<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Fama guides</title><link>https://usefama.com/resources</link><description>GTM tools and sales workflow guides from Fama.</description><item><title>How to Run an Agency Outbound Stack Without Blurring Client Boundaries</title><link>https://usefama.com/guides/agency-stack</link><guid>https://usefama.com/guides/agency-stack</guid><description>An operating guide for agencies: what each client owns, who controls senders, how handoffs fail, what offboarding requires and what four clients cost in operator hours.</description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Where Rules End and Judgment Begins in Sales Automation</title><link>https://usefama.com/guides/ai-agent-vs-automation</link><guid>https://usefama.com/guides/ai-agent-vs-automation</guid><description>An architecture argument for sales buyers: fixed rules own commitments and exclusions, model judgment handles evidence and language, shown through one reply that contains a referral and a stop request.</description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>How to Evaluate an AI SDR Before You Delegate Outreach</title><link>https://usefama.com/guides/ai-sdr-checklist</link><guid>https://usefama.com/guides/ai-sdr-checklist</guid><description>A six-step demonstration script for AI SDR products, with the correct and prohibited outcome at each step, a clock on human effort, and an asymmetric pass/fail rule.</description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Apollo Alternatives: Add a Layer or Replace the Platform</title><link>https://usefama.com/guides/apollo-alternatives</link><guid>https://usefama.com/guides/apollo-alternatives</guid><description>Three different complaints lead people to look for an Apollo alternative, and only one of them calls for a replacement. A worked example and a three-part switching threshold for telling them apart.</description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Apollo vs Clay: Choose by Who Owns the Process</title><link>https://usefama.com/guides/apollo-clay</link><guid>https://usefama.com/guides/apollo-clay</guid><description>Both products now claim agents, context and a path from market to message. The useful difference is where your qualification rule lives and who maintains it, shown through one branching workflow and one rule change.</description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Clay Alternatives: Decide Which Part of the Build to Stop Maintaining</title><link>https://usefama.com/guides/clay-alternatives</link><guid>https://usefama.com/guides/clay-alternatives</guid><description>Before replacing Clay, prune the workflow and sort what remains into data, research, orchestration and sending. A worked audit, a decision rule and the case for staying.</description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>A Sales Memory Needs a Way to Change Its Mind</title><link>https://usefama.com/guides/company-memory</link><guid>https://usefama.com/guides/company-memory</guid><description>How scoped decisions, evidence and corrections should survive the next campaign without turning every observation into company policy.</description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>How to Buy B2B Contact Data with a 100-Account Sample</title><link>https://usefama.com/guides/data-tools</link><guid>https://usefama.com/guides/data-tools</guid><description>A method for comparing contact data providers on your own accounts: missing, wrong and usable rates by region, cost per usable record, and what the result means when the thing you are replacing is ZoomInfo or Cognism.</description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Choosing a Cold Email Platform by Who Will Operate It</title><link>https://usefama.com/guides/email-tools</link><guid>https://usefama.com/guides/email-tools</guid><description>Instantly, Smartlead and lemlist overlap on features and differ in the operating model they assume. Select by operator capacity, sender ownership and reply state, with a same-month cost worksheet and a migration scenario.</description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>A Citation Is Not Enough to Qualify a Prospect</title><link>https://usefama.com/guides/evidence-lineage</link><guid>https://usefama.com/guides/evidence-lineage</guid><description>Why a sourced prospect can still be wrong, and how identity, passage-level support and independent origins change research quality.</description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>What Fama Must Prove Before You Put It to Work</title><link>https://usefama.com/guides/fama-evaluation</link><guid>https://usefama.com/guides/fama-evaluation</guid><description>A concrete evaluation standard for Fama’s intended sales engine, with clear limits on what development work establishes today.</description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Three Follow-Ups That Remember What the Buyer Said</title><link>https://usefama.com/guides/followups</link><guid>https://usefama.com/guides/followups</guid><description>Hypothetical before-and-after follow-ups for three conversational states: a referral, a deferred date and an unresolved product gap, with the commitment and next owner each one must keep.