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Eric Nowoslawski
March 2, 2026 6:25 PM
Stop Worrying About This in Your Cold Emails
I used to worry about silly things in my cold email campaigns.
I used to worry about silly things in my cold email campaigns. 5 years later, this is what I worry about and what I don't worry about. 1. Which tool I'm sending from. My brother and sisters in outbound, the underlying technology of how Smarltead and Instantly send email is the largely the same. Pick who you like the feature set of more and move on. 2. Does email warmup work and what are the perfect warmup settings. If email warmup didn't work, the platforms offering it unlimited for free would be the first people to ask you to shut it off so they could lower their AWS bill. I don't think there are perfect email warmup settings. As long as it's sending something and getting replies back it's fine. 3. Triple Validating Leads We validate our emails with million verifier before sending and enjoy the usage of bounce ban verified emails by using the Prospeo API. It's all going to be alright. 4. Spam words in my copy. Ok if you send "Bitcoin" or "jesus" or "oprah" you're going to have issues. But I see people asking questions in chats all the time about the word free or something. And it's ok in moderation. If you think you're having issues, pull it out and see if it improves. 5. The quest for email deliverability knowledge that no one else has. Any gimmick or strategy outside of the tried an true things we talk about on here all the time turns out to be a quick fad if it works at all or really not true. 6. 3rd party tools to tell if you're emails are going to spam Just check the reply rates of your domains... 7. Focusing on everything all at once in the copywriting vs spending 80% of my time on how I pitched the offer of what I'm helping to promote 8. Wondering if different email providers get better results than the others. Of course we use Hypertide.io and Zapmail.ai but if the provider you're using is fast and gives you access to the admin console, you're all set. 9. This might not fit as a worry, but you should run more tests than you think and see how the best brands run facebook ads. It's no different. Cold email is just a private ads network. 10. Working with a client where their website/case studies/social content wasn't dialed in. Yes that all helps but we run free tests where people can't look up the company and are just responding to the offer and it works all the time. What would you add to the list? | 16 comments on LinkedIn
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Eric Nowoslawski
March 2, 2026 6:25 PM
16 Requests Per Second for Less Than $1/Hour
Cutting AI Token Spend by 90% with Vast.ai
We're cutting our AI token spend by over 90% with one platform. Taking screenshots of technical websites is all you need to know how to do. Vast(.)ai has made it really easy to upload any open source model (I went with OSS 120B and OSS 20B) and we are calling it with the API. On one GPU that I can rent for less than 75 cents per hour, I cranked it up to 16 requests per second with my test prompts that had about 10,000 input tokens in them. At these rates, 90% is actually an underestimate. It's probably approaching 95-99%. I can't even give you a tutorial because I literally just asked ChatGPT how to set it up and took screenshots along the way when I had issues so here's some use cases we are using it for. 1. Finding the business owner of a local business. They don't often have linkedin profiles but will tell their story on their page. Basically free to go 2-3 levels deep on the website and get the content for OSS 120B to find the owner's name. 2. ICP classification of companies. We can make the prompt as long as we want with as much input as we want in order to get the best results. 3. Org Chart Mapping Lots of data can be passed in to the AI with the JSON of linkedin profiles and connections can be drawn by department, location, and self reported team affiliation on their profile. 4. Finding the right target to reach out to. Now you can get every contact in a department and pick the best one in order of your preferences. 5. Keep going further than ICP Classification and get all of the content from websites and learn anything about your prospect's public facing content. With basically unlimited AI throughput, it feels that almost anything is possible now. | 20 comments on LinkedIn
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Kellen Casebeer
March 2, 2026 6:25 PM
Clay Is a Weapon for the Curious
An underrated Clay benefit is “how it teaches you to think”
