If you’re new to cold emailing, buckle up — it’s not a funnel, it’s a five-stage emotional rollercoaster 🎢 🥶 Stage 1: The Cold Chaos Phase You have no clue what you’re doing. You’re watching YouTube tutorials on DNS, SPF, DKIM, and wondering if you accidentally enrolled in NASA’s onboarding program. Setting up domains, mailboxes, deliverability… Apollo, instantly.ai, Google Sheets — all sound like a Marvel multiverse. But hey, you’re trying. Respect. 🤞 Stage 2: The Fingers-Crossed Era The setup is live. You hit Send Campaign and whisper a prayer to the email gods. One person replies “Interested.” You feel like you just closed a $10M deal. Two days later, you realize “interested” doesn’t mean “paid.” Welcome to capitalism. 💀 Stage 3: The Rejection Gym “Not interested.” “Who gave you my email?” “F**k off.” At this stage, you stop crying. You start laughing. You finally understand it takes 100 no’s to get 1 yes, and you start building rejection biceps. 💪 🧠 Stage 4: The Detective Mode Now you’re smart. You can look at a campaign and instantly know — “Oh, deliverability dropped because I used that cursed word ‘guarantee.’” “Oh, this list is trash; I need to clean my leads.” You’ve become half marketer, half Sherlock Holmes. 🚀 Stage 5: The Cold Email Zen Master You’re sending 1,000 emails/day without breaking a sweat. Your copy works. Your CRM syncs. Leads come in daily, you follow up instantly, and money starts flowing. You’ve built a system — and it works even while you sleep. Which stage are you in right now? Be honest… still decoding SPF records or flexing in the rejection gym? 😎 @Grant Charge @Max Khalus @William Marksén , agree ?

Hey Everyone, Just noticed, apollo scrapper in apify is no longer available. It was 1.5 UDS / 1000 leads. Cheapest option. what are you guys using other than exporting from apollo directly which is 60 USD / 2500 leads ( 24 USD / 1000 leads

Hi Everyone, When do you decide that the campaign is flopped and needs to be stopped ? Assuming, not getting the bare minimum response needed...like 1.5% Wait for a week at least or first mails to 1000 leads or any other benchmarking before you start tweaking or moving to the next campaign ? @Grant Charge , @Roger Roland , @Max Khalus , any inputs would be helpful. When to stop the campaign?

Hi there, We just launched, it has a Free-forever tier. I'd love to get your feedback! Appreciate your time!

Hey Everyone, I see two definitions for the reply rate. First, is: Number of unique replies / number of emails delivered * 100 = percentage reply rate. For example, if you send out 500 cold emails and receive back 50 replies, your reply rate would be 10%. and second is, Number of unique replies / number of recipients * 100 = percentage reply rate. For example, if you send out to 100 leads and receive back 50 replies, your reply rate would be 50%. Instantly shows it as the second one, But what is more appropriate in your opinion.