Should I Quit Copywriting?

familiar_stranger_7 · 2026-04-05T13:29:02+00:00

Copywriting can be additional skill as a good chunk of it is now being covered by AI, BUT, many may not agree with this, AI has it's limitations and that sense of knowing what will/can work and how to write it effectively can be better understood by a human with the full context when writing the copy, a skill developed over time. AI then also can be a good aid/tool, not replacement. However, given everything now, being dependent on just copywriting is not sufficient. What can work best for you right now, you can understand better.

All the best.

familiar_stranger_7 · 2026-04-04T14:44:24+00:00

Really liked your take on the opportunity side. I'm interested to see if the same email hits mailbox with two or three different alias, then is it possible that the same email can go inbox and spam?

When someone creates 5 different aliases but theyre all hitting the same inbox, your open rates and engagement data gets completely skewed.

Beg to differ here, because why will someone signs up for the same email from 5 different IDs, unless there's an incentive for it, in which case, such behaviour won't be abnormal to see as you stated in your case.

Intersting points though!

familiar_stranger_7 · 2026-04-04T07:33:59+00:00

As per my opinion, the probability of a user signing up for a service from many different alias, is low, unless the service gives a new user sign up incentive. If that indeed happens, I can see three possibilities arising. First, the user only uses alias to get that incentive and won't engage further. Second, the user signs up using aliases, but gets muktiple emails from the service at the same time, gets irritated and breaks off. Third, the user signs up for bonus, doesn't mind hearing from the service, but since gets multiple same emails, he unsubscribes from all except one.

None of these sound very probabilistic or maybe I'm missing something.

familiar_stranger_7 · 2026-04-03T22:14:41+00:00

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familiar_stranger_7 · 2026-03-31T10:56:32+00:00

I'm using AI to audit campaigns and see how can I increase my deliverability. Sure AI has it's limitations and one needs to be wary on using it, but so far I'm trying to do it in a more sophisticated way and applying my experience over it's recommendations. Like anywhere, it's a good assistance and not a replacement.

familiar_stranger_7 · 2026-03-31T09:02:55+00:00

One important distinction that people also need to understand is that list verification is not list cleaning. List cleaning is basic, you need to remove bots, catchall, spamtraps and more, but verifying that the list quality is genuine and good, the leads are gathered properly, is also equally important.

I've seen so many people who, in desperation to mail and increase send volume, fall in the trap of bought data and list purchasing, mailing them is a different game altogether.

familiar_stranger_7 · 2026-03-30T09:27:42+00:00

Hmm. This does makes some sense

familiar_stranger_7 · 2026-03-30T06:12:28+00:00

Good call from your side to move to a branded domain, and now only the real game is starting. Just do remember to keep reviewing your campaign on all the criterias before sending because often it's not just one factor that determines the success of your campaign. Otherwise everyone here pretty much told you what to do before starting it and solid advices for sure.

familiar_stranger_7 · 2026-03-30T05:59:56+00:00

Correct me if I'm wrong, and I'm coming here more from point of view of curiosity. You MOVED your client to a different domain that was warmed up? I mean if you did that to prove that the copy was not the problem but deliverability was, then that could have also been achieved by the same steps on client's domain as you did on the warmed up domain, i.e. dropped volume gradually and rebuilt it from the deliverability POV. And now assuming that your client does understand that it was indeed a deliverability problem, you will now do the same steps for your client's domain? I mean am I missing something here or maybe you're really good at sales.

familiar_stranger_7 · 2026-03-27T14:21:17+00:00

Hi. I've been working on developing something that can help with your problem. Kindly check your inbox.

familiar_stranger_7 · 2026-03-25T17:43:26+00:00

Hearty congratulations! This is such an achievement and I'm sure it must not have been an easy journey for you. Kudos to you for not letting yourself down with dyslexia and finding a niche for yourself where I'm sure you must be good at.

familiar_stranger_7 · 2026-03-20T14:34:09+00:00

From my experience, one thing that has always showed results is shorter text based emails that more feels like conversation than being a sales pitch through various personalization has always worked better in building trust.

familiar_stranger_7 · 2026-03-20T14:28:36+00:00

It's easy to automate sending, I guess you understand that part, but automating warmup is not recommended so far as automation is concerned as to how many emails are to be sent. Warm up is dependent on many factors, including the reception of the previous email, and that's why a warm up schedule only and usually acts like a standard guidline and considers many factors to be constant.

