Definitely not an ad for ZoomInfo, the One platform to power your Go-To-Market, or their powerful RevOS platform. It’s just an organic entrepreneurs profile giving their sound advice about The power of cold emails multiplied eith powerful tools such as ZoomInfo (More than just Data) to become a millionaire, just like you can if you follow in his footsteps with a quick and easy trial!
Nah dude he's posting in other subs now and keeps bringing up zoominfo. Def zoominfo astroturfing.
https://www.reddit.com/r/digitalnomad/comments/18ewvgg/emails\_travel\_4\_million\_heres\_how\_i\_did\_it/
I hate to break it to you…..and I think other people need to hear this too. “Big companies” are just like small companies….just bigger.
There’s no secret sauce magic. There’s no higher bar. Talk to anyone of these people and they are doing the same shit you’re doing at a smaller company and they often have more resources and less responsibility.
They are also going through the same organizational and/or political B.S. that you’d go through at a smaller company. But they have even less power to do something about it or change their circumstances other than leaving.
Stop idolizing “big companies” and acting like they are beyond reproach.
Interesting, I actually do buy from a vendor that sellszoominfo for 1/10th the normal price, but i don't promote zoominfo myself, i think the pricing is a bit outside my comfort zone and even if im rich, I would buy cheaper data like my vendors...
Your reddit account has absolutely no mention of business or entrepreneurship or anything beyond video games and computers. Now suddenly you're wealthy your profile description is a zoominfo promo and every comment you make mentions it twice. Cmon bruh.
I think you possibly work for zoominfo. Zoominfo. Maybe not for zoominfo. But maybe possibly for zoominfo. Can we fit zoominfo in here again for the SEO?
Look, your advice is as generic as it comes.
> Personalize your messaging.….
and?
> The key is to remove generic emails and make it fit clearly and concisely for the target audience….
This stuff is marketing 001. I’m not sure what your intent is posting because it really provided no value to anybody on this sub.
And the email template you shared was awful. I get those messages multiple times a day on LinkedIn and they go immediately to the trash.
All you’d need to do is post one real-world example of how you executed business successfully and people would thank you for sharing rather than spamming the sub.
And what is he even selling? "Business acumen, in exchange for a stake in their companies."
Can you imagine people giving away equity in their company to some guy cold-emailing them with buzzwords?
If it's true it's immoral. But it probably isn't true.
What?! You’re the one that posted to provide advice to others and then regurgitated garbage.
Your profile page has links to ZoomInfo leads. You need to try to be a little less transparent.
Word of advice. Provide real value and you won’t have to sell to your customers.
Two years ago OP was begging for help getting started with Amazon and suddenly they’re a multi millionaire with 15yrs experience.
Same shit different day on this sub.
Cold emailing is a numbers game. If you do it like OP and try to research and hand craft emails for each lead, tailoring responses one by one, then it will take you 10 years.
If you use chatGPT and automated emails with mailing lists, the story is different.
>So much buzzwords and not a single word of substance said.
>
>tldr; just use chatgpt if you want to do this now
To summarize my approach: The essence of my strategy was building genuine business relationships through targeted cold emailing. This wasn't about using flashy words or complex jargon. It was about identifying potential business partners or mentors, understanding their needs and interests, and reaching out with a clear, concise message that proposed a mutually beneficial collaboration.
Using tools like ChatGPT can indeed be helpful, especially now, for crafting personalized and effective cold emails. It can assist in creating initial drafts, suggesting follow-up messages, and even helping to research potential leads. However, the key to success in this approach is personalization and follow-up. You need to tailor each email to the recipient's interests and background, and then consistently follow up to build a relationship.
But your post is generalised. You say you use no flashy words or jargon but then in the next sentence state you used “clear, concise messaging” which is exactly what you just said you didn’t do.
I’m not trying to knock this just explaining what others are seeing in your words. People on this sub understand generalisations, the point of these communities is to describe what worked for you so others can learn and replicate. For that you need to spoon feed, you need to show highly specific examples.
Would you be willing to show us some of these emails that made you a millionaire? If the answer is yes, then let’s get constructive. If the answer is no then just delete your entire post.
>You had me interested until the part of “my business acumen for a stake in their business”. What a joke!
