ContactOut Cold Email Mastery Workbook
ContactOut Cold Email Mastery Workbook
Getting New
Clients
COLD EMAIL MASTERY
HOW TO SETUP A WORKABLE PROSPECTING
SYSTEM SO YOU NEVER HAVE TO WORRY
AGAIN WHERE YOUR NEXT CLIENT IS COMING
FROM.
Luke Audsley
Table of
CONTENTS
03
FROM $0-100K IN
06
WHY COLD EMAIL
JUST 2 MONTHS ROCKS!
09
SCALING UP.
12
STEP 1: THE
THE MATH TECH STUFF
22
STEP 2: FINDING
29
STEP 3: COLD
CONTACTS MESSAGES THAT
GET A REPLY
43
STEP 4: LAUNCH
53
YOUR NEXT
LIKE A LEGEND STEP
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From $0 to
$100k
in just 2 months
I had run an agency before and when I started a new one with a friend I
didn't want to be stuck in the roller coaster of having LOTS of work, and
then forgetting about signing new clients, only to find ourselves
suddenly without enough work. And I definitely didn't want to:
Rely on referrals
Have to DM people on socials (and get blocked/banned)
Constantly post "value" on social media
Spend money on advertising
Luke Audsley
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Time to Master...
COLD EMAIL AUTOMATION
I'd had success with Cold Email in the past, but I suddenly
stumbled upon how to do it better.....MUCH better.
We kicked off some of these new campaigns and our reply rates
were through the roof!
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We Went From
NO CLIENTS, TO A STREAM
Every day we were receiving replies to our Unified Inbox of "I'm
interested" or "I'd like to hear more"
Important
Instead of wasting hours DM'ing people, cold calling, posting
value on our socials or relying on job boards or referrals...
Lorem Ipsum
On average your prospect spends 5.6 hours a day in their email inbox.
Whereas the average usage of Linkedin per month is just 17 mins
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Consistent Growth
Automate the Heavy Lifting
You can automate Linkedin outreach and you can get results. But you
will run into at least 3 problems:
Likewise if you just launch into your pitch, they'll feel annoyed
they connected with you, so you get stuck with LONG message
chains.
Cold email shortcuts all of this with a simple, direct & honest
approach.
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Scaling Up
The Math
You can send 50, 100, even 1000 emails a day with Cold Email on
autopilot. Let's say for example you send just 100 a day, and you have a
pretty low positive reply rate of just 1%.
30 1% positive replies
At an average of $5k per deal won, you can see in the result above it
would be very easy to attain $25,000 in new business in a month. And
of course you could improve your reply rate with better messaging,
you could improve your win rate or even increase your prices.....OR the
easiest solution is to just simply send more cold emails!
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Scaling Up
Your Math
Let's do your own example. Use a positive reply rate of 1-2% and input
your own numbers, such as the prices you charge.
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Why Cold Email
FAILS
There's been a huge amount of resources poured into Spam filters and
getting past the likes of Googles Ai spam detection is not super straight
forward, but in 4-quick modules we'll show you how.
The right technical setup & technology stack is a must & it's
actually not too tricky at all. The problem is many people get
these settings wrong and that's a big red flag for spam
filters.
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Step
1
THE TECH STUFF
Transformation Path
ROADMAP TO SUCCESS
You're here
1
Yes this might be a little boring to some but there's a
reason we start with it first ...Lets get it out of the way!
You'll look like a pro to all spam filters when we're done
here.
2
Finding your ideal prospects is key! We'll show you
how to find them quickly & accurately. We'll also
show you some sweet productivity hacks to ensure
you don't get stuck cleaning up contact data.
3
The longest module as this will be the biggest factor
in your success. If you don't have a compelling offer
in your emails, it doesn't matter how many hit the
inbox.
4
How to launch your campaigns, the correct
settings, what to track, and where to go from
here. This is where it gets exciting!
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Protecting Yourself
GETTING NEW DOMAINS
Even if you follow everything we lay out in this guide, there's still a chance you
can someday get onto a spam list - you do not want that for your main email
domain, so we recommend buying similar ones to your own. For example I
own outboundcrowd.com and outboundcrowd.co.
