Hi, I would like to ask more experienced cold emailers if it's worth upgrading from Smartlead Pro ($90) to thier Smart Level ($174) apparently the upgrade gives access to thier "premium" warm up pool with elibility for thier "ultrapremium" warm up pool (no idea what that means lol ) . Can i ask is the upgrade worth it in terms of warm up quality/improving domain delieverability? Or is it just wasted dollars. Thanks

Hi , one of my domains ended up on a spam list when using Smartlead warm up process. Do i need to be concerned? I've not even sent a single outreach email yet, so i dont understand how/why i could end on a spam list. Annoying tbh. Do i need to switch providers? Or is it just part of the game?

Hi everyone, I’m relatively new to cold email, although not to lead generation generally — I’ve mainly used Google Ads, Facebook Ads and SEO in the past. I’m now starting cold outreach for a B2B lead-gen business and I’m trying to understand the best practice around sender identities when using multiple sending domains. Is it generally better to use a real person’s name where that person has a genuine LinkedIn profile and online presence? Or is it acceptable to use different sender aliases that don’t have any online presence? My concern with using a real identity is the footprint across multiple domains. For example, say I eventually have 30 sending domains with up to 3 inboxes per domain. If I used the same person repeatedly, I could end up with addresses like: andy@leadgencompany.com andy.t@leadgencompany.com andy.trev@leadgencompany.com Then on another domain: andy@leadgencompanyhq.com andy.t@leadgencompanyhq.com andy.trev@leadgencompanyhq.com …and so on across many domains. Would having essentially the same sender identity repeated across lots of related domains create an undesirable footprint? The alternative would be creating different aliases for different inboxes/domains, which gives much more variation — but those people obviously wouldn't have LinkedIn profiles or any genuine online presence, so potentially there is less trust if a prospect looks them up. So I suppose my main questions are: 1. Do you generally use real identities or aliases for cold-email sending accounts? 2. Is it fine for one real person to appear across multiple sending domains? 3. If so, how much variation, if any, do you use in the actual email addresses? 4. At larger scale — say 20–30 domains and 50–90 inboxes — how do people normally structure sender identities without either creating a huge obvious footprint or inventing dozens of fake people?

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