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"Cold calling is dead." We hear it all the time. We disagree. Calling without context is dead. That's why SmartDialer brings phone calls directly into your outreach sequence. So when it's time to call, your reps already know the full story: ✅ Every email sent ✅ Every open ✅ Every reply Better context. Better conversations. Try SmartDialer and see what's changed👇

Outbound Lead Generation: Your complete guide to understanding the costs, steps, strategies, and when it actually makes sense for your business 👇

Most sales teams are leaving meetings on the table because they're afraid to pick up the phone. @MattLucero_ , Founder of Anevo Marketing, explains how calling leads who've already replied to your cold emails can almost double your booked meetings. 🎙️ Cold to Close S2 E05 is LIVE! full episode 👇

No more silent failures. Which means no more finding out a week later that a lead’s reply never made it to your CRM. 😬 Until now, there wasn’t an easy way to catch that inside Smartlead. So we built Webhook Activity, and it’s live now. Here’s what you can do with it: → See every webhook Smartlead sends, and whether it actually went through → Find out why one failed, explained in plain words → Resend a failed one yourself, with one click And if an endpoint keeps failing for 7 days, we’ll switch it off and email you, so it doesn’t keep failing quietly in the background. Take a look under Settings → Webhook → Activity 👀

Some things are just too good to keep to ourselves. Like what Krista Poth from Limadata had to say about Smartlead. 🥹 But we'll let you hear it from her. Thanks for the love, Krista! 💜

Nice work, @ankitLeadplus! 🙌

GTM builders, assemble! 🫡

An agency was getting a 2.3% reply rate while sending 250 cold emails a day. Now, they want to scale to 1,000 a day without ruining their deliverability. For context, they’d just moved to a fresh private IP after their old setup stopped working. Here’s how they’re scaling without rushing it: 1. Warm up before scaling. Start with 14 days of warmup, then send 10–15 cold emails per mailbox per day. Give the reply rate a couple more weeks to settle before increasing volume. 2. Take it slow. Start with 10–15 emails per mailbox a day. Watch the replies for two weeks before sending more. 3. Keep each mailbox under control. Cap every mailbox at 20 emails a day. Need more volume? Add more mailboxes instead of pushing each one harder. To send 1,000 emails a day, you’ll need at least 50 mailboxes. 4. Increase volume gradually. Go from 250 → ~500 → ~700 → 1,000 emails a day over about three weeks. Only move up when sending health stays stable. 5. Don’t stop warmup. Keep sending 7–10 warmup emails a day, with a 50–60% reply rate. Not 100%, because real inboxes don’t reply to every email. 6. Don’t ignore out-of-office replies. Their actual reply rate is 2–2.3%. Include OOO replies, and it jumps to 4–4.5%. An OOO reply still tells you the email reached an inbox. Most teams are happy with a 1% reply rate. They’re getting roughly double that, and they’re still scaling. Save this for your next cold email ramp. 🔖 🔖

We sat down with @yasser_elsaid_, founder of @chatbase , who built a profitable AI business without raising VC funding. His take? why use AI just to hire fewer people when you can build things that weren't possible before? We also got into why building an AI demo is easy, but making it work for real customers is a whole different story. Cold to Close S2 E04 is live 👇

Introducing SmartServices, a fully managed cold email service from Smartlead. We handle your outbound from start to finish, so you can focus on growing your business. Here's what we take care of: ✔️ Setting up and managing your email infrastructure ✔️Building fresh lead lists every week using live buying signals ✔️ Replacing underperforming domains ✔️ Writing and testing email sequences ✔️ Monitoring deliverability ✔️ Sorting through replies to find the ones that matter The best part? Everything runs inside your own Smartlead workspace. You get weekly updates and focus on taking the meetings. We handle the day-to-day outbound work. Book now → smartlead.ai/managed-outboun…

SPF, DKIM, and DMARC can all pass, and your emails can still bounce. So, if you’re suddenly seeing more bounces than usual, don’t jump to the conclusion that something’s wrong with your domains. Before changing anything in your setup, there are a few things you should check first. Here’s a simple 7-point checklist:

Things we're ghosting this October 👻 👻 Manual DNS setup 👻 Editing campaigns one by one 👻 Switching between inboxes 👻 Juggling tools for email, LinkedIn & calls 👻 Waiting weeks to start sending 👻 Replacing failing mailboxes manually Your turn. 👇 #smartleadai #Halloween #Halloween2026

Look what @ENowoslawski has to say about us. 👀 We're blushing, to say the least. ☺️ Thanks for the love, Eric! 💜

Last call to win 6 months of @smartlead_ai Pro 👀 Our billboards are up in SF, and the giveaway ends tomorrow, Oct 31! Spot us? Take a selfie, post it on LinkedIn, tag @Smartlead & use #SmartleadSpotted You could also get featured during our Office Hours!

How to build email infra that actually lasts (according to @dsouzaalan who scaled @zapmail_ai to $50M+ ARR in under 30 months) 🎙️ S02 EP03 with Alan D'Souza is LIVE

Thanks, @pmitu 🫡

Cold outreach in 2030: alive or dead? 👀 We asked two Smartleaders some rapid-fire questions, and a few answers caught us by surprise! 😂 Watch and tell us which take you agree with most! 👇

We just needed a little space 👀