Stick to using .com or .co as much as you can - the rule of thumb is, the
cheaper the domain, the worse it will usually deliver. (They know true
spammers are cheap!). Buy 1 domain for every 30-50 emails you want to send
per day.
ACTION
Go to any domain hosting such as Godaddy and search for some new
domains to buy. If you get stuck on finding available ones, use words like "Go"
or "Team" in front of your usual domain name such as:
www.gooutboundcrowd.com
My preference is to use Ventra IP. Their support team are really fantastic if
you get stuck in the later steps that we'll discuss.
(Note: Ventra is for Australian based businesses only)
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Setting Up
YOUR NEW EMAILS
Go to: https://www.zoho.com/workplace/
And click 'Get Started' in the top right hand side. Choose the 'MAIL ONLY
PLAN'. It will then prompt you to choose a plan. Signup for the "Mail Lite" plan.
It will cost about $1 USD per month, per inbox.
At this stage it will typically ask for your mobile number to confirm a code.
You will then be walked through a wizard setup chosing your mail inbox. I
suggest [email protected]
It will be fairly straightforward until you hit DNS Mapping. In this section you
will need to verify you own the domain by adding a record and you will need
to add several records to ensure your inbox is setup correctly. (Just follow my
over-the- shoulder video in Step 1, pt 2 if you get stuck at all)
Login and click on the DNS button next to the domain you are working on.
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Then click on the "Forwarding" tab as showing below. Chose forward
and select 301 permanent....What you are doing here is creating a
redirect so if anyone you email looks you up by entering in this domain, it
will land on your actual website as you can see with the red arrow below
Then scroll down to DNS settings and add the TXT record that you were
given at this step in the Zoho setup wizard (see below). Leave hostname
empty and under TTL type 3600. (Mine says 14400 below). Then hit the
green plus button. You may need to wait 1-2 hours before you can hit the
'verify' button in Zoho and have it find this record.
Next we're going to add the specific details in the DNS to ensure your
mailbox is setup correctly so you're not going to be heading straight to
spam right away. This step is mandatory and must be done.
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The Devil is in
THE DETAILS
Zoho will give you all the records you need below, so simply go through 1
by 1, adding them each. MX, SPF, DKIM. Simply repeat the process we
used above but with these new records.
If you get stuck at any point with the above, simply follow along with the
video in Step 1, part 2 of the course.
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Warming up
YOUR INBOX
Now you need to connect to a sending tool with an inbox warming
feature. The best I've used by far and LOVE is called 'Instantly' - click
here and signup.
Once you are logged in, on the first page click "Add New" in the top
right-hand side.
Next choose IMAP/SMTP option and enter your name and email you
want to add first.
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Warming up
CONTINUED
1. Next go to your Zoho email
and find the settings cog in the
top right-hand side. (See right)
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Final Steps
YOUR SENDING TOOL
Next you need to enable warmup feature by clicking the
flame. Choose all the recommended settings from Instantly
Finally, now you can setup your custom tracking domain. This
enables you to put a tracking pixel in every email sent so
track who opens it. We recommend adding this, but we don't
track opens ourselves (More on that later).
Click the settings icon next to the flame. Settings will open
and you can tick the checkbox to use a custom tracking
domain. Type inst.yourdomain.com as below and add these
records to your DNS. It will take up to an hour to validate so
do not be concerned if it doesn't work right away.
Record Type.
Value
Hostname
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Checklist
THE TECH STUFF
You have seperate domains. Remember you need these to
protect your main domain.
You have created at least 1 email inbox per domain with Zoho
mail.
You have ensured MX, SPF, DKIM, DMARC records are setup in
your DNS for each domain.
Important
You need to leave your inbox warming up for at LEAST 2 weeks
now. Do not send any cold emails from it as you risk the account
being marked as SPAM. While the account warms up, you'll move
through the next modules to prepare your contact data and write
your email sequences 🚀
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Step
2
FINDING
CONTACTS
Transformation Path
ROADMAP TO SUCCESS
1
Yes this might be a little boring to some but there's a
reason we start with it first ...Lets get it out of the way!
