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"Before Clay, we could only guess at our audience composition. Now, we can confidently show sponsors the segments that matter most to them."
Learn how Rippling's growth team doubled their cold email channel and streamlined direct mail campaigns through automated data enrichment and personalization with Clay, empowering their team to experiment rapidly without engineering resources.
Automate your GTM workflows with Scheduling. Keep your CRM data fresh, run always-on outbound campaigns, and power ABM strategies—without manual updates.
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"Clay has helped us simplify complex workflows, eliminate redundant tools, and make smarter decisions faster. It’s become a cornerstone of our RevOps strategy."
Rootly scaled outbound sales with Clay, automating workflows for big results with lean teams.
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Clay integrates with HG Insights, the market’s leading company intelligence platform trusted by over 90% of the Fortune 100 Technology list. HG is the best way to find company technology stacks and parent-child relationships.
Looking for better ways to connect with your target business segment? We crunched the numbers to find the 12 best B2B email providers based on their data quality, cost, and coverage.
Explore the best B2B contact databases for mobile phone data. We tested and ranked providers like Forager, ContactOut, Nimbler, and Leadmagic for accuracy, value, and coverage to help you boost your outreach and connect with qualified leads.
Revamping traditional sales roles like SDRs, AEs, and sales engineers into a single, high-leverage function.
Sendoso centralized their outbound motion and 10x'd productivity using Clay.
Traditional sales demos are broken. The reverse demo flips the script. Users dive in, solve real problems, and hit that ‘a-ha’ moment fast.
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Clay has raised a $46M Series B from Meritech Capital with participation from Sequoia, First Round, Box Group, Boldstart, and some of the world’s top sales and marketing leaders to power growth for tech’s biggest names like Anthropic, Intercom, Notion and 2500+ others. This is in addition to our previously unannounced $13.5M Series A, led by Sequoia, and $2.5M seed led by First Round.
Go-to-market professionals can use a systematic methodology to improve the resonance of cold outbound offers. By creating an offer validation system, you can figure out if your message will ever break through.
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Finding the best mobile data provider for your outbound motion is essential for any sales team. You need to balance accurate coverage with cost, but that can be a challenge. This post walks through a head-to-head comparison of seven mobile data providers.
Go-to-market teams know how crucial it is to reach out to inbound leads quickly, with messaging that resonates. Learn how to automate your inbound lead outreach process at scale.
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Jacob Tuwiner of Sculpted has mastered the art of outbound sales using Clay and AI. In this post, he walks through the complete process of building your outbound funnel.
Before Clay, building account lists was tedious and manual. Clay empowers you to build the lists of your dreams, and Jacob Tuwiner shows you how.
To make sure your cold outbound emails actually get delivered and read, do three essential things and make sure your messaging sounds like a human wrote it.
Improve your data enrichment with an AI-enhanced, no-code web scraper. Web scraping allows you to personalize your cold outbound emails at scale.
Here at Clay, we think that growth marketing is actually a whole lot like modern dating—and that Clay can be your sales matchmaker.
Your CRM is crucial to your GTM motion, but only if it's loaded with good, clean data—easier said than done! Read about how Clay can help.
Learn about the evolution of templates to automate manual sales prospecting work...all the way up to today's solution, Clay Templates.
Clay is ushering in a world beyond giant data providers, in which GTM teams are empowered to be flexible, creative, and hyper-specific with all the data the internet has to offer.
You know that effectively converting trial users into paying customers is critical for growth, but takes strategic outreach. Clay uses our own product to automate the process of tracking trial sign-ups and crafting personalized messaging for effective conversion!
In this post, Eric Nowoslawski shows you how you can use Clay to harness your social network for real warm intros, not empty connections.
In this video, we interview Kris Rudeegraap, Co-Founder & CEO of Sendoso, on his outbound automation journey (and why he loves Clay!)
You have tons of stalled opps in your CRM. Deals that didn't reach the finish line, meetings that didn't show, etc. The timing was off back then, but it could be better now. Clay can turn your raw CRM export into a fully personalized email campaign to get those dead deals back on the books.
Traditional data providers like ZoomInfo make you purchase an obscene annual contract to access their platform. You're left with tons of data you don't need, and not much data you do need... Instead, Clay gives you maximum data coverage for the cheapest price, without paying for data you don't need or signing annual contracts.
Learn about the best B2B email list provider for finding and enriching work emails based on our comprehensive test. Contenders include Prospeo, Dropcontact, Findymail, Datagma, Hunter, and more.
Jacob Tuwiner walks us through the killer email campaign he automated with Clay for Sendoso...check out those analytics, and then build it for yourself.
See how Jacob Tuwiner achieved an 83% email open rate and saved reps time with automated event mockups, built with Clay.
Your sales engine is broken, and we can fix it. In this piece, we'll teach you how to use outbound sales automation and SDR automation to grow your pipeline *without* increasing your team size. Learn how to use AI, web scraping, and a smart tech stack to remove all of your team's manual prospecting work—forever.
Are you prospecting to niche, local businesses, like salons, HVAC companies, or small businesses? In this guide, we'll show you how to scrape Google maps and use AI to find, enrich, and personalize emails to niche and local businesses!
AI sales assistants are transforming sales and marketing workflows already. In this blog, we share 11 ways AI sales assistants can already help you find, research, and reach out to leaders, faster and better than ever.
Learn our top AI recruiting workflows to help you identify, research, and reach out to qualified candidates for open roles. AI can eliminate manual work and help you reach out to—and land—better employees for your clients.
How Qrew, a recruiting company, was able to use Clay to streamline their sales process, cut manual hours by 50%, and double meetings booked.
Clay completely transformed First Round Capital's CRM database. Check out the workflow First Round built in Clay to enrich and auto-update their CRM contacts, so much faster and cheaper than ever before.
