June 16, 2022

Guide to book 70+ demos from Cold Emailing per month per rep

Tried and tested method to generate 100s of leads just using cold emailing. Read on to find more

Intro

This guide is written with the input of 2 Outbound Champions. 

Spencer Farber - Has scaled companies like Pandadoc and Cliently just using outbound. 

Matthew Lesiuk - Has been successfully running his agency and recently launched his own AI email personalization tool - Nureply

This process is very much scalable and can easily generate 70+ demos a month just from cold emailing.  

If you have never done outbound, this going to be a lot to digest. So hold on to your seatbelt. 

Let’s first look at some economics considering you are an entrepreneur/rep doing outbound. And you are targeting US Companies. Note the open rates and replies are much higher outside USA.

Numbers:

  1. 9 email accounts
  2. 4k leads per month
  3. 11K emails sent monthly (main email + 2 follow-ups)
  4. 55% open rates
  5. 200 replies
  6. 60 meetings booked (30% booking rate)
  7. 48 meetings show up (80% show up rate)
  8. 12 clients closed (25% close rate)
  9. $6k added every month ($500 ticket size)

Cost to Fulfill:

  1. 3 Domains - $36 per year
  2. 9 emails - $54 per month
  3. 4K Qualified Leads - $400 to $1000 (soon, free b2b and b2c unlimited data inside Cliently app)
  4. Cliently for sending out unlimited emails from 9 accounts - $270 per month 
  5. 4k Leads Cleaning with NeverBounce - $30

Total: $1300 maximum a month

Investment Gain - $6k a month

ROI - 450% 

Domain & Email Setup

Always buy aliases domains for cold emailing so we don't damage the reputation of main domain. With every domain, we will buy 2-3 emails associated. 

Here’s a quick checklist you can use to keep track of all the steps for Domain & Email setup for yourself as well as your VAs.

We will gradually be increasing sending limits of email every week, starting from 6-9 a day and gradually increasing to 50 a day. All this is done to avoid going into spam filters. 

Buying Domains

Buy domains that are similar to your main domain. Top-level domains work best. We’ve had success with domains like .agency .tech too, but if possible, buy .com domains.

If your business is called Cliently.com then buy domains like:

Clientlyai.com

Clientlytool.com

Thecliently.com

Clientlyweb.com

Clientlyapp.com

Cliently.app

Here’s a list of domains with the worst reputation. Don’t use these.We use Google Domains for buying Domains, because we’ve used it for a long time and it has tons of integrations and tutorials. You do you.

Setting Up Google Workspace (3 mins)

Go to https://workspace.google.com/ and click Get Started. Follow the on-screen instructions until your Google Workspace account is set up. You can safely create 2-3 emails per domain (by adding users in your Google Workspace admin). Every google workspace should have unique email.Create a new Workspace account for each of the domains you bought. If something is not working check the Google Workspace status page.

Setting Up Domains - SPF, DKIM, DMARC (15-20 mins)

Now we get to the fun part! You should authenticate all the domains you are sending emails from. Here are the three parameters you have to set up for each domain: SPF, DKIM and DMARC.

1) Set up SPF

The screen preview where you manage these DNS settings - 

Most likely SPF and DKIM would be set automatically when you buy the domain from google. Like this - 

If not, assuming you are using Google Workspace, you can follow this guide to set up SPF.

2) Set up DKIM

Again if not DKIM is set up by default and, assuming you are using Google Workspace, you can follow this guide to set up DKIM.

You can check if your DKIM and SPF is properly set up using this tool.

3) Set up DMARC

​​Important: Configure DKIM and SPF before configuring DMARC. DKIM and SPF should be authenticating messages for at least 48 hours before turning on DMARC.

You would click on “Create new record” and let’s say if your domain is healthtec.dental and email is - vance@healthtec.dental, these are the details you should put - 

The line to be copied in these columns is (after you make your own changes according to domain and email) : "v=DMARC1; p=quarantine; rua=mailto:harsh@healthtec.dental;"      (it has to be your email)

In the end, should look like this - 


If still not able to set up, you can follow this guide to set up DMARC.

You can check if your DMARC is properly set up using this tool.

Warming Up Emails

Go to Warmupinbox ($10 a month, famous and established), Instantly (37 a month) or Gmass  (free but only sends emails within gmails, all gmail users), and sign up. You should now connect your emails to the Warmup feature and start the warm-up process.

Keep the default limits and we suggest don't cross more than 30 emails in warmups. 

Always keep the warm up inbox on - never turn it off.

Sign up for newsletters from each email

Once you sign up for newsletters, you must manually verify them inside your email (email confirmation to confirm if your email, you signed up with).  Please sign up on these newsletters -

https://www.helpscout.com/blog/

https://okdork.com/

https://www.thedailybeast.com/newsletters

https://nextdraft.com/

https://digg.com/

https://confirmsubscription.com/h/t/0B3C54BAABF8A5D2

https://whole30.com/

https://sealfit.com/

https://moz.com/moztop10

Making sure everything is set up correctly

Before starting your campaigns, you want to ensure the domain and email set up is done correctly.

