Reply.io Automates Sales Process, Enabling Sales Reps To Send Personalized Emails And Follow Ups Automatically

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Reply.io is a sales acceleration platform for SMB teams, which allows its customers to automatically send personalized emails and follow-ups at scale. Below is our recent intervew with Oleg Сampbell from Reply.io.

Q: Could you provide our readers with a brief introduction to Reply?

A: It costs between $25,000 – $50,000 a year to hire an SDR to set appointments through emails. It takes about 5 hours per day for an SDR to manually send highly tailored emails to a full sales pipeline of 300 – 500 leads.

Reply automates and scales sales outreach, enabling sales reps to send personalized emails and follow ups automatically – this would allow them to get in touch with more prospects faster and in a much more effective way.

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Reply works great for inbound and outbound sales, recruiting, new user trials, or onboarding for existing customers.

Q: You’ve recently launched Reply’s Team Edition; could you tell us something more?

A: Reply’s Team Edition is designed to encourage your team to work together in Reply and effectively collaborate on the outreach steps: creating campaigns, building prospects lists, customizing schedules, creating email templates and campaign templates, and managing overall access and visibility.

The Team Edition functionality provides sales professionals with a single environment to effectively collaborate on three main workflows:
Inbound sales – manage workload between team members, change campaign owners and transfer contacts from one team member to another;
Cold outreach and outbound sales – collaborate on prospect lists, stay aware of prospect activity, maintain visibility into current and finished campaigns and prospect statuses, emails and replies;
Account-based selling in teams – collaborate on prospect and company levels for better outreach.
Team owners have access to simple tools to manage the workload and responsibilities within teams, assign prospects and campaigns, manage team members, etc. Reply’s Team Edition is available for all Reply subscribers at no additional cost.

Q: Can you give us insights into your features?

A: Reply offers an unmatched combination of a clean and intuitive interface, ease of use, pricing, all the required sales acceleration features, and a fantastic Support team.

Reply’s core functionality is automated drip campaigns – our users are able to create email sequences, personalizing them using variables or ready to use templates that we’ve created. From there, contacts can be added (both manually or via multiple integration options), a delivery schedule is selected and the campaigns can be launched.
Reply takes care of your drip campaigns, delivering emails directly to your recipient’s inbox, so your recipients won’t feel like, ‘Oh, that’s just another spam blast’.

Intelligent Email Sorting is one of Reply’s AI-backed features which analyses responses and accurately sorts them to relevant folders such as, ‘Interested’, ‘Not interested’, ‘Not now’, etc.

The other AI-backed feature is Email Quality Check – this helpful assistant scores emails based on five key parameters: subject length, body length, number of calls to action (questions), reading level, and positivity of text. These parameters directly affect reply rates. This feature instantly provides feedback on the text you’ve created to make sure the email looks perfect before a user hits the ‘Send’ button.

However, the success of any campaign is defined by reaching out to the the right contacts (or niche). This is where the Reply Marketplace can help, where a user can choose from featured Reply partners to acquire contact data. Once contact info is compiled, users can then validate the email addresses directly within Reply.

Reply has flexible integration options: API with 40+ methods; Zapier integration; native Salesforce, Pipedrive, ProsperWorks, BaseCRM, and Close.io.

Q: What makes an email campaign successful?

A: Targeting and personalization – these are the main factors for every successful email campaign. The more focused you are with targeting a specific niche, the more tailored your message is – appealing to the interests / pain points of a particular contact. This will result in higher open and reply rates.

Modify message content and target specific groups (or even a few people), using state-of-the-art tools to increase user engagement. Try to write freely, using informal communication to get closer to purchasers.

With this approach, cold emails will kickstart your own outbound sales machine to drive prospects and leads.

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Q: What are your plans for the future?

A: At Reply, we help our clients automate their sales emails and follow-ups. Our next goal is to not just automate these first steps, but also the responses – we’ve developed new Machine Learning and AI algorithms to help with this. I’m excited to see how AI will continue to change sales, and I plan for Reply to be at the forefront of that change.

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