

26 NOV 2021

Solving problems collaboratively with design & engineering

How design and engineering work together to solve problems for users at Saleswhale

18 NOV 2021

🎧 Masterclass on Experiments with Jason Widup, VP Marketing @...

Jason Widup ran a pretty crazy marketing experiment recently which turned $266,000 of marketing spend into $5.3M in sales pipeline and $1.3M closed-won revenue.

28 JUN 2021

Increase MQL to SQL conversion with Saleswhale for Salesforce

Saleswhale for Salesforce allows you to build powerful automated lead conversion workflows. This allows you to re-engage with your neglected marketing leads at...

19 APR 2021

Top Conversica Alternatives in 2021

Conversica isn't the only player out there. Learn how Saleswhale and Exceed.ai compare and make an informed decision.

15 APR 2021

🎧 Masterclass with Martin Gontovnikas, SVP Marketing & Growth at...

The culture of intellectual honesty that we build around marketing is important. And I think one of the biggest shear tensions between marketing and sales, or...

31 MAR 2021

Announcing AI Conversation Flow: Powerful visual conversation builder...

Demand generation and marketing teams generate more leads at the top of the funnel than ever in this new digital-first world. Saleswhale helps ensure those...

1 MAR 2021

Why you need to automate the conversion of your neglected leads

Neglected leads are a silent, huge problem for demand generation and marketing operations teams. The middle of the funnel is where marketing leads go to die.

23 FEB 2021

The Manifesto for Modern B2B Marketers

It started with a $90,000 mistake. The largest marketing campaign I’ve ran flopped hard in terms of return on investment.

12 JAN 2021

How to convert your webinar leads into pipeline in 2021 [Webinar]

So at the end of this webinar, 26% of the attendees converted into customers, and the rest of them are still in the sales pipeline.

10 JAN 2021

How to use Zoom webinar polls to drive more sales meetings with...

In this tutorial, you will learn how to use Zoom webinar polls and Saleswhale to convert as much as 18% of webinar and virtual event attendees into sales-ready...

4 JAN 2021

Optimizing for revenue goals as a compass metric is terrible advice....

We moved ahead in assorted (often random) directions. We would launch features and new initiatives constantly. But we never really set goals at all.

13 DEC 2020

How Gong changed my life

No not the musical instrument. Gong.io the revenue intelligence tool that helps record and analyze sales calls to make you and your team better.

2 NOV 2020

Anti-usage products: The next generation of SaaS products

My thesis was that in the next 5-10 years, the next generation of winning SaaS products would be what we call “anti-usage” products.

28 OCT 2020

Anti-usage products: Email as an extension of product interface

At Saleswhale, we actually pursued an email-first strategy where we actually used emails as an extension of our product interface.

27 OCT 2020

Anti-usage products: On pitfalls

The anti-usage pattern does come with some pretty steep pitfalls (we have the battle scars from tumbling down one-too-many canyons).

27 OCT 2020

How to revive dormant leads in your Salesforce database: a...

I want to push you to think outside the box, and not just think about net-new lead generation, but also the value that you are already sitting on in your...

12 OCT 2020

How to get 4.5x more opportunities

The organization with dedicated lead conversion, and proper lead nurturing process converts leads at 32%. The other only converts 7% of their leads.

20 SEP 2020

How we closed over $210,000 in revenue with ABM

We selected 67 accounts, which led to 21 demos, 16 sales accepted leads, and 7 closed-won deals for a total of $210K in revenue.

13 SEP 2020

How do Sales Engagement Tools differ from Saleswhale AI assistants?

There are basically 3 ways you can use sales engagement tools, like Outreach and SalesLoft today.

7 SEP 2020

Spot the difference: Marketing Automation & Saleswhale's AI assistant

The whole idea that marketers can design a lead scoring model that correctly scores leads according by their interest to talk to Sales is deeply flawed.

7 SEP 2020

What are AI assistants?