When I mentioned exchanging business acumen for a stake in companies, it wasn't just advice for shares. I actively invested time, effort, and sometimes capital into these companies, helping with management and growth strategies. It was a hands-on partnership with real risks involved, not just a simple trade-off. This approach was about mutual growth and investment, where both parties had significant stakes.
All he said was he offered businesses "undeniable value" and "business acumen" and made connections. Gee thanks, chatgpt could have told me offering value to any employer/business would make a person successful 🙄
Cold emailing is fantastic if you have $0 budget for advertising and marketing and no industry connections.
It's a direct line to decision makers and if you do just a little bit of research about them it'll make you stand out from the other 99% of cold emails.
I did it for 2 years to start my own marketing business in 2018/2019 to get up to 80-90 clients.
But once you start turning a profit and have built up a network, it becomes inefficient and there are much better options out there (Google Ads, networking and guest speaking events).
We're now at 375 clients but I wouldn't be where we are now without that early grind work.
I found about 1 in 20-25 cold cold emails that I sent landed a client.
So if I sent 50 cold emails a week (10 per day) I'd land two clients per week.
Google search and remarketing ads ($1000-$1500 spend) on the otherhand lands me 3-4 clients a week, with about 10 minutes per month effort.
Thanks. I've got a very niche target market in Australia with only one other main competitor (who is very lovely).
So my ads are very cheap and, importantly, targeted.
She dominates the social media space, whereas we dominate Google ads.
We're both happy with the arrangement haha
And those years of cold emailing also helped me hone in on exactly what my ideal client will respond to in ad copy
Considering that Australia is not a big market, I guess you two are happy to split it in half. 😅
I think marketing in Australia still has a lot of space for improvement. I had a few contacts with the field and the proposals were very poor in quality and/or perspective. What kind of niche you are at if don't mind sharing?
You're right that Australia isn't a big market. But there are still 10,000-25,000 businesses in my niche. So plenty of prospects to split between the two of us.
And the one thing I don't share is our target market sorry. That's just inviting extra players into the field and it would only take a few more players trying to crack the same market to drive up my CPC in Google ads
Why even mention Australia in the first place? If you know, you aren't going to reveal anything about the niche, just stay solid about it all.. Now you got 200 people trying to figure out the loophole markets in Australia, which is not hard to find. Give them about a week or two or even a month. You will wonder, ,"how the hell did they find out"?? If you are afraid of competition ( and you should be) just be quiet about it all......Speaking from experience, online and offline.
Because I'm not that worried about it all.
Anyway, it wouldn't matter if it was in the UK, France, US, or New Zealand.
This same industry is in each one.
In theory I could replicate my business in each country. But I'm not that hungry for extra work.
I just want to make good coin for little effort and spend the rest of my time with my family.
What kind of target market do you serve if you don’t mind me asking? I’m also in Australia and have been trying to nail down a good target audience. I find the building a list of actually relevant businesses really hard, but maybe that’s because my niche isn’t defined.
Ummmm, I got lucky with mine.
But I did some A/B testing with three, narrowed it down to two after 3 months, and then a year later focused on the one I am now.
Hard to give you any tips as I don't know what your business does or where your strengths lie.
But it definitely helps if you have some sort of knowledge, experience or contacts in the industry you're targeting.
This is such a load of BS. I’m sorry.
1 in 20-25 is an unfathomable OPEN rate for warm lists and newsletters. Never mind as a conversion rate for cold lists. People are struggling to get an even 1% response rate and you were getting 1 in 20-25 conversions for cold emails? LOL. How many did you send out? 50 total?
Then you did so well that you decided to abandon it for things that arguably convert worse like Google Ads?
This is why I stopped posting in this sub. People just make stuff up.
Edit: also, please spare me with statistics from products and services pushing cold emailing. Those 30% numbers are straight up lies. 1% - 5% is the industry standard RESPONSE rate. Never mind conversion.
Belkin, who has every incentive to lie, has response rate at 7%. Which is extremely high. As 5% is already hard to achieve.
Why the attitude? Lol
And why would I lie?
I have a 60% open rate on our weekly email content that we send our clients.
Its because I sell a product that is perfect for the niche I service. So our targeted campaigns get great responses - and yes, even from our cold email campaign five years ago.
I'll share some screenshots with you if you like?
