Hi
I hope everyone's doing good with emails, especially during this period which I know is difficult for a lot of people and companies.
My answers:
1. 1k emails have to be sent from different inboxes and different domains as I always say. I would create 10 inboxes sending 100 emails daily. Start the warmup two weeks before and send 1k without counting the warmup.
2. No, not needed, sending the same content at scale is fine, it doesn't cause spam.
3. I don't get it. Delay between emails? I don't care but send throughout the day between 9 and 5.
4. Use Google man. Setting up SPF is easy.. Come on

5. Yes, by sending emails and getting positive interactions on these emails. But man, life's too short to do it manually.
6. 100 is fine, 150 can work as well, but 45 is always safer. 100 with a good warmup works fine.
7. Instantly is a really nice solution, I have contacts using them. They have a great UI, UX, it's smooth. That looks great for sending campaigns, but I wouldn't trade Mailreach for their warmup feature.
8. I don't think Yamm handles auto follow ups, Emelia does, but many other tools do it as well.
9. The cold outreach solution doesn't really matter as long as it sends from Gmail or Outlook, it's a matter of price, taste, UX/UI. They pretty all do the same thing, send emails and auto follow ups. It can be Emelia, Woodpecker, Reply.io, Instantly, Quickmail or whatever. For the warmup, Mailreach, far better than the rest.
10. I'm a BHW member since many years man, I got a lot of value from this forum and I care to give back. I don't fear of missing customers, there's an ocean of customers available, especially during the crisis. Every company needs growth.
Nice question. Actually, my outbound stack changed a bit over the last year.
1. I still use my custom outreach tool. But it does the same job as a Woodpecker, Reply.io or Emelia would do, it's just customized to my taste and UX needs.
2. I stopped using G Suite inboxes but switched to Office365 ones, because of Google suspensions, it pisses me off having to reactivate users when it happens. And it now happens more often than before. That's not a big issue, G Suite is still great, but I don't have suspensions with O365.
3. Like said above, Mailreach for the deliverability job, warmup + auto spam tests on every inbox linked to a slack channel so every week I get the spam score of every inbox I manage.
What I observed over the last months
- Reply rate dropped during summer but that's the same thing every year
- The trend is open rates going down with the raise of privacy update from inbox providers
- More and more people running cold outreach campaigns, you have to improve your copy
- Cold outreach is still the best acquisition channel in terms of ROI on what I see, by far.
Keep improving your copy guys, don't sit on the same templates, be creative, test things.