Education & Training Resources
How To Make a Sales Appointment Via Email
Booking sales appointments via cold calling and cold emailing are each effective in their own right. However, in terms of efficiency and volume, booking sales appointments via email is unmatched.
What Is Email Marketing Sender Reputation?
As a marketer, your email marketing sender reputation is something that you should keep in mind. You can spend countless hours crafting the perfect email for your prospects, but at the end of the day, if your email is landing in their spam folder, your campaign won’t be successful.
How to Create a Sales Funnel Email Sequence
In the current marketing landscape, it’s not enough to just have a great product or service. You need a strategic system that nurtures your prospects and makes them want to buy from you—and that system is the sales funnel email sequence.
The Importance of Big Data in Email Marketing
Using big data in your email marketing campaigns helps you identify who your customers are, what they need, and when they need it. If you don’t have these insights, you’re basically taking a guess at who your ideal prospects are.
The Importance of a B2B Social Media Strategy
Looking to grow your following and increase engagement? Learn how a B2B social media marketing strategy can help you start getting more from your efforts.
Losing Clients? Why You Need to Reinvest in Marketing
Cutting all of your marketing spend will reduce your overhead but it will also make it harder to attract new clients to replace those you lost, weakens your brand presence, and puts you in a bad recovery position to bounce back after the economy starts to recover.
What is RevOps and Why is it Important?
When we were first starting out here at Sapper Consulting we could’ve greatly benefitted from having a RevOps team in place. In a previous life, our departments were not aligned or communicating efficiently, we lacked a full understanding of other teams’ processes, and we were experiencing inconsistencies in our data. Until we discovered the power of RevOps…
Your Team: Partner Delivery Manager
In this blog post, we’ll discuss Sapper’s meeting-setting experts, the Partner Delivery Manager. This role is responsible for consistently scheduling qualified sales meetings for our clients, the most critical component of lead generation.
How to Reduce Your Sales Cycle
To shorten your time to new deals, you don’t need any fancy software or a new business model. All you need is some quick tips and you’ll be well on your way to reducing your sales cycle time.
Long-Term B2B Lead Generation
Lead generation is a vital part of any business and there are countless factors one must take into consideration before executing a lead generation strategy. While lead generation is a marathon, short-term sprints can help you to supplement your lead flow. Here’s how to build a sustainable pipeline for now and into the future.
Four Tactics to Boost Sales In a Post-Pandemic World
Learn four tactics leaders can apply to their sales strategy to boost their close rate (and sales) in a post-pandemic world.
How to Generate Leads for Software Development Projects
Learn and apply our top three strategies to stand out in a crowded market and generate more leads for software development projects.
Common DIY Lead Generation Mistakes
Many people choose to tackle their own lead generation with varying results. We are going to walk through the most common lead generation mistakes people make when generating leads in-house (and how to overcome them). By the end of this article, you will have a clearer understanding of what lead generation is and how you can go about reviving your own DIY lead generation efforts.
Your Team: Partner Success Manager
In this blog post, we will review the client’s right hand and main point of contact, the Partner Success Manager. This role is an expert communicator who aims to achieve 100% client satisfaction – no small feat.
Best Practices for Initial Sales Calls
While you may have spent weeks, even months, nurturing a prospect, your real time to shine is on your initial sales call. For just thirty short minutes, you have your prospects full attention. How will you make the most of it?
Client Testimonial: Quality Sales Meetings Create Sustainable Pipeline
With Sapper’s unique approach, we were able to consistently book qualified sales meeting for Pro Insurance to create new opportunities now and well into the future.
4 Tactics to Get Past Gatekeepers
Getting past the gatekeeper is a common challenge for most salespeople and overcoming this obstacle is a critical skill if you want to earn new clients.
When Can You Actually Expect ROI From Your Lead Generation?: Part 2
Lead generation is never a magic bullet. A single push investment, no matter how large, does not lead to sustainable results…so when can you expect ROI?
Client Testimonial: The Sapper Difference
Pro Insurance tried multiple solutions for lead generation before coming to Sapper. Sapper’s unique strategy for email marketing is what moved the needle and developed their pipeline.
When Can You Actually Expect ROI From Your Lead Generation?: Part 1
Lead generation is never a magic bullet. A single push investment, no matter how large, does not lead to sustainable results…so when can you expect ROI?
9 Phrases to Eliminate From Your Sales Emails Right Now
Sapper’s Jacob Turner shares how to make your outreach more effective in this Built In article.
B2B Email Marketing Best Practices You Need To Adopt
Including email in your larger lead generation, nurturing, and conversion strategies isn’t optional for success…but creating an effective campaign takes an expert strategy.
While you may not consider yourself an expert, some foundational best practices can significantly improve your email marketing results.
4 Tactics to Revive Old Leads
Learn which leads in your pipeline have the highest chance of converting, four tactics to re-engage them, and more.
Client Testimonial: Full Pipeline
After working with Sapper for just eight months, Innovative Product Solutions secured more sales introductions than in their last few years of business. With a full pipeline, we are helping to create sustainable growth for IPS.
SapperSuite’s Client Overview
Introducing Sapper’s newest innovation, the Client Overview in SapperSuite. Our hope is that this initiative will lead to more visibility, more collaboration, and more closed deals.
Cold Calling
Jump to Section Cold Calling Best Practices Cold Calling 101: Advantages and Disadvantages Old habits die hard; that’s as true for business as it is for any other aspect of life. And one of the oldest habits in the sales-and-marketing
Tips for Growing Your Sales Funnel Using LinkedIn
Looking for ways to grow your sales funnel? View these helpful tips from the pros at Sapper Consulting to grow your sales funnel using LinkedIn today!
B2B Email Best Practices
Jump to Section B2B Email Best Practices Get More Responses With B2B Emails By Using The Rule of Three While B2B email marketing remains one of the most effective ways to reach new and existing customers, it only works if
MSP Lead Generation Best Practices
Jump to Section MSP Lead Generation Best Practices 3 Best Practices for Growing Your MSP: Read Or Miss Out Nearly 30 million small businesses exist in America, and most are trying to tread water in a world fraught with IT challenges, security
Client Testimonial : 50% ROI
Working with Sapper for just a few short months, Thames Management Resources secured several new clients and achieved 50% ROI.
4 Tactics To Help Boost Sales In A Post-Pandemic World
As featured in Forbes, Sapper’s CRO reports on strategies to increase you company’s closing percentages.