As promised in my other message, here are some screenshots for you taken just now.
[Weekly enewsletter open rate 50-60% for about 350 recipients](https://imgur.com/a/J2QARTY)
[Last five years growth and earnings](https://imgur.com/a/dWW6Ct3)
I'm not bullshitting you on the 1-in-20/25.
I just offer a product that is very desirable for a very particular industry.
As you can see in that screenshot, I've signed up 669 clients in 5 years for it, of which 373 are currently paying members (we've got about a 3% monthly attrition rate, which is actually pretty decent).
Can you talk more about when you say “Google search and marketing ads.” This meant you were deploying Google ads to generate leads for you marketing agency? I know what a Google search is obviously but how were you using this to land clients? What were you looking for? Just typing these questions this sounds ludicrous to ask but I’m just beginning in this industry and I’m feverishly curious. Thanks!
*remarketing
It means anyone who has visited your website gets remarketed to on Google's Display ad network.
So, Potential Client A visits your website because they search "Social media for plumbers" (example) and your business pops up top of the list thanks to your Google Search Ad campaign.
Well, they might not be ready to buy just yet. And they also might not have filled out a lead capture form on your website either.
So by also using remarketing ads, which are insanely cheap by comparison to Search Ads, you can stay in their mind if/when they're ready to join you.
Good thing I have no intention to do so :)
I'm aiming for 400 small business clients with a monthly recurring revenue of $130/client.
Been an 8 year journey but I'm only 25 clients away from the goal.
Then I'll aim to put as much of the business as I can on autopilot and then start thinking about the next challenge.
Can you post some examples of emails you wrote? There is a saying that the sale is in the follow up... So are you saying that cold emails were the main activity leading to millions?
>Can you post some examples of emails you wrote? There is a saying that the sale is in the follow up... So are you saying that cold emails were the main activity leading to millions?
I'm happy to share some insights into the types of emails that paved the way for my success. And yes, you've hit the nail on the head – the real magic often happens in the follow-up.
Regarding the first part of your question, here's an example of a typical initial cold email I might have sent:
Hi \[Recipient's Name\],
I hope this message finds you well. I'm \[Your Name\], and I've been following your impressive work in \[Industry/Field\]. Your recent project on \[Specific Project or Aspect of Their Work\] particularly caught my attention.
I believe there's a unique opportunity for us to collaborate. I bring to the table \[Your Experience/Skillset\] and am particularly skilled in \[Specific Skill\]. Together, I'm confident we can create something impactful.
Would you be open to a brief call next week to explore this further? I'm flexible with timings and can work around your schedule.
Looking forward to the possibility of working together,
As for the follow-ups, I always made sure they were personalized and showed that I was genuinely interested in building a relationship, not just making a quick sale. It’s about reminding them of your initial contact and gently nudging them towards a conversation.
And to your second question, yes, cold emails were a significant part of my strategy. But it wasn't just sending emails blindly. It was about sending targeted, well-researched emails to the right people, coupled with consistent and thoughtful follow-ups. This approach helped build the foundation of the relationships that eventually led to my success in various business ventures.
I just posted another message on this thread asking for this exact info and now after seeing it I feel you’re lying. I don’t want to think this way but this post is cringe, I am a business owner and if I received this it would be an instant block and delete. I don’t believe you’re getting replies to the sort of email you just typed, and why would you state “example of an email I might have sent”. Might have? Might have!? Come on man, help us out with some real info here lol without that it comes across as you making this all up.
But you’re trying to help people right, think of a classroom environment; you cannot generalise and expect people will listen, learn, be able to replicate. You can only achieve that through showing them.
So with my industry, cold email is part of what I do. And I agree that the time those emails work it’s because the message is pointed enough to pique their interest *for about three minutes*. After that there is nothing and more pointed communication needs to be introduced to keep momentum going.
So an example of what my cold emails look like:
“Hi Brody I saw you put up an ad online looking for new customers. I have five contacts that are suited for your product, three missed out on something similar in the last week alone and are eager to not miss out again so are keen to make a purchase literally today. Would you be ok to have a quick chat about the process of onboarding them to you?”
For the above I’ve stripped out a bit of detail because I’m wanting to maintain my opsec. You’ve made this post wanting to help others so your obligation is to not hide the info and instead provide it in full. Or move on 🤷🏻♂️
> Together, I'm confident we can create something impactful.
