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Rotating Aliases or Real Names?
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: [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Then on another domain: [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] …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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@Diran George Thanks Diran but does it not leave a huge footprint? Ie With 50 domains , your talking 150 inbox accounts with all a similar name? Just curious
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@Gabriel Kronbach Thanks Gabriel , yes that is what i am interested. Does it using variations of the same name scale to a decent ie 50 + inboxes without it triggering some sort of filter .
The Lead Isn’t the Conversion
Generating a lead is only the first step. The real opportunity starts after the form is submitted: Lead captured → response → qualification → conversation → appointment A strong backend can turn the same traffic into more opportunities without constantly increasing ad spend. Where are your leads dropping off right now?
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@Irfan Khan tbh with you i am focused purely on the lead gen side and have partners to deal with what happens afterwards. As my main business i have to be on the phone all day and am out a lot for meetings. I'm trying to build all my lead gen stuff to have ZERO interaction with customers lol
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@Irfan Khan Well i'm manually replying to emails as I want to get enough data so i can start to train my agents to reply to the emails automatically for me but once it becomes a lead it's handed over to a partner to speak to on the phone.
What business should I start? What to sell?
Hi all. I had some disappointing results recently with selling lead gen services. It's hard work to get new clients and the appointments for them, and then the clients let you down with zero-to-low conversions due to a whole bunch of reasons on their end, and don't reorder. Is there something else besides lead gen services? Selling your own solution? Any ideas would be great. Thanks.
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One of the easiest and "classic" sell is digital marketing services. Yes the market is crowded but with a decent website and some social proof you'd be surprised how many people need help setting up Google Ads, Facebook Campaigns, SEO - Only downsde if you actually have to deal with the customer lol which i never enjoyed. If you don't mind managing clients its a tried and tested product suite.
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@Mark Fregnan There really is. You can even go after certain niches. ie could target mortgage brokers, plumbers, claims companies , chiropractors etc . Just need a a decent looking site , a bit of social proof. Main thing is to get them on the phone/zoom. Much easier to close once they are there. A little tip sometimes people who are actively looking for work , leave thier domains on Upwork, so you can crawl through that and then contact them directly. Like i said the only problem with this model is you do actually have to do the work for the clients and they can be a pain to manage.
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