Do you know that sales automation has helped 61% of businesses exceed their revenue targets? (Hubspot). As this is the era of artificial intelligence and automation, why should you not go with the flow? However, choosing the right tool to automate the sales process is extremely important if you want to get good profits. 

We have SalesBlink for you, the handy sales outreach automation tool, which is a one-stop solution for cold outreach. It automates finding leads and helps with smarter outreach thanks to its in-built AI, BlinkGPT to create templates & sequences.  

In this blog post, we’ll help you explore the tool and understand its exciting features that can help you convert prospects into customers faster. 

So, let’s dive in!

Lead generation is a time-consuming task for every sales professional, but with SalesBlink, searching for prospects has never been so easy. 

Our B2B leads database has 250Mn+ contacts, 10+ filters, and more than 20Mn companies that get updated monthly. 

SalesBlink’s Company Search feature helps you find prospective companies based on the industry you are looking for, number of employees, and location. Next, you have People Search, which provides you with the email addresses and phone numbers of prospects with just a few clicks. Getting the contacts of company decision-makers has never been this easy!

Also, SalesBlink verifies the email addresses in real time and provides a confidence score to send emails to valid addresses. This ensures you have a good sender reputation and email deliverability so that you will always land in prospects’ inboxes. 

After finding prospects’ contacts, the next step would be to reach out to them. SalesBlink lets you connect with prospects with email and LinkedIn outreach. You can create email templates from scratch or generate them with SalesBlink’s BlinkGPT. The tool also enables you to personalize emails at scale. You have both text and image personalization to make the prospect feel important. It will definitely help you get more responses.

You can create sequences and send follow-ups on autopilot with SalesBlink. While you can build sequences from scratch, SalesBlink’s BlinkGPT creates complete sequences for you under 90 seconds.

Once your sequence is running, feel free to track clicks, opens, replies, and bounces to know the performance of your outreach sequence.

When you send outreach emails, it is likely that you would want to schedule a meeting with the prospects. How about providing a link to your availability calendar and letting them pick a time and date?

SalesBlink’s in-built meeting scheduler helps you do just that. It enables prospects to schedule meetings effortlessly with you, and there’s no need to depend on an external tool.

All you have to do is share your meeting scheduler link with the prospect in your outreach email, and the rest is easy. You can even embed the meeting scheduler to your website’s page to enable prospects to book a meeting with you from within your website.

It is also possible to change your working hours and customize your meeting scheduler as per your preference.

Now that you know what SalesBlink does, let’s move ahead.

SalesBlink has 3 different plans to offer based on the different needs of users.

SalesBlink Plans and Pricing

The Sales Outreach plan include:

Basic – $49/mo/user

Professional – $69/mo/user

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The Prospecting plan includes

Prospecting Pro Plan – $49/month

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The Email Warmup plan is at $19/mo/sender

You get a discount of 15% if you choose yearly billing.

What’s more, is that you get a 7-day trial at just $1. 

Excited to know more about SalesBlink? Let’s go on a detailed tour of SalesBlink to see how each of its features works so that you can see how it can simplify your tasks.

When you use SalesBlink, you will start with finding leads, which is generally the case with most cold outreach tools. This is the first step of the sales process, and if you make the right efforts at this stage, it will be helpful later on. 

Search For Companies 

First, you would want to search for companies to get leads. SalesBlink makes that job easy for you as you can filter your search for companies by industry, team size, and location. 

As a sales professional, you must search for companies and get to know them. But this process can be tiresome and ineffective without a prospecting tool as you will have to choose the conventional manual methods to find leads. 

Additionally, purchasing a prospect database is also not advisable because you can get unverified and incomplete information. 

That is why you need a tool that helps you find and verify leads. 

SalesBlink is the best award-winning solution around! It has been rated as the high-performing sales outreach automation tool of 2022 by G2. Another good reason to choose the tool for your team!