An underrated Clay benefit is “how it teaches you to think” A wide gap exists in almost every GTM org I’ve met with, between conceptual ideas of where they want to be Vs what their current day to day workflows and tasks look like Tools do not fix this alone, you need to learn to think differently Given the most powerful algorithm for calculating micronutrient deficiencies, most people cannot solve for “getting more l-theanine” on their own You could say that to them - and they’d move on - no benefit derived - even if it is true Had a convo today and was challenged by a customer: “what if their data isn’t better? What if their signals aren’t better than other signals?” It’s a fair impulse to ask this sort of thing, but highlights the gap in worldview Many companies today are nerfing themselves They are losing ground, because of ground gained in years prior What winning looks like today isn’t the same as 2025 and isn’t the same at all vs 2020 Back to Clay (not a sponsored post) Clay has changed the lives of more “used to be good at sales development and want to go to the next level” people than any other tool on the market The big crms aren’t doing this - the market was too mature already - revops technical solutions come from known Revops ecosystems Mature frameworks, copy pastable workflows, etc It’s comfy to buy a known future… contained boundaries Clay is wall to wall blackboard, a fresh box of chalk, and an eraser You walk up, you start from the first line, and over time you can do whatever you can imagine The limiting factor for sales dev people is often technical acumen - using the tool will guide you, with iteration, like those early cold calls you stumbled through Don’t give up The limiting factor for technical people is often creativity and tactical familiarity (aka all the stuff 💜 🔮 Will Allred posts, among many others) This batch needs to just send it - let themselves fall on their face - and iterate forward as well; similar to making those first cold calls, stumbling through the ups and downs, and one day finding yourself quite alright at this weird little skillset If your company doesn’t want to fund those early stumbles - that’s where this big bright ecosystem of service business exists - many inside GTMCafe.com where we convene weekly for a mastermind of GTM excellence (free to all, no better space) The future will be orchestrated by talented, in the know people, with more asymetrical impact than ever before Weapon of choice? Clay (among others - but this is sincerely where you should start) | 19 comments on LinkedIn
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Tim Yakubson
March 2, 2026 6:25 PM
22 tips to stay organized in Clay (so you don't burn credits like an idiot)
Mastering Clay: 22 Essential Tips for Efficient Organization
22 tips to stay organized in Clay (so you don't burn credits like an idiot) ​ 1. Label inputs, steps, and outputs clearly. Input = what you need to start the Clay table (full name, LinkedIn URL, etc.). Steps = enrichments (Step 1, Step 2 etc). Outputs = final action (email, CRM push). Makes troubleshooting 10x easier. ​ 2. Color-code everything. Green = inputs. Yellow = needs tweaking. Red = something's broken. ​ 3. Use folders. SOP templates, client work, in-progress tables, temp tables. Delete untitled workbooks immediately. ​ 4. Know what Clay does / doesn't. Clay is the middleman. Always ask: What are my inputs? What does Clay do with them? What's the output? Etc, etc. ​ 5. Enable auto-deduplication. Bottom-right corner. NEVER spend credits twice on the same contact. ​ 6. Turn the table OFF when importing data. "Auto update columns" will burn credits before you're ready. Switch it off. Bottom-right corner. ​ 7. Test on 1 row. Then 2. Then scale. Run 1. If it works, run 2. If it works, run all. ​ 8. Switch off auto-update on complex tables. Stops enrichments from auto-triggering the next step and draining credits. ​ 9. Focus on ONE table at a time. Shiny object syndrome kills productivity. Start to finish. Then move on. Oh, and do not try to replicate the giveaway Clay tables from Linkedin posts. They are 99% BS and won’t work. ​ 10. Save other people's templates separately. Use them as inspiration only. Everyone's tech stack is different. ​ 11. Save YOUR templates for reuse. Spent 30 minutes writing a killer prompt? Save it. You'll use it again. ​ 12. Build waterfall templates. Email finders, enrichment chains - set them up once and then reuse them forever. ​ 13. Use Clay Functions. Automates repetitive enrichment flows. Will save you HOURS. ​ 14. Create a Do Not Contact (DNC) list. Separate table. Cross-reference with "Lookup Multiple Rows" so you never contact the same person twice. ​ 15. Push contacts to a CRM table. After adding leads to campaigns, write them to a master CRM table in Clay. Keeps everything organized. ​ 16. Define scope before building. Write down: Step 1, Step 2, Step 3. Then match each step to an enrichment + prompt. ​ 17. Prompt AI properly (6-step framework): → Input (what you're starting with) → Action (what you want AI to do) → Constraints (word count, format) → Prefix (sentence structure) → Example (show AI what good looks like) → Click “Generate” to generate the mega-prompt inside Clay ​ 18. Mark broken columns in red. Mental shortcut when you re-open the table. ​ 19. Check credit consumption. Settings → Credits Usage. See which tables are burning credits and replace them using external APIs. ​ 20. Buy tools outside Clay Cheaper to use Prospeo or Lead Magic directly than through Clay enrichments. ​ 21. Delete unused tables. Clean workspace = clear head. ​ 22. Don't overcomplicate it. Most people add 20 enrichments trying to look fancy. Start simple. Add complexity only when needed.
