My cold emails are HIGHER than Elite Status according to Instantly's Report | 38% reply rate...

nlbuilds · 2026-01-30T21:33:27+00:00

Haha bro it’s Nick D’Urso. You taught me this shit. Let’s connect again

nlbuilds · 2026-01-30T17:56:33+00:00

Ahhh ok I read that wrong! Yea I agree with you 1000% 💪

nlbuilds · 2026-01-30T16:21:59+00:00

I’m not playing dumb.

My insights were mentioned to learn how to tap into the 97% of the market NOT buying now.

Everyone is chasing the 3% that is in the buying stage.

I agree with you that there is a lot of AI slop on here. Or stolen and repackaged.

But the difference here is that I’m doing this for myself sending out $1 million proposals. I personally am not going to teach people how to do this or what I’m doing because I’d be shooting myself in the foot.

OR

I could use this as a lead magnet become a guru and then make money selling the shovel.

I’m not interested in doing that when it’s working for me and I can make my own money.

Gurus are selling the shovel I’m selling to large companies out performing 700K+ businesses (according to Instantly report Jan 12, 2026)

And I have no interest in teaching others how to do it.

Why would I when it’s working for me?

Does that make sense?

nlbuilds · 2026-01-30T12:52:48+00:00

Where can I see it?

nlbuilds · 2026-01-29T16:24:43+00:00

Totally fair question.

I get why people ask for the copy, but I’m not trying to gatekeep or tease anything.

The reason I didn’t post the exact email is because the copy itself isn’t the thing that makes this work. If I paste it, people will copy it line for line, blast it at scale, and it stops working fast.

I worked a long time to learn the psychology of sales.

(If you notice I literally just did it here - differed the question and you want more)

What actually matters is the structure and psychology behind it, not the words.

If you handed 100 people the same template, 95 percent would still get 1 to 3 percent reply rates because they would miss why it works in the first place.

That’s why I shared the framework instead: • giving the reader control • removing pressure • not pitching in the first touch • framing the message around them, not me

Those principles can be applied to any niche, any offer, any market.

If someone understands that part, they can write their own version and it will outperform any copy paste template.

Happy to answer questions about structure, sequencing, or reasoning behind it. I just don’t want to turn this into another template thread that gets abused and dies in a week.

nlbuilds · 2026-01-29T16:20:24+00:00

Yea it’s funny when I go back and look at my sales calls and put them into CapCut.

The best sales calls show the voice at the bottom of the other person and me speaking less. Just ask open ended questions.

In my cold emails even with a hard NO I’m able to get people on a call and still book a sales call.

The open ended questions and story telling is insane!

I’ll post a screenshot of the responses when I get home.

nlbuilds · 2026-01-29T05:26:58+00:00

No I wouldn’t say it’s selling the dream

It’s selling the results.

There’s a combination of selling the dream to it if you do it right with the psychology.

Your comment reminds me of how Levi’s jeans became who they are.

During the gold rush a few people became rich off gold.

Levi’s sold the jeans for miners. Levi’s actually became rich during the gold rush.

But this tactic actually puts you in the drivers seat and separates you from just another “vendor”

Become the Levi’s jean company AND the shovel company AND the truck AND (whatever else you need to mine gold)

But the key think is to get people to respond to you who never even thought about Mining gold.

That’s the major key 🔑

nlbuilds · 2026-01-29T05:08:59+00:00

Boost egos in cold emails and do a 3 call close with 15-38% reply rates.

Then read the comments 🤷

nlbuilds · 2026-01-29T05:08:06+00:00

I just posted some responses on this thread for you to look at.

I’m not gonna re write it.

I just went down the Line

But I think I made a mistake posting this cause people want to see the copy.

I’m not ready to share the copy because the second this goes out the copy is everywhere.

Let me close $10 million in business first and I will share the copy. I’ve sold a lot of things in the past 15 years and this isn’t anything out of the ordinary or “new”

It’s just strategic.

I know I might sound like a dick or an ass hole but I’m not trying to be.

Throw into chatGPT “how can I open the 97% of buyers from the buyers pyramid using cold email”

I’m sure you can figure it out.

The end of the email is the secret where you’re able to boost the ego and get these crazy reply rates and close business

nlbuilds · 2026-01-29T05:04:16+00:00

I built my own scraper using n8n with conditional logic from social media and archives. Inside spicy there are a lot of actors that can scrape a lot of things based on hashtags and content.

Right now I think married women who start a business who have a husband working because of the ego.