SalesBlink - High performer G2

Using SalesBlink’s Company Search, you can instantly get details of companies, such as their website, social media links, and location, without having to run around.

As already mentioned, you can filter the results to get what you need. 

For example, if you are looking for software companies in the USA, you can select it in the location filter, and you will get search results accordingly. SalesBlink helps in narrowing down the search. 

Here is how to go about it,

1. Click on ‘Leads’ > ‘Company’ on the home page.

2. Enter industry, number of employees, location in the filters and hit Search.

SalesBlink company search

You will get the details like website, social media links, team size, and location.

Search For People

When you want to contact a company, you usually wish to connect with someone working there. However, how would you know who is the right person to reach out to? That is why you would want to gather details of a company’s employees and job titles to reach out to a decision-maker. It will increase your chances of closing the deal faster.

Mailing the prospect will help you initiate a conversation and is a great way to start.

And with SalesBlink, you can search for company employees and gather as much information as possible, including their email addresses.

Once you perform company search, you can select up to 10 companies using the checkboxes and then hit “Search People”.

SalesBlink company search

You would now have the contact details of the employees of the companies that match your ideal customer profile.

If you want to directly find contact details of employees using SalesBlink, here are the steps you should follow,

  1. Click on ‘Leads’ & then ‘People’.
SalesBlink People search

2. You can filter further based on the domain, job title, location and the contact details you require. 

3. Unlock  the leads by clicking on “View Email” or “View Phone.”

SalesBlink People search

The best part about using SalesBlink is that it verifies email addresses and provides the confidence score so that you don’t end up sending emails to invalid addresses. That’s exactly what you need to ensure good email deliverability. 

Now that you have found leads, you would want to waste no more time in reaching out to them, but there is one more step in between – creating a list. 

Here’s how you can go about creating your list:

1. Go to ‘Lists’ and click on ‘+ New List’.

Create Lists With SalesBlink

2. Upload your CSV file and click on ‘Next’.

Create Lists With SalesBlink

You can download the sample CSV file by clicking on ‘Download Sample File’. 

Feel free to edit the file in Microsoft Excel by adding more columns and records to it. 

Upload the sample file and this is what you can see,

creating-lists-step2-salesblink

3. Start mapping the fields with SalesBlink property. Feel free to choose ‘skip field’ for data that is not required.

Mapping is used for adding dynamic variables for personalization in your emails like {{first_name}}, {{company_name}}.

You can add these in the email body, subject line and images for personalization. 

Create Lists With SalesBlink

4. If you have mapped the “Email” field, you can choose to verify emails in your list.

Create Lists With SalesBlink

5. Now, name the list and click on ‘Next’.

Now, name the list and click on

You just created the list! Looks easy, right? At SalesBlink, we ensure that you have the best user experience.

Now, go ahead and use the list to create a sequence!

With SalesBlink, you can use Company Search and People Search to get contact details and create a list. 

It is finally time to create your outreach sequence with SalesBlink. 

You can reach out to the prospect across multiple channels, from email and LinkedIn to SMS and phone call. SalesBlink automates email outreach for you, and for the rest of the channels, you can create tasks in your sequence. 

There are two ways of creating a sequence, and that includes 

  • Creating a sequence from scratch
  • Creating a sequence using BlinkGPT

Let’s take a look at each of them,

Creating a sequence from scratch

Creating a sequence from scratch is the conventional way of building an outreach sequence in email. 

Here are the steps involved,
1️. Go to the dashboard and click on ‘Outreach’ followed by ‘Sequences’.

2️. Click on ‘Create New Sequence’.

Creating a sequence

3️. Name the sequence and select ‘Create from Scratch’ from the two options that appear and click on ‘Save’.

Creating a sequence

4. When you save the sequence, the visual sequence builder opens. 

A pop-up will appear asking you to connect to a list. 

Creating a sequence

Once you connect to the list, you can go about creating the sequence. 