AI assistants are automation tools that help marketing and sales teams automate tasks using rule-based configurations and machine learning.

31 AUG 2020

What's Saleswhale & how can it help me accelerate revenue?

We are entering a new era of marketing. Before, marketers were measured by leads. Now, marketers need to be responsible for revenue.

31 AUG 2020

Recalibrating Webinar Marketing for a Post-Normal World

In the post normal world where many are running webinars, how can B2B marketers recalibrate their webinar marketing strategy to stand out from the rest?

11 AUG 2020

How Inbound Marketing Has Changed in the Last 13 years...and 13 Weeks

How inbound marketing has changed in the last 13 years...and 13 weeks? What should be prioritized in your strategy today?

11 AUG 2020

Marketing career advice for my younger self

How can B2B marketers gain ad edge as a marketer and help their companies (and careers) grow.

4 AUG 2020

How to Make Mouth-watering B2B Content

How can B2B marketers create mouth-watering content? How can they create memorable and effective content that ultimately drives revenue?

4 AUG 2020

How COVID-19 affects rejection reasons in B2B lead conversion

735,346 emails later...we looked at how Covid-19 has impacted conversion rates and rejections. Now we're going to spill the tea.

27 JUL 2020

How ABM and B2B Marketing has evolved over the last 3 months

How should B2B marketers approach ABM after everything in the last 3-4 months? What has changed? More importantly, what *hasn't changed*?

26 JUL 2020

4 Marketing Challenges Automated Lead Conversion Systems Solve for...

AI assistants aren’t a replacement for humans. Nor are they intended to replace any of your existing processes or marketing automation tools. They're more.

28 JUN 2020

10 reasons my team hates working for Saleswhale

Now, there are many reasons why my team hates working at Saleswhale. Here are the top 10 reasons based on our operating principles.

24 JUN 2020

Demand Gen vs Lead Gen: How not knowing the difference destroyed our...

Marketers that focus on MQLs end up doing the wrong things in order to achieve the metrics. So I changed it.

16 JUN 2020

How we made the most of our $90,000 mistake

We spent $90,699 to attend Dream Force and it was a mistake.

14 JUN 2020

What's the most innovative campaign marketing has run for you?

"This was one of the most no-nonsense and straight to the point webinars that I've attended!" -- Sharon Lourdes Paul, Head of Business Development

31 MAY 2020

Run best-in-class demand gen plays with Saleswhale's new Topic Library

Saleswhale Topic Library allows you to select a play from our curated library, informed by millions of email conversations our AI assistants hold monthly.

21 MAY 2020

4 LinkedIn marketing tactics you can steal

I'm not a LinkedIn expert but here are some key takeaways I've learned the following by experimenting, testing, and tinkering over the last 6 weeks.

17 MAY 2020

Our $90,000 mistake & why I would do it all over again

We made a $90,000 mistake and have no regrets. #YOLO

10 MAY 2020

How Unit4 generated a consistent pipeline of sales-ready leads

This is the story of how Unit4's APAC marketing team deliver more qualified sales-ready leads, despite their lean team size.

8 MAY 2020

How to convert your marketing leads into sales opportunities

Got cold marketing leads that you have no idea what to do with? Join the club. We get it. You don't have time to follow up with every lead... until now.

5 MAY 2020

Memoirs of an ex-SDR: Where are the lead conversions?

MQLs and SQLs

5 MAY 2020

How Saleswhale used ABM to increase revenue by 175%

In March 2020, we broke a sales record at Saleswhale - closing more net-new business than Q3 / Q4 2019 combined - and we wanted to share our learnings.

23 APR 2020

What is Collaborative Intelligence?

The 3rd wave of business transformation is coming and will be led by collaboratively intelligent processes. Learn how humans are getting back into the game

17 APR 2020

5 (unconventional) ways B2B tech marketers can generate leads

Marketers face more pressure to deliver sales-ready leads than ever. Here’s how they can be efficient, scrappy, and creative about it.

