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Email is an often overlooked channel, but it has great applications - from getting your e-commerce customers to purchase more often to onboarding SaaS users. We can plan specific funnels and flows for your audience, segmentation criteria, and tools that fit your needs.
Nilay Jayswal
Fractional GTM & Performance Marketing Consultant | Google, Meta & LinkedIn Ads | Outbound Automation
Email is still one of the highest-ROI channels when it's done with strategy instead of batch-and-blast. I've built lifecycle, nurture, and outbound email programs that drive activation, conversion, and retention. I can help you design segmented campaigns, automate lifecycle flows, and run Email Outbound sequences that turn lists into pipeline and customers into repeat revenue.
Planning, strategy, execution of email and campaigns. Automation of customer support emails, advanced email responses and campaigns with multiple branches, google search leading to com software leading to sales people's emails and final reporting.
Linus Antlov
Growth Marketing Consultant (Social Ads, ASO, SEO, & PPC) 📈 | Google, Facebook, Apple | App Growth Expert 📱
I've handled Email Marketing and Mobile CRM via multiple tools such as Braze (ex AppBoy), MoEngage, Klaviyo, & Mailchimp. I've set up multiple automated journeys to maximise users conversion rate in the app and done many experiments to see what works.
I've been working in email marketing for 7 years. I can help you build email cadences, divide your segment, clean your lists, improve your sending reputation and deliverability, and create email templates and copy.
Managed large email marketing programs for various growth loops across B2B and B2C companies, including implementation of large TCA programs (fully automated and semi automated for ABM); Handled technical and business aspects as well.
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What a mentor does
An email marketing mentor has already run the cold campaigns, the lists, and the newsletters you are working on now. You get a 1:1 call with someone who has sent the emails, watched the replies (or the silence), and knows what to change for a company at your stage.
For most people who book, email marketing means cold outbound that has stalled. The best calls do some version of these moves:
- Narrow who you email. The most common fix is upstream of any email. You stop sending to everyone and pick the segment that has the problem you solve.
- Rebuild the outreach. Fewer, better messages to the right people beats blasting hundreds. A mentor reworks the angle so replies start coming back.
- Fix deliverability. If your emails land in spam, nothing else matters. Domain setup and warmup are concrete and usually fixable in one call.
- Set up the tools. Half-built CRM, no sending stack, no list source. A mentor tells you the few tools you need and the ones to skip.
- Get the offer right. Often the email is fine and the ask is wrong. They pressure-test what you are pitching and to whom.
You also leave with a record. After each call, the takeaways are written down for you, ready to keep or skip:
Nicolas MoulinCold outreach teardownCut the list to the one segment with the problem you solve, then send 40, not 400.
Rewrite the first line to name their situation, not your product, before you touch anything else.
KeepSkipCheck domain auth and warmup before you scale, a cold domain caps replies no matter how sharp the copy.
KeepSkipShrink the ask to a yes-or-no question, a 30-minute-call CTA on a first touch kills the reply rate.
KeepSkipCold email that gets replies
"I sent hundreds of cold emails and got almost no replies" is the single most common thing people bring to these calls. The instinct is to rewrite the copy. The fix usually sits underneath it.
A mentor walks your outbound with you and finds where it breaks, usually one of these:
- Deliverability. your emails never reached the inbox. Domain setup, warmup, and spam infrastructure get sorted first, because copy cannot fix an email nobody sees.
- The list. you are emailing the wrong people, so no message would have landed. The fix is the target, not the words.
- The angle. the message is about you, not them. A mentor reworks the opening so it reads like a person, not a pitch to a stranger.
- The volume game. spray-and-pray got you marked as spam. Fewer, more personal sends to a tighter list almost always beat blasting.
- The ask. the call to action is too big or too vague for a first touch, so even interested people do not reply.
Finding people to email
Before deliverability, before copy, the recurring block is targeting. The biggest single thing people land on these calls for is "who am I even emailing." They are sending to the wrong list, or to everyone, and no campaign survives that.
A mentor helps you get the upstream right:
- Define your ICP. name the specific customer worth winning, by the pain signal that says they have the problem, not by a broad industry label.
- Pick your first segment. the audience that says yes fastest, so your first campaign has a fair chance instead of being spread across three markets at once.
- Source the list. where the right leads live, and how to build a clean list instead of buying a junk one.
- Sell to buyers, not users. a frequent fix is realizing you have been pitching the wrong person inside the company.
Mentors start diagnosing before the call. A typical first exchange after you book:
Ekaterina GamsrieglerCold email vs LinkedIn
A lot of these calls are a channel decision. People want to know whether to run cold email, work LinkedIn, lean on warm intros from their network, or some mix, before they pour weeks into the wrong one.
