Jay just turned his phone off for the weekend, and I have a secret to share.... First time in four months. Told the team not to email him until he decides to check back in. I ran a experiment starting this month: Grabbed one of Jay's old databases scraped from Instagram in 2023 Direct quote from Jay, "Ian, don't touch these, they're garbage. My students have been putting this list on blast for years." Me -> "I bet I can take what I've learned and still get it to work." Game Plan: I took a list of about 10 million contacts scraped in 2023 from Instagram. Picked a random niche. Sorted the contacts through Google Cloud computer using Google Drive links. Down to 30k contacts Verified for $50. Resulted in 15k verified list. Then I used Jay's foot-in-the-door offer method to write the first campaign. Used my Dyslexic Copywriter Style for the first 3 emails Replay to every opt-in with a super simple lead magnet. Automate offer and sales. What happened in 2 weeks: 4,224 emails sent 125 replies 21 opportunities 6 customers One new paying customer every other day. From a trash database. Zero sales calls - just a free Google ranking report and the reciprocity framework. Pacing to $1,000+ MRR in month one. Haven't even tested it in niches where I know it works. Here's what I figured out: LeadGenJay Insiders taught me WHAT works. How to set up Infrastructure to get my message in front of my ICP How to write campaigns that actually convert. How to sort and verify Data But I was still manually grinding every reply, every follow-up, every fulfillment. AI Automation Insiders taught me HOW to automate it. Now it runs while I sleep. That's the difference between a system you work and a system that works for you. Last week, I personally helped 10 people lock in lifetime access to both communities. The feedback has been insane. People are already seeing what happens when you combine the frameworks with the automation. But Jay closed that offer. Except I found something while his phone is off.

🚫 Stop Sending DMs That Reek of Desperation (Steal This Cold Message That Actually Got a Reply) 95% of DMs being sent right now? 💩 They read like a Fiverr VA copy-pasted it from a 2021 YouTube tutorial. You know the ones… ❌ "Hey [First Name], I help busy founders scale to 6-figures using my proven 3-step system…" ❌ "Quick question for you... 👀" ❌ "I saw your profile and thought we might be a great fit!" If you've ever sent one of those, this is your intervention. Because you're not just being ignored—you're being categorized. 🧠 As forgettable. 🗑️ As background noise. 📉 As someone not worth replying to. 🧠 How I Flipped It, just like @Jay Feldman teaches. Instead of ignoring a guy who'd been DM'ing me like an amnesiac AI… And this guy is a fairly well established influencer with a sizable IG, YT & Skool Community. I sent this: Not gonna lie --> you've hit me with more "Hey Ian"s & "How's Biz?" than an MLM recruiter w/ amnesia 😂 Figured I'd wait to reply until I had something worth showing. In the last 12 months: 222 new customers. $572K in revenue. {SCREENSHOT PROOF} All from a similar offer and audience size to yours. Not saying you're leaving money on the table... But if you are, your weak ass DM game is probably why. ✌️☮️ Guess what happens next? 👀 He replied instantly. Then booked a call. 🧨 Why It Worked ✅ Pattern interrupt – Casual. Funny. Not trying to sell. ✅ Leads with proof – No bait. Just data. ✅ Curiosity over pitch – Hints at the gap without bragging. ✅ Reverses the dynamic – He chased me. 💥 Want to Write DMs Like This? Here's the formula: Open with a jab – playful, honest, bold Drop results – numbers > adjectives Create curiosity – no neediness, just a window Position yourself as the shortcut – without pitching Shut up and let them ask 👉 𝘾𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 "𝘿𝙈𝙎𝙇𝘼𝙋" 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙄'𝙡𝙡 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙅𝙖𝙮 𝘿𝙈 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙖 𝙛𝙧𝙚𝙚 𝙩𝙤𝙤𝙡 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙧𝙚𝙬𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙚𝙨 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝘿𝙈'𝙨 It using the exact method above. Stop Getting Ignored. No more spam. No more guessing.

