Your cold emails get opens and no replies
You can’t tell if the copy, the list, the offer or the inbox setup is to blame. Find the broken step with mentors who run outbound themselves.
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Sardar Azimov
5.0 · +11 more
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Solo Founder · SEOmatic
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Growth Marketing Consultant · nicorubino
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Head of Marketing · DOWN Dating App
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CEO & Co-founder · Review Robin
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The mentors, selected for this decision.
12 featured mentors
Why this mentor
Sardar runs Skief Labs, a growth agency built on cold email and social outreach, and brings 12 years of building outbound pipelines, from data acquisition to tools and automation.
Mark Colgan 💰📈👍
AI in Sales | Outbound Prospecting | B2B Sales Process | Agency Growth & Exit
Why this mentor
Mark has 15 years in B2B sales and outbound prospecting and prefers signal-based targeting over volume, with clear views on where AI helps a sales process and where it hurts.
Lidiia Tkachenko
Fractional GTM & RevOps Expert to B2B Founders | RevOps & Outbound Systems | certified Clay & Cargo expert
Why this mentor
Lidiia is a certified Clay expert who builds outbound systems end to end, from ICP definition to Clay workflows and email deliverability, with $150M+ in pipeline over 10 years in sales.
Why this mentor
Thibaut has sent tens of millions of cold emails across 15 years of B2B growth in the US, Europe and Asia, and helps deep tech founders set up their go-to-market.
Why this mentor
Hugo served as CTO and head of email deliverability at Hipnode, running warm-up and monitoring across 174+ domains, a fit when inboxes, domains and spam placement are the problem.
Daniil Kopilevych
Helping B2B founders validate markets & close first customers via cold calling. 8 yrs in GTM, $1.4M pipeline in 8 weeks.
Why this mentor
Daniil cold calls for B2B startups every day and helps founders find the segment that buys, useful if outbound gets no meetings or you do not know where to start.
Nilay Jayswal
Fractional GTM & Performance Marketing Consultant | Google, Meta & LinkedIn Ads | Outbound Automation
Why this mentor
Nilay designs email and LinkedIn outbound motions alongside paid campaigns and has built Apollo sequences for enterprise accounts, a good sounding board when deciding between outbound and ads.
Why this mentor
Farzad is a three-time founder who has led sales and marketing for 50+ B2B and SaaS companies, and builds cold email playbooks from IP warm-up to templates and CRM workflows.
Christoph Schachner
Owner at Demandgap 🔥 | LinkedIn, Google and ChatGPT Ads for B2B SaaS ❤️ | 10+ Years in Paid Ads 🚀
Why this mentor
Christoph runs a B2B paid media agency and once revamped outbound email campaigns to a 28% reply rate, useful when weighing cold email against LinkedIn and Google Ads.
Why this mentor
Ryan ran a growth marketing agency, now runs the StartupSauce community for SaaS founders and lists cold email and SMB sales as core strengths, a fit for SaaS selling to small businesses.
Pawel Nical
Founder of RevTech Accelerator | Empowering RevOps & GTM Experts Worldwide | Clay Community Lead for Europe
Why this mentor
Pawel built the RevOps function at Nethone through its Series A and acquisition, designs outbound systems and leads the Clay community in Europe, a fit for tool and stack questions.
Why this mentor
Colin works with B2B tech founders on why outbound is not converting, turning what the product does into messaging buyers see as being about them, especially for UK and US markets.
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Why does nobody reply?
Low replies come from one of four places: the email lands in spam, the list is wrong, the offer is weak or the message is all about you. Each one needs a different fix.
Bring your numbers for each step: sent, bounced, replied and booked. A mentor can spot where it breaks before you rewrite copy that was never the problem.
Is your setup sending you to spam?
Deliverability is decided before anyone reads a word:
- Separate sending domains. Keep cold email off your main domain, so one bad campaign can’t hurt everyday mail.
- Authentication. Set up SPF, DKIM and DMARC on every domain before the first send.
- Warm-up and volume. Warm up new inboxes for a few weeks, then keep the daily send per inbox low.
- Clean lists. Verify every address. A high bounce rate tells inbox providers the list is stale.
- Plain first emails. Links, images and tracking in a first email raise the odds of the spam folder.
Who belongs on the list, and why now?
A short list with a trigger, such as a new leader, a funding round or a job post, usually beats a long list of job titles. The first line should say why you wrote to this person this week.
Apollo and Clay find and enrich contacts, and AI drafts at scale. The research and the offer still come from you, or every email reads like the last hundred in the inbox.
Is cold email the right channel for you?
Cold email works when the buyer is easy to name, the problem is common and the deal is worth a short call. If buyers need to trust you before a call, referrals, partners or communities may reach them sooner.
The mentors above include outbound agency founders, deliverability and Clay specialists, and B2B sales leaders. Pick the one closest to the step where your outbound breaks.
People who were exactly where you are.
GrowthMentor enables us to swiftly get a world-class expert to give us guidance on any marketing issue or question in a matter of days.
Hamel Shah · Co-Founder
Read Hamel's storyKnowing I can always book a call to help me clarify what I'm doing is the best feeling in the world.
Lena Sesardic · Product Manager
Read Lena's storyI like to set my own strategies and then get help from experts to improve on them and check if I'm on the right track.
Minh · Solo Founder
Read Minh's storyIt gave me fast access to expert-level insights that I couldn't get from academic research or user surveys alone.
Nicola Rubino · Growth Marketing Consultant
Read Nicola's storySometimes I'm stuck at one step and all I need is someone who can share experiences of what they did when they were in my situation.
Annie Chen · Head of Marketing
Read Annie's storyI enjoy having pretty much instant access to a pool of worldwide, expert mentors who are keen to share their expertise and help others.
Carlos Terol · Co-Founder
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What people ask before their first call.
Open rates are unreliable, because privacy features and security filters can log opens no one made. Look at replies by list segment and by offer. If one segment replies and another stays silent, fix the list before you touch the copy.
Two to four emails is common, each adding something new, such as a case, a question or a different angle. Bring your current sequence and the point where replies stop.
AI can research and draft at scale, and buyers spot generic AI copy fast. Use it for research and first drafts, then edit by hand. Bring a few emails you have sent and ask where they read as automated.
Ask who owns the domains, inboxes and data, how a lead is defined and what happens if replies don’t come. Bring the old reports and the new proposal, and a mentor can show where the last campaign broke.
Who you sell to, your offer and price, two or three emails you have sent, and your numbers: sent, bounced, replied and booked. Add your sending setup and the tools you use.
No. The session is advice and review. Setting up domains, building lists or running campaigns needs a separate agreement with the mentor, so describe the help you need in your request.
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