Creating a sequence

5. Click on the ‘+’ sign and select either ‘Email Outreach’ or ‘Task’.

When choosing email outreach, you must select the template you created previously or create a new one.

Creating A New Template

If you have not created an email template, here’s how to go about it,

Upon clicking “Create New Template”, the email template generator will open.

You can write your email using it.

Creating a template

As you can see, there’s a spam checker to provide the overall score of the email. You can tweak your email template accordingly to ensure good email deliverability. 

Now, save the template. 

6.  You can ‘Insert’ the template you just created in the Email Outreach Block.

Creating a sequence

7. Click on ‘Save & Launch’, the sequence settings will open where you can schedule the sequence by setting the date, time and time zone. 

Sequence settings

Select the email sender you want to send the outreach emails from or add a new email sender. 

To review your emails before sending them to prospects, check the ‘Check Emails Before Sending ‘ checkbox. 

Also, you can choose the type of email addresses in your list you want to send emails to. You can send either to all kinds of emails or only to the verified ones.

When you select verified email, you have the option to choose to send to the following:

– Valid email

– Risky email

– Invalid email 

However, it is quite obvious that you would want to send emails to valid email addresses for better sender reputation and email deliverability.

Also, feel free to track email opens, clicks and replies by checking the respective boxes. This way you can measure the performance of your sales outreach sequence.

5️. Finally, click on review to view the summary and hit schedule. 

You can review the emails before scheduling them as you can see below. Once you are done, you can click on ‘Approve and Schedule’ .

SalesBlink Sequence

And that’s it! You just launched your first outreach sequence from scratch. 

Generating a template using BLINKGPT

You have the option to generate the template using BlinkGPT and save time. 

Did that surprise you? We’re sure it did!

Generative AI has revolutionized how people work and is the most trending topic. So, how can we not be a part of it? 

Now, there is not need to think hard and write a cold email from scratch. SalesBlink’s BlinkGPT let’s you generate a high-performing cold email with just a click.

Here’s how to go about generating your email with SalesBlink,

  1. Go to Outreach > Templates
  2. Click on ‘Create New’ and select ‘Create Email Template’ from the drop-down. 

While you can write your email template from scratch in the email template editor that opens, there is the option to generate it using BlinkGPT by providing a prompt.

We have trained BlinkGPT to write high-performing cold emails that get you more replies. 

  1. Name the template, enter the prompt in the ‘BlinkGPT Prompt’ field, click on generate to get a complete email body with subject line.
Generate template

You can save this template after you make changes to it if required. This is important because you may want to describe your product or service differently.

That’s how you can create a template in BlinkGPT-backed SalesBlink.

Creating a Sequence Using BlinkGPT

You can create a sequence seamlessly using SalesBlink’s BlinkGPT almost in an instant. Now you don’t have to create sequences on your own. You have help at hand! It can be the best way out when you are in a hurry to build a sequence. Also, you can use the time saved in building relationships with prospects, which BlinkGPT cannot do yet!! 

Let’s see how to create a sequence with BlinkGPT under 90 seconds, 

1️. Go to the dashboard. Click on ‘Outreach’ > ‘Sequences’. 

2️. Click on ‘Create New Sequence’.

3️. Name the sequence and select ‘Create with BlinkGPT’.

Create New Sequence

4️. In the page that opens, you can create the first email template of the sequence using BlinkGPT. Name the template and enter the BlinkGPT prompt. 

Here are a few examples of the kind of prompts you can enter,

  • I want to sell digital marketing services
  • I sell lead generation services to SaaS companies
  • Write a cold email to sell my CRM SaaS
  • My startup provides health insurance to businesses
  • I provide digital marketing services to enterprises
  • I sell a software tool for customer success teams to small businesses
Create New Sequence

The email body will get generated with the subject line. 

It is worth mentioning again that we have trained BlinkGPT in such a way that it generates a high-performing email copy with subject line from a single line prompt. Otherwise, you have to enter a more detailed prompt to get BlinkGPT to provide a reasonably good output. So, BlinkGPT saves your time and effort!

