Cold email for a tutor planning tool

I'm building a lesson scheduling and management platform for tutors. I'm considering running a cold email campaign to get some initial traction, and I'd be happy to pay for a service to handle it.

My understanding is that I'd need:

* a targeted email list (e.g. built from publicly available education-related sources),
* a reliable email delivery setup,
* and well-written email copy.

My questions:

* Assuming the technical side (deliverability) is handled well, is cold email still worth it today?
* How realistic is it to find a service that can execute this well?
* What are the main risks I should be aware of?

1. If you are willing to invest time personalizing your emails
2. You're willing to be patient and persistent without giving up too early
3. You're willing to send personalized follow-ups religiously

Then cold emails are still worth it. If you're planning to use AI personalization tools, you might lower your chances as your prospects' inboxes are full of those repetitive emails. Watch cold email training video on Apollo.io's YouTube channel. The woman shows a method called "Show me you know me". It's good

I did cold emailing a few years ago, it's a lot harder these days without getting blacklisted or port 25 blocked. Don't use AI generated content

1. Cold email is worthed if you have a good list of people interested at least in something similar to what you offer (example: people interested in sports, you offer yoga lessons..)

2. You can try using services like getresponse, mailchimp, aweber yourself. Trying to find someone that will send for you is also worth but you will be asked about $0.03 - $0.05 per sent email in best case, some ask for $0.30 which is crazy high.

3. being scammed, in case you want to find someone who will do this for you.

I am advising you to NOT trying running your SMTP server and "warming it up" for weeks just to send few hundreds emails after a month of warming up and monitoring and etc... Because it sound easy, but in reality people are not warming up on real lists, they warmup servers on their emails using automation to open emails, reply to them and show engagement. Because if you get 2-3 spam reports your weeks of work are done.

Best would be to try sending from free accounts of email marketing services or buy gmail accounts and proxies (with rotation) and just send 20-30 emails per gmail account and proxy > then change account. (with URL send even less, like 7-10 per gmail per day)

johnydriver said:

2. You can try using services like getresponse, mailchimp, aweber yourself.

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Those tools you mentioned are for opt-in and transactional emails... those people already signed up (warm to hot leads), so you have permission to email them.

Cold email is different because they dont know you aka they're cold leads. You need tools like Instantly, ManyReach, and NuReply. I've used all 3 and i am running ManyReach now for my WordPress-alternative blogging platform.

Just launched the campaign 3 days ago and just yesterday i got 2 not interested replies already lmao, but hey that means it's actually hitting inboxes i am genuinely happy for this right now i consider it a small win somehow haha

pock3tful said:

Those tools you mentioned are for opt-in and transactional emails... those people already signed up (warm to hot leads), so you have permission to email them.

Cold email is different because they dont know you aka they're cold leads. You need tools like Instantly, ManyReach, and NuReply. I've used all 3 and i am running ManyReach now for my WordPress-alternative blogging platform.

Just launched the campaign 3 days ago and just yesterday i got 2 not interested replies already lmao, but hey that means it's actually hitting inboxes i am genuinely happy for this right now i consider it a small win somehow haha

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Thats great, but I can use the mailing tools (mailerlite, getresponse, aweber and etc...). Yes, they don't allow you to do this, but isn't this bhw forum?

Because people don't really care from where to receive emails

Doing warmup is cool, but sending 120 emails a day is not what I would look for, because I would need very hot audience to get real customers from that amount of emails.

Still I am happy you got good results from that amount, so I am not trying to argue with you, just saying my experience