How to Nurture B2B Leads: Part 2
In many ways, lead nurturing is the unsung hero of effective B2B marketing. While tactics designed to fill your CRM with prospects get all the glory, those leads matter little if you cannot convert them into actual revenue.
How to Nurture B2B Leads: Part 1
In many ways, lead nurturing is the unsung hero of effective B2B marketing. While tactics designed to fill your CRM with prospects get all the glory, those leads matter little if you cannot convert them into actual revenue.
How To Grow Your Business Without a Sales Team
In this quick read, learn three proven strategies you can use to grow your business without having to have an extensive sales team – or even without a sales team at all.
Is Your Marketing Campaign Too Personalized?
While buyer-centric strategies are commonplace in today’s marketing arena, creating hyper-specific campaigns can actually sabotage your results. In fact, if you focus too much on personalization, you may end up alienating a large portion of your audience.
10 Tips to Create Effective Outbound Prospecting Emails
Convincing strangers to give you 30 minutes of their time is a challenge; convincing strangers that are not actively looking for your product, on the other hand, can be impossible. Download this cheat sheet and learn 10 tips you can implement to create more effective prospecting emails.
Why You Need a Hybrid Lead Generation Strategy: Part 2
Marketers often debate the relative strengths of inbound and outbound marketing. While so many companies are focusing on inbound strategies (like social media), the truth is your B2B organization needs both to maximize your efforts.
Why You Need a Hybrid Lead Generation Strategy : Part 1
Marketers often debate the relative strengths of inbound and outbound marketing. While so many companies are focusing on inbound strategies (like social media), the truth is your B2B organization needs both to maximize your efforts.
Why Your Onboarding Process for New Sales Hires Needs Updating in the Post-Pandemic Era
If you’re planning to bring on salespeople in the near future, you can’t rely on old onboarding processes. You need to adjust to the current environment and equip new hires from the start. Here’s how you can improve your sales recruitment and training protocols…
Managing Sales Development by the Numbers, Part 2
Without clear and consistent processes, guidelines, and expectations for your sales development team, your reps are left to figure out what works through trial and error. The result is highly unpredictable ramp times, wide variance in performance, and inconsistent revenue attainment. Here’s what to do instead.
Four Ways to Recover B2B Sales In 2021
Mixing up the way you prospect, pitch, and close will be crucial for sales success moving forward in 2021. Download this cheat sheet to learn four ways you can recover lagging B2B sales this year.
Managing Sales Development Teams By the Numbers, Part 1
Without clear and consistent processes, guidelines, and expectations for your sales development team, your reps are left to figure out what works through trial and error. The result is highly unpredictable ramp times, wide variance in performance, and inconsistent revenue attainment. Here’s what to do instead.
Understanding the Difference Between Types of Leads
When evaluating your lead generation options, there’s a lot to consider. For instance, the cost, the method, and the number of leads are all important factors. But what about the type of lead you are receiving? Understanding what your lead gen provider is offering is vital for your success.
How Much Should You Pay For Leads?
Cost per lead varies widely by industry, target market, and lead quality…So how do you evaluate fair prices while still generating quality leads?
Why do Sales Managers Fail? They Manage Results – Not Actions.
Sales is known for celebrating and driving results. But what about actions? Focusing on inputs is an important reality for prospecting managers but it’s often overlooked. Learn how focusing on inputs can level-up your prospecting plan.
The Myths of Outbound Lead Generation
Outbound marketing hasn’t always had the best reputation. From snake oil salesmen promising hundreds of quality leads, to the occasionally intrusive nature of outbound tactics, outbound methods make many marketers hesitate. In this blog post, we’ll separate fact from fiction.
Why Lead Generation is Not a Magic Bullet Solution
Lead generation, done correctly, supplies a steady stream of prospects to convert deals now while filling your sales funnel months into the future. Lead generation is not a magic bullet solution; it’s a long-term strategy of growth and stability.
How to Sell to Cold Leads
With the right nurture strategy, cold prospects are just warm leads waiting to convert. Take your time with cold leads and reap the rewards of a sustainable pipeline.
How to Stand Out as a Legacy Business
Companies that have been in business for extended periods of time face a marketing dilemma. Does focusing on legacy serve to make the business feel stale in the context of newer competition? Or does it set the business apart as a bellwether who is stable and dependable?
Stop Getting Ghosted: 5 Tactics to Reduce Sales No Shows
Sales team getting ghosted? Declined invites and unanswered calls may feel like lost opportunities, but they can be prevented. Download this cheat sheet to learn how we cut our no show rate in half.
How to Grow Your Business Without a Sales Team
Growing your business is an ongoing and ever-evolving challenge. You want to make sure you have the right tools at your disposal – but does a sales team have to be one of them?
Case Study: Marketer Achieves 200% ROI
Learn how marketer Square360 generated 200% ROI while working with Sapper Consulting. Because Sapper consistently provided quality leads that had both the need and budget, Square360 signed an additional two clients within their first year of working with Sapper.
Branding, design, development, and promotional services company sees 200% ROI with Sapper’s B2B Lead Generation
Learn how marketer Square360 generated 200% ROI while working with Sapper Consulting. Because Sapper consistently provided quality leads that had both the need and budget, Square360 signed an additional two clients within their first year of working with Sapper.
How Your Outdated Website is Hurting Your SMB’s Credibility
Websites influence 97% of clients’ purchasing decisions. While you might think that this is a no-brainer, many B2B organizations devalue the impact of their own website. In this blog post, we’ll outline some of the common mistakes B2B SMB’s make on their websites that hurt their credibility.
6 Tactics to Generate Leads for Niche B2B Businesses
Successful lead generation is a complex process for any industry, but lead generation within a hyper-targeted niche requires extra attention. Download the cheat shee to learn 6 lead generation tactics for niche businesses.
10 Reasons Your Prospecting Activities Aren’t Generating Interest
Reaching out to the right lead, with the right messaging, at exactly the right time can feel like wandering through a labyrinth. If you’re just getting started with your own lead generation engine or you’re having trouble finding the gaps in your campaign, below are ten common pitfalls that may be impacting your results.
Sales Managers as Agents for Change
Sales Managers are critical change agents who can help your organization overcome the pains of technology adoption. Unfortunately, this pivotal role is frequently the most underdeveloped component of the change management process….