</description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>What a Founder Should Buy First, Second and Not Yet</title><link>https://usefama.com/guides/founder-stack</link><guid>https://usefama.com/guides/founder-stack</guid><description>A buying order for founder-led sales: learn the offer by hand, protect the next action, then pay for sourcing and execution once the bottleneck is visible.</description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>How to Buy a GTM Stack by Layer and When to Buy Nothing</title><link>https://usefama.com/guides/gtm-map</link><guid>https://usefama.com/guides/gtm-map</guid><description>A sales stack does five jobs: data, research, engagement, record and learning. Most vendors now span several, so the buying decision is which system owns each job and which overlaps you switch off.</description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Choosing a LinkedIn Outreach Tool by Who Sends and Who Answers</title><link>https://usefama.com/guides/linkedin-tools</link><guid>https://usefama.com/guides/linkedin-tools</guid><description>The choice between LinkedIn outreach tools turns on how many profiles send, whether LinkedIn is the whole motion or one channel, and who owns a reply. Includes a duplicate-contact test and what to carry over when switching tools.</description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Tests Prospect Research Has to Pass</title><link>https://usefama.com/guides/prospect-research-evaluation</link><guid>https://usefama.com/guides/prospect-research-evaluation</guid><description>Evaluate identity, required facts, evidence, duplicate handling and missing coverage before trusting a finished-looking table.</description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>From Contact List to Qualified Queue: What Prospecting Tools Have to Deliver</title><link>https://usefama.com/guides/prospecting-tools</link><guid>https://usefama.com/guides/prospecting-tools</guid><description>How to turn sourced contacts into a queue reps trust: an acceptance contract, exclusions first, role and employer checks, freshness, review and a handoff that feeds reject reasons back.</description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>A Better Prospect List Starts with Your Own Company Context</title><link>https://usefama.com/guides/research-before-outreach</link><guid>https://usefama.com/guides/research-before-outreach</guid><description>A worked example of how an offer, buying structure and explicit exclusions change which prospects belong on a list.</description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Why “Find All” Is a Different Research Problem</title><link>https://usefama.com/guides/research-completeness</link><guid>https://usefama.com/guides/research-completeness</guid><description>A research task needs a defined population, a coverage record and a stopping rule before it can make a completeness claim.</description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>How Sales Conversations Should Change the Next Campaign</title><link>https://usefama.com/guides/revenue-intelligence</link><guid>https://usefama.com/guides/revenue-intelligence</guid><description>Turn buyer feedback into scoped hypotheses, reviewed changes and comparable outcomes without confusing repetition with proof.</description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Why More Outreach Is Not the Same as More Pipeline</title><link>https://usefama.com/guides/sequence-quality</link><guid>https://usefama.com/guides/sequence-quality</guid><description>Illustrative funnel arithmetic for two cohorts shows how volume and reply rate can rise while qualified opportunities fall, and when cutting volume is the right call.</description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>When a Signal Deserves a Sales Conversation</title><link>https://usefama.com/guides/signals</link><guid>https://usefama.com/guides/signals</guid><description>Separate an observed event from an inference and a sales action, then test whether the signal improved the decision.</description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>How to Price a Sales Stack Against the Meetings It Produces</title><link>https://usefama.com/guides/stack-cost</link><guid>https://usefama.com/guides/stack-cost</guid><description>A total-cost model with five cost lines, a worked two-stack comparison normalized to a month, and the limits of cost per qualified held meeting.</description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>When a Sales Tool Shuts Down: Preserve the Decisions Behind the Data</title><link>https://usefama.com/guides/trigify-migration</link><guid>https://usefama.com/guides/trigify-migration</guid><description>Trigify and Persana’s published transitions, and how to preserve exclusions, conversation state and operating decisions during migration.</description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>