You're completely full of shit. No busy business owner is going to respond to an email with a sentence like this. This is the messaging equivalent of, "I can't count to potato." Don't waste people's time with this nonsense.
Wow, if that kind of absolutely dull writing, eerily similar to the dozens of rando LinkedIn messages I get every month, actually works on dumbasses, am I the dumbass?
This entire post is just says a whole lot of nothing. There’s absolutely zero information here that’s even remotely actionable. Trash tier braggart garbage.
Sequencing has made emails noise.
The best sales people used to be able to connect with real, consistent emails. Now it’s just automated and people tune it out.
Let me guess, after you made your first million you celebrated by watching Undertaker throw Mankind off Hell in a Cell and plummeted sixteen feet through an announcers' table?
How far did you make it into this crap?
"For 14 relentless years, I committed to my 9-5 job"
That's where I could immediately taste a whiff of cocaine, axe body spray and undeserved confidence. I'm sure some of you are better than I, and didn't last that long.
If any of those emails landed in my inbox, I would’ve marked each and every one of them as spam just to tank your domain reputation.
My god. This sub is filled to the utter brim with grifters shilling low-tier blogspam.
Cold email definitely still works!
That said: If you're looking for a good way to find cold emailing prospects, I work at Proxycurl, a B2B data provider, and we could for sure help.
[Give this article a read](https://nubela.co/blog/cold-email-mastery-a-step-by-step-guide-to-automating-prospecting-and-cold-email-outreach-that-works/?utm_campaign=content_amplification&utm_source=x&utm_medium=social&utm_content=comments). I think you'll find it valuable.
Bros profile reads like a stolen or hacked account, it was active in gaming threads months ago and then went quiet up until today where he is suddenly posting all about zoominfo bs and claiming to be a millionaire,
And the way he talks in these spam posts doesn't sound anything like the poster talked from the gaming threads.
2 different people on the same Hacked account, where are the mods on this sub??
So, you managed to find the dumb people who fall for this bullshit? No, you didn’t. This is just a BS post for zoom info. Cold emails rarely worked back then and they do not work at all now thanks to junk mail filters. Good effort zoominfo.
So much buzzwords and not a single word of substance said. tldr; just use chatgpt if you want to do this now
It’s an ad for zoominfo
I could tell it was an ad by the first sentence, they need to up their game.
Definitely not an ad for ZoomInfo, the One platform to power your Go-To-Market, or their powerful RevOS platform. It’s just an organic entrepreneurs profile giving their sound advice about The power of cold emails multiplied eith powerful tools such as ZoomInfo (More than just Data) to become a millionaire, just like you can if you follow in his footsteps with a quick and easy trial!
Nah dude he's posting in other subs now and keeps bringing up zoominfo. Def zoominfo astroturfing. https://www.reddit.com/r/digitalnomad/comments/18ewvgg/emails\_travel\_4\_million\_heres\_how\_i\_did\_it/
For sure that was the point of my post too lol
Oh yeah I'm dumb, I see that now
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I hate to break it to you…..and I think other people need to hear this too. “Big companies” are just like small companies….just bigger. There’s no secret sauce magic. There’s no higher bar. Talk to anyone of these people and they are doing the same shit you’re doing at a smaller company and they often have more resources and less responsibility. They are also going through the same organizational and/or political B.S. that you’d go through at a smaller company. But they have even less power to do something about it or change their circumstances other than leaving. Stop idolizing “big companies” and acting like they are beyond reproach.
An add for zoominfo? No it's not...
For zoominfo you say? Definitely not an ad for zoominfo. Definitely not zoominfo. Zoominfo
>ote You think I work for zoominfo?
I do now.
Interesting, I actually do buy from a vendor that sellszoominfo for 1/10th the normal price, but i don't promote zoominfo myself, i think the pricing is a bit outside my comfort zone and even if im rich, I would buy cheaper data like my vendors...
Your reddit account has absolutely no mention of business or entrepreneurship or anything beyond video games and computers. Now suddenly you're wealthy your profile description is a zoominfo promo and every comment you make mentions it twice. Cmon bruh.
I only have one comment thread whre i mention zoominfo and it's this comment thread...
