[1shooner]

This is more of a general market question: what kind of companies convert from cold email these days? My personal inbox simply doesn't receive them, and if I ever receive a cold email in my professional inbox, I immediately report it as spam.

[JimDabell]

My golden rule is: if I didn’t give you my email address and you’re sending bulk commercial email to me, you are a spammer, you immediately get reported as spam, and you get put on my shitlist so even if you reach me some other way, like from an advert or connection, I won’t buy from you.

If you are sending commercial email to me, the absolute bare minimum I need from you to distinguish you from a spammer is to know how you got my email address. This is something that the spammers never provide.

Services like this all seem to be aimed at black hat spammers who buy emails without consent and who I definitely don’t ever want to email me. Note how there are features intended to evade spam filters listed, but absolutely nothing about consent, opt-in, things like that.

The links in the footer: Privacy Policy – dead link; GDPR – dead link; Cookie Policy – dead link.

The reason why these services need to spend so much time talking about deliverability is because people report them as spam, which rightfully harms their deliverability.

[bernardohcr]

I understand and respect your POV.

Nobody likes receiving random stuff, but if it is legitimate beneficial to my business, it's actually good IMHO.

In fact, we will enforce user verification via SMS (no VOIP allowed), exactly to ban spammers and focus on legit, B2B-only cold emailers.

As I mentioned in the comment, we're early and not publicly open. That's why the landing page is not 100% completed yet. A link was mandatory to post here...

[JimDabell]

Will you ban customers who obtain my email address without my consent by buying it from providers like Apollo and ZoomInfo? Because those kinds of use-cases seem to be your exact customer profile and also the exact sort of email I consider 100% spam and never want to receive.

[bernardohcr]

Also, one of the major use cases for this kind of solution is for recruiters.

Its also extremely common that VCs and people interested in acquiring businesses cold emailing companies in their interest niches.

[bernardohcr]

That's a super valid question.

Actually, cold email is actually recommended by Y Combinator. They say it "is a necessary tool for helping build your startup"

It is just challenging because of technical aspects and lack of knowledge. We're starting with cold email infrastructure, but we'll evolve into a full-stack platform, including help to find, enrich leads, prepare high-converting sequences, etc. All without the technical BS (and costs) of tools like Clay and similars.

Here is a video that might help: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Kh_fpxP1yY

Here is the podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-to-convert-custome...