To personalize the email, you can add the variables such as {{first_name}}, {{company_name}} to the body from the list you choose.

5️. If needed, feel free to update the email content according to what you plan to sell. You can improve the email according to your edits by clicking on ‘Improve with BlinkGPT’. 

6️. After checking thoroughly, you can click on ‘Create sequence with BlinkGPT’.

Create New Sequence

SalesBlink will write the follow up emails for you and create a sequence with a delay between the initial and the follow up emails.

You can make changes to the sequence if required and check the email templates.  

Click on ‘Save & Launch’ to schedule the sequence by setting the date, time and time zone. 

Sequence settings

Select the email sender you want to send the outreach emails from or add a new email sender. 

To review your initial and follow up emails before sending them to prospects, check the ‘Check Emails Before Sending ‘ checkbox. 

Also, you can choose the type of email addresses in your list you want to send emails to. You can send either to all the emails or only to the verified ones.

Additionally, feel free to track email opens, clicks and replies by checking the respective boxes. It would help you measure the performance of your outreach sequence. 

7️. Finally, click on review to view the summary and hit schedule. 

You can review the emails before scheduling them as you can see below. Once you are done, you can click on ‘Approve and Schedule’ .

And that’s it. You just created your sequence with BlinkGPT!

As you have seen, you can add variables such as {{first_name}}, {{last_name}}, to your email body and subject line as text personalization. When you send the email, the variable gets replaced with the corresponding value saved in the list. This way, you give a tailored look to your email with minimal effort. 

Apart from that, SalesBlink lets you use image personalization to get the prospect’s attention and connect with them better. 

Let’s take a look at how it is done, 

  1. Click on ‘Personalize Image’.
Email Personalization With SalesBlink
  1. You can use a sample photo or upload one from your computer. 
Image Personalization With SalesBlink

2. In the image, you can enter the text you want to display and modify it the way you want.

For example, here’s what you can write something like the following as the image text,

Hi {{first_name}}

Here, {{first_name}} is the variable.

The first name of the prospect will appear in the image, and you won’t have to keep changing it for every email you send. The prospect will think that you have tailored the image for the prospect, making them feel special. And that’s good for you as they may show interest in your product or service.

Image Personalization With SalesBlink

LinkedIn Outreach

LinkedIn is the most widely-used professional networking site that sales professionals prefer and we bet you can’t agree more.

Sending LinkedIn messages is a great way to reach out to prospects, and it is beneficial to incorporate it into your outreach strategy. After the initial email, you can send LinkedIn messages or a request to connect. It goes without saying that sending messages on LinkedIn will make you look more professional. 

SalesBlink helps you create tasks to send LinkedIn messages. You can easily add these tasks to your sequence. Though sending email messages is not automated in SalesBlink but it can get you started.

LinkedIn Outreach

Email Warm-up

You may know that you must warm up any new email account before starting your outreach sequence. If you send thousands of emails at once from it, you will land in the spam folder, and the ESP will blacklist you! 

You wouldn’t let that happen, would you?

Before you can go ahead with full-fledged emailing, you must earn a name for your domain and show your ESP that you are genuine and not a spammer. 

You have to warm up your domain, which begins by initially sending only a few emails. 

After that, you can increase the volume every week until you build a solid sender reputation.

Having a tool do it for you can be amazing! 

SalesBlink helps with just that with its email warm-up feature. 

It automates the entire process for you and improves email deliverability so that your emails land in the primary inbox of recipients and not in the spam folder.

Here’s how you can use this feature,

1️. Go to ‘Outreach’ > ‘Email Senders’ and click on ‘Add Sender’.

2️. Enter the details asked for and enable warm up by checking the checkbox under ‘Warm Up Settings’.  

Email Warm-up

3️. Click on ‘Next’ and you are done!