For domains, use SPF & DKIM check.
For testing email spamminess, use Mail Tester.
If something's wrong, go back and quickly fix it :)

Upload a profile picture (preferably a headshot on each profile)

Here are the steps from it. This would have to be done from google admin. 

https://support.google.com/a/answer/6371005?hl=en 

Leads & Targeting

Finding leads is easy, the harder part is knowing exactly which kinds of leads are the best. We approach it based on case studies. Who are the people who have gotten the most value out of your service? And who in that company is in charge of dealing with your offering (CEO, CMO, etc.)

If you don’t exactly know who to target just try different options until you find a targeting & email combo that works. Then just get as many similar leads as possible.

Getting Leads and

Tools: Apollo and Snov (Cheaper with 55% valid emails) ; Zoominfo, Rocketreach for premium data

They have a huge database of B2B leads and you can filter them with tens of filters like revenue, employee count, niche, tech stack etc.

+ Great Database
+ Great Filters

Cleaning leads

Check if the emails will bounce or not here - 

https://www.zerobounce.net/ or https://neverbounce.com/

Only choose emails that have 100% deliverability. Some emails will be marked as risky, go for it only if your list is very small and targeted. 

Connecting Email Accounts (10 mins)

Simply connect all your emails with Cliently or an email sending software of your choice. We allow all your inboxes to be managed at one place.

Setting Up The Sequence

We use a 4 step sequence.  The first is creating an email copy. 

If you don’t have your own stuff then get ideas from:

Here are a bunch of great cold email sequences from Cliently users. Updated continually. 

Here’s another list of cold email templates from Hunter.io

For the personalised AI introduction, we recommend Nureply and for personalised images and videos, we recommend Hyperise (also integrated within our app)  

Connecting Email Accounts (10 mins)

Simply connect all your emails with Cliently or an email sending software of your choice. We allow all your inboxes to be managed at one place.


Scheduling

To determine the best time to send an email for this campaign, begin by considering the work hours in the time zone where your leads are located. We typically follow New York Office Hours, which are from Monday to Friday, 9 am to 5 pm EST. Additionally, it's essential to avoid sending emails on holidays, which is the default option in Cliently.

Stop sending emails on reply - Stops the sequence for the user who has replied. This is recommended. Again default in cliently.

Have an unsubscribe button in the campaign. 

Daily Sending Limit - We recommend sending max 50 emails a day for best results. If your domain and email is new, start with 8 emails a day per email and slowly ramp it to 50 a day in 6 weeks or so. Gradually increase limits. 

That’s it. Now you can launch your campaign.Congrats! Cliently will start sending out emails every day automatically and you just need to keep an eye on the campaigns.

Benchmarks

We want to hit:

50% Open Rate

3-8% reply rate (non-US market is more)
1% Meeting Booked Rate.

If the open rate is lower, try a different subject line and make sure your emails are not getting stuck in spam. If they are in spam, pause the campaign for a couple of days and let the warm-up run until you’re out of spam.

Change your email copy and/or targeting if the meeting booked rate is lower. It can take a couple of different tests until you find a working combo.

Also if your domain is old and you are not hitting 50% open rates, it could very well be that your domain is burnt. Google considers it spam.

1) Avoid email spam trigger words such as Free and Prize 

2) Put as few urls as possible and no attachments in emails please until they reply.

Including possible no url in signature. 

3) Use proper wording in your email: STAY AWAY FROM ALL CAPITALS, overusing exclamation marks!!!!!! or an excess amount of emoticons 😆😁😜🤪;

4) Don't use the old tricks in the book. Trying to mislead spam filters by using random characters in your subject line (Pr!ze), starting your subject line with Re: to fake communication, hiding texts in images. All of this stuff may have worked 20 years ago, but the algorithms are too smart for that nowadays!

5) Get your send emails to the right lead list. If you're sending emails to dentists telling them how cool it is to see that their start-up is growing, they might flag you as spam. Be careful with that. Make sure to always send relevant mails to relevant people!

6) Spintax has been a hot topic lately. “Spintax” simply means, spinning syntax. It’s really more of a way to generate unique variations into an article, email or contact form message etc. This increases deliverability by as much as 10%.

7) Personalize your emails as much as possible, including adding company names, job titles etc. in the email. You can also use the first few lines of personalization using various AI intro line generators. We recently partnered with hyperise to introduce image and video personalisation in our platform.

Create recipes or filters to better monitor prospects and customers

Create Recipes or filters to know prospects who are more engaged, clicked certain number of times, read email after long time etc. 

More here 

Some of our favourite recipes 

Scaling Up

Scaling up is super easy. Just create more domains/email accounts, and add them to your campaign and increase the daily sending limit.

As you scale up, managing many conversations from various email addresses can get pretty tough. That is why we highly recommend you to check out our conversation feature, where you can reply to anyone and monitor conversations coming to all the emails accounts from just one single place!

For instance, we are running email campaigns from 20 email accounts here. See how easy it is to look at one screen and reply to anyone. So if John got reply from his email address and i am logged in from Harsh email in the app, i can simply reply on behalf of John here or even monitor his conversations (so you able to see how well your SDRs and VAs are managing emails)


Feel free to send this tutorial to VA’s and just have them set up as many domains and emails as you need. As you scale your email campaigns and manage multiple accounts, maintaining organized financial records becomes essential. Utilize services like a pay stub generator to streamline creating pay stubs for your expanding team

That’s it. Thanks for learning and now it’s time to start executing.

Always happy to hear from you what you think we can improve to make this system even better/cheaper/quicker.

For questions, you can also post in our fb group

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