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Harsh

4 months

How I booked 22 meetings (more in the pipeline to be booked) for a SaaS client in the last 4 days (1498 prospect, 92 replies,40 positive replies) without any AI personalisation, and bare minimum cost : - ESP matching for deliverability (Extremely important now) - Made sure the

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Harsh

3 months

Been seeing a lot of Outlook and Google Workspace Account's Getting Banned because of sending Cold Emails Created a document on the bare minimum everyone needs to follow to avoid this (If you're not doing this much, there's a great chance of getting banned) Like this post and

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22 days

If you’re trying to join one of the best communities in Lead Gen Highly recommend The Outbound Code by @coldemailchris Have joined a lot of communities for cold email, never seen such an active one with the best guys in the space The modules are all you need to become a pro

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14 days

Love working with clients who’ve tried Cold Outreach for their business themselves They already know what to expect and what comes with it They’re already sold on the business model They’ve already spent money on it They don’t expect unreal results Should I share the

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Harsh

27 days

Apollo scraper + basic verification is 99% of cold emailers tech stack The extra 10-20% of leads you get from waterfall and catch-all is what sets you apart

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Harsh

2 months

Recently my highest reply rate emails have been a simple question email Reaching out to CEOs asking who is the right person to talk about a pain problem in their company - that's it Getting around 5%+ Reply Rate across on these campaigns Once the CEO tags an employee, their

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Harsh

4 months

Safe to say Cold Email Deliverability Crisis is fixed now

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Harsh

2 months

They're making it too easy now Next few updates coming on Smartlead are🔥

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2 months

Great way to end a week (Positive reply rate is less, but because its a demand capture model, with EXTREMELY high LTV for each client)

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Harsh

19 days

Clean or nah?

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Harsh

3 months

Proof: Building a qualified list on Apollo is harder than it looks

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Harsh

6 months

Don’t know what took me so long About time, excited for The Internet Money @clientascen @blackhatwizardd @andrehaykaljr @cbwritescopy Will keep sharing my experience here!

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Harsh

3 months

Probably one of my best campaigns ever (Only 60% done, should close at 10% reply rate) When the offer just hits (almost 90% positive reply rate) Only secret - UNREAL value up front

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Harsh

2 months

I tried a few Clay replacement tools recently While you can find cheaper alternatives for basic enrichments and personalisations Many Clay features can't be replaced by their best competitors Was just running the same prompts alongside on two replacements platforms and GPT

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Harsh

3 months

Most unmentioned hack for delivery is aging accounts One person I met the other day put his email accounts on warm up and forgot about it for 7 months - follows basic deliverability practices now and still gets insane deliverability Buy generic domains for future prospects

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Harsh

3 months

Only half an hour into this campaign and already printing meetings My highest reply rate campaign on the way?

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3 months

Only a couple days into buying @PremiumInboxes While I haven't been able to test deliverability yet The support is 10/10. I had made a mistake while filling their form, the support was prompt to get it fixed.

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Harsh

2 months

Last two campaigns for a client Always stuck at 9% with this one, need that double digit

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2 months

A detailed explanation whether or not cold emails is the best acquisition channel for the offer you're selling - Two types of B2B Offer - Demand Capture and Demand Generation Demand Capture - An offer that somebody will buy only if they’re looking for it Example of

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Harsh

1 month

Some much needed tool switches I have made recently - 1. FigJam instead of Miro for making funnels and strategies 2. Tella TV instead of Loom for presentations What other changes can I make?

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Harsh

4 months

Had to scrape Amazon sellers list the other day and realised there isn’t much online about it, so here’s a quick cheap method 1. Go to BW and search Buy with Prime technology 2. Exportlists(.)io 3. Apollo 4. A-Leads(.)co Simple

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1 month

Made a simple change in lead magnet and script Went from uninterested replies to printing meetings on a Saturday Putting time in a great lead magnet can do wonders

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Harsh

3 months

A couple months ago I realised most of the people you see online only promote stuff with hidden motives Up to 2000 emails/day have been allotted to just testing at a small scale before implementing it fully ever since Can’t believe it took me so long to realise this Don’t

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2 months

Should've waited for the campaign to finish Closed at almost 10% reply rate The deliverability crisis is long over, Cold Emails still work like a charm, and the basics is all it takes to hit 5%+ Reply Rate

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2 months

Great way to end a week (Positive reply rate is less, but because its a demand capture model, with EXTREMELY high LTV for each client)

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6 months

Current Tech Stack - 1. Outlook for Mailboxes (2 Mailboxes per domain) 2. Porkbun for Domains 3. SmartLead for Sending Automation 4. Slack webhook with SmartLead for quick notifications 5. Clay for enrichment and personalisation (I still consider myself a beginner at Clay,

