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What if the email isn't the most important part of cold email?
The more outbound campaigns I look at, the less I think the email itself is the main variable. Ironically, the rise of high-volume outbound is what convinced me of that. As inboxes become flooded with more emails, more sequences, and more automation, it becomes harder to win simply by writing a slightly better message. And to be fair, that logic isn't completely wrong. If a campaign gets a 1% reply rate, sending 10x more emails can still produce meaningful results even if performance drops. But when everyone plays that game, inboxes get noisier and the bar for relevance gets higher. So I've been wondering: What if we're optimizing the wrong part of outbound? Most conversations start at the very end of the process: - How do we write better emails? - Better subject lines? - Better follow-ups? - Better AI personalization? Those are important questions. But they're all questions about the message. Very little attention is given to the decisions that happen before the message exists. Why this prospect? Why now? What do we actually know about them? What signal makes them worth contacting? I've started to think the biggest performance differences in outbound don't come from communication. They come from understanding. More specifically, they come from discovering something that meaningfully changes the conversation before the first email is ever written. Maybe a company recently expanded. Maybe a new service launched. Maybe hiring patterns reveal a shift in priorities. Maybe a problem becomes visible through research. Something real. Something relevant. Something that gives you a legitimate reason to start a conversation. If that's true, then maybe the future isn't sending more messages. Maybe it's becoming much more deliberate about which messages deserve to be sent in the first place. That idea ended up consuming me enough that I built a system around it. The system researches each prospect, extracts and organizes relevant signals, and then uses those signals to generate outreach and follow-ups.
What if the email isn't the most important part of cold email?
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@Chetan MishraYeah, exactly my point. That's a great question. I figured a good weighting system shouldn't be one-size-fits-all for signals, otherwise we'd end up assuming that the same event means the same thing across every prospect, industry, and offer. A recent expansion, for example, might be a very strong buying signal for one service and almost irrelevant for another. The same goes for hiring patterns, new product launches, leadership changes, partnerships, and so on. The way I think about it is that the signals aren't quite meaningful in isolation. But rather their value comes from their relevance to the offer and whether they provide a legitimate reason to start a conversation. So essentially the system doesn't ask what the most important signal is but rather, "What's the most relevant signal for this prospect given this offer?". The goal is to make the final email deliberate and meaningful to the prospect.
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@Chetan Mishra Exactly. Context dependent evidence is the best phrase for it.
Mar '25 • 
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127 cold emails. 24 clients. $2K to $15K (cash in the bank). No call booked. No AI mentioned. Until the close.
Here's how I did it, and why most of you are still sending emails that sound like digital begging. You’re not cold emailing to “Start a Relationship.” You’re there to disrupt one. Most cold emails I see online still start with: “Hey, I saw you were in [industry] and wanted to reach out...” “How are you doing today? I am {{Name}} and I work at {{company name}}.” “I’ve been doing some research on {{Their company name}} and I’d love to learn more about {{a pain point/challenge you discovered}}.” What are we doing? Relationship-building? Permission-seeking? Praying? If that’s your approach, here’s what you’re accidentally saying: “I’m nobody. I want your attention. And I need you to make the first move.” That’s not outreach. That’s digital begging in disguise. So I did it differently for a friend who needed AI Automation clients. Here’s how this started: Laid-off software engineer. Built AI automations for 7 months. Cold emailed for 7 weeks. One client. Didn’t change his finances. But it cracked the door open psychologically. We went out for hotpot. Usually he’s all ideas and tech rants. This time? Quiet. Then he said it: “The business is working… but I’ve only got 13 months of cash left. If this doesn’t click soon, I’m back to a paycheck.” So I asked if I could see what he was sending. Same thing I see everywhere: “Hey, I saw you were in [industry] and wanted to reach out...” “How are you doing today? I am {{Name}} and I work at {{company name}}.” “I’ve been doing some research on {{Their company name}} and I’d love to learn more about {{a pain point/challenge you discovered}}.” No tension. No teeth. No chance. So I rebuilt the approach. Dropped real value in the body. No pitch. I picked a category where urgency matters: HVAC. 127 businesses.. Most are still using old-school lead forms and chatboxes that whisper, “We’ll get back to you.” I didn’t pitch. Didn’t ask if they “needed help. ”Didn’t “check in.” I dropped a working demo of a live conversation flow (custom for each of the 127 businesses) in the first email, built from their own buyer behavior. No slides. No deck. No CTA.
1 like • Apr '25
This is elite level cold outreach. Thanks for sharing
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