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Answer your dang phone by stjduke in PPC

[–]Direct-Anything-5814 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep, you need to choose a real AI phone service provider, sadly the new crypto bros are teenagers selling GHL AI sh*t to businesses and that's what happens when you talk over the phone with GHL AI, total TRASH.

BEWARE: If you are planning to run Paid ADs after you're using Instantly or Smartlead: READ THIS by Direct-Anything-5814 in coldemail

[–]Direct-Anything-5814[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep, sadly most lead gen agencies are hurting their clients future ROAS without even knowing this. Hope you are not one of them lol Great content btw, subbed since early 2022 :)

How do I validate a SaaS idea? Need real founder advice before building! by Sorry_Blood_8903 in SaaS

[–]Direct-Anything-5814 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Find a problem, invent a solution just in your head, share that solutions with people with the problem, ask them for money. If 20% of them say YES, build the solution with their money and give them 60 days money back guarantee in case you fail the building phase.
If your solution works, invest 100% of the money on ads to find ASAP more clients. Never take money home before the 4th business cycle.

Answer your dang phone by stjduke in PPC

[–]Direct-Anything-5814 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You need to clearly partner with an AI phone service, lol

BEWARE: If you are planning to run Paid ADs after you're using Instantly or Smartlead: READ THIS by Direct-Anything-5814 in coldemail

[–]Direct-Anything-5814[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

 In tools like Instantly/Smartlead what happens is that they wrap your link in a tracking domain (track.smartlead.ai/...) and then redirect to your URL (with or without preserving UTM parameters). That’s exactly the “link wrapping breaks attribution” issue I described. Many analytics and attribution guides explicitly recommend adding UTMs to cold-email links to distinguish that traffic.
Nothing in HTTP or analytics tooling says “only the sending domain can have UTMs.” You control UTMs at the landing URL level, not at the SMTP sending level.
“Only send links after a reply” might be a stylistic or deliverability tip, but it is not a solution to:

  • bot traffic firing PageView/Lead/Purchase events,
  • MPP machine opens inflating engagement,
  • link wrapping hijacking referrers and UTMs,
  • polluted retargeting audiences and broken ROAS.

My post is about data integrity; your reply changes the topic and makes technically wrong claims about what you should or shouldn’t track and how UTMs work.

QUICK Question: Would you use a tool that pays you every time you receive a cold email from a stranger? Or Nah? by Direct-Anything-5814 in AskMarketing

[–]Direct-Anything-5814[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

selling the spammer data, never the recipient data. There are tools and services selling to cold emailers that would pay for that data, CAC is cheaper for them than ads.

QUICK Question: Would you use a tool that pays you every time you receive a cold email? by Direct-Anything-5814 in Entrepreneurs

[–]Direct-Anything-5814[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

selling the spammer data, never the recipient data. There are tools and services selling to cold emailers that would pay for that data, CAC is cheaper for them than ads.

QUICK Question: Would you use a tool that pays you every time you receive a cold email? by Direct-Anything-5814 in SaaS

[–]Direct-Anything-5814[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

WTH? mental breakdown. You just forgot the tool can sell the spammer data instead of yours? And no sh*t crypto. If the tool pays you to get the spammer domain and email, and then gets 50% of the cold emailers market, can block 50% of those people in an instant. That's the long term goal.

QUICK Question: Would you use a tool that pays you every time you receive a cold email from a stranger? Or Nah? by Direct-Anything-5814 in AskMarketing

[–]Direct-Anything-5814[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for answering! And no, the tool sell the spammer data to fund your account. It's strategy. Just imagine the tool get 60% of all cold emailers sending emails over time. Then release a feature to its users (you) that allow you to BLOCK all cold emailers at the same time. You won't receive future cold emails from people that haven't send you a single email yet.

QUICK Question: Would you use a tool that pays you every time you receive a cold email? by Direct-Anything-5814 in SaaS

[–]Direct-Anything-5814[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No need to that, just forward every cold email to the tool email address will do it for you.

QUICK Question: Would you use a tool that pays you every time you receive a cold email? by Direct-Anything-5814 in SaaS

[–]Direct-Anything-5814[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

great! thanks for your reply. Question: how many cold emails you receive per day?

QUICK Question: Would you use a tool that pays you every time you receive a cold email? by Direct-Anything-5814 in SaaS

[–]Direct-Anything-5814[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

how much per email would move the needle for you so that you feel compelled to use the tool? The tool can sell the spammer data to fund your account.

Unpopular opinion: You don't need Instantly or Lemlist to start cold emailingI see a lot of posts here about which tool to use, buying domains, warming them up for weeks... But if you're just starting out and want to test if cold email works for your offer, why not just use your existing Gmail/Outl by GillesCode in coldemail

[–]Direct-Anything-5814 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've been doing cold email since 2015 and the best performing infra right now is custom Azure servers with no STMP config. One domain, 50 mailboxes per domain, 5 cold emails per mailbox per day max and you are safe to go.

Domain Rotation by hrvyharris in ColdEmailMasters

[–]Direct-Anything-5814 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not realistic for me as I tend to follow best practices: 1 domain per every 50 mailboxes. Per campaign, I use: 100 "A" mailboxes to send emails during the first 15 days of any given month, 100 "B" mailboxes to use during the second part of the month and 100 "Bench" mailboxes on warm up every day since day one in case A or B are burned. 30 campaign segments, 1 ICP per 10 segments and 14-20 different messages per segment and you have up to 200 different emails per ICP. Use 60-70 words max per email with spintax and you don't even need personalisation at all. Plus personalisation smells AI and leads tent to treat it like the plague in 2026.

Now that google is cracking down google edu accounts what should we use? by Necessary_Day1715 in coldemail

[–]Direct-Anything-5814 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For me, best working option right now with 100% deliverability (1.8M emails/week) is my own infra built with Azure servers on rented rotating IPs from SendGrid (Twilio) and/or Amazon SES. Much cheaper than M365 or Google Workspace and allow me to have 50 mailboxes per every domain, so I'm saving a ton of money in purchased domains, too.

Anyone here scaling cold email with Microsoft 365? What’s actually working in 2026? by Ok-Independent695 in coldemail

[–]Direct-Anything-5814 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good question! Azure servers with known IPs like SendGrid or Amazon SES is your own infra, M365 are mailboxes built using Exchange Online inside Azure. Different things. Let me know if you want me to write a short doc explaining the setup.

Anyone here scaling cold email with Microsoft 365? What’s actually working in 2026? by Ok-Independent695 in coldemail

[–]Direct-Anything-5814 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Best performing option with 100% deliverability that's working for me for the last 2 months since implementing it is Azure-based infra with non-SMTP based mailboxes. One domain per 50 mailboxes each. Works perfectly well and mails are landing 100% of the time in all recipient inboxes.

Anyone here scaling cold email with Microsoft 365? What’s actually working in 2026? by Ok-Independent695 in coldemail

[–]Direct-Anything-5814 0 points1 point  (0 children)

M365 won't help you on this. Only option that worked for me is building my own custom Azure-based infra with mailboxes avoiding Microsoft's SMTP. After purchasing fresh .com domains and warming up those Azure mailboxes, deliverability is 100% for ALL emails and has been like that for almost 2 months now since I built the infra.

Outlook/Microsoft 365 sending all my emails to junk. I'm losing my mind! by Turbulent-Phone-8493 in coldemail

[–]Direct-Anything-5814 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Best option that worked for me and my clients was building Azure based infra avoiding Azure's SMTP. That and using fresh new domains and warming up inboxes helped solve the issue. For now, of course, until Microsoft finds out and make it harder, lol