Understanding Segmentation
Mailchimp found that segmented campaigns boosted open rates by 14 percent, while increasing clicks, minimizing spam flags, and lowering bounce rates. But how do you actually segment your emails? And what strategies can you leverage to create amazing segmented email campaigns that virtually click themselves?
Four Tactics to Refresh Your 2021 Email Marketing Strategy
An environment with more emails and increased engagement means heightened competition for B2B marketers. To reap the benefits of the email, you’ll have to get ahead of the crowd. That’s why you must refresh your approach.
How to Use LinkedIn to Dramatically Improve Your Business
Learn 5 LinkedIn strategies to improve your business, how to inspire change through your organization, and much more in this interview with Sapper’s CEO.
Small Business Owners: When is it Time to Hire a Sales Person?
Hiring your first salesperson is an important step on the growth journey. But figuring out when the time is right isn’t always easy.
5 Reasons It’s Harder Than Ever to Meet Your Quota – and What to Do About It
The sales industry is facing obstacles that go far beyond the past year’s budget and strategic uncertainties hitting every industry. When 57% of sales reps across industries expect to miss their sales quota, something is amiss…
4 Tips to Incorporate LinkedIn into Your B2B Social Strategy
LinkedIn was created for individual professionals. As a result, companies may overlook its potential. Instead of employing cohesive strategies, they limit themselves to company or employee pages…
Personalization Failure: Your Data Cleanliness Could be Hurting your Credibility
Despite the rise of social media platforms, AI chatbots, and texting, email is still one of the most powerful tools in your sales arsenal. Not only do email campaigns create $44 for every $1 spent, but nearly 60 percent of
The Sales Engagement Podcast: Ideal Customer Profiles with TJ Macke & Jason Serota
Sapper’s VP of Strategy TJ Macke and Adobe’s Head of Commercial Business Development Jason Serota join this episode of the Sales Engagement Podcast to discuss all things Ideal Customer Profile.
Prospecting is a Waste of Your Time
The average salesperson spends a mere one-quarter of their day actually selling your product or service. The rest is spent on tasks like prospecting. What if we told you this never-ending prospecting battlefield was a waste of your time?
Is Your Marketing Too Formal? How to Find the Right Tone for Your Business Communications
A more casual tone might be just what you need to connect and build relationships with your audience.
In this blog, we’ll help you understand whether your tone is off, how to determine the best tone for your organization, and how to implement that tone.
How to Connect with Decision Makers
Reaching your decision maker will make or break your lead generation campaign. These three strategies can help you to cut through the noise, get to the point, and turn cold prospecting from radio silence into a significant opportunity.
4 Ways to Recover Flagging B2B Sales in 2021 and Beyond
You’re probably ready to return to pre-pandemic operations, but the business landscape isn’t the same one you bid farewell in 2019. The business world has changed drastically over the past year due to social distancing restrictions, economic uncertainty, remote work, and unemployment — and these changes have affected B2B sales
3 Steps to Pivot Your Marketing from Over-Relying on Referrals
82% of small business owners consider referrals to be their main source of new business. So what do you do when your referrals begin to dry up?
Are Your Business Emails Landing in Spam?
According to recent research, 20 percent of all commercial emails end up in the spam folder. Don’t let your efforts go to waste. Here’s how you can dodge your prospects’ spam folder.
How to Know When It’s Time to Grow Your Sales Team
Most small and medium-sized businesses are well adjusted to running a lean team. But running too lean, especially on your sales team, can leave money on the table…is it time to grow your sales team?
Top 10 Marketing Mistakes Made by SMBs
Obstacles are par for the course in marketing your SMB but finding (and iterating) a system that works for you is critical to beat your competition and grow sustainably.
6 Tactics to Generate Leads for a Niche B2B Business
Successful lead generation is a complex process, no matter the industry. Lead generation within a small, hyper-targeted niche? That requires special attention.
The Ultimate Guide to Understanding and Decreasing Your Customer Acquisition Cost
Customer acquisition cost, often referred to simply as CAC, is one of the most important sales and marketing metrics. Calculated correctly, it shows nothing less than the viability of your marketing strategy. Ignored, it could lead to uninformed marketing efforts, low-quality lead generation, and even stalled business growth.
How Remote Work has Impacted B2B Sales Environments
Most high-level sales reps are used to in-person selling opportunities. As the world has transitioned to digital sales, adjustments are necessary to remain competitive.
Sapper Named Women in the Workplace Honoree
Sapper is pleased to announce that we have been selected as an honoree in The Women’s Foundation of Greater St. Louis’ fourth annual Women in the Workplace award by demonstrating a strong commitment to gender equity and women’s advancement in the workplace.
Bridging the Gap Between Product and Services
While both our product team and services team are high-performing, we’ve never had the chance to consistently interact and take stock of each other’s priorities. But by implementing a few simple changes, our already fast-moving company became even faster.
Q&A with Sapper’s Sales Development Expert
In this article, Sapper’s resident SDR expert Brian Mueller sits down with us to answer your most pressing questions on all things sales development. Whether you’re an SDR, you manage an SDR, or are considering hiring or outsourcing an SDR, this article is for you.
Unpacking Content Governance
Content governance is one of those topics that get lots of theory and little application (or often any consideration at all). Without a consistent practice of content governance, your team will lack the ability to identify, prioritize, create, organize and optimize sequences across the organization.
How to Improve your Prospect Data
Prospect data and list hygiene are some of the most important, but often overlooked, variables in any outbound sales and marketing strategy. In fact, they are vitally important in determining your email deliverability.
10 Tips to Create Effective Outbound Prospecting Emails
Convincing strangers to give you 30 minutes of their time is a challenge; convincing strangers that are not actively looking for your product, may not have heard of your company, or even be aware of their own business obstacles, on the other hand, can be impossible. And yet, this is a circumstance shared by most of your sales reps.
Crafting Competitive Prospecting Sequences
The purpose of prospecting isn’t to pitch a sale, but to create enough doubt about how I do work today that I’ll listen to a new way. This paradigm shift is the nucleus of the Sapper approach to building sales sequences.
Is your Sales Team Getting Ghosted? Here’s How to Reduce No-Shows
Even the best sales reps get stood up from time to time. Here’s how we cut our no show rate in half.
Understanding the Spectrum of Reward in your Inbound Workflow
Here’s how your organization can set up a holistic lead capture funnel that prioritizes warm leads without losing sight of those still-convertible, but not quite ready prospects.
