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What are the 7 modern sales development strategies that work in 2025?

April 2026

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Based on Florin Tatulea's (Head of Sales Dev, Common Room) insights from building a 13 SDR team, the 7 key strategies are: 1) Groundswell - gather intel from ex-employees before prospecting, 2) Volume is dying - quality over quantity (1000 emails needed per meeting in 2025 vs 15 in 2015), 3) Data-activated outreach - tier your TAM and balance automation with human touch, 4) Leverage 1st party data like closed/lost insights and competitor renewal dates, 5) GTM/TAM intelligence - your real TAM is much smaller than you think, 6) New math model - 3000 accounts + 1 SDR + micro-lists outperfo

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Based on Florin Tatulea's (Head of Sales Dev, Common Room) insights from building a 13 SDR team, the 7 key strategies are:

  1. Groundswell - gather intel from ex-employees before prospecting,

  2. Volume is dying - quality over quantity (1000 emails needed per meeting in 2025 vs 15 in

2015),

  1. Data-activated outreach - tier your TAM and balance automation with human touch,

  2. Leverage 1st party data like closed/lost insights and competitor renewal dates,

  3. GTM/TAM intelligence - your real TAM is much smaller than you think,

  4. New math model - 3000 accounts + 1 SDR + micro-lists outperforms 10,000 accounts + 3 SDRs, and

  5. Micro-targeting - contact 25 people with hyper-relevant messages and gift cards to book 1 meeting. The recorded webinar and slides are available at: recorded webinar and slides

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