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Cold email has a bad reputation — but only because most people do it badly. The truth is, when you approach it strategically, cold email outreach can be a cost effective way to reach your target audience, land your biggest and best clients, and create a steady pipeline of new business.
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Still wondering why your cold email campaigns get ignored – or worse, land in the spam folder? It’s probably not your pitch or your subject line. Nine times out of ten, the culprit is weak cold email infrastructure. If you’re firing off campaigns from your main domain, skipping DNS setup, or trusting a single inbox to do all the heavy lifting, you’re setting yourself up for disappointment.
Email feedback loops protect your sender reputation. Learn how they work, why they matter, and how to use them to avoid spam folders and complaints.
Outreach has changed in 2025 and beyond. Remember when you could send a cold email to anyone with an inbox and expect at least a half-interested reply? Those days are long gone. Your target audience is flooded – maybe even drowning – in sales outreach, marketing strategies, LinkedIn DMs, and the same tired “quick question” subject lines. No wonder response rates keep slipping and more emails end up in the spam folder than ever before.
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Hit send. Hit a limit. Hit the spam folder? That’s the risk with cold email outreach. Send too few emails and no one replies, send too many and you risk being marked as spam.