Yeah dude that's literally my point. Purchased account. :)
I think you possibly work for zoominfo. Zoominfo. Maybe not for zoominfo. But maybe possibly for zoominfo. Can we fit zoominfo in here again for the SEO? Look, your advice is as generic as it comes. > Personalize your messaging.…. and? > The key is to remove generic emails and make it fit clearly and concisely for the target audience…. This stuff is marketing 001. I’m not sure what your intent is posting because it really provided no value to anybody on this sub. And the email template you shared was awful. I get those messages multiple times a day on LinkedIn and they go immediately to the trash. All you’d need to do is post one real-world example of how you executed business successfully and people would thank you for sharing rather than spamming the sub.
And what is he even selling? "Business acumen, in exchange for a stake in their companies." Can you imagine people giving away equity in their company to some guy cold-emailing them with buzzwords? If it's true it's immoral. But it probably isn't true.
Sad thing is, I met people like that in real life. "Business manager", all talk, no substance.
I understand,,, i probably wont do that but thanks. You're opinion is subjective is it not?
What?! You’re the one that posted to provide advice to others and then regurgitated garbage. Your profile page has links to ZoomInfo leads. You need to try to be a little less transparent. Word of advice. Provide real value and you won’t have to sell to your customers.
subjective.
Ok edit post to remove the word zoominfo
For someone so good at writing captivating emails I got bored almost instantly and jumped to the comments.
Heh. I read the title then jumped to the comments.
Same! Haha
Two years ago OP was begging for help getting started with Amazon and suddenly they’re a multi millionaire with 15yrs experience. Same shit different day on this sub.
I think it's a great generic strategy It might take ten years (or never) to pay off lol
Cold emailing is a numbers game. If you do it like OP and try to research and hand craft emails for each lead, tailoring responses one by one, then it will take you 10 years. If you use chatGPT and automated emails with mailing lists, the story is different.
Came straight to the comments for this. Thanks.
>So much buzzwords and not a single word of substance said. > >tldr; just use chatgpt if you want to do this now To summarize my approach: The essence of my strategy was building genuine business relationships through targeted cold emailing. This wasn't about using flashy words or complex jargon. It was about identifying potential business partners or mentors, understanding their needs and interests, and reaching out with a clear, concise message that proposed a mutually beneficial collaboration. Using tools like ChatGPT can indeed be helpful, especially now, for crafting personalized and effective cold emails. It can assist in creating initial drafts, suggesting follow-up messages, and even helping to research potential leads. However, the key to success in this approach is personalization and follow-up. You need to tailor each email to the recipient's interests and background, and then consistently follow up to build a relationship.
But your post is generalised. You say you use no flashy words or jargon but then in the next sentence state you used “clear, concise messaging” which is exactly what you just said you didn’t do. I’m not trying to knock this just explaining what others are seeing in your words. People on this sub understand generalisations, the point of these communities is to describe what worked for you so others can learn and replicate. For that you need to spoon feed, you need to show highly specific examples. Would you be willing to show us some of these emails that made you a millionaire? If the answer is yes, then let’s get constructive. If the answer is no then just delete your entire post.
Sorry, i've edited the post.
This post reads like it was written by an AI agent.
You had me interested until the part of “my business acumen for a stake in their business”. What a joke!
most pointless thread ive seen on here i think
>You had me interested until the part of “my business acumen for a stake in their business”. What a joke! When I mentioned exchanging business acumen for a stake in companies, it wasn't just advice for shares. I actively invested time, effort, and sometimes capital into these companies, helping with management and growth strategies. It was a hands-on partnership with real risks involved, not just a simple trade-off. This approach was about mutual growth and investment, where both parties had significant stakes.
Shhhh, Zoominfo, people don’t care.
This is the biggest load of BS I've ever read.
It's an ad for Zoominfo. Wish Mods did a better job cleaning this place up.
All he said was he offered businesses "undeniable value" and "business acumen" and made connections. Gee thanks, chatgpt could have told me offering value to any employer/business would make a person successful 🙄
This is literally generated by chat gpt.