Client Chronicles : Digital Marketer Achieves $24k MRR
From strategy pivots to tangible results, we hope to offer a glimpse at the life of a Sapper client.
Your B2B Pipeline is Sitting on a Goldmine of Untapped Leads
Every marketing campaign generates more interest than leads. The majority of prospects slip through your fingers and fall back into that never-ending well of “could-have-been’s.” But are they really Closed Lost?
Sales Enablement 101
Sales enablement is, in short, setting your sales team up for success with the resources they need to efficiently close deals…
LinkedIn is Not a Lead Generation Engine
Don’t get us wrong. LinkedIn is a fantastic tool…but it’s not a lead generation engine.
Employee Training Firm Builds Full Pipeline of Consistent Sales Leads with Sapper
The Challenge? Eagle’s flight offers a dynamic approach to employee training through experimental learning. Whether your goal is to reduce turnover, upgrade your virtual learning experience, upskill your leaders or become customer-centric, Eagle’s Flight’s partners with you to make it a
Insurance Brokerage Creates Consistent Pipeline of Quality Sales Meetings with Lead Generation from Sapper Consulting
Sapper was able to book 3 meetings within the first month of service and continues
to out perform SBS’s other outsourced marketing services.
“In today’s world it’s so hard to get in front of people, especially face to face. Sapper is a necessary part of our marketing budget now.”
How to Build A World Class Lead Conversion Engine
From follow-up to high touch sequences, learn how to convert more inbound leads into opportunities with the data-backed strategies in this whitepaper.
Professional CPA Firm Gets 400% ROI with Lead Generation from Sapper Consulting
Before hiring Sapper, NRA CPA had tried a combination of in-house efforts to set appointments, as well as similar services. Despite their efforts, they never saw the traction they were looking for. Since the start of service, Sapper has achieved over 400% return on investment with similar figures already added to their future sales pipeline.
How to Write Marketing Emails for Pandemic-Era Prospects in 2021: A Guide
While established media brands and streaming websites saw significant increases in traffic, many other URLs took hits as people’s digital viewing behaviors changed. Email marketers who couldn’t keep up were left wondering why their content wasn’t converting despite the record number of people online.
How Transitioning to Virtual Interviews Improved Our Hiring Process
Moving to virtual interviews allowed us to re-evaluate our hiring process with unexpected benefits. Here’s how.
Is Your Sales Tech Stack Increasing Efficiency or Wasting Money?
Every new sales tool promises to improve operations – but is the juice worth the squeeze?
Case Study : Sapper Creates 70% of Client’s Yearly Sales
When it comes to selling managed services, success is all about expertise, stellar timing, and persistence. At Sapper, we’ve optimized our lead generation strategy for MSPs…
Managed IT Services Firm Creates 70% of Annual Sales with Sapper Leads
As an IT expert, Dan Thomas didn’t have a direct
background in sales & marketing. When
Dan decided to open his own franchise, he
sought out Sapper as a lead generation partner.
Sapper’s prospecting activities created 70% of their yearly sales and led to sales meetings with prospects that became their 2 highest paying clients.
Diversity & Inclusion: The Difference between Celebrating & Supporting
When it comes to diversity, celebration and support are used interchangeably. They shouldn’t be.
Are Low Quality Lists Impacting your Sales Pipeline?
We’ve been iterating our list development process since day one to ensure your lists convert. Sapper’s Executive Director of Prospect Data shares how.
Case Study : Developing Pipeline in a New Territory
From defining your key differentiators to identifying your prospects’ pain points, Sapper utilizes data, iteration, and innovation to connect you with qualified prospects.
5 Ways to Create Lasting Change With Diversity & Inclusion
Have you ever looked around the room and counted the number of people who look like you? If you’re not a person of color, this may not have ever crossed your mind…
Case Study : Developing Pipeline During a Pandemic
In this case study, learn how we provided consistent leads despite the many obstacles of 2020.
How to Mitigate Risk With a Risk Burndown
Owning a business will always involve some risk. But you can work to preemptively address it with the risk burndown method. Here’s how.
How to Reinvigorate Your Outreach Approach in 2021
Update your outbound prospecting campaigns in 2021 to increase the likelihood that you are getting in front of the right audience – here’s how.
How to Recover Clients Who Disappeared During the Pandemic
New and existing business alike were impacted by the economic crisis that followed the COVID-19 pandemic. Here’s how to recover clients who were hit hard.
The Missing Piece of Your Lead Generation Partnership
Part email maven, part strategist, part lead whisperer – these skilled salespeople keep the meetings rolling in.
Diversity & Inclusion :Celebrating Latinx Culture
Diversity is key for the success of any business or organization. Join Sapper Consulting as we celebrate Latinx culture this holiday season!
Ultimate Gift Guide for Sales Reps
The clock is ticking until the holidays are over and if you still don’t have a gift for your favorite salesperson, you’ve come to the right place!
Don’t Let the Holidays Freeze your Sales Pipeline
5 ways to use urgency to sidestep holiday obstacles, hit your Q4 goals, and fill your pipeline for 2021.
Ultimate Gift Guide for Marketers
Not sure what to get your content writer, social strategist, or director of marketing? You can’t go wrong with techy gadgets or apps that spark creativity.
Ultimate Gift Guide for CEO’s
Give your favorite CEO a gift they are sure to love by picking one from this list.
Ultimate Gift Guide for SDRs
With the holidays closing in, it’s the perfect time to show a little extra appreciation to the person who qualifies your leads: your SDR.
The Ultimate Gift Guide for CSMs
If anyone knows the hustle of the holiday season, it’s your CSM. This curated gift guide ranges from productivity enhancers to classic presents.
It’s OK to Take a Break From Social Media — Even When It’s Your Job
Managing social media at work and then going home and logging in to your own social media? Here’s why it’s important to take a break.
Sales Emails That Suck: 2020 Edition
Even with the best intentions, some emails miss their mark. Use this article to write better cold emails and avoid the common pitfalls in email marketing.
6 Ways to Show Appreciation for your Clients
Your clients are the only thing keeping you in business. Here’s how to show your appreciation this holiday season.
Your Campaigns are Not Competitive without Optimized Deliverability. Here’s How:
What’s stopping you from results in your email campaigns? The spam folder. Sapper’s Director of Deliverability explains the challenges and nuance of a healthy tech setup.
