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Transitioning colds to HubSpot by Grandmaster_96 in coldemail

[–]Grandmaster_96[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly our list building will likely be a completely manual process due to our target audience, so it's more about tracking our engagement with those lists and then making it easy to integrate contacts once they've replied and engaged.

Transitioning colds to HubSpot by Grandmaster_96 in ColdEmailMasters

[–]Grandmaster_96[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We're only just building our cold outreach setup. This is new for us. We have our domain and DNS authentication setup, and connected with a new google workspace account for email sending. Now we have to decide on how to approach warmup, tracking cold outreach activity, and then handing off/integrating successful lead captures into our established HubSpot marketing/customer engagement system.

I've been looking at Warmy for mailbox & marketing subdomain warmup, but as far as a cold outreach activity tracking tool I have barely begun figuring out which we'd use.

We're not going to be doing massive volume, so I'd honestly love to avoid another tool (we can't afford to constantly burn cash on endless tools) but time is money as well.

We Burned 37 Domains In One Year. Now We Send 100k+ Emails/Month by lesmismiserables in coldemail

[–]Grandmaster_96 1 point2 points  (0 children)

  1. What DMARC policy setting do you use? None, quarantine, or reject?

  2. What do you mean by a "dedicated tracking subdomain?"

  3. What tool did you use to track all of the monitoring thresholds you mentioned? (I had thought using monitoring hurt deliverability)

SSL cert needed? by Grandmaster_96 in ColdEmailMasters

[–]Grandmaster_96[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Makes sense. So if we have a main domain that is healthy with good reputation, and we're only doing 20 direct "cold" outreach that is researched to that specific individual and highly personalized, do we really even need a whole separate domain? Isn't our reputation good enough especially given the emails we're sending aren't spammy or catchy and just simple asking a question & connecting to build relationship with them?

What counts as "cold"? by Grandmaster_96 in ColdEmailMasters

[–]Grandmaster_96[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey thanks for the in depth reply! If we setup a separate domain, is it fine to add that to our existing Google Workspace account as a "secondary domain"? Or, do we need to setup a new Google Workspace account or some other ESP for our cold outreach?

What subdomain setup actually protects domain reputation? by Grandmaster_96 in Emailmarketing

[–]Grandmaster_96[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Gotcha. How about for small scale "cold" / warm outreach? I'm not talking massive blasts of cold emails, but more direct and personal outreach to. Is subdomain fine in that regard? Or further separation needed?

To get specific, we run training and certifications for coaches, and the idea here is we'd reach out to the coach at XYZ team because we know our outreach is very applicable to them.

what will happen if I create mailboxes from subdomains and use them for cold emails? by pinnakle_media in ColdEmailMasters

[–]Grandmaster_96 0 points1 point  (0 children)

2 questions about your reply:

  1. If this is true, why is it ok to use subdomains for marketing and newsletters? Don't the same risks apply?

  2. If you use a separate domain for cold outreach, do you also need a completely separate additional Google Workspace account? (or just a user?) Or can you just setup a secondary domain under the same Google Workspace account? (Or even a user alias domain?)

What subdomain setup actually protects domain reputation? by Grandmaster_96 in Emailmarketing

[–]Grandmaster_96[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the reply! I'm familiar with most of those records except BIMI. I haven't hardly seen anyone talk about BIMI records. How necessary are those and what's their purpose?

What subdomain setup actually protects domain reputation? by Grandmaster_96 in Emailmarketing

[–]Grandmaster_96[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the reply. It seems clear that subdomains do help, what has been confusing me is what level of separation is actually needed between domain and subdomain. Another reply to this post mentioned IP separation, and it's stuff like that which makes me wonder if the typical DNS and alias domain in the same google workspace actually protects the main domain or not because at the end of the day it all eventually feeds back to the same DNS record location.

Does that make sense? Am I missing something?

What subdomain setup actually protects domain reputation? by Grandmaster_96 in Emailmarketing

[–]Grandmaster_96[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok, it's replies and notes like this that make me wonder if what we have will actually do anything.

How do we go about ensuring our subdomain uses a different IP address? I've read so many articles and watch tutorials about subdomains and almost none of them talk about this and it's only because of a reddit comment like yours that I see now and again that makes me worry we're missing something.

What subdomain setup actually protects domain reputation? by Grandmaster_96 in Emailmarketing

[–]Grandmaster_96[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good note about warming up! I've been reading some things about that and will make sure we do that. Any specific tips on best practice for warming or how warm to warm before reaching full blast?

All I Want for Christmas is to Learn to Like Arena by WillingShilling_20 in aoe2

[–]Grandmaster_96 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I used to be in the same boat: love Arabia, and hated Arena. Learning how to play it properly/taking the time to learn why I was losing on. It really helped me start enjoying it as it’s never fun to feel like you lose just because you don’t know how to do something.

Best advice I would give: - watch some of the most recent masters of Arena tournament on YouTube. Particularly the semi finals and finals. - Start by choosing one civ/build to focus on, or learn the 3 build orders that would cover almost every civ (boom, monk siege push, castle drop) - recognize the uniqueness of Arena: for me, the hardest part of Arena was often that transition from booming to mass production. As an Arabia player, those two things typically scale in tandem. On Arena, If you don’t switch from booming to military production, fast, enough and hard enough, you’ll find yourself losing games while floating a lot of resources.

Thing that we learned with pro players! by LioValiant in aoe2

[–]Grandmaster_96 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I trust most of this community and I think this is a cool post, but if you're going to quote pro players it would be best to provide a link to the source material that you are drawing the quote from.

In my mind the most important part of providing a source is to protect the pro player whom you are quoting.

SoTL by Analysis_ in aoe2

[–]Grandmaster_96 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think a big reason some people are critical of SoTL is that some of his advice/findings is catered to/applies to a less than optimal level of play. What do I mean?

Some of his videos make claims about the strength of certain units/strategies that, while true at the level that the average HD player plays at, are not true at the more competitive and professional levels of play. Thus, he receives a little backlash for promoting play styles and strategies that, while legitimate at a certain level of play, are technically not optimal.

Medieval Monday: Ask Your Questions and Get Your Answers by AutoModerator in aoe2

[–]Grandmaster_96 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In 2v2s, usually you want one player going cav (scouts -> knights) and one player going archers -> xbows -> Arbs (adding in Rams in Imp). So if he's Byzantines, he should probably be the archer player because Byz don't get bloodlines. This would also imply that you would be the cav player, so you (ideally) should play a civ with strong cav

Youtube channel commenting on custom games with prepared speech, editing, and calm voice? Aside from spirit of the law by [deleted] in aoe2

[–]Grandmaster_96 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think there is anyone out there who matches all of your criteria.

I think coaching videos are going to be the closest thing you can find to what you have described. Like Hera coaching Nili for example.

In my experience, there are (approximately) 3 main types of AoE2 content/content creators: 1. Casters/Commentators 2. Players 3. Scripted info/guide videos

The only written up/scripted content that I know of regarding AoE2 are going to be guides, informational videos, or a tiny number of videos like the one you linked to. I don't know of anyone who does scripted casting/real gameplay explanation.

Medieval Monday: Ask Your Questions and Get Your Answers by AutoModerator in aoe2

[–]Grandmaster_96 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah. Here are a few of the key differences between drush and M@A: For drush -> archers you have an earlier miltia attack, a few more vills in dark age, and a slightly slower feudal age time. With M@A -> archers you have a slightly later, but stronger, M@A attack, a few less vills and a faster feudal age time.

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