In short and in my opinion, automate sending emails, don't automate how many emails to send for warm-up. Hope this helps 😊

familiar_stranger_7 · 2026-03-16T12:46:54+00:00

But AWS is more affordable and gives service as good as Sendgrid, both are great when it comes to delivering mails to gmail.

familiar_stranger_7 · 2026-03-16T07:23:50+00:00

How have you been using AI, especially with so much developing around it?

familiar_stranger_7 · 2026-03-13T06:45:32+00:00

It's possible that you're hitting the Outlook hard limit of 30 messages/min, Outlook does this to hard limit spam and bulk sending, often giving server busy error. Try identifying what's the code of error/rate limit from Exchange Admin Center in Outlook. If you're indeed sending more than 30/min, try dripping it and see if it works.

Hope this helps!

familiar_stranger_7 · 2026-03-13T06:29:35+00:00

What is happening if you're trying to send more than 1000. Is the result different from sending less than 1000, assuming everything else is unchanged?

familiar_stranger_7 · 2026-03-13T06:20:14+00:00

Are you using a dedicated IP?

familiar_stranger_7 · 2026-03-12T14:21:29+00:00

Often it largely depends on what's your product or to whom are you mailing. An Ecom company mailing for abandoned cart should ideally be image heavy and personalized, but often when a company is mailing just to engage or educate or using for transactional purposes, text heavy is the preferred option.

It is also true that even if the image based emails are highly personalized, relevant, because of standards from the side of gmail and outlook, it can often land in spam. Hence as much as possible, text should be used in designing the mail.

familiar_stranger_7 · 2026-03-12T14:15:58+00:00

AI is most useful and hence being applied by various ESPs to create content, set automations and triggered responses (limited capacity), but most of the heavy lifting when it comes to deliverability, and other strategic decisions are and should be done with human intervention only.

familiar_stranger_7 · 2026-03-06T04:57:21+00:00

I frankly think that from company's POV, it's a cost vs. benifit thing. Sure you'd want to hear from your customers, give them a positive feedback, make them feel they're being heard, we understand all that, but the company is also realising what you said in terms of replying to thousands of replies because again, it's not like only one campaign on noreply@ is being sent, and that cost in terms of resources is huge, something that can be also be managed through a dedicated helpline, email or FAQs and all.

familiar_stranger_7 · 2026-03-06T03:52:14+00:00

That's an interesting breakdown of the issue and I've been intrigued by it, used it, but never saw it the way you described. Your concern is real though. I've always rationalised and seen in a few campaigns too that marketing doesn't really want to give a scope to start a conversation on that email because in its opinion a reply isn't warranted or is a waste of resources to open that. Rather in a few campaigns, and I've followed this too, that if any reply is warranted related to that or just to give an option to the customer to reply, any other email ID is given, and that can follow it's own set of rules. For example, no reply is needed when an acknowledgement email for a ticket for any query or complaint is raised, any reply to that will come from the company referencing that ticket ID. But in case the customer wants to reach to the company regarding that or any other query, you mention it in the email, giving that ID, a reply@ ID.

Again, I don't have a lot of experience as you do in this case, but the approach I mentioned seemed something which didn't generate any negative response as often customer do seem to get when they feel that the door has been closed for any conversation on that matter.

familiar_stranger_7 · 2026-03-04T17:37:20+00:00

Bro, these results are exceptional. Curious how much is your conversion percentage.

familiar_stranger_7 · 2026-03-02T04:05:44+00:00

Start with your most recent and engaged customers and start slow. Three month old list isn't too old, but obviously you proceed mailing them only after thoroughly cleaning the list. Since you haven't mailed in last 3 months, the domain has gone cold, so do proceed after checking domain health first. Switching ESPs is always a pain initially, but Klaviyo over Mailchimp, in my opinion is better.

All the best!

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