A mentor who has run all of them gives you a straight read for your product, your stage, and how much time you can give it:
- Cold email. Scales and is measurable, but lives or dies on deliverability and list quality. Still works when the targeting is tight.
- LinkedIn outreach. Warmer and harder to ignore, slower to scale. A dormant profile turned into a posting and DM rhythm becomes a pipeline.
- Warm intros first. Often the right opening move. Your existing network converts far better than any cold list, so many mentors say start there.
- A deliberate mix. The answer is rarely all of them at once. You pick one to go deep on now and sequence the rest.
The goal is one channel working before you add a second, not four running at half effort.
The straight read on which one to commit to is what the call is for.
Setting up your CRM
For a big slice of this cohort, the ask is tooling, not strategy. The CRM is half-built, the automation stack is fragmented or missing, and "how do I set up HubSpot correctly" is one of the most common questions.
A mentor who runs these tools daily helps you build only what you need, without overbuilding a stack you will never use:
- Pick the right CRM. match the tool to your stage instead of buying enterprise software for a two-person team.
- Set up HubSpot or your platform. the few fields, pipelines, and properties that matter, configured so you use them.
- Automate the manual parts. the workflows worth automating to cut busywork, and the ones not worth the setup yet.
- Connect outreach to the CRM. so your sending stack, your list, and your pipeline talk to each other instead of living in three disconnected tabs.
The most common mistake here is building a full marketing-automation stack before you have the leads to run through it. Start with the minimum that tracks your outreach, then add to it as you actually need more.
Growing a newsletter
Cold outbound is the lead story for most people here, but plenty of the cohort is growing a newsletter or email list organically and figuring out how to turn it into a business.
A mentor who has built and monetized a list can help you with the parts that move it:
- Grow the list. the channels and content that bring the right subscribers, instead of chasing raw subscriber count that never buys.
- Build the habit. a cadence and format readers open, so the list stays warm rather than going stale between sends.
- Monetize it. the model that fits your audience, from a paid tier to products to sponsorships, and when each one makes sense.
- Pivot if needed. if you have an audience but the money is not there, a mentor helps you rethink the offer before you rebuild the list.
An owned list is the one channel that gets cheaper as it grows, because you already earned the audience.
two moves, in order
Grow the right subscribers
chasing raw subscriber count
subscribers who match what you sell
Turn the list into revenue
a free list that never buys
a paid tier the audience asks for
A list that pays for itself
An owned audience you can sell to again, cheaper every send. It compounds.
The order matters: earn the right subscribers before you build the paywall.
Lifecycle and retention email
If you already have users or customers, the question shifts from finding people to keeping them. Lifecycle and retention email is about converting and re-activating the audience you have already paid to earn.
A mentor who has run these programs helps you fix the moments that leak:
- Post-signup nurture. the sequence that gets new signups to the moment your product proves its worth, instead of letting them drift off after day one.
- E-commerce retention. the flows that bring buyers back, from abandoned carts to win-backs, without flooding inboxes.
- Underperforming email. a straight diagnosis of why your current email is flat, and the one or two changes worth making first.
- Re-activation. waking up the list you already have rather than always chasing new names at the top of the funnel.
a welcome sequence, x-rayed
Email one lands within the hour and gets them to the first small win1. Day two shows the one feature that proves the product works2. Day four answers the objection that stalls the upgrade3. A win-back fires only if they go inactive for ten days4.
The first hour
The welcome email gets them to one win before the tab closes. Timing beats copy here.
The aha moment
One feature, shown fast. Nurture that never reaches the value is noise in the inbox.
The objection
Name the reason people stall and answer it before the trial ends, not after they churn.
The win-back
Triggered by silence, not the calendar. It wakes the people you already earned.
Four emails, one job each. Most leaks are one missing step, and a mentor who runs lifecycle spots it fast.
When to book a call
You do not need a giant question. Bring the outreach problem in front of you right now to someone who has worked through it many times. The most useful moments to book:
- Zero replies on outreach. you sent a lot of cold email and almost nobody answered, and you cannot tell whether it is the list, the copy, or the inbox.
- Deliverability tanking. your replies suddenly dropped or you think you are landing in spam, and you need the domain and warmup checked.
- An undefined ICP. you are not sure who you should even be emailing, and you keep defaulting back to everyone.
- A half-built CRM. you have a fragmented stack or a HubSpot you never set up properly, and you want someone to cut it down to what you need.
- A newsletter you cannot monetize. you have an audience but no model, and you want help turning attention into revenue.