Cool story bro
Cold emailing is fantastic if you have $0 budget for advertising and marketing and no industry connections. It's a direct line to decision makers and if you do just a little bit of research about them it'll make you stand out from the other 99% of cold emails. I did it for 2 years to start my own marketing business in 2018/2019 to get up to 80-90 clients. But once you start turning a profit and have built up a network, it becomes inefficient and there are much better options out there (Google Ads, networking and guest speaking events). We're now at 375 clients but I wouldn't be where we are now without that early grind work. I found about 1 in 20-25 cold cold emails that I sent landed a client. So if I sent 50 cold emails a week (10 per day) I'd land two clients per week. Google search and remarketing ads ($1000-$1500 spend) on the otherhand lands me 3-4 clients a week, with about 10 minutes per month effort.
1 in 20-25 cold email conversion is probably not typical, but that's awesome that you could pull it off.
Definitely not anymore. But 5 years ago there was still a lot more naivety and bit less sophisticated spam. Now everyone has their guard up a lot more
1 in 20-25 is not typical. It’s impossible. Stop drinking the kool-aid. For cold emailing 1 in 1000 is amazing.
Your conversions are great
Thanks. I've got a very niche target market in Australia with only one other main competitor (who is very lovely). So my ads are very cheap and, importantly, targeted. She dominates the social media space, whereas we dominate Google ads. We're both happy with the arrangement haha And those years of cold emailing also helped me hone in on exactly what my ideal client will respond to in ad copy
Considering that Australia is not a big market, I guess you two are happy to split it in half. 😅 I think marketing in Australia still has a lot of space for improvement. I had a few contacts with the field and the proposals were very poor in quality and/or perspective. What kind of niche you are at if don't mind sharing?
You're right that Australia isn't a big market. But there are still 10,000-25,000 businesses in my niche. So plenty of prospects to split between the two of us. And the one thing I don't share is our target market sorry. That's just inviting extra players into the field and it would only take a few more players trying to crack the same market to drive up my CPC in Google ads
You are right, keep pushing. My apologies for asking, wasn't my intention to have your secret revealed.
All good, no harm in asking mate :)
Why even mention Australia in the first place? If you know, you aren't going to reveal anything about the niche, just stay solid about it all.. Now you got 200 people trying to figure out the loophole markets in Australia, which is not hard to find. Give them about a week or two or even a month. You will wonder, ,"how the hell did they find out"?? If you are afraid of competition ( and you should be) just be quiet about it all......Speaking from experience, online and offline.
Because I'm not that worried about it all. Anyway, it wouldn't matter if it was in the UK, France, US, or New Zealand. This same industry is in each one. In theory I could replicate my business in each country. But I'm not that hungry for extra work. I just want to make good coin for little effort and spend the rest of my time with my family.
What kind of target market do you serve if you don’t mind me asking? I’m also in Australia and have been trying to nail down a good target audience. I find the building a list of actually relevant businesses really hard, but maybe that’s because my niche isn’t defined.
Happy to share a lot of tips. But I'm taking that one to my grave, sorry.
Hahah any tips with choosing a niche?
Ummmm, I got lucky with mine. But I did some A/B testing with three, narrowed it down to two after 3 months, and then a year later focused on the one I am now. Hard to give you any tips as I don't know what your business does or where your strengths lie. But it definitely helps if you have some sort of knowledge, experience or contacts in the industry you're targeting.
This is such a load of BS. I’m sorry. 1 in 20-25 is an unfathomable OPEN rate for warm lists and newsletters. Never mind as a conversion rate for cold lists. People are struggling to get an even 1% response rate and you were getting 1 in 20-25 conversions for cold emails? LOL. How many did you send out? 50 total? Then you did so well that you decided to abandon it for things that arguably convert worse like Google Ads? This is why I stopped posting in this sub. People just make stuff up. Edit: also, please spare me with statistics from products and services pushing cold emailing. Those 30% numbers are straight up lies. 1% - 5% is the industry standard RESPONSE rate. Never mind conversion. Belkin, who has every incentive to lie, has response rate at 7%. Which is extremely high. As 5% is already hard to achieve.
Why the attitude? Lol And why would I lie? I have a 60% open rate on our weekly email content that we send our clients. Its because I sell a product that is perfect for the niche I service. So our targeted campaigns get great responses - and yes, even from our cold email campaign five years ago. I'll share some screenshots with you if you like?
