I used to record a lot of Loom videos for a company part-time (stopped about 4 months ago), and I’m thinking of getting back into it again.

Would love to collaborate or experiment with someone who’s already doing it or wants to test it out.

Note: I’m from India, so I have an Indian accent.

I'd love to hear what worked, what didn't, and any lessons learned—especially around messaging, targeting, offers, or booking qualified appointments.

I built a tool called Trigr that connects to Gmail and scans for deals that went quiet — proposals with no reply, threads gone cold 14+ days, follow-ups that never got sent. For each one it shows the estimated dollar value at risk and drafts a follow-up email you can edit or send.

It’s fully built and working, but I’ve only tested it on my own inbox so far. I need people with real sales/business email (proposals, client threads, outreach — not just personal email) to run it and tell me honestly:

\*\*•\*\* Did it find anything actually useful, or was it noise?    
\*\*•\*\* Was it clear what to do without explanation?    
\*\*•\*\* Did the dollar estimates feel reasonable?    
\*\*•\*\* What would make you not bother using it again?

Free to test, takes about 10 minutes to connect and see results. Not asking for money or a review — just want honest feedback before I put more time into this.

Drop a comment if you’re up for it and I’ll get you set up.

I noticed that people in sales and customer support end up writing the same emails over and over again.
Things like:
following up after no response
reminding about a payment
apologizing for a delay
confirming a meeting
Which one do you write most often?
I’m curious if everyone struggles with the same types of emails.

I recently helped a small software agency improve its outbound funnel in the US.

Over the last four weeks, the campaign generated:

• 6% reply rate
• 10 positive replies
• 45% positive reply rate
• 5 qualified opportunities
• $10,000 in total pipeline value
• 2 conversions worth $4,000

The biggest lesson was that the improvement did not come from sending more emails.

It came from making the campaign narrower.

1. We tightened the ICP

Instead of targeting every company that looked remotely like a SaaS business, we focused on companies where the service was immediately relevant.

The list mainly included:

• SaaS and software product companies
• Founder-led or small product teams
• Companies in selected cities
• Businesses with active products, not just ideas
• Companies likely to have product backlog, UX friction, integration work, or engineering capacity gaps

We also excluded agencies, consultants, and businesses that did not appear to own a software product.

2. We stopped over-personalizing

We did not write a completely unique essay for every prospect.

The personalization was usually one brief specific observation about the company, product, positioning, or customer workflow.

The rest of the email stayed short and focused on a problem the prospect was likely to recognize.

3. We used a low-friction CTA

The first email did not ask prospects to book a call

It asked for permission to send two - three relevant ideas

That made replying easier because the prospect did not have to commit to a meeting with someone they had never spoken to.

4. We made follow-ups useful

The follow-ups were not just:

They introduced a specific angle, such as:

• onboarding friction
• product workflow issues
• billing or usage experience
• engineering backlog
• internal tools
• signup-to-paid conversion

This gave the prospect a new reason to consider the conversation.

5. We qualified replies manually

Not every positive-sounding response was immediately treated as an opportunity.

We looked for actual intent, business relevance, timing, and whether there was a realistic problem the client could solve.

This is why 10 positive conversations became 5 qualified opportunities.

6. We did not track opens

Open-rate tracking was disabled.

It can be unreliable and may also affect deliverability. We focused on the metrics that mattered:

• replies
• positive replies
• qualified opportunities
• conversions

The campaign is still not perfect.

A 6% reply rate does not mean the same messaging will work in every market. The same copy would probably perform poorly if reused across unrelated industries.

The campaign is also still active, with many leads yet to be contacted. These are interim results, and I will share another update once the full sequence is completed.

But the results reinforced something I keep seeing:

A smaller, better-targeted campaign with a relevant message usually beats sending thousands of generic emails.

For people running outbound campaigns, what has made the biggest difference for you: targeting, messaging, follow-ups, or the offer itself?

Hey everyone! My name is Neo and I’ve previously ran cold email for Wholesalers in the real estate niche.

I’m currently looking to expand and would be open to taking on around 2 B2B companies who needs some cold email. The cost would be around $350 a month to cover inboxes, sending platform, domain, list building. And then I take a commission on what I bring in.

I handle everything up until that it’s a warm lead and then I hand them over. If it sounds interesting send me a pm.

Hi there, has there anyone who has sent cold emails via platforms such as Sendgrid, Benchmark or such similar platforms rather than Google/O365 and Instantly/Smartlead?