Four Successful Ways to Combine Inbound and Outbound Marketing
How to truly combine your inbound and outbound marketing efforts so that they sing in harmony!
5 Ways to Revitalize Your Sales Efforts During Tough Times
Learn how scrappy and smart sales teams are utilizing digital tools to breathe life into their COVID sales pipelines.
Four Ways to Reinforce Your Brand Image During COVID-19
There is a rush among organizations to complete their digital transformation in order to be competitive while COVID-19 restricts in person events.
Your Audience Retains Only 10% of Your Message; Here’s How to Fix It.
Let’s play a game; what comes to mind when you read these sentences?
How to Start Off 2021 for Pandemic Recovery
Sales teams are still reeling from a year full of uncertainty thanks to a global pandemic. The responsiveness of successful organizations in the next few months will make or break your 2021 pipeline, making it vital to recover now from the hits you took last year.
The Missing Pieces to Your B2B Social Media Campaign
Social could be the missing ingredient from your B2B marketing strategy and you don’t need to go viral to make an impact.
A Beginners Guide to Retargeting
Retargeting keeps your brand in front of potential customers as they browse the web. Learn more about this powerful advertising tool now!
How to Ease the Transition from Startup to Enterprise
Startup culture is fun, aggressive, and fast-paced. Discover some pros and cons when it comes to transitioning your startup into a full-scale enterprise.
Five Tactics to Set Lead Generation Expectations for Impatient Marketing Clients
Clients often want instant results, which is why it’s important to manage expectations. Discover 5 ways to set realistic expectations with your clients!
How We Made Our Sales Training More Effective by Making It Harder
Effective training is critical for the development of a successful sales team. Discover how we boosted our sales by nearly 70% with these four methods.
How to Write Emails People Will Actually Open
Sapper Consulting details how to build a more direct and personalized marketing strategy. Try these 4 tips to become a welcome sight in your prospect’s inbox.
How to Upgrade Your Sales Enablement Program for Better Revenue
Sapper Consulting details four sales enablement strategies to empower your team. Read how to upgrade your sales enablement program for better revenue.
NEW | Flip the Script and REGIE Partnership Launch
The new partnership between Flip the Script and REGIE promises to bring more ROI to email campaigns than ever. Read more about this AI-driven campaign.
12 Keynote Sales Speakers You Shouldn’t Miss
This article was originally published on Marketing Insider Group on April 9th, 2019.
How to Bounce Back When a Big Client Calls It Quits
Bounce back when a big client calls it quits with our 3 steps to fill your sales pipeline with new clients. These sales tips will help you recover in no time.
Anatomy of a Lead Generation Provider
Hire the best lead generation service for your needs and maximize your business efforts. We’ve outlined the inner workings of a lead generation provider here.
Sales Funnel Land: Inside the Customer Journey
Whether you want a better understanding of your customer journey, or you want to challenge your team in the race from Awareness Island to Conversion Castle, this infographic will teach you which marketing efforts can propel your prospects toward conversion and the objections that can hold them back.
How to Cater to Your Family of Social Media Audiences
This article was originally published on The Marketing Scope on May 16th, 2018.
What Successful Cold Email Campaigns Have in Common
This article was originally published on Sales & Marketing Management on May 11th, 2018.
What I Would Do Differently: Becoming a Chief Operating Officer
If you’re shifting into a C-suite role, consider these 5 strategies to keep in mind for your transition. They helped me lead in an impactful & positive way.
How to Make Customers the Focus of Your Marketing
Increase sales and relations by making customers the focus of your marketing. These simple tips will help attract and keep their interest.
How to Perfect Your Follow-Up Emails
This article was originally published on Business 2 Community on June 11th, 2018.
Radical Candor Is The Cure To The Sales Ethics Crisis
Shift your company culture to one of honesty & keep your team on an ethical path to success by implementing radical candor. Here are 4 ways to think about it.
How to Protect Your Email Efforts from Extinction
Email marketing success is the result of compound work, effort piling on top of effort, or “stacking”. Here is how we protect our successes from the decay of time.
Struggling With Leads? 3 Uncommon Strategies for B2B Lead Generation
Develop a cost-effective multichannel strategy that generates leads. Here are three uncommon strategies for B2B lead generation to help you get started.
How to Synergize your Inbound and Outbound Sales Techniques
Combining inbound and outbound methods help you to optimize your prospect’s buying journey. Using a mixture of strategies attracts prospects like bees to honey.
Are You Obsessing Over the Wrong Outbound Marketing Elements?
By addressing a buyer’s true needs instead of trying to win a sale and make money, you position yourself as a trusted partner.
6 Do’s and Dont’s of Post-Pandemic Sales Pipeline Management
This article was originally published in Saleshacker on Aug 19 2020.
How to Keep Closing B2B Deals During the Pandemic
The pandemic will pass eventually, but that doesn’t mean you can afford to stop selling and wait for better times.
How to Psychologically Segment Audiences to Better Connect Via Email
Taking a psychologically segmented approach to emails and other marketing pieces forces you to focus on your customer’s needs. And guess what? They’ll know it and respond.
After all, buyers are a whole lot savvier than they used to be. They’ll put their money toward companies that listen, even if the organizations are less qualified on paper than others.
You might be new to this method of using psychology to increase your customer service through communications venues, but it will become second nature if you practice it regularly.
Modern Day Sales: 8 Ways Companies are Changing the Future of Sales
If you are a small to medium-sized business, you may be contemplating how to transform your sales team to maximize the results from lead generation and customer acquisition activities while minimizing sales resources. Consider these eight ways that companies are leveraging tech to change the sales process so that you can emulate their success.
How to Prep for Prescriptive Analytics and Boost Your Lead Gen Success
How will prescriptive analytics guide lead generation in the coming years?
Keeping It Personal: 4 Steps to Improve Sales Prospecting
You can’t qualify or convert leads you don’t have in the first place. Here are four ways to attract them by making it personal.
How to Speak to Your Entire Audience One-on-One
The idea behind personalizing emails to your consumers is to speak as though you are talking to each individual one-on-one.
How To Create Content That Cuts Through The Social Media Noise
This article was originally published on Forbes on June 17th, 2018; written by Rhett Powers.
Shrink Your Sales Cycle With a Few Short Steps
Want to shorten your sales cycle? You need hotter leads.
Persona-Based Email Marketing Is on the Rise: Here’s How to Stay Ahead of the Curve
Personalizing marketing emails helps boost click-through and conversion rates. Review some dos and don’ts of persona-based marketing now!