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@harshasf

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3 months

I got a cold email from a private SMTP to use their inboxes for cold outreach The cold email I got was in my spam folder…

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Harsh

4 months

Really very bad 🥲

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Harsh

5 months

After spending a whole day and running a lot of tests, I came up with a list of all things needed to keep this Outlook bounce issue in check Includes discussions from various Slack channels, YouTube videos and Twitter Posts Took me hours to come up with - but you can have it

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Harsh

19 days

You can setup a lot of automations on your SmartLead to manage inbox through Slack Or you can save a lot of time and get RevReply to streamline your inbox management on Slack The price is unbeatable

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Harsh

3 months

Spent an hour scraping the most basic lead list from Apollo to make every lead possible qualified The method I follow to have a qualified lead list from Apollo: 1. Add the most specific keyword of your ICP on Apollo in the 'Include Keywords' Filter 2. From the companies that

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Harsh

2 months

My favourite leads - companies failing miserably with cold outreach They've already invested in the tech stack and don't need any convincing for that Offer a pay per call fee structure It's like not a single penny from their pocket unless they get any result Easy to sell to

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Harsh

6 months

Day 1 into Internet Money: Finished the intro by @blackhatwizardd The community is for you to make your first $1000, but even for someone who’s beyond that, there’s a lot of learning Had a lot of things I needed to hear, going to start posting my case studies today for sure😂

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Harsh

6 months

Don’t know what took me so long About time, excited for The Internet Money @clientascen @blackhatwizardd @andrehaykaljr @cbwritescopy Will keep sharing my experience here!

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3 months

Apollo data does need another layer of validating Using Clay to validate the Apollo list is extremely important now (Only use your own Open AI key with the 4o mini, comes to as low as $50 for 5,000 leads)

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3 months

This week I decided to try all Apollo scrapers I have ever heard of Tried 5 different scrapers Only to realise, nothing can beat ExportApollo(.)com

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2 months

I have been hearing a lot about Cal(.)com lately, is it really worth a switch from Calendly? The Cal AI feature sounds unreal though

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3 months

Great week coming to an end Booked 3 meetings with just 225 leads this week (own campaign) 2 proposals sent First time using @ListKitio for this niche

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@harshasf

Harsh

23 days

Didn’t know Clay is all over the San Francisco airport 😳

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2 months

I noticed the most common two tools I used on Clay were BuiltWith and Open AI Currently trying to get it built in house by a web development team It’ll just be a one time setup then basic API costs Will be a game changer for expenses

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2 months

Scraping domains from another tool and enriching in Apollo > Creating search directly on Apollo iykyk

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2 months

I have had my share of non PMF clients Almost had me believe Cold Emails maybe aren’t effective Until I closed my first PMF client and generated thousands of dollars for them in the pipeline As much as you should always try to improve yourself and shouldn’t play the blame

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Harsh

2 months

Switched from Loom to Tella for many use cases such as sending strategy looms to potential clients Holy shit it is a 1000x cleaner than any other screen presenting tool Still use Loom for its convenience and ease a lot of times

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2 months

Ran a small inbox placement test today, here are my results (across a couple placement platforms)- Google to Google landing in spam Google to Microsoft landing in the inbox Microsoft to Google is half inbox and half spam Microsoft to Microsoft -landing in the inbox Google

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2 months

There's no way people actually put that CTA...

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1 month

Many Cold Emailers think subsequences are for automated Inbox Management Might be true for some, but the real difference is made when you use it to nurture leads Many leads will go cold after a positive reply The best way to deal with this is to have a subsequence ready and

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5 months

Was going over @GadzhiIman ’s new series From what I can see, there’s great emphasis on outreach in this course and mainly - cold emails. The importance of sending out Cold Emails can’t be stressed enough. @ascense

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Harsh

4 months

Biggest mistake you can possibly make in Cold Email Lead Gen Is changing your infrastructure based off something you see on Twitter Very few here can be blindly trusted Many people are affiliated to what they promote in some way and many haven't done their part of research

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Harsh

6 months

Sat through the long webinar on cold email from @georgeytishin , and every minute of the four hours was insanely engaging and full of value Changed the way I looked at a lot of things in Cold Emails. The insight and creative approach to cold emailing were unreal

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4 months

Getting through spam filters isn’t hard - Just remove signature - Spintax every word (including subject line and unsubscribe line) - Use MailMeteor Spam checker - Keep the copy extremely short (<50 words) - Make sure the lead list is on point. If you’re using Apollo, I’d

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2 months

Got my first inbound from LinkedIn today All it took was two weeks of posting It's unarguably the best for B2B inbounds

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2 months

All my friends running other businesses send me whatever Cold Emails they receive I sometimes send those companies cold emails asking if I can show them how it's done And when they ask why they think my methods are better than their current methods "You got on the call didn't