I had a call this week with a guy who had Clay. He had Instantly. He had Apollo, Make.com, a verified list of 8,000 contacts, and more YouTube tabs open than I can count. He was still at zero clients. I asked him one question. "When you sit down to send that first campaign... what's going through your head?" He went quiet. Then: "Honestly? I'm scared it won't work." There it is. He didn't have a tool problem. He had an identity problem. Most people in this community are sitting on a loaded weapon they're afraid to fire. Not because they don't know how. Because somewhere between watching Jay's masterclass and opening Instantly... they decided the gap between them and a working campaign was knowledge. It's not. The gap is a decision. Jay just dropped the PDF post. The micro SaaS post. The event-signal targeting post. That's not a knowledge shortage. That's a buffet. The people eating aren't the ones with more tools. They're the ones who decided they were already the kind of person who sends the campaign. I built $1K MRR off a database Jay literally called garbage. Not because I had better data. Because I stopped asking whether it would work and started asking what I'd learn if it didn't. That shift is worth more than every Clay credit you'll ever buy. So here's the question I want you to sit with today: Are you still in "getting ready" mode? Or are you already the person who runs the system? Drop 🔥 in the comments if you're done getting ready. I read every one.

You’re capped at ~100 connection requests per week. So what do most people do? They try to push harder… Send faster… Stretch the limits… And end up getting restricted or flagged. Here’s the reality: You can’t scale LinkedIn with one account. Try to force it… And LinkedIn shuts you down. So what actually works? You stop thinking single account… and start thinking system. The approach we use 👇 Instead of sending from one profile… We use multiple pre-warmed LinkedIn accounts that look like real team members. • proper profile pictures • work history • existing connections • natural activity Everything LinkedIn expects to see. Now instead of: ➡️ 1 account → ~100 requests/week You get: ➡️ 10 accounts → ~900+ requests/week What this actually does You’re not just increasing volume… You’re: • spreading risk across accounts • protecting your main profile • scaling safely without triggering limits The result? We went from: ~10 meetings/week → to ~90 meetings/week Same offer. Same messaging. Just better infrastructure. This is how agencies actually scale LinkedIn outreach without burning accounts. Not hacks. Not shortcuts. Just the right setup. If you want to see exactly how this works and how to set it up properly… Comment “Aimfox” below 👇

In 2026, the hardest part of cold email isn't writing emails. It's finding clean data. You can have the best copywriter in the world. The perfect subject line. A killer offer. None of it matters if your data is garbage. And right now? Most people's data IS garbage. Here's what I see over and over again: → Bad lead data → high bounce rates → domain damage → Wrong contacts (you're emailing the office manager, not the decision maker) → Overlapping databases (Apollo + Apollo + Apollo = the same burned contacts) → Cheap scraped lists with zero verification People try to save $200/month on leads… then spend $2,000 replacing burned domains and rebuilding infrastructure. Good data is expensive. Burned infrastructure is MORE expensive. Let that sink in. Here's what's actually working right now: The people getting results aren't relying on one tool. They're running a data hygiene stack: - Base Data: Apollo / Sales Navigator → starting point for contacts - Clay → layering in job titles, company size, tech stack, intent signals - Verification: MillionVerifier / Reoon → cleaning out invalid emails BEFORE they hit your sender (btw you can build your own email verifier, check this) - Google / LinkedIn check → for high-value prospects, verify manually - Custom Scraping: For niche industries where databases are actually clean The niche scraping play is underrated. Here's why: Industries like local services, manufacturing, construction, and geo-technical companies aren't getting blasted by every SDR with an Apollo login. Those databases are cleaner because the competition isn't there. Everyone's fighting over the same SaaS founders and marketing directors. Meanwhile, the people targeting old-school industries are getting 10%+ reply rates because their leads haven't been emailed 47 times this month. The real cost breakdown nobody talks about: Most people think cold email costs = software + sending tool.