You seem to have knowledge about this, so maybe you can solve this: I keep running into a problem with SMTP providers, namely whanever I ask then if they allow cold mailing they all answer "no" despite offering stuff like "no hourly/daily limits" and have entire sections of website dedicated to "how to succeed at cold emailing guide".
You're going down a long rabbit hole with email servers and cold emailing. I've been optimizing my email server for over a year to scale successfully because there are not many resources on it. Yes, there are tutorials on building a server. But when trying to scale you run into scaling problems that you can't get from any tutorials online. My server is a mautic + mailwizz with postal as the sender. 2 VPS servers. Mautic is used for cold email marketing and once the campaign is sent. I send active subscribers to mailwizz for additional emails in the future. BUT YOU CANT SPAM. If you have a good-sized email list. Keep the campaigns to 2 months long. So your first email sent, he/she doesn't receive another email for 2 months. The lastest email campaign for me was a total of 27k emails, scaled up to 1000 a day, the beginning is slow. 50% open rate. Your leads have to be rock solid to not end up in spam. If you're getting a low open rate that's an easy sign for spam. I landed in inbox the whole campaign, so it was a success. But the leads are the hardest part to acquire for scaling. Start research cause I still think cold email marketing is a viable strategy. Email marketing is perfect for establishing connections and building up relationships. The bad news is from the looks of this post, I don't think you're going to have much luck. It sounds like this list is not highly targeted and won't get a high open-rate. Also, there is no landing in "inbox" 10% It's either you are in the clear or you're blacklisted. With cold email marketing your walking on eggshells the whole campaign, so the chances of running email lists long term without a high open rate makes the odds slim.
Great tutorial there thanks a bunch. I gave cold emailing a try with Microsoft Office 365, using domain email. Mails would arrive in gmails inbox but in Outlook spam box. You have an idea about why?
I built my original email list of 72k using growmeorganic when no buddy knew about it and stopped after a 1-month subscription. It was easily the best service but got sued by Facebook and taken down. I am going to try profilebud next to build up to 100k. But the problem now is scaling. Instagram is really cracking down on it. So even if I can secure 2k emails a day with profilebud. Which for the scale I could take my server isn't that good. But it's good enough considering Instagram eventually might make it impossible to scrape emails. I could do a review on profilebud after a couple of months once I really dive into gaining leads and let everyone know the results.
Thanks, could you give more information on the topic. What process were you in warming up your domain email? Different mailbox service providers can be more strict. I would assume outlook is going to watch for cold email marketing more than Gmail. Also, was your sending score tested before starting to send emails. There can be a lot of different variables that can limit your progress. Even the setup with Microsoft 365 could be a problem.
there's better services than profilebud, its as slow as it gets (if you need 500k be ready to wait a few weeks) and it lacks bigtime on features . Not to mention the initial $50 fee for something that you can basically do for free .
If you do things properly gmail is perfectly fine, just do a few split tests first , make sure to use a large spintax and follow some simple rules such as not including shortlinks or hyperlinks with a name that doesnt match the link .
out of curiosity what were you selling to the instagram leads?
music, making connections with artists. Still working on scaling. But everything is coming along nicely
I agree if you're not offering value when reaching out to someone. You're automatically going to not be sucessful.
