Sales, rebuilt around the mailbox

Notes from the floor on finding the right people, enriching without wasting credits, and sending from your own inbox — with windows, caps, and stop-on-reply.

Five copilots is not a go-to-market

15 min read

George Robinson
George Robinson

Five copilots is not a go-to-market

Best of breed is how you hide from the handoff. Five copilots, five memories, and a reply that lands in none of them. A go-to-market is one motion, or it is theatre.

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What buyers will ignore next year

13 min read

George Robinson
George Robinson

What buyers will ignore next year

By next year the inbox will treat generated outbound the way it treated “Dear Sir/Madam.” This is the kill list — and the unfashionable motion that still gets a reply.

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People buy from people

13 min read

George Robinson
George Robinson

People buy from people

A buying group picks a vendor it already knows, then uses the sales call to validate the choice. Your sequence is not the relationship. It is the audition you failed by arriving as a stranger.

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The sequence should die when they answer

12 min read

George Robinson
George Robinson

The sequence should die when they answer

A cadence that keeps talking after a human has replied is not persistence. It is the irrelevant outreach 73% of B2B buyers already say they avoid. Cancel the steps. Sit in the thread.

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Midnight is not a send window

12 min read

George Robinson
George Robinson

Midnight is not a send window

Gmail will stop helping you once users mark 0.30% of your mail as spam. A weekend blast is how a founder donates the domain. Windows exist so the queue is not allowed to be rude.

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The price of a miss should be zero

12 min read

George Robinson
George Robinson

The price of a miss should be zero

The “30% of your data dies every year” line is a slogan in search of a study. The decay that is real is still enough to make paying for empty rows a finance error.

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Research recipes beat prompt roulette

11 min read

George Robinson
George Robinson

Research recipes beat prompt roulette

Seventy-five percent of quota-hitters already use AI. That is not an advantage. The advantage is asking the same questions every time, so Thursday’s hire does not rediscover Tuesday’s facts on a new invoice.

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Fuel the motion this week

Find, enrich, send from your mailbox, and sit in Unibox when they answer.