You'll look like a pro to all spam filters when we're done
here.
You're here
Find Contacts with Ease
2
Finding your ideal prospects is key! We'll show you how Step
to find them quickly & accurately. We'll also show you
some sweet productivity hacks to ensure you don't get
stuck cleaning up contact data.
3
The longest module as this will be the biggest factor in
your success. If you don't have a compelling offer in your
emails, it doesn't matter how many hit the inbox.
4
How to launch your campaigns, the correct settings,
Step
what to track, and where to go from here. This is where it
gets exciting!
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Understanding
YOUR IDEAL CUSTOMER
The BEST place to uncover your ideal customer is to look within your
current customer base or people you've worked with in the past. You
want to find those that felt the biggest impact from your product or
service. If you don't have much of a customer base, you can look at
your competitors social pages, communities, and
reviews/testimonials. Note down in the right hand column the things
being said - you can even find these in amazon book reviews!
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Understanding
YOUR IDEAL CUSTOMER
Demographics
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How to Find
YOUR IDEAL CUSTOMERS
The undisputed king of B2B data bases is Linkedin. The problem is
finding your prospects email. There are many tools out there, some
better than others BUT there is no single tool that is best for every
industry/geography, etc. You'll often need to use several. We'll outline a
few here.
APOLLO - Cost effective, and very easy to use. Personally I use this a
lot. The cheaper plans only let you export 25 leads at a time, but you can
search for tools like 'Scrape Apollo' which will help you do this
pragmatically. It's great because you don't need Linkedin Sales
Navigator.
SCRAPY BIRD - A very cool tool that allows you to scrape emails from
Twitter channels. So if you know your ideal clients follow certain twitter
pages, you can now get their emails with ease!
IGLEADS.IO - one I have not used but caught my eye for those of you
who want to scrape large volume of instagram or Facebook accounts.
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Verifying
YOUR LEADS
Once you have a nice list of emails, you now need to verify them. DO
NOT skip this step as you'll find no matter what email data source you
use, 30-60% of the emails given (sometimes more) will actually be
WRONG or not worth emailing as the company has strong spam filter
policies. Sending emails too often to wrong email addresses that bounce
will harm your sending reputation and mean you start to get flagged as
spam. The goal should be to keep this to 2-3% bounced emails or lower.
We'll outline a few verifying options below.
BEST QUALITY
For best quality we recommend Neverbounce (neverbounce.com). Whilst
it's not expensive, if you start to send ALOT of cold emails this option will
begin to add up in costs. There are many other great options out there,
so you don't need to use this one, but it's one we've found to work very
well.
BEST ON A BUDGET
A great option here is Bulk Email Checker (bulkemailchecker.com). It
does a great job too and is more cost effective compared to
Neverbounce. You'll just find the interface to be a bit clunky and slow.
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Checklist
FIND YOUR CLIENT
You KNOW your ideal customer profile with certainty. Company
size, location, Job titles, etc.
You know with certainty that you can find and target customers
that need & want your service.
Important
Do not extract your list now and wait for several weeks to use it.
B2B data has an obsolescence of roughly 30% every 12 months.
This means that about 1/3rd of your list is wrong within 12 months
due to people leaving & changing jobs. Ideally, extract your list
just a few days out from launching your campaigns
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Step
3
COLD MESSAGES
THAT GET A REPLY
Transformation Path
ROADMAP TO SUCCESS
1
Yes this might be a little boring to some but there's a
reason we start with it first ...Lets get it out of the way!
You'll look like a pro to all spam filters when we're done
here.
2
Finding your ideal prospects is key! We'll show you how Step
to find them quickly & accurately. We'll also show you
some sweet productivity hacks to ensure you don't get
stuck cleaning up contact data.
You're here
3
The longest module as this will be the biggest factor in
your success. If you don't have a compelling offer in your
emails, it doesn't matter how many hit the inbox.
