Was this legit? I had to find out for myself… After contacting the cold emailer who made the post, I scheduled an interview to dive into his cold email strategy. Here’s what I asked him: 1. What are you using cold email for? 💼 - These campaigns are for a client who runs an e-commerce marketing agency. - We’re targeting e-commerce brands, specifically smaller ones with annual revenues between $500k and $10 million. 2. What do you do to ensure deliverability? 📩 - We don’t use unsub links. Instead, we include a simple line asking them to let us know if they want to opt out. - Open rate tracking hurts deliverability, so we focus on reply rates instead. - We do 3 weeks of warming up mailboxes with weekday activity. - For volume, we start with 3 contacts per day in the first week of Outreach & slowly go up to 10/day or 30 emails/day per address. 3. How do you use Clay with your leads? 🛠️ - For Qualification: We put LinkedIn profile and website data into Clay and use ChatGPT to filter out unqualified leads. - This ensures prospects meet the client’s ICP. - For Personalization: We put in recent data, like a LinkedIn post or website, for a custom first-line. - We fit the offer to the prospect, like for an agency in roofing including roofing use cases. 4. How do you structure your email content? ✉️ - We keep the email short, 50 to 80 words max. 1st line: Explain why we’re reaching out, with relevancy to the offer. 2nd line: Identify a problem or solution with a question. 3rd line: Clearly state the offer, showing the benefit of working with us. 4th line: Include a soft CTA, ideally offering free value. 5. How do you structure your email sequences? 🔄 - We initially send just one or two emails to test offers and avoid burning prospects. - Email 1 and Email 2 often present different angles of the same offer. - We target different pain points in each. - Email 3 could be a bump or a meme. - We avoid long sequences (4-6 emails), as low reply rates hurt deliverability.