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Eric Nowoslawski
March 2, 2026 6:25 PM
Why Generic AI Personalization No Longer Works
The tests are in and we are not allowing generic AI personalizations based on company descriptions as first lines anymore. I could prove this raised reply rates but recently, in most markets, it…
The tests are in and we are not allowing generic AI personalizations based on company descriptions as first lines anymore. I could prove this raised reply rates but recently, in most markets, it falls flat. We try to always lead with some kind of signal or pain point that we research but if we can't do that, we would fall back to a company description based personalization. Something like, "I saw you help fitness coaches retain clients and I wanted to get connected." We used to see increased reply rates when we personalized first lines with AI-generated content scraped from company websites. Now the data is pointing the opposite direction. Sophisticated buyers recognize generic AI personalization instantly which hurts your message: - "Hey, I saw how you helped fitness enthusiasts breathe better..." - "I noticed you're focused on helping local businesses..." - Generic references to their company description They've seen it a thousand times. Here's what we do instead: If we have a real signal: We use it. Something specific, custom-scraped, that ties directly to their problem and our value prop. **If we don't have a signal:** We treat cold email like a banner ad. Put the offer in the preview text. Make it punchy. No fake personalization. Think about it: When someone's scrolling on their phone or web browser, they see the subject line + preview text together. That's your click opportunity. Stop wasting time generating first lines from company descriptions. Unless you have custom research that goes well beyond what's publicly available on their homepage, foregoing AI personalization and writing punchy, split-tested first lines performs better. We've seen this deteriorate over the past six months across our customer base and as someone that would suggest it based on the data, I want to correct the record and say we're out of it now.
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Felix Frank
March 1, 2026 10:02 PM
Two Hires That Can Replace a Whole Sales Team
If I was head of sales for a SaaS start up, Here’s the only 2 growth hires I’d make :
If I was head of sales for a SaaS start up, Here’s the only 2 growth hires I’d make : 1. GTM Engineer → Owns data, signals, infra, and automation → Running high volume email + LinkedIn campaigns 2. Elite SDR → Lives on the phone 90%+ of the day → Just dials high-intent prospects all day long Now, the question is 👇 How do you make these 2 roles work together and get the planned output? The GTME (AKA the builder): → Maps your full TAM using AI Ark, Sales Nav, DiscoLike → Tracks buying signals across RB2B, Leadfeeder, LoneScale → Sets up email + LinkedIn infra that can hit 100k+ prospects monthly → Launches AI-powered campaigns via Claude + Smartlead and GetSales.io → Enriches data through Prospeo.io, LeadMagic, BounceBan The SDR (AKA the closer): → Gets auto-fed positive replies from email + LinkedIn → Receives pre-qualified prospects with mobile numbers → Dials 250+ high-intent prospects daily → Spends zero time on list building or admin Now, the feedback loop that makes it scale: → No replies? New campaigns are spun up daily until a winner is found → Bad numbers? Leads auto-re-enriched with fresh data → GTME keeps feeding new signals, new campaigns, new lists → SDR refines cold call pitch with Gong intelligence Stop hiring bloated sales teams. Bet on just 2 killers instead. Builder. Closer. Infra + Execution. Want help building something similar for your business? Drop me a DM. | 36 comments on LinkedIn
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Adam Robinson
