The best outbound does not feel cold because the account has already met you — in their feed, in a peer’s recommendation, in a piece of content that named their exact problem. By the time a rep reaches out, you are a familiar name, not an interruption.
Intent first, volume second
We find the accounts showing intent, warm them with relevant outreach, and hand the team people who are genuinely ready to talk — not a cold list scraped from a database.
- Pick accounts on signal, not on a total-addressable-market spreadsheet.
- Lead with the problem the buyer is already searching for.
- Make the first ask small enough that yes is the easy answer.
Outbound and demand are not two teams. They are one motion, run in sequence.
Run it this way and your show rates climb, your reps stop dreading the dials, and the meetings that land are with people who already half-believe you can help.
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Maciek Marchlewski
Chief Operating Officer, Northbound