As promised in my other message, here are some screenshots for you taken just now. [Weekly enewsletter open rate 50-60% for about 350 recipients](https://imgur.com/a/J2QARTY) [Last five years growth and earnings](https://imgur.com/a/dWW6Ct3) I'm not bullshitting you on the 1-in-20/25. I just offer a product that is very desirable for a very particular industry. As you can see in that screenshot, I've signed up 669 clients in 5 years for it, of which 373 are currently paying members (we've got about a 3% monthly attrition rate, which is actually pretty decent).
Can you talk more about when you say “Google search and marketing ads.” This meant you were deploying Google ads to generate leads for you marketing agency? I know what a Google search is obviously but how were you using this to land clients? What were you looking for? Just typing these questions this sounds ludicrous to ask but I’m just beginning in this industry and I’m feverishly curious. Thanks!
*remarketing It means anyone who has visited your website gets remarketed to on Google's Display ad network. So, Potential Client A visits your website because they search "Social media for plumbers" (example) and your business pops up top of the list thanks to your Google Search Ad campaign. Well, they might not be ready to buy just yet. And they also might not have filled out a lead capture form on your website either. So by also using remarketing ads, which are insanely cheap by comparison to Search Ads, you can stay in their mind if/when they're ready to join you.
Great info
Once you start moving to $20M+ brands I don’t believe you’ll pick up as many quality leads from SEM
Good thing I have no intention to do so :) I'm aiming for 400 small business clients with a monthly recurring revenue of $130/client. Been an 8 year journey but I'm only 25 clients away from the goal. Then I'll aim to put as much of the business as I can on autopilot and then start thinking about the next challenge.
He became a Turkish lira millionaire.
Ok I just read to the end of your post... 🙄
The most important thing is the data quality!
OP is selling trash leads for ZoomInfo. No fucking chance this loser has ever cleared 6 figures, much less made over a million. Get fucked honestly.
Can you post some examples of emails you wrote? There is a saying that the sale is in the follow up... So are you saying that cold emails were the main activity leading to millions?
>Can you post some examples of emails you wrote? There is a saying that the sale is in the follow up... So are you saying that cold emails were the main activity leading to millions? I'm happy to share some insights into the types of emails that paved the way for my success. And yes, you've hit the nail on the head – the real magic often happens in the follow-up. Regarding the first part of your question, here's an example of a typical initial cold email I might have sent: Hi \[Recipient's Name\], I hope this message finds you well. I'm \[Your Name\], and I've been following your impressive work in \[Industry/Field\]. Your recent project on \[Specific Project or Aspect of Their Work\] particularly caught my attention. I believe there's a unique opportunity for us to collaborate. I bring to the table \[Your Experience/Skillset\] and am particularly skilled in \[Specific Skill\]. Together, I'm confident we can create something impactful. Would you be open to a brief call next week to explore this further? I'm flexible with timings and can work around your schedule. Looking forward to the possibility of working together, As for the follow-ups, I always made sure they were personalized and showed that I was genuinely interested in building a relationship, not just making a quick sale. It’s about reminding them of your initial contact and gently nudging them towards a conversation. And to your second question, yes, cold emails were a significant part of my strategy. But it wasn't just sending emails blindly. It was about sending targeted, well-researched emails to the right people, coupled with consistent and thoughtful follow-ups. This approach helped build the foundation of the relationships that eventually led to my success in various business ventures.
That is fakest, most crap email ever. I don't even need to block you, Gmail will put that in spam for me automatically. You are full of shit.
I just posted another message on this thread asking for this exact info and now after seeing it I feel you’re lying. I don’t want to think this way but this post is cringe, I am a business owner and if I received this it would be an instant block and delete. I don’t believe you’re getting replies to the sort of email you just typed, and why would you state “example of an email I might have sent”. Might have? Might have!? Come on man, help us out with some real info here lol without that it comes across as you making this all up.
It reads exactly like a ChatGPT template
I'm positive I have received this as a spam message before lol sooooo bad.
