Hey everyone 👋 I've been meaning to share this with the community for a while now, and I figured it's time to stop gatekeeping this resource. Quick context: When I scaled our PR agency to $800K/month, one of the biggest operational costs was email infrastructure. At $8/mailbox on Google Workspace, running 300+ mailboxes was costing us $2,400/month just in mailbox fees. The alternative I found: There's a category of SMTP services with unmanaged IP addresses that cost $1-1.50 per mailbox/month. I'm currently running 375 active mailboxes across 75 domains through one of these services. What you get: • Unlimited scaling potential • 3-click setup process • Direct export into Instantly • Professional SMTP infrastructure • Full domain ownership and control The important caveat (please read): This is NOT for beginners. Here's why: With Google/Microsoft, they manage IP reputation for you. With these SMTP services, YOU are responsible for maintaining sender reputation. If you get spam complaints or hit spam traps, the entire IP range gets flagged and all your mailboxes go to spam. Who this is for: ✅ You already have a profitable cold email system with Google/Microsoft ✅ You consistently get low spam complaint rates ✅ You understand deliverability fundamentals ✅ You're ready to scale and reduce operational costs My current setup: I use this service alongside Google and Microsoft mailboxes to diversify infrastructure. When Google had those recent policy changes, my campaigns kept running because I wasn't 100% dependent on them. To get instant access to this: Comment "INBOX" below and I'll DM you the link 📦

Stop scaling cold email volume. Scale your list quality. Had a client booking 5 meetings a day from 3,500 emails. Not bad. But they were scraping leads manually with almost zero qualification. Out of every 1,000 on the list, 600 shouldn't even be there. Same mailboxes. Same copy. Better leads. They went from 5 meetings a day to 50. Pre-qualify before you send. Run AI enrichment. Check against your ICP before they hit the sequencer. Adding mailboxes won't fix a targeting problem.

Free after-hours AI receptionist for small restoration companies (water, fire, mold). Answers all calls 24/7, captures job details, notifies the owner instantly. No contract, no setup cost. Paid plan starts after the trial converts. ICP: Owner-operated restoration companies, 1–5 employees, no dedicated receptionist, $200K–$1.5M revenue. Core pain: missing emergency calls after hours = losing jobs to competitors who answered. Sequence structure (4 emails total): — Day 1: Main email. Pain angle = missed calls lose jobs. CTA = reply "yes" to get the system set up. — Day 3: Follow-up #1. Angle = it's not about being the best company, it's about who answered first. — Day 7: Follow-up #2. Angle = direct financial cost of one missed call ($1K–$5K). Restate the free offer. — Day 12: Breakup email. Low-pressure close. Leave the door open. After a "yes" reply: prospect receives a short Loom video showing exactly how the system works and what happens on their first call. Formatting rules applied: plain text only, no links in email #1, subject lines under 5 words, body under 6 lines, single low-friction CTA per email. What I'd like feedback on: 1. Is the pain angle strong enough for this ICP, or should it be sharper? 2. Does the free offer lower trust instead of raising it? 3. Is the follow-up spacing (3 / 7 / 12) correct, or should it be tighter? 4. Any line in the sequence that feels like it would trigger spam or read as mass email? Email copy: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bhdxBfbf5Pmc9Y3boGthWW43V3EJ9uXu8iEOleotkuw/edit?usp=sharing

Recently discovered that tools like Mailmeteor and Folderly still miss a lot of keywords that put you on the spam folder. I'm really looking to hear if anyone found a better way. Here's what I tested. In the @Jay Feldman 7h video (Free Cold Email Marketing Course for 2025 (7 Hours), he goes through GlockApps with a simple email test with the content "cold email services." Obviously glockapps tells you that this content triggered spam filters on google. If you paste "cold email services" on any other "spam checker" you don't get ANY errors flagged in your copy. Even glockapps doesn't tell you exactly which part of the copy is wrong if you're sending a longer email. Has anyone found better QA methods? @Jordan Wiseman