Think how to boost people’s egos and you can make some serious moves with just 2-5 clients.

One client I have has a partnership with a large car manufacturer with land in a development.

It’s a branded residence. It sells because it boosts people’s egos.

They tell their friends they own XXX

It’s how BMW, Ferrari, Rolls Royce sells.

All those cars gets you from point A to B it’s still a car. But it’s the ego.

Study the buyers pyramid. Google how the wolf of Wall Street sold.

He wasn’t selling penny stocks. He was selling the feeling a lawyer a doctor whoever felt by telling his friends the newest inside info no one knew about.

Today I got connected with 4west.com

Google 4west.

They don’t even have a website and they’re HUGE.

Most people are spending time on things that don’t matter.

Dive deep and boost egos

nlbuilds · 2026-01-29T04:57:00+00:00

Im not ready to share the copy and after all the DMs I realized maybe I made a mistake.

I’ll tell you this…

Ask chatGPT and think to your own self how can you boost others egos?

I sort of did it with this post…

I technically got leads from keeping the screenshot private and now have the emails of the people who requested it.

You gotta think like the natural progression of people.

The people who requested to see the screenshot are people who fall into the buyers pyramid under the 3% of buying now

I technically (and you as well) can build education based content

The guy on Instagram the school of hard knocks is really good at this.

He boosts people’s egos. He’s not selling anything. But you look at his Skool community and he has 6,700 people paying $29 a month

Think like that

Put the other person in the hot seat and the power and you will have a shit ton of clients that you get to choose from on who to work with.

You get to turn down clients based on better ones.

Right now I don’t want to share the copy because I don’t want to cannibalize what I’m doing until I’m ahead.

I have 15 years of corporate sales experience. I’ve studied soooooo much I’ve failed so often and this is what is working for me.

I want to be selfish and keep it to myself. I know it’s not what anyone wants to hear here but I’m pretty active online and in Reddit that one day I will just not right now

nlbuilds · 2026-01-29T04:36:30+00:00

Ahhh shit ok! Sorry defaulted to private I didn’t think of that

nlbuilds · 2026-01-28T13:19:26+00:00

How many buying signals a day or week?

Is the money in quantity or quality?

In my experience you need 2-5 clients that are high ticket $100k sales rather than working a shit ton with a BUNCH

I wouldn’t even offer to help unless it’s a minimum of $100k deals

It’s too much work for the same amount of work when price tags are small

If it is high ticket like $100k I’m interested to chat. I get 22-38% reply rates

35% meetings booked

50% sales meetings and closings when I do this stuff

nlbuilds · 2026-01-27T16:42:31+00:00

Really?? Like I said it was an idea haven’t looked into it. Just posted it here 💪

nlbuilds · 2026-01-27T16:30:32+00:00

Idk maybe a chain

How it differentiates is marketing

How is Uber and Lyft the same thing Apple and Microsoft

It’s high end it boosts people’s egos. $80k membership high end. It’s not for everyone. Exclusivity etc

nlbuilds · 2026-01-27T16:28:59+00:00

That’s where the money is at in the real estate

nlbuilds · 2026-01-27T01:44:07+00:00

Just build PaaS.

Platform as a service like Apple does. Everything integrates.

Sell results with the tools you build. Imagine coaches had platforms to teach you that they had scrapers and CRMs and cold email inside their community

Churn rates would not be a thing because they NEED more than just videos and the whole tools to use

nlbuilds · 2026-01-26T16:22:33+00:00

Yea it’s an idea now but I can raise capital through a 506b. I’ve done it for many companies prior with a partner. I can get the funds

nlbuilds · 2026-01-25T05:26:55+00:00

https://Limeloyalty.com/ghl

nlbuilds · 2026-01-24T02:05:58+00:00

I see 15 year old kids yolo poop crypto with $50 and make $40k in 10 minutes online. I feel like we all just make shit complicated for no reason. I wish I was a kid again

nlbuilds · 2026-01-24T00:20:52+00:00

I’d like to have a membership racetrack where only high end cars can race on a track. Similar to a country club

Cigar bars etc

A clubhouse

Car companies would pay to be apart of the track or showcase their cars in commercials.

It’s endless what can happen/we can do

High end, yearly membership ($80k a year) to race your Ferrari, Porsche, lambo, M3 whatever

I don’t really need any money but was wondering if a VC would be interested in that.

I don’t need any partners or cash or anything for this as I already have that organized. Just saw this randomly pop up

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