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Why SDRs Lose Hours a Week to Account Research (and How to Get It Back)
Why SDRs lose hours to sdr research time | Sidekick

You block time for prospecting. You open a profile, pull up a company page, check the news feed, cross-reference a tool, dig around for a direct dial, and suddenly thirty minutes are gone. You have one contact. Maybe two. Neither one has a verified number.
That is not a discipline problem. That is a workflow problem. And it costs more than most SDR managers realize.
The average SDR spends over six hours per week on manual research tasks that do not directly produce pipeline. That is time pulled from outreach, sequencing, and actual conversations. Multiply that across a team of eight reps and you are losing the equivalent of a full working day every single week.
The fix is not working harder. It is knowing where the time goes and cutting it at the source.
The real cost of manual account research
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