A focused 30 minutes with the right mentor beats weeks of sending more email and hoping the replies turn up.
What a mentor helps with
Email rarely lives alone. The people who take these calls are go-to-market and growth operators, so you can find someone who has done the specific thing you are stuck on across the whole motion:
- Cold email and outreach. Deliverability, copy, lists, and the sending stack from first campaign to scale.
- ICP and targeting. Who to reach, the pain signal that defines them, and which segment to win first.
- CRM and automation. HubSpot and CRM setup, lead flow, and the workflows worth automating.
- Newsletter and lists. Growing an owned audience and turning it into a business.
- Lifecycle and retention. Onboarding, nurture, and email that keeps customers paying.
- Go-to-market. How you reach a market, your offer, and the first repeatable channel.
- Sales and pipeline. Turning replies into deals and building a process you can repeat.
- Conversion and CRO. The landing pages and offers your emails point people toward.
Whether your block is deliverability, the list, or the offer, there is a mentor who has solved that exact one.
You can also run it in reverse: post what you are stuck on as a help request, and mentors raise their hands to take it.
What people book email marketing calls about
Rarely what they end up solving. The ask on the booking form is usually a symptom, and a mentor who has done this work recognizes the pattern underneath it. Three that come up again and again:
walked in as, walked out as
Walked in as
A copy problem
Rewrite the same email one more time.
Walked out as
A targeting problem
Wrong list. No copy would land.
Walked in as
A deliverability problem
Everything we send goes to spam.
Walked out as
A setup problem
Auth and warmup were never done.
Walked in as
A newsletter problem
We have readers but no revenue.
Walked out as
An offer problem
The audience never matched the ask.
Three calls, one mechanic. The problem that leaves the room is never the one that walked in.
Why GrowthMentor
Every mentor on GrowthMentor is vetted before they are accepted. Fewer than 5% of applicants get in. They are operators and advisors who run cold campaigns, build lists, and grow newsletters daily, not influencers selling a course.
The people who take email marketing calls fix targeting and outreach, not only subject lines. Because the network is broad, you are not stuck with a single-channel technician when your real problem is who to reach and how. You can find the right person for this question, then a different person for the next one.
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What people ask before their first call.
It is usually one of three things, and rarely the copy first. Either your emails are landing in spam, you are emailing the wrong list, or the message is about you instead of the reader. A mentor can walk your outbound with you and find the one to fix first, instead of rewriting everything at once.
Deliverability comes down to domain setup, authentication, and warming your sending domains before you scale. It is the most concrete and winnable thing in this topic, and a mentor who has run cold email at scale can usually get you sorted in a single call so your emails reach the inbox.
Fewer than you think. You need a way to source clean lists, a sending tool with warmup, and a place to track replies. A mentor can name the specific stack that fits your stage and tell you which tools to skip, so you are not paying for software you will never use.
Start by defining your ICP by the pain signal that says someone has the problem you solve, not by a broad industry. Then pick the first segment that says yes fastest and source a clean list for it. Getting the target right is the upstream fix most failed outreach needs.
It depends on your product, your stage, and how much time you can give it. Cold email scales and is measurable but lives on deliverability and list quality. LinkedIn is warmer and slower. Many mentors say start with warm intros from your network first. A mentor can give you a straight read for your situation.
Yes, when the targeting is tight and the deliverability is handled. The reason it stops working for most people is a bad list and a spammed domain, not the channel itself. A mentor can tell you whether cold email fits your business or whether another channel is the better first move.
Make it short, about them, and easy to answer. The biggest gains usually come before the copy though, from a tighter list and a smaller, clearer ask. A mentor can rework your angle and your target together, which is what moves the reply rate.
Name the specific customer by the pain signal that proves they have the problem you solve, then narrow to the segment that converts fastest. The most common mistake is trying to serve everyone, which makes every email weaker. A mentor can pressure-test your ICP in one call so your list and your message line up.
Match the tool to your stage rather than buying enterprise software too early. HubSpot is a common choice, and the work is setting up only the fields, pipelines, and workflows you will use. A mentor who runs these daily can help you build the minimum that tracks your outreach without overbuilding.
Grow with content and channels that bring the right subscribers, keep a cadence readers open, then pick a model that fits the audience, whether that is a paid tier, products, or sponsorships. If you have an audience but no revenue, a mentor can help you rethink the offer before you rebuild the list.
Post-signup conversion is usually about getting new users to the moment your product proves its worth, not about sending more emails. A mentor who has run lifecycle programs can help you fix the onboarding sequence and the re-activation flows so the people you already earned stick around.
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