March 1, 2026 9:56 PM
3 Cold Email Tweaks That 5x’d Results
Boost Cold Email Conversions with Retention.com
These 3 changes to our cold email copy 5x’d demos booked last week. OLD VERSION: Subj: $18 per lead is a lot Body: You’re paying ~$18 per lead or more on Meta right now. And, some more if they don’t convert for the first time. Meanwhile, your ESP is only able to identify 15% of this traffic, which means more visitors stay anonymous. Retention.com helps you identify these high-intent anonymous visitors, so you can bring them back to buy without pouring more money into remarketing. Right now, we’re letting a few brands test it: Get your first 10,000 leads for free ($1k value). No commitment required. Just see if it works. Thoughts? NEW VERSION: Subj: 10k leads on us Subhead: (not kidding) Body: Retention (dot) com identifies your anonymous website traffic and gives you email addresses of people who don’t fill out a form. We’ll give you your first 10,000 email addresses free, then it’s just 10c per email. No contract, cancel anytime. Want me to send a video of how it works? THE CHANGES WE MADE: CHANGE #1 - 1 IDEA PER EMAIL - The old version talked about price per lead, ESP resolution rate, and - The new version talks about what we do and that’s it CHANGE #2 - KILLER SUBJECT LINE - The old version is definitely NOT the “punchiest” way we could be describing ourselves - The new version is closer to a “I’ll stop scrolling and click through” subject line - it’s just a crazy offer CHANGE #3 - CLEAR AND CONCISE - The old version does not express the clearest essence of our pitch in as few words as possible - The new version punches you in the face with the “so what” and “prove it” tests - New version is also more conversational, which I like TAKEAWAY Cold email is hard. Writing great copy for cold email is even harder. When you sit down to write your next outbound email, remember: 1. One idea per email 2. Clear and concise 3. Seek out a $100m offer Did I miss anything? | 43 comments on LinkedIn
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Brigitta Ruha
February 19, 2026 1:13 AM
TAM Refreshes Faster Than You Think
What if we run out of target accounts? What if we burn them?" (I hear this at least once a week.)
What if we run out of target accounts? What if we burn them?" (I hear this at least once a week.) And honestly? That’s the wrong fear. Your TAM doesn't run out. Here's why the "we'll burn through our list" excuse is bullshit: 1️⃣ Your market is gonna change New people join companies every quarter. Roles shift. Restructuring happens. Decision-makers rotate. The VP you pitched 6 months ago? They might be gone. The Director who ignored you? They just got promoted and now own a budget. And sometimes… You even change who you market to. Your TAM isn't static; it's constantly refreshing. Don’t think in snapshots; it’s a motion. ✌️ 2️⃣ Your service/product evolves You launch new services. You add new angles. You test different messaging. The more different teams I work with, the more I come to realize that most of them truly underestimate how much their GTM actually changes over time. You're not the same company you were 6 months ago, so why are you still pitching like you are? So if you're still worried about "burning through your TAM," here's a quick audit: → Have you tested 3+ messaging angles this quarter? → Have you revisited accounts from 6+ months ago with a new offer? → Have you scrapped your "perfect" pitch and tried something weird? No? Then you haven't run out of TAM. You've run out of experiments. 😂 (& if you need help running those experiments, you know where to find me 📲) | 69 comments on LinkedIn
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Enzo Carasso
February 16, 2026 12:58 AM
How to Build Outbound That Actually Works
What separates outbound that works from outbound that breaks?
