r/ColdEmailMasters

The domains tend to get banned if you do wayy too much email outreach

How do you get over that

I've heard people say about sub domains and other domains, but would that become wayy to messy?

What was the first cold email tool you used or learnt?

I've been in sdr land for about 3 years now and ive gone through most of the major cold email platforms at this point. Started with Instantly which was great for basic campaigns but the deliverability started tanking after a few months. Moved to Smartlead which had better warmup features but the ui was clunky as hell and my team kept messing up sequences. Lemlist was fun with all the personalization stuff but honestly felt like overkill for our volume (we send about 5k emails a week).

right now im stuck between a few options. our email data provider is changing their pricing model so we need something that can handle both the email sending AND give us decent contact data. been looking at Prospeo since they have a built in email finder plus the sending capabilities, and Apollo also came up in our demos. Prospeo's accuracy claims seem high but their weekly data refresh is appealing since we burn through leads fast. also looked briefly at RocketReach but their credits system seemed annoying for our volume.

what are you all using for cold email software these days? specifically need a cold email tool that can handle data + sending in one platform. our team is 8 sdrs doing mostly saas and fintech outbound prospecting.

I used to think improving deliverability was about small tweaks like subject lines or sending time but after weeks of testing I realized none of that mattered if emails were not even reaching inbox in the first place. That was frustrating because I was putting effort into the wrong things.

I came across a thread mentioning Justin Welsh where someone explained that systems matter more than effort which made me pause and actually review my setup instead of pushing more volume. That was the point where things started to shift for me mentally.

I started focusing on warming my inbox using Warmy and also explored tools like Smartlead and Lemwarm since people say it is much easier now to manage email health without technical stress. Once I set things up properly it started running on its own which made the process less overwhelming.

After some time my emails began landing in inbox more consistently and replies slowly came back which proved the issue was never my offer or my copy...

What actually changed things for me was treating deliverability as the base layer before anything else and I am curious if others here had a similar experience.