Read the 21 best practices for cold email deliverability you need to know in 2024. From buying and configuring inboxes and domains to troubleshooting email deliverability issues, we cover it all.
Everything you need to know about B2B cold email copywriting, including frameworks, examples, and cold email templates to help your sales outreach flourish. Read annotated examples of bad vs. great cold emails, and learn about key principles that will make your prospects more likely to open them and convert!.
This is the most comprehensive guide on the Internet about how to use AI for your B2B lead generation efforts. With our AI lead generation workflows—including finding leads, enriching them, and sending personalized emails—you can skyrocket your cold outreach success.
Learn about how to use AI for sales prospecting in this comprehensive guide, including framework for creating AI prompts and examples of cold email templates using AI that real sales teams have used successfully to land clients. AI sales prospecting can save your team thousands of hours—and double or triple your positive response rates.
Once ServiceBell starting using Clay to find qualified leads, solving their biggest problem, they booked 10 meetings in one day. Check out how they did it, and replicate the workflow for yourself!
Marty Kausas from Pylon says he "can't live without [Clay] anymore." Learn how Clay completely automated Pylon's customer onboarding to save Marty at least 30 minutes a day.
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Discover how to streamline your inbound sales process using Clay. This article outlines easy-to-follow methods for better lead handling and improved sales efficiency.
Clay's pricing gets a makeover! Discover our new, dynamic pricing tiers, from cost-effective entry-level plans to comprehensive solutions for advanced users. Learn how our revised pricing offers better value and flexibility, tailored to your business needs. Read more in our latest blog post.
Explore our expert tips for acing follow-ups and maintaining visibility with your prospects. Discover how to make a lasting impression and nurture your professional relationships.
Everyone knows that personalized emails perform better than generic ones, but writing a personalized email can be a lot of work. Fortunately, with the right AI writing tools, creating thousands of personalized emails in minutes is possible. In this article, we will show you 24 AI email personalization examples you can quickly implement to grow your sales pipeline rapidly.
Candid Wholesale's SDR team used to spend hours and hours every week just to find customers that fit their ICP. Once they started using Clay, the entire process was completely transformed: streamlined, simplified, and so much faster.
Learn how IntroCRM revolutionized their data management with Clay, slashing their budget by 65% and building better lead lists with their creative prospecting.
Struggling with how to manage your waitlist as an early stage startup? Check out our guide for using Clay to learn more about and prioritize your waitlist.
In this post, we’ll go over how we automated six different outbound cold email campaigns using a single Clay table.
Nailing your outbound sales and prospecting process can help you generate leads, acquire customers, and drive revenue growth. In this guide, we’ll share a step-by-step approach to troubleshooting each stage of your outbound sales campaign—whether you’re a new sales professional or a seasoned team leader.
In this ultimate guide to B2B sales prospecting, we'll explore 15 powerful strategies to help you generate more quality leads, build a strong sales pipeline, and drive more conversions. Whether you're a sales professional or a marketing team looking to boost your new business efforts, this guide has everything you need to succeed in the world of B2B sales. Check it out now!
Revolutionize your sales process with Clay, the sales prospecting tool that enables you to import prospects from multiple sources, enrich data, and export it to your preferred platform. Start building your sales prospecting list in minutes, not hours.
Learn the latest tips and techniques for successful outbound sales, including lead generation, cold calling, and follow-up tactics. Boost your results and close more deals with these proven strategies.
Learn how to write effective AI prompts for sales prospecting. This guide shares 13 real prompt examples for common sales tasks like finding company missions, summarizing news, and more. See how proper prompting framework helps improve campaign relevance and response rates.
Streamline your cold emailing process with OpenAI and Clay. Write personalized emails quickly and easily using company bio, company information, and more. Discover how to save time and improve the effectiveness of your outreach in this informative post.
Unlock the secrets of effective B2B cold emailing with our expertly crafted templates. Learn from real-world examples and proven strategies to write cold emails that get responses and drive results. Perfect for sales and marketing professionals looking to enhance their outreach.
When building a Clay table, the sources, integrations, and CRM plugins can accomplish the goals of most users. Sometimes, there is a need for some data merging, splitting, or otherwise clean up that is needed in your table. This is where you can use Formulas to accomplish your goals!In this blog, we are going to first go over how to think about formulas using the AI formula generator and then we will go over common formulas that you can write yourself in your Clay table.
In this blog, we will go over a couple of functions in Clay that can will help you optimize your credit usage in Clay. There are many ways to optimize credit usage in Clay that the team has built into the product that we will go over in this blog. We will cover formulas that optimize your workflows and some features that are often overlooked that can help keep your credit usage down.
The Clay Google Search Integration allows for the most amount of creativity out of all the integrations. With the use of Google, essentially, you are able to build your own database from scratch.
Welcome to the second post in our series on how to use formulas in Clay! We’re going to walk you through prioritizing your lead list using scoring formulas in Clay 🌶️
Ever wanted to learn formulas in Clay but didn't know where to start? Join the club. Just kidding. Read this and you'll be well on your way to mastering the basics of formulas.
Ever wondered how many people use spreadsheets? Some estimates say around 800 million people use Microsoft Excel, and another 160–180 million use Google Sheets. Not bad for a tool that started as a basic visual calculator.
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Discover the most effective strategies for cold email outreach in lead generation efforts. Learn how to create compelling value propositions, structure successful cold email campaigns, and more from Eric Nowoslawski, our expert in sales and marketing. Boost your B2B lead generation today.
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Outbound sales can be complicated and varies widely based on which industries your prospective customers operate in. This extensive how-to guide shows you how to start a successful outbound sales campaign, regardless of what industry you're in.