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Most cold email campaigns fail before the first send. Wrong contacts. Outdated jobs. Catch-all domains. Poor targeting. Most teams fix this by