25 MAR 2020

How to survive a marketing budget cut (amidst a looming recession)

Saleswhale's VP of Marketing Tim shares five lessons on running the marketing function in the face of economic uncertainty.

11 MAR 2020

4 ways AI can help recession-proof your company

After researching over 100+ companies globally on how they weathered the 2008 global financial crisis, here are four strategies I noticed they deployed..

1 MAR 2020

I'm a CEO and this is what I care about from Marketing

A startup CEO's take on how marketing leaders can impress their CEOs (without kissing ass) and get promoted.

17 FEB 2020

Mind The "Nurture Gap"

The nurture gap is a hole in the sales funnel between the marketing team and the sales teams, at the moment of lead hand-off. And it's a tough problem to..

10 FEB 2020

Introducing Reveal: Get full visibility into lead outcomes

Senior Product Manager Thu Nguyen discusses why Saleswhale is building a product capability that gives marketers full visibility into lead outcomes.

15 NOV 2019

Why we're sponsoring Dreamforce (for the first time)

Saleswhale is participating in Dreamforce for the first time, as a sponsor. Here's why we're sponsoring and what you can expect from us at Dreamforce 2019.

12 NOV 2019

Aligning Sales and Marketing through AI

Sales and marketing misalignment is a common problem across enterprises. Here is how AI sales assistants like Saleswhale can bridge this gap.

28 SEP 2019

What is it like to intern at Saleswhale?

At Saleswhale, our interns do work that adds value to our company and customers. Read more about what Saleswhale internships are like.

7 AUG 2019

How AI assistants help B2B get more qualified sales meetings

Learn more about how AI sales assistants can help marketers in B2B tech companies close the sales-marketing gap.

23 MAY 2019

How to implement a conversational email strategy that delivers results

We share six conversational email best practices, based on our experiences doing conversational marketing for over a hundred teams.

13 MAY 2019

How a bet on customer success helped us raise our Series A funding

At Saleswhale, we invested in Customer Success much earlier than most SaaS startups. This decision paid off handsomely for us in the long run.

3 MAY 2019

We raised our Series A funding!

We closed a US$5.3 million Series A funding round! Our CEO Gabriel looks back at how far we have come, and our grand plans for the future.

23 APR 2019

The Rise of the Enterprise AI Workforce in 2019

We are entering a new age of enterprise automation fuelled by digital workers. These are the implications for the future of work.

24 JAN 2019

The beginner’s guide to conversational marketing

Conversational marketing is a customer-oriented marketing approach. Learn more about why it matters, benefits, tools, use cases, etc.

14 DEC 2018

The gold mine of sales opportunities in your marketing database

Start digging. There could be many valid but dormant sales opportunities in your marketing database. Here's how to bring them back to life.

13 NOV 2018

The future of personality-driven chatbots

We chat with Bus Uncle’s founder, Abhilash Murthy, to learn more about why Bus Uncle is one of the most popular chatbots in Singapore.

24 OCT 2018

What the Y Combinator experience is like, according to 4 graduates

Y Combinator is a famous Silicon Valley-based accelerator. Here's how the Y Combinator experience shaped four startups that graduated from it.

28 SEP 2018

How Freshworks Achieved $100M in Annual Recurring Revenue with AI

Freshdesk has more than $100 million in annual recurring revenue, and over 150,000 customers across some 180 countries. Here's how they did it.

14 SEP 2018

Why SDRs Should Report to Marketing, Not Sales

Do Sales Development Reps (SDRs) belong to sales, marketing, or demand generation? Here's why we say SDRs should report to marketing.

19 JUN 2018

How Saleswhale boosted Randstad’s lead to meeting conversion rates by...

How Saleswhale helped Randstad improve productivity and achieve a mammoth boost in lead to meeting conversion rates – up to 79 percent!

1 JUN 2018

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