4
How to launch your campaigns, the correct settings,
Step
what to track, and where to go from here. This is where it
gets exciting!
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Cold Emails
THAT GET A RESPONSE
The AVERAGE inbox receives 75+ emails day, and the decision
makers you're targeting are likely receiving many more than this.
How do you ensure yours gets a response?
The Basics
The DO's The DON'Ts
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The Anatomy
OF A COLD EMAIL
Relevance (Why)
Request (CTA)
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The Offer
REDUCING FRICTION
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The Offer
INCREASING APPEAL
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Templates
COLD EMAIL TEMPLATES
Hey {{firstName}}
We help SaaS businesses like yours cut churn rates by 20% within
just 90 days
Best,
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Templates
COLD EMAIL TEMPLATES
Hi {{firstName}},
Thanks,
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Templates
COLD EMAIL TEMPLATES
Hi {{firstName}},
Thanks,
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Write Your First
COLD EMAIL
Relevance (Why)
Request (CTA)
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Advanced
FOOLING AI SPAM FILTERS
How do we further fool Ai SPAM filters? The trick is to look like you're not
sending hundreds of the same message out. The problem is, who has
time to do that? The solution is to use Syntax.
Enter these into your email copy and Instantly will randomly change each
email to the values you provide.
You should create several variations of each part of your email so that
you're able to have hundreds of variations.
Don't forget you can do this with your subject lines too.
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Write Your Syntax
VARIATIONS
Relevance (Why)
Request (CTA)
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Subject Lines
THAT GET OPENED
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Checklist
YOUR MESSAGE
You have your sequence written
You are using generic personalization (merge tags like first name,
company name, etc)
Important
Your first attempt might not be successful! But you'll need to send
out a statistically significant number of emails to know for sure. If
you're not getting positive replies within the first 200 emails sent,
then stop your campaign and re-write it.
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Step
4
LAUNCH LIKE A
LEGEND
Transformation Path
ROADMAP TO SUCCESS
1
Yes this might be a little boring to some but there's a
reason we start with it first ...Lets get it out of the way!
You'll look like a pro to all spam filters when we're done
here.
2
Finding your ideal prospects is key! We'll show you how Step
to find them quickly & accurately. We'll also show you
some sweet productivity hacks to ensure you don't get
stuck cleaning up contact data.
3
The longest module as this will be the biggest factor in
your success. If you don't have a compelling offer in your
emails, it doesn't matter how many hit the inbox.
You're here
4
How to launch your campaigns, the correct settings,
Step
what to track, and where to go from here. This is where it
gets exciting!
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Checklist
PRE-LAUNCH 🚀
Warmup been running ideally 3 weeks
You have your clean list of contacts you have also verified
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Goals
BENCHMARKS
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Launch Your First
CAMPAIGN
Settings
Business Hours in their Timezone
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Settings
Stop on Auto-reply
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Settings
Daily Sending Limit
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Ready
TO REPLY
Use the Unibox to reply
SPEED OF REPLY
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Checklist
LAUNCH READY
You checked your email customisation & Spintax works
You tested your email spam score (See Instantly email preview)
Important
This is your first campaign. Do not be disheartened if you don't
get loads of positive replies. Simply re-word your emails until you
start seeing the results closer to the benchmarks we discussed
earlier.
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Congratulations!
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What
IS YOUR NEXT STEP?
Now you have a killer outbound engine up and running that can generate
daily leads for you to convert into sales calls and new clients.
As you start seeing these positive replies roll in, you'll notice that not all of
them will turn into a booked meeting on your calendar. And even with those
you do book in, you will have "No-shows"....Where the prospect simply
doesn't attend the call you set with them. If you're running into problems with
either of those, I suggest you grab:
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Clients
TESTIMONIALS
JAMES LOUIS
"We were looking for a way to scale our outbound efforts. We now
get many positive replies a day to our inbox with customers
wanting to learn more, and it's all on auto-pilot.....we just lock in
the meetings and calls! "
DAVE MCCLATCHEY
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