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Why Cold Email Is Too Crowded to Work Anymore

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Why Cold Email Is Too Crowded to Work Anymore

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28 segments

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on my LinkedIn DMs across all Covertly

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customers, man, we're probably way over

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a million plus per month. And so, we see

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a lot of activity and a lot of data on

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LinkedIn. And if you just step back a

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little bit, and you think about the

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whole entire outbound hemisphere, right?

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Like, cold email it's never been

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cheaper, easier, faster to launch cold

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emails than ever before. Because of

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that, that channel is just It is

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crowded. It's not to say it doesn't

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work. Cold email still works. We do it

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for what? 250 plus clients. We send over

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2 million emails a month. It It's still

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a great channel, but if you have a hard

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offer, and I would say most people do.

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They don't have anything that really

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separates them from the rest of the

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market. They don't have something that

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can really con- convert on cold. They're

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maybe in a competitive or commoditized

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space. And let's take a simple example,

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like SEO for dentist. Super hard to sell

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via cold email. But when you take it to

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channels that are harder to scale and

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are a little bit more quiet, like

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LinkedIn, results are just insane.

Interactive Summary

The speaker analyzes the current state of outbound marketing channels, highlighting that while cold email is highly accessible and widely used, it has become increasingly crowded. For businesses with competitive or commoditized offerings, moving to less saturated channels like LinkedIn can yield significantly better results.

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