How to Write Sales Emails That Get Responses
This article was originally published on Sales & Marketing Management on December 10th, 2018.
Don’t Sleep On These Underrated (Free) Marketing Tools
“If I could only be a fly on the wall and know what potential clients are thinking.” “If only I could act quickly on or even predict shifts in my industry to get the leg up on my competitors.” That
How to Balance Marketing Automation and Personalization
Support your conversion optimization strategy with personal touches and automation techniques using AI. Read these three tips to scale up your results.
5 Proven Strategies for Defining Your Ideal Buyer Persona
Develop customer profiles with our 5 proven strategies for defining your ideal buyer persona. These steps will help create relevant content and communication.
How to Create a Simple Lead Generation Process
Acquire more B2B sales leads the right way by implementing a simple lead generation process. We cover where you should dedicate your time and energy.
Artificial Intelligence and the Future of B2B Sales
Increase productivity with the use of AI technology automating your “to-do” lists. We detail 3 key areas to integrate machine-learning into your sales process.
Why Outsourcing Your Lead Generation Strategy Might Be a Good Idea
Discover the benefits of outsourcing your lead generation strategy to specialized services. Find out what circumstances could make outsourcing a plus for you!
Tempted by Tech: Why Entrepreneurs Need to Say ‘No’ More Often
It’s easy to be tempted by every new tech fad that comes by your business. Read about the importance for entrepreneurs to be more choosy in their tech.
Why You Should Skip Vanity Metrics and Measure These Instead
Discover the benefits of outsourcing your lead generation strategy to specialized services. Find out what circumstances could make outsourcing a plus for you!
How To Optimize your Outreach Sequences
Find out how to optimize your outreach sequences from the pros at Sapper Consulting. We provide 4 areas to focus on to improve your results here.
When to Expect Results From Outbound Digital Marketing
Outbound produces statistically significant data points quickly, but you still need to be patient. Learn about what you can expect from a typical campaign.
3 Benefits You’ll Need to Offer Post-Pandemic
This article was originally published on HR Daily Advisor on June 2, 2020. Have you reevaluated your employee benefits package since social distancing was implemented? It’s likely that your pre-pandemic perks, plans, and promises won’t hold up after COVID-19 passes.
How to Boost the Success of Your Lead Generation Strategy
Read about how you can boost the success of your lead generation strategy from the pros at Sapper Consulting. We discuss metrics and more milestones.
3 Qualities of Excellent Writers You Need in Your Business
Learn about the 3 qualities of excellent writers you need to help your business succeed at Sapper Consulting. We cover ingenuity, innovation, and humor.
3 Strategies to Standardize Operations for Continued Remote Working Success
COVID-19 has presented challenges to employers who have had to push their employees into remote work. T these 3 strategies to standardize operations.
The Missing Piece of your Customer Acquisition Strategy
Even as you grow your business through customer acquisition, you always need to remember the importance of client satisfaction. Learn more at Sapper!
7 Tips to Align Sales & Marketing for Increased Revenue
Are you trying to better align your sales and marketing teams? Read these 7 tips to help your separate teams work together to start increasing revenue!
How to Optimize Your Outbound Campaigns
Creating an outbound marketing campaign takes time, expertise, and strategic thinking. For the best results, you’ll need testing, iteration, and optimization.
5 Ways to Avoid Social Media Burnout
Quarantine during the age of COID-19 has caused many to spend more time on social media. Discover these 5 ways to avoid social media burnout today!
4 Ways to Maintain Sales Momentum, Even in a Crisis
More than 50% of employees are working from home right now as a result of the COVID-19. View these 4 ways to maintain sales momentum during the crisis!
How to Sell to Leads During and After COVID-19
COVID-19 has upended life and the way companies do business in many ways. Learn how your company can sell to leads during and after the current crisis.
Why so many Lead Generation Firms Miss the Mark on Lead Generation
Implementing an effective lead generation strategy requires more than just day-to-day marketing activities. Learn 4 ways you can ensure your goals are met.
How To Predict Your Pipeline
The secret to hitting quota is using formulas based on your conversion. This guide will teach you how to apply our revenue engine formula to your own pipeline, track your pace to goal, and hit your KPI goals.
4 Ways to Empower Your SDR
Sales development representatives can help transition your leads to the next step of the sales funnel. Learn 4 simple step you can take to help your SDRs.
How Does Your Team Manage Toxicity?
All it takes is one employee to create a toxic work environment. Learn how to recognize the underlying causes so you can combat this issue in your office.
Using Data to Create Better Lead Gen Emails
While personalized emails can help customers feel more valued, businesses need to ensure they aren’t crossing a line. Read the full article to learn more.
How to Stay Focused on your “Why” During COVID-19
Now more than ever, it’s important to remain focused on your “why” and provide support to your clients and team. Learn about the steps Sapper is taking.
Sapper CEO Discusses How to Prepare for the Next Crisis on Forbes
In a recent Forbes article, Sapper CEO and founder, Jeff Winters, discusses how businesses can prepare for future obstacles. Read the full article today.
How Sapper Consulting Responded as a Business to COVID-19
As businesses continue navigating through this new normal, they can take steps to mitigate risk and support their team. Learn how Sapper is doing this today.
How to Bounce Back After Conference Season
The current crisis has changed world as we know it and with it comes new challenges. Learn 4 ways to redirect your sales efforts during conference season.
Six Fun Ways We’re Keeping Culture Alive at Sapper Remotely
The new normal of working remotely can make it difficult to keep your company culture alive. Discover 6 ways Sapper is keeping its team connected & engaged.
Relief for Small Business Owners in COVID Paycheck Protection Program
The current crisis has left individuals and business owners in a state of uncertainty. Watch our webinar to learn about the new Paycheck Protection Program.
Sapper Consulting ranks 33rd in Inc’s Most Successful 250 Midwest Companies
Sapper Consulting is honored to be recognized in the Inc. 5000 as one of the most successful companies in the Midwest. Learn more about our rankings today.
How to Recession Proof Your Business
Learn how successful companies thrive before, during, and even after a recession. The key is planning. We’ve included 5 ways you can turn your company into a recession-proof business.
How to Transition your Sales Meetings from In-Person to Virtual
In light of the current situation, companies are moving their work remotely. Learn 7 tips for transitioning your sales meetings from in-person to virtual.
