Friendly prospecting notes
2026-09-21Most B2B outbound teams blame messaging and headcount for falling reply rates. The real leak is upstream—in email verification, CRM enrichment, and LinkedIn prospecting living in separate silos. Here's what a data quality lead sees after reviewing 40,000 contacts a quarter in 2025.
2026-09-21After two years and roughly $38k of 'cheap but fine' data spend — plus one very avoidable Q3 miss — I stopped optimizing for unit price. Here's why the certainty premium is actually the cheaper option in any agent-native prospecting workflow.
2026-09-21A neutral ranking of six AI sales agents by authority, auditability, ownership, escalation, and evidence limits.
2026-09-21Design pages, forms, evidence, consent, routing, and measurement around the next suitable conversation rather than maximum submissions.
2026-09-20A RevOps-focused evaluation checklist for cold email and AI prospecting tools — covering company research, email warmup, enrichment chains, intent data, and the actual sales skill your AI agent needs before you sign a contract.
2026-09-20A current guide to Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook, targeting, authentication, unsubscribe handling, measurement, and operational review.
2026-09-20Test a new audience or motion with explicit assumptions, limited exposure, reviewable evidence, and a decision to stop, revise, or operationalize.
2026-09-18A RevOps pitfall story about mistaking LinkedIn engagement for buying intent in cold outreach—what it cost, what I got wrong, and the five things I now audit before every campaign.
2026-09-18A practitioner's FAQ on okki go, agent-native prospecting, sales engagement platform features, and where AI personalization actually fits — written by someone who gets called in when outbound deployments go sideways.
2026-09-18A conditional ranking of six B2B lead-generation approaches by the quality of evidence they create, their operating burden, and when the order should chang