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3 months

Welcome to Cold Emails (99% of these are fake threats & claims btw, you'll get them even when you follow all regulations)

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2 months

I have been spending a lot of time testing out new tools lately Various Apollo Scrapers (tested two a day for a week straight) Enrichment tools and Clay alternatives Came across a gold mine recently Unlimited Apollo Scraping for free Waterfall Enrichment for 1/10Th the

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3 months

Great things are coming for Cold Email Outreach It won’t simply be a method of generating leads for demand generation business models But with the increase in - 1. AI enriched lists 2. Intent based data scraping like ListKit’s next update 3. Methods of identifying who are

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14 days

Had a client using AI to write their whole cold email Switched to very less personalisation, and the results went through the roof Personalisation is important, but don’t push it You want to create relevant emails, not just prove to the lead it’s not generic

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2 months

Game-Changing Tools for Agencies Starting Out 1. Gamma Docs for proposals and presentations 2. Framer for websites 3. Tella and Loom for screen sharing videos 4. Slack for Communication 5. Calendly + Google Calendar for meetings 6. TypeForm for forms 7. PandaDocs for

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3 months

Can't recall the last time I scraped more than 2-3K companies at once Hard to keep the emails relevant, the most important factor now (Some exceptions like scraping SaaS companies from GetLatka)

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4 months

Update : Yes, Cold Email does work with supplies, as long as you can create a no brainer offer and create a form of guarantee along with case studies, currently averaging at 1-2 positive replies a day. - Convinced the client to offer a price beat guarantee from the lead’s

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4 months

Just launched a campaign for a B2B supplies company Not seen any content online related to it It’ll be a Cold Email + Cold Call funnel Will keep sharing the progress here

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3 months

I love Gamma App, so much better than anything else for making presentations of any sort Thanks @blackhatwizardd for introducing it

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2 months

Might just have to start giving consultations 👀

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4 months

1000 emails a day with good deliverability > 2000 emails a day with shit deliverability Been practising inbox rotation a lot recently, definitely seen the difference in results Instead of sending 1.5K emails a day, sending out 1K, while rest of the emails are warming up Two

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4 months

GM

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3 months

If your cleaned list is even two weeks old, you need to clean it again Just unpaused a campaign for a third sequence after three weeks, 1.7% of the emails bounced because of emails not being found The pace at which things change in this world is wild

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3 months

SmartLead 👀

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4 months

Cold Email sauce videos from people with <300 subs is a gold mine These people share the craziest sauce to get more reach, and it isn’t even saturated yet Make the most of it while you still can, start digging deeper

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5 months

I don’t know how no one has ever mentioned this But if you’re in the Cold Email world and you need any help with hiring inbox managers, scrapers, etc, the best place has got to be the @smartlead_ai Slack Channel

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3 months

Running an agency in the initial stages requires you to be jack all of all trades The few things it took me to be able get things running at the beginning apart from my main service and how I did it

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Harsh

6 months

Going to start small, with just a few replies on one of my recent clients in Canada that does SMMA and wanted clients in his vicinity. One niche we targeted was restaurants and ended up getting replies from Canada’s biggest brands like Shelby’s ROI for client with us - around 4x

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Harsh

6 months

Day 1 into Internet Money: Finished the intro by @blackhatwizardd The community is for you to make your first $1000, but even for someone who’s beyond that, there’s a lot of learning Had a lot of things I needed to hear, going to start posting my case studies today for sure😂

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1 month

Insane Volume Cold Emailing followed Cold Calling Interested Prospects - $$$

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1 month

Wondering how the Email preview summarising update on the iPhone 16 will affect Cold Email Open Rates 🤔

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3 months

Things I didn't even know were hurting my deliverability 1. Unsubscribe Link - Just use text opt out line and spintax that as much as possible. Make sure your spintax GPT has spam words removal too (the word 'unsubscribe' is spam flagged, instead use 'opt-out' etc) 2. Using

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Harsh

17 days

Workstation for the next 10 days

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5 months

The possibilities with Clay are limitless, Only thing you need is creativity Otherwise it’s just dashboard with a lot of tables How I personally like to go about it- I take out a random lead and write a manually personalised email copy I then go backwards, see how I can

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3 months

Once you start a lead gen agency and post some social proof There will be people who will think you have a magic pill to growing their business People booking in meetings who are still deciding their service

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3 months

Domains have never burned out faster Only way to keep up is decreasing spam marks as much as possible If you’ve more than 2 sequences, there’s a great chance you’re getting marked as spam (unless you’re lead lists are 10/10) Even if you want to have more than two sequences,

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4 months

Heard speculations about Outlook releasing special plans for Cold Outreach A lot of new cold email agencies & companies starting cold emails for client acquisitions Not a big fan of it, I’m all for the barrier of entry and such deliverability issues wiping out competition

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2 months

Just “{{First Name}}” > “Hey/Happy Thursday/Hi {{First Name}}” Anyone else notice this?