How to Recession Proof Your Business
Learn how successful companies thrive before, during, and even after a recession. We cover 5 ways to plan for success in times of economic uncertainty.
Persona-Based Email Marketing Is on the Rise: Here’s How to Stay Ahead of the Curve
This article was originally published on Sales Hacker. At least 69 percent of businesses invest significant time and money into email marketing, according to a recent survey by business news website The Manifest. But without an engaging, persona-based approach, many
4 Ways to Optimize Your LinkedIn Web Presence for Lead Gen
Establishing your online presence serves an increasingly important role in the world. Discover 5 ways to improve your LinkedIn for lead generation purposes.
How to Triple Your Sales Meetings
Writing effective cold emails can seem intimidating, but it doesn’t have to be. Read our guide on using them to triple your sales and secure new clients.
Shorten your Sales Cycle in 3 Simple Steps
When it comes to drafting content to achieve sales goals, quality often outweighs quantity. Read about 3 tactics you can use to shorten the sales cycle.
The Ultimate Survival Guide to Lead Generation
40% of companies report a decreasing effectiveness of outbound marketing within the last 5 years. Luckily, our latest guide includes the recipe for achieving consistent outbound success.
How To Find Your Million Dollar Deal
Success begins with quality meetings and qualified prospects.
While the formula is simple, it’s not always easy. It takes a refined strategy to contact the right prospect with the right message at the right time.
When It’s Time to Outsource Your Lead Generation
If you’re not achieving your growth goals or are struggling to maintain your sales funnel, it might be time to outsource your lead generation.
How to Train your Team to have Hard Conversations
Constructive criticism is useful, but initiating that conversation can be difficult. Learn 3 key ways we are training our teams to deliver honest feedback.
Choosing Lead Generation for Your Budget
Lead generation comes in all shapes, sizes, and price points, and ranging from cold calling to paid ads. Use this guide to calculate ROI for each channel and choose the best option for your budget.
How To Diagnose Your Biggest Obstacles to Growth
Without properly diagnosing your obstacles for growth, you’ll end up wasting resources with minimal results. In this guide, learn how to identify your symptoms and create an action plan to knock down your barriers for growth.
Island of Misfit Toys : Why You Want a Workplace with Thought Diversity
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Tips & Tricks from the Sales Consulting Professionals
This guide includes strategies to get better results from cold calling and outbound email campaigns.
8 Things You Should Never Include in a B2B Sales Email
Struggling with B2B Sales emails? Find out the 8 things you should never include in your B2B sales emails and increase your conversions.
The One-Call Close Sales Training Video Series
This 10-video series breaks down every step of your discovery sales call – from navigating the first 30 seconds to sending out the contract.
The strategies and sales tips in this video series are used on a daily basis by our own sales team and have contributed to our incredible growth, including landing us on the Inc. 500 two years in a row.
This is not a framework.
This is not “some things to think about.”
This is a step-by-step process for having a call with a complete stranger and closing the deal before you hang up the phone.
The Blueprint to 2000% Growth
In this guidebook, we discuss how we safeguard our clients and how we grew our lead generation business rapidly. Download a copy to learn more today.
The Growth-Hacking Playbook for SMBs
It seems like every B2B email company is promising you more leads and better leads – all as a result of their ‘secret sauce’. We know our process is different – learn the outbound strategy we used to become the 170th fastest growing company in America.
Lead Nurturing Explained: 3 Tips to Increase Qualified Leads
Lead nurturing encourages relationship development with buyers at every stage of the sales funnel. Help your sales team get more qualified leads in 3 steps.
Lead Gen: 4 Channels for the Quickest Growth
This guide outlines 4 channels that create measurable, affordable strategies to boost your marketing efforts and get quick results. From cold calling to email marketing, we’ve identified the fastest channels to generate leads – partner with a firm, use social media, paid ads and SEO.
The LinkedIn Guide to Grow Your Sales Funnel
From ads to simply optimizing your profile, you have multiple options to make LinkedIn work for you.
Whether you’re prospecting, job hunting, or looking to impress at your high school reunion, a compelling LinkedIn profile makes a world of difference.
Profile optimization is more than just uploading your resume to LinkedIn; a good profile tells your story.
Use this free downloadable Guidebook to optimize your LinkedIn presence: build credibility, your network, and your pipeline.
Check out this guide to learn more.
The Prospecting Playbook: ICPs & Buyer Personas
Learn how to turn cold prospects into warm sales meetings in this playbook. Included is a step-by-step playbook to determining your Ideal Customer Profile, three prospecting cadences for converting qualified leads, and how to craft persona-based email messaging.
The Real Cost Difference: Outsourced vs DIY Lead Gen
We pulled the data to create this complete cost breakdown of generating leads on your own compared to hiring an agency. Learn the cost of each resource you’ll need to run a lead gen program.
Intro to Lead Generation
Cold calling is a grind and email marketing is expensive. Even if you have resources to dedicate, it’s hard to be confident you are executing and managing it properly.
We’ve consolidated hundreds of resources to provide you with an action plan that will help you evaluate your current lead gen activities while scaling faster and cheaper than ever before.
Is Your Startup Losing Top Sales Talent? Here’s How to Fix It
This article was originally published on SelfGrowth.com. The No. 1 reason companies lose their sales talent is that they’re deal killers. Let me explain. In my experience, there are two kinds of companies: those that will do what they can
How to Make AI-Driven Emails Compelling Without Being Creepy
While they are becoming more prevalent in the digital age, AI-driven emails can be off-putting potential customers. Learn 3 ways you can mitigate these risks.
Building a Sales Team? Here’s How to Do It Successfully.
If you want your business to grow, you should focus on developing effective strategies. Learn 3 tips for building a successful sales team!
Sapper Included in Inc. 5000’s 2018 List
Sapper Consulting is honored to be named one of Inc 5000’s fastest growing private companies in 2018. Learn more about this development!
4 Steps to Finding Qualified Leads
100 OK leads or 20 incredible leads? The answer is pretty unanimous, but getting to the latter isn’t always clear. This guide discusses the top 4 strategies to spend less time chasing bad leads.
The Ultimate Guide to Triple Your Sales Meetings Using Cold Email
By the end of this guide, you will understand the formula we used to achieve this kind of growth, the anatomy of a successful email, and how tweaking your own outreach efforts can yield more sales meetings and new clients.