Now relax and watch your account getting warmed up on autopilot!

SalesBlink’s Meeting Scheduler

Meetings with prospects help you seal the deal. And that means they are important. So, why don’t you make it easier for prospects to schedule them with you?

Letting prospects book a meeting with you can’t get easier with SalesBlink’s in-house meeting scheduler. 

It does away with the rally of emails sent back-and-forth to decide the date and time. 

Here’s how to go about it,

1. Click on ‘Meet’ from the top menu of the tool’s home page.

2. Connect your Google or Outlook Calendar and grant access. 

SalesBlink’s Meeting Scheduler

3. Write out a slug/back half for your meeting scheduler link. 

4. Select the calendar where you would like the meetings to be saved. 

Now you can go ahead and copy your meeting scheduler link to share it with prospects in outreach emails. 

Just go to ‘Meet’ > ‘My Calendar’ and click on ‘Copy Link’ to copy the link of the meeting scheduler. 

You can paste the link to your outreach email template. 

Here’s how the scheduler will look like when you open the link in your browser window,

SalesBlink’s Meeting Scheduler

Note: Feel free to specify your availability by changing your working hours by going to ‘Meet’ > ‘Settings’.

SalesBlink’s Free Tools

Along with our sales automation tool that reduces manual tasks, we offer a few handy free tools. They can be the perfect addition to every salesperson’s toolkit. Let’s take a look at them,

Free Email Subject Line Generator

If the email subject line is not attractive enough, why would anyone even want to read what is inside the email? Agreed? 

However, coming up with catchy subject lines each time you draft an email is challenging, and that is why we have a free tool for you that will be useful. It helps in generating subject lines that will fetch you high open rates. It would help reduce your work to a great extent.

Here’s how the tool works,

Enter the product or service your business deals in, with the target company’s name.

Click on the ‘Generate subject lines’ button.

Free Email Subject Line Generator

You will get 5 subject lines along with their open rates so that you can choose what works best for you. If you don’t want to use them straight away, they can work as an inspiration to help you write another one. 

Free Email Verification Tool

You can use SalesBlink’s free tool for email verification. Just enter the email address you want to check and click on ‘Verify Email’. The tool will show you whether it is valid or not.

Free Email Verification Tool

Free Email Spam Checker

SalesBlink’s free email spam checker lets you check your emails for spammy words. You can remove them before sending the email to prospects to ensure it lands in the inbox and the spam filters don’t withhold it.  

Free Email Spam Checker

Free Email Permutator

With SalesBlink’s free email permutator, you can guess someone’s email address with the help of their first name, last name and company domain. 

Free Email Permutator

Free Sales Commission Calculator

With SalesBlink’s free commission calculator, you can easily calculate sales commission for your team based on the model your company employs. 

Simply enter the values to get the sales commission as the output.  

Free Sales Commission Calculator

Get Ready To Use SalesBlink Today!

As you can see, SalesBlink is a fully-loaded tool that takes you from prospecting to outreach to closing swiftly. In addition, it automates every step so that your team’s workload gets significantly reduced.

As a salesperson, you would have a lot on your plate already. So, it is better to automate tasks that take away a significant chunk of your time. SalesBlink helps you do just that.

So what are you waiting for? Build a flawless sales process with SalesBlink, and you will never regret it! Sign up now!

FAQs

1. What is SalesBlink?

SalesBlink is an all-in-one full-stack sales outreach tool that takes you from prospecting to outreach to closing lightning fast. The speed and automation that make SalesBlink a one-stop solution for cold outreach.

2. What is an outreach campaign?

An outreach campaign has a mix of emails, phone calls, and LinkedIn messages. It usually starts with an email. Once you get the prospect’s email address, verify it, and perform research. You can then begin your outreach.

3. What is email warm-up?

Email warmup helps improve email deliverability so that your emails land in the primary inbox of recipients and not in the spam folder. The process involves increasing the number of emails sent each day.