What separates outbound that works from outbound that breaks? Three things. 1. STRATEGY ❌ Bad outbound: → Weak offer that sounds like everyone else → Too broad, no real ICP → Random messaging tests → Value saved for the call ✅ Good outbound: → Clear outbound-specific offer → ICP with buying pain → Defined positioning → Value delivered before meetings Your offer needs to work for cold contacts, not warm leads. How: Test your offer on 10 cold prospects before scaling. If they don't respond asking for more, your offer isn't strong enough. 2. SYSTEMS ❌ Bad outbound: → Poor inbox setup → Too many disconnected tools → No meeting metrics → Breaks when scaled ✅ Good outbound: → Strong deliverability infrastructure → Clean data → Clear metrics → Simple workflows → SDR and sales alignment You can't optimize what you can't measure. You can't scale what breaks at volume. How: Build infrastructure for 10,000+ daily sends from day one. Deliverability, domain rotation, reply handling. What works at 200 sends will kill you at 2,000. 3. EXECUTION ❌ Bad outbound: → Inconsistent volume → Burned inboxes → Replies with no intent → Meetings that go nowhere → No control over output ✅ Good outbound: → Consistent volume → Safe sending → Replies driven by the offer → Qualified meetings → Predictable pipeline Volume without quality is noise. Quality without volume is luck. Both need to work at scale. How: Track what qualifies as a real meeting. If your SDR and sales definitions don't match, your metrics are meaningless. ❌ Bad outbound tries to fix execution with better copy. ✅ Good outbound fixes strategy and systems first. Then executes at volume. Founders skip straight to execution and wonder why nothing sticks. We prove it works before you pay. 3-4 qualified meetings. You verify ICP fit. Apply for a pilot: https://bit.ly/C17Pilot Repost to help others fix their outbound. Follow Enzo Carasso 🧲 for infrastructure that scales. | 75 comments on LinkedIn
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Alex Fine
February 12, 2026 4:33 AM
Why Your Outreach Is Missing the Mark
Relevance Trumps Personalization in Outbound Sales
One of my clients texted me this picture of a post (actually an ad 😉) from my friend Hans and asked me if I agree with it. The answer is a definitive yes. I absolutely agree. Relevance and a high quality offer will ALWAYS beat personalization in terms of setting meetings and converting new opportunities. But they don't necessarily do the same thing. Relevance beats personalization in terms of generating legitimate interest in whatever it is that you're selling. This is why signal based outreach is so dang important vs. only completely cold outreach and high volumes (although this works too. Just varies by offer/company). Personalization definitely does help too, but it plays a different role. RELEVANT personalized lines make people feel heard and understood, which has a slight improvement on positive response rates. But more importantly, it helps from a deliverability perspective. It helps you bypass spam filters and land in the primary inbox more frequently when sending email campaigns. ESPs are using AI to determine whether you're a spammer or a legitimate sender. If you're reaching out to relevant buyers with relevant messaging, you are not a spammer. You're scaling your company through outbound sales. In fact, we're working a client that ONLY targets people using outlook as their ESP. If you know anything about cold outbound in 2026, you know that outlook is difficult to land in. But with a blend of personalization and relevant targeting, we're still seeing 9%, 6%, and 4% reply rates on multiple campaigns at scale. This is truly best-in-class. Shout-out to Mark Lim. So does relevance beat personalization? 100% yes. But you need both in order to maximize your success with outbound campaigns in 2026. | 29 comments on LinkedIn
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Varun Anand
February 12, 2026 4:21 AM
Clay Ads Is Live
Ads (!!) in Clay is happening. I'm really hyped about this product expansion 🔥 We are already seeing customers like Slack, Anthropic and Rippling hit 90%+ match rates against their paid ad…
Ads (!!) in Clay is happening. I'm really hyped about this product expansion 🔥 We are already seeing customers like Slack, Anthropic and Rippling hit 90%+ match rates against their paid ad audience on LinkedIn and 60%+ on Meta. This is 2-4x what they were getting before, which is a massive win for marketing teams. Even more, Clay can update audiences in real-time as new records come in. That means no more passing CSVs back and forth between systems. Update lists and suppress closed-won customers/CRM contacts automatically. Your ad campaigns are only as good as the people who see them. Now you can finally target the right accounts (the ones you actually care about!) and right titles across channels, without wasting money and time on the rest. Here's one example of a campaign you can run: 1. Setup website intent in Clay to deanonymize web traffic 2. Search in Find People for your ICP contacts 3. Enrich them to find their hashed advertising IDs using our ads ID waterfall 4. Create audiences in Ads to run ABM campaigns 5. Convert them deeper into the funnel where you can message them in a highly personalized way. If an account is cold, you show thought leadership and awareness ads. If they become aware, you start showing social proof / middle of funnel (think: webinars, case studies). If they are warm, you can try to convert them via leadgen ads and send direct to sales. All of this happens programmatically as engagement score goes up on an account. They get pushed by Clay to a different Ads audience and naturally start seeing different type of ads. Clay Ads is in open beta today for enterprise customers (check left sidebar of home page) and we are looking for feedback from marketers to make it best in class. Let us know if you want to try it. Learn more at clay.com/ads and register your interest in the beta here: https://lnkd.in/gfNbQ2Ku | 145 comments on LinkedIn
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Patrick Spychalski
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