5 Questions to Ask when Evaluating a Lead Gen Company
Is your lead gen company charging too much? How many leads are ending up in closed deals? Learn the top 5 questions you should ask a lead generation company in order to find success in your sales pipeline.
10 Things You Must Do To Win a Sales Meeting
Research indicates that just 0.78 percent of B2B leads convert into new customers which means we have all struggled to surmount the conversion obstacle. Check out this guide to learn how to increase that conversion rate.
Winning New Clients with The #1 Resource: Email Lead Generation
Marketing emails continue to be one of the best ways to generate and convert leads. Discover 5 reasons you should reinvest in this digital marketing tool.
Tips & Tricks from the Sales Consulting Professionals
Close more deals by following this advice for professional sales consulting.
The Ultimate Guide to Finding An Effective Lead Generation Company
Want to Avoid Wasting a Bunch of Money Hiring the Wrong Lead Generation Agency?
Start here.
Lessons from Sales Consultants: 4 Creative Ways to Motivate Your Sales Team
Since sales people face a stressful work environment, managers need to guide their staff through the ups and downs. Use these 4 tips to inspire your team.
Without A Strong Call To Action, Your Marketing Is a Dead End
Having a strong call to action can help engage prospects and win over new customers. Learn about 6 crucial elements to keep in mind while writing the CTAs.
Lead Generation Marketing Means Nothing Without a Solid CTA
No matter what lead generation marketing strategy you’re using, CTA’s are ALWAYS important. They tell prospects how they can engage with you further.
How to Find the Right Tech Solution? Study It
Choosing the right tech solutions for your business requires thorough research and testing. Take these 4 factors into consideration during this process.
Customer Engagement: How Not To Ignore Your Biggest Fans
When creating copy for marketing, it’s important to remember your audience. Read this article to learn 3 effective ways to improve customer engagement.
Exercising at Work and How it Impacts Your Company
Desk jobs continue to be sedentary in nature. Learn how implementing our Sapper Steps walking competition resulted in positive habit changes for our team.
Why the Perfect CRM Won’t Win You Customer Engagement
While a CRM platform can help you achieve your growth goals, but continuing your lead prospecting efforts is still important. Learn why in today’s post.
“Cold Outreach” Doesn’t Require Cold Calling Anymore
With the wide range of resources available, cold outreach and calling have changed drastically. Learn how to use this information to increase your closing rate.
4 Reasons More Startups are Hiring Art Students
Art schools teach valuable skills that allow for innovation and growth. Learn 4 reasons why more startups are hiring art students!
So Your Biggest Customer Is Breaking Up With You
Losing a bigger client is never easy, but counteracting the loss is key. Learn the signs to look out for as well as 3 steps you can take to mitigate the loss.
Cubism, Slaughterhouse Five, and Persuasive Sales Copy
Creating persuasive sales copy is important to capturing the attention of prospective clients. Learn how to develop messages that improve your outcomes.
Need Social Media Marketing Tips? Look Around the Dinner Table
Each social media platform caters to different audiences. Learn how to use your family as a blueprint to determine your target audience for each type.
Why Discovery Sales Meetings Shouldn’t Happen In-Person
Learn why in-person sales meetings are an inefficient approach for prospective clients. Here, you’ll learn ways to navigate these waters more effectively.
The Most Overlooked, Stupid Sales Tips
Details are an often overlooked component of successful sales. Discover quality resources to use, so you can produce & maintain an error-free copy every time.
How I Cracked the Time Management Code
Taking the time to master time management will help you handle tasks more efficiently. Follow these 6 steps to build a workflow process tailored to you.
Why Journalists Are Some of The Best Content Marketers
The basic rules of journalism share many similarities to those of content marketing. Read our post to learn more about the overlap between these roles.
Get More Responses With B2B Emails By Using The Rule of Three
While email marketing can be effective for reach, keeping customers engaged is the ultimate goal. Learn 3 ways to increase the response rate for B2B emails.
How Email Lead Generation Helped Me Tame My Unruly Inbox
Managing your inbox on a daily basis can seem overwhelming. Learn 5 ways email lead generation helped this Client Strategist get a hold on her inbox.
Mind Your Marketing Copy. Win More Business
Writing effective marketing copy requires understanding the impact of language and tone. Read today’s post to learn how it can help grow your client list.
How Many Follow Ups Does It Take To Make a Sale?
Following up can help you avoid the shotgun marketing approach. Use our sales follow up strategies for an improved response rate!
Finding the Right Balance in Your Work Life Identity
Striking a balance between work and your personal life is necessary to avoid burnout. Learn some effective ways you can manage stress and remain positive.
How to Generate Leads for Software Development Projects
The demand for outsourced software development is at an all-time high. Use these strategies to generate more leads for software development projects!
Country Club Memberships Aren’t Enough to Grow Your P&C Insurance Business
Selling P&C insurance can be difficult because the space is competitive. Discover 4 ways your P&C firm can leverage new techniques to land quality appointments.
What Top Lead Generation Companies Do That Others Don’t
Choosing a lead generation company? Learn four strategies that contribute to the success of top lead generation businesses.
Best Project Management Apps for 2017
While useful, project management apps for non-technical service businesses can be hard to come by. Learn our recommendations for the best options of 2017.
Congrats! You’re a Project Manager (Even if You’re Not)
Developing your project management skills allows you to become more effective in your role and improve output quality. Learn 3 ways you can get started.
B2B Leads and the Email Wild West
Properly navigating the B2B space can have a significant impact on your lead generation success. Discover 5 factors to focus on as you develop your approach.
Why Email Lead Generation is the #1 Resource for Winning New Clients
While competitive, email is still one of the best options for marketing. Discover five reasons email lead generation is so effective.
3 Things I Learned Through My Internship at an Email Lead Gen Startup
Startups provide a unique environment for individuals to gain new skills. Learn 3 things Emily Muhoberac learned through interning at Sapper Consulting.
Ditch Your Sales Pitch and Focus On Your “Why”
When it comes to sales, figuring out your why can help you explain how your product or service can benefit people. Read the full article to learn more.
5 Tactics to Engage and Retain Millennial Employees – By a Millennial
Companies often wonder what can be done to reduce turnover and the costs associated with it. Discover 5 ways you can attract & retain millennial employees.
Radical Candor Is the Feedback Method Your Startup Needs
In order to grow, startups need to be willing to provide honest feedback to their employees. Learn how Radical Candor works to keep your team on track.