Guys, I found myself reflecting if I do the right thing. I did 20 searches on Leadswift for private chauffeurs in the big cities like Los Angeles and San Francisco in California, then I remove doubles, than I remove the leads without an email, then I get AI to tell me if they are a good fit or not... All of that got me 89 leads suitable for my offer of Google reviews. From 1521 on the original CSV file (btw, Leadswift doesn't allow to export by campaign, so I sort it myself in Excel). Is this normal? That seems way too much reduction in comparison to what I should get Also, do you have recommendations for scrapping Google Maps? Leadswift is clunky and just weird to use

I'm curious to hear from people who have already landed clients through cold email. Looking back, what was the hardest part when you were getting started? Was it: 📧 Sending the first emails? 📋 Building lead lists? ✍️ Writing copy? 📞 Taking sales calls? 😬 Handling rejection? ⚙️ Setting up the infrastructure? Or was it something completely different? For me, one of the hardest parts was building a list that was actually big enough, verified, and qualified. It was easy to find businesses. It was much harder to find the right businesses. I spent a lot of time cleaning lists, removing duplicates, verifying emails, filtering out bad-fit prospects, and trying to make sure I was reaching people who could actually buy. Looking back, I probably underestimated how important list quality was. And if you could go back to day one, what would you do differently? What would you spend less time on? What would you spend more time on? I've noticed a lot of beginners (myself included at times) spend weeks researching tools, building systems, setting up domains, tweaking websites, and trying to make everything perfect before they've even had a real conversation with a prospect. I'm interested to know what lessons you've learned from actually doing the work. What mistakes would you tell a beginner to avoid? And what advice would you give someone trying to land their first client today? 👇 Would love to hear from both beginners and people who have already signed clients.

Hello everyone, great to connect with you all! I am a Canadian based in China and my agency helps Chinese manufacturers connect with B2B partners globally.

One of the most common cold email mistakes I see: Pulling the plug on a campaign at 48 hours because the numbers look flat. Here's the problem. Email stats don't mature that fast. Open rates, reply rates, and bounce data take time to stabilize, sometimes 5-7 days depending on your send volume and how your list is distributed across timezones. When you rewrite your copy at the 48-hour mark, you're making a decision based on noise, not signal. Then when things improve, you credit the new copy. But you probably just needed to wait. Give your campaigns at least a week before making any changes. Judge on reply rate and positive reply rate, not opens. And resist the urge to optimize in real time. The campaigns that work are usually the ones you left alone long enough to get real data.

I used to think a well-built cold email campaign should work right out of the gate. It doesn't. None of them do. Not even the ones I build for my own business. Hardly ever dialed in on the first launch. And I've been doing this for years. So here's what actually happens. You go through a program, you learn enough to get something live, you hit send, and... it doesn't immediately convert. Reply rates are low. No meetings booked. Feels like it's broken. 95% of people quit at that point and call it a failure. But that's not failure. That's just the launch. The optimization phase, the actual tweaking, is where the system becomes valuable. Different subject lines. Different angles. Different lead lists, sending volumes, follow-up sequences. Most people never get there. And here's the wild part: the system works. Cold email works. It just doesn't work on day one for anyone. The people who win are the ones who grind through the first few rounds of iteration and keep going until the numbers start moving. We don't stop until it actually works. That's the whole thing. If you're in week two with no results, you're not doing it wrong. You're just not done. Keep going, brother.