Today I woke up to find all my domains on blacklists. I bought my domains from Porkbun and my inboxes from Premium Inboxes. I would appreciate a suggestion from you guys on how to build a good infrastructure so I don't come to a complete stop when something like this happens. All your suggestions are welcome. I was thinking of buying my inboxes from Zapmail.ai or directly from Google Workspace (it would be expensive, but I'm willing to take it if Workspace is better than the resellers). Domains from Dynadot.com. I would be happy to get your input on this. cc: @Jay Feldman @Jay Feldman

Hey everyone, I’m running cold email campaigns for a very specific niche in a specific region (small local businesses in one country/state). The problem is that Apollo returns very few results, and most of the contacts it does have are outdated or missing emails. Here’s what I’ve tried so far: - Apollo filters (by industry, location, and keywords) - Apify email scraping from the company’s website URL. What I’d love to hear from you: 1. Where do you source emails for local, niche-specific lists when Apollo, ZoomInfo, and similar databases don’t have enough coverage? 2. How do you use Apify effectively for lead gen? Which actors are worth using (Google Maps scrapers, contact info scrapers, etc.), and how do you chain them into a full workflow, from finding businesses to getting website URLs to extracting emails? 3. How do you find the owner’s email, not just info@ or contact@ addresses? Any good workflow for finding the owner’s name and then the email pattern? 4. Which email finders and verifiers have given you the best hit rate for small businesses (Hunter, Snov, Findymail, etc.)? 5. Any other sources (directories, licensing databases, Facebook pages, Yelp, associations) that work well for local niches? If you have a workflow or stack that works, even a rough outline, I’d really appreciate it. Happy to share my results once I test the suggestions. 🙏

Doing cold email from past 3 months slowly scaled from 5 mailboxes to 31 right now ( currently warming up all of them - 2 week has passed by the way ) but the thing is now i have not send any email from past like 16 days so the thing that confusing me is ( bfcm season is coming then christmas sale is coming after that sale will be slowed for ecom stores and i provide fb ads services to these stores ) and i need my first paying client ( the thing is that is giving stress is in next 2 to 5 days i will start cold email who will going to change their current agency for my service in this bfcm everyone will be focused on ads , more sales type things no one will be buying my service in this month or next month . i am new so can you tell is this hypothesis on mine is correct or not ?

I fired my content designer. 💣 The replacement costs $1.62 per post. Here's the system: Claude writes every slide using a 5-phase structure. Hook. Interest. Retain. Value. CTA. Max 15 words per slide. That rule is what separates a carousel people save from one they scroll past in half a second. fal.ai puts my actual face on the cover slide. Not an avatar. Not a stock photo. My face, on-brand, every time. One prompt. 8-10 slides. Publishes to Instagram automatically via Blotato. $1.62. That's it! Here's the problem with most people's AI content: They handed the job to a brand-new intern straight out of college. No training. No brand context. No standards to hit. You get exactly what you'd expect from a first-day hire. A 2 out of 10. Install the system first. Now that same AI is an assassin designed specifically for that task. Same Claude. Same inputs. A 2 before the one-click install. An 8 or a 9 after. Every time. The math is simple: Designer retainer: $2,000/month. One person. One pace. One point of failure. This system: $1.62 per run. Runs while I sleep. Publishes the second it's done. Drop "CAROUSEL" in the comments below. I'll send you the exact system.

Most advice says expect nothing in the first few weeks. On Nov 7 I launched and a CEO of a 40-year-old web design agency replied "Thursday will work" 2 minutes after Email 1 went out. One call doesn't prove a campaign, but here's the setup behind it: 1. 3 niches x 2 offers = 6 campaigns, split 50/50, so the data picks the offer and I don't have to guess. 2. 15 mailboxes warmed about 25 days at 100% health, then 30 emails a day each. That's the 450. 3. A personal first line for every lead, written from their own website. 4. Plain text, no links, no tracking. Email 2 on day 3 opens with the offer itself, Email 3 on day 7 is a lower friction ask. The part that went wrong: 6 to 11% bounces on day one. Instantly's verifier flagged 300 of my 1,468 leads as bad, even though the scraper had marked them validated. They're gone now and every new lead gets verified before upload. Screenshot is the simple sheet with the real day one numbers. What did your first day of sending look like?