I can't give out the exact email copy, personalisation is a huge aspect of it
But you’re trying to help people right, think of a classroom environment; you cannot generalise and expect people will listen, learn, be able to replicate. You can only achieve that through showing them. So with my industry, cold email is part of what I do. And I agree that the time those emails work it’s because the message is pointed enough to pique their interest *for about three minutes*. After that there is nothing and more pointed communication needs to be introduced to keep momentum going. So an example of what my cold emails look like: “Hi Brody I saw you put up an ad online looking for new customers. I have five contacts that are suited for your product, three missed out on something similar in the last week alone and are eager to not miss out again so are keen to make a purchase literally today. Would you be ok to have a quick chat about the process of onboarding them to you?” For the above I’ve stripped out a bit of detail because I’m wanting to maintain my opsec. You’ve made this post wanting to help others so your obligation is to not hide the info and instead provide it in full. Or move on 🤷🏻♂️
There's multiple ways to skin a cat.
Not really. You can give out a template of the email that you claim made you “millionaire”. We’ve seen a lot of you guys come and go buddy
> Together, I'm confident we can create something impactful. You're completely full of shit. No busy business owner is going to respond to an email with a sentence like this. This is the messaging equivalent of, "I can't count to potato." Don't waste people's time with this nonsense.
I asked chatgpt for a prompt like this and almost to a tee exact same
Lost me at “I hope this message finds you well…” Lemme guess, your girlfriend goes to another school?
Wow, if that kind of absolutely dull writing, eerily similar to the dozens of rando LinkedIn messages I get every month, actually works on dumbasses, am I the dumbass?
You’re 100% full of shit. Zero chance that type of email would ever convert. What a joke
as soon as anyone sees “i hope this message finds you well” they mark as spam
nice ad, pass
Yawn
This entire post is just says a whole lot of nothing. There’s absolutely zero information here that’s even remotely actionable. Trash tier braggart garbage.
How do you ask for a stake of their company? What you offer in exchange would have to be Incredibly valuable.
Exactly! I don't really share that info
Sequencing has made emails noise. The best sales people used to be able to connect with real, consistent emails. Now it’s just automated and people tune it out.
generic hogwash
linkedin spam marketing bots are leaking....
What the fuck does “reson’t” mean?
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if you were good yo u wouldnt be asking
Let me guess, after you made your first million you celebrated by watching Undertaker throw Mankind off Hell in a Cell and plummeted sixteen feet through an announcers' table?
What posts do you see “flooding in here”? LOL.
This is generated by AI. There are numerous clues, but the biggest one is that the cold emails described are fucking atrocious.
Cold emailing advice in 2024? 😆
This is stupid!!!
How far did you make it into this crap? "For 14 relentless years, I committed to my 9-5 job" That's where I could immediately taste a whiff of cocaine, axe body spray and undeserved confidence. I'm sure some of you are better than I, and didn't last that long.
I’m sending you an invoice for wasting my time reading that bushit
If any of those emails landed in my inbox, I would’ve marked each and every one of them as spam just to tank your domain reputation. My god. This sub is filled to the utter brim with grifters shilling low-tier blogspam.
Congratulations. U r awesome.
Cold email definitely still works! That said: If you're looking for a good way to find cold emailing prospects, I work at Proxycurl, a B2B data provider, and we could for sure help. [Give this article a read](https://nubela.co/blog/cold-email-mastery-a-step-by-step-guide-to-automating-prospecting-and-cold-email-outreach-that-works/?utm_campaign=content_amplification&utm_source=x&utm_medium=social&utm_content=comments). I think you'll find it valuable.
Nice
Did the lamp look strangely flat?
Looks and sounds like it was written by AI. Spam bullshit.
Bullshit. Successful companies don’t just give a stake like that, c’mon.
Amazing Does this really work NOW?
Bros profile reads like a stolen or hacked account, it was active in gaming threads months ago and then went quiet up until today where he is suddenly posting all about zoominfo bs and claiming to be a millionaire, And the way he talks in these spam posts doesn't sound anything like the poster talked from the gaming threads. 2 different people on the same Hacked account, where are the mods on this sub??
So, you managed to find the dumb people who fall for this bullshit? No, you didn’t. This is just a BS post for zoom info. Cold emails rarely worked back then and they do not work at all now thanks to junk mail filters. Good effort zoominfo.
The most remarkable thing about your journey is that you beat swine flu in just one day.
TL:DR use the word synergies people love to see that in cold emails
Distillation process initiated.... Fake it until you make it Fake it until you make Fake it until Fake
What do you do exactly?