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3 months

@NickAbraham12 20 emails per day per inbox 20 warm up emails (60% reply rate) Google Workspace + Outlook 4%-7% reply rate (So I’d say deliverability is fine) One thing that works best for me is aging accounts (common names for outreach, warming them for months and giving to new clients)

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Harsh

28 days

BuiltWith is the easiest and one of the highest leverage tool The amount of relevance you can create with it with minimal effort is unmatched Have a campaign running with replies booking in without sending a calendar link - directly going to website and booking a meeting and

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Harsh

4 months

Saturday = at the desk right after a heavy workout

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3 months

You can do everything right with your campaigns and but if you’re working with a company that doesn’t have the right systems in place, you won’t be able to succeed with Cold Emails

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3 months

Last couple of weeks been good for deliverability for everyone Just another crisis adapted to, many more to come

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4 months

Can't wait for the SmartLead app launch

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Harsh

7 months

If your open rate is <30% please don’t focus on changing your subject line, it’s a lot deeper than that…

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Harsh

6 months

How your schedule can look every month by just sending a 1000 cold emails a day Results for my first client back in September 2023 (Instantly Days - Before I made the much needed switch to SmartLead) A brand new AI Automation Agency with no case studies at the time @ascense

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6 months

Going to start small, with just a few replies on one of my recent clients in Canada that does SMMA and wanted clients in his vicinity. One niche we targeted was restaurants and ended up getting replies from Canada’s biggest brands like Shelby’s ROI for client with us - around 4x

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3 months

My client : - Better Quality - Better service - Better support Lead's current supplier: - Saves them money Winner? Current supplier. Cold Email Offers in most cases really just come down making them more money, helping them save money or helping them save time.

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4 months

The current requirements for best results with Cold Email Lead Gen - Must be Tech Savvy Cold Calling people who reply (Numbers in Signatures) A lot of A/B testing at all levels (Tech stack to copy) Expensive lead lists (Can’t afford reaching out to wrong people and getting

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2 months

If you have a list of startups and you're targeting CEOs Weekend campaigns are the way to go The CEOs are building their business still and are active on weekends too And hitting the inbox on days most people aren't sending cold emails makes you stand out I would never target

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4 months

Having a partner with the same mindset in unmatched My business partner is my brother Both in it to build the business, not in for some quick money Knowing you can divide work without needing to even worry a bit about it is as good as it gets We don’t care about margins at

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Just btw - these in house Clay on sheets people are posting about Aren’t even 5% of Clay I’ve seen funded companies trying to replace Clay and still having a quality difference Don’t get me wrong, some features like segmenting list and qualifying leads can be replaced for a

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3 months

The types of campaigns I run for every client in order of response rates high to low - Targeting Direct Competitors: Focusing on the direct competitors of the client's case study. If the case study is a well-known company within the niche, the response rates are extremely high.

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4 months

People claiming warm up doesn’t work : Many People proving it with test results : 0 Lesson in there

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6 months

Lazy Sunday

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3 months

What B2B businesses without a PMF need to understand is If just sending out cold emails made them successful Won't every cold email agency start 5 different businesses and sell it over cold emails Lead Gen is very important from the beginning But first priority should be

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1 month

Tested two scripts today - 1. Great personalisation and relevancy but offer driven 2. No personalisation and lesser relevancy but value driven Value driven blows out any other script every time

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4 months

After A/B testing and market feedback Leads are asking for calls themselves after the first email Getting calls in with the biggest names in like McDonald’s and Shelby’s. These are just replies from today, only if I could post more photos on X

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4 months

Update : Yes, Cold Email does work with supplies, as long as you can create a no brainer offer and create a form of guarantee along with case studies, currently averaging at 1-2 positive replies a day. - Convinced the client to offer a price beat guarantee from the lead’s

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2 months

It always surprises me when a B2B SaaS is running ads for booking demos but not outbound Been seeing a lot of those lately Like why won't you have the acquisition channel in place which costs 20% of your current methods Surprising but grateful - keeping us in business

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6 months

Productivity hack -

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2 months

One thing I have noticed that separates top tier list builders from others is custom scrapers Apify is a great place to start Always aim to use Apollo only for enrichment and not prospecting

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1 month

When you train Claygent to become an expert at your service and write the copy -

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4 months

Cold Emailing for extremely high LTV companies is the way to go It takes one client to close for them to justify six months of retainers for you (Doesn’t mean you don’t try to help them close more)

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