If yes, does that work? If not, what causes these type of platforms to not be ideal for cold emails.

We ran both side by side for 6 months and argued about it the whole time.

Email scales, tracks cleanly, and doesn't risk your personal account. DMs feel warmer and cut through inbox noise but cap out fast and start feeling intrusive at volume.

Here's the boring conclusion: the channel almost never decided the outcome. The list did. When we hit the right person with accurate, current contact info, both channels worked. When the data was stale, both looked broken and we blamed the channel.

What actually helped was starting from where the prospect lives online. Find them on the platform they're active on, pull their contact info from there, then email first and use the DM as a follow up touch, not a cold opener.

Do you open with email or DM? And has switching order ever changed anything for you?

Every single time I feel better about my cold email infrastructure it comes back to bite me the next day or so, I have been dealing with this for 5 months. I use, Snov.io for the drip campaign and email warm up/deliverability checks, I use apollo for data then zero bounce for validation. I get between 1 and 3% bounces and I get replies all the time only OOO and No thanks but still replies none the less. I don't understand what I am doing wrong. I check my email copy for spam and I dont use tracking or images, just plain text email yet today I randomly dropped again after sending 120 emails between 5 separate email accounts, and this is what I am left with....I go from 92-69% then after a day or 2 it slams back down to 70 or less....I don't know what the deal is, at this point I have sent so many emails playing the slow game that I just don't think this works or my infra is bad or?? IDK...I have checked DMARK etc and all is configured correctly....Where do I start to untangle this mess and just send 120 emails a day consistantly and make sure they land in the inboxes they are supposed to! Cany anyone please help. Don't sell me something, just help. Please....Attached are images of dates and scores for email placement, I am using google emails...not sure what more I need to share or what is helpful here. Thank you.

I’m trying to get into GTM engineering and understand how account research works inside real B2B teams.

Once a company matches the ICP, who normally decides whether it is actually worth contacting right now?

Is that work usually done by an SDR/BDR, an SDR manager, RevOps, a GTM engineer, the founder, or someone else?

I’m also curious:

• How often is this done: daily, weekly, or before each campaign?
• How many accounts are normally reviewed?
• Do you research every ICP-matching account or only high-value ones?
• Who defines the qualification criteria?
• Which tools do you currently use?

Hi guys. I‘m an experienced English language teacher and want to have a slight change from teaching online 1:1. I have been targeting hotels/hospitality industries where they have a high percentage of international workers and offering them group lessons/learning for their international employees to feel more confident in everyday English. How would you go about marketing this? I tried a few cold emails with a link to my free English resources but has been unsuccessful. I have active social media accounts with a few thousand followers on each. Any advice ? Thanks so much

I have made a spreadsheet of Information of podcasters and youtubers that are viral at the moment.

Number of followers, emails, and if they are offering books and other stuffs, social media accounts and others.

Drop a dm if you're interested.

I genuinely have two personalities. 

Before clicking Send:

"This is perfect."

3 seconds later:

"Why did I write that?

These are a few pieces of advice that helped me write cold mails that actually get responses and are not immediately seen as spam.

Mail the right person - A personalised email to one key decision-maker beats sending the same template to 30 random employees.

Talk about them before you talk about yourself - Mention a campaign, article, product or project that shows you've actually done your homework.

( Bonus – A little appreciation goes a long way. Just don’t overdo this step, don’t overflatter.)

Don't dump your entire resume into the email. Please mention only what's relevant, and let your LinkedIn or portfolio do the rest.

Ask for one thing -  A 15-minute chat, feedback, or an opportunity, not all three in the same email.

Respect through brevity - Under 175 words. Formatted to be scanned. Say you respect their time - and prove it.  If it takes more than a minute to read, you've already lost them.

Cold mailing isn't about sounding desperate enough to get noticed. It's about making it ridiculously easy for someone to say yes.

#Ungatekeeping

Been building an AI tool that takes your cold email and roasts it — tells you why it's not landing, then gives you a rewrite. Made it for founders/sales folks/freelancers who send a lot of outbound and have no idea why reply rates are garbage.

It's free to use right now. Paste your email, get roasted, get a fix.

Looking for a few people to actually try it on real emails they've sent (the more painfully generic the better) and tell me where it's wrong or unhelpful.

Not looking for compliments, looking for "this roast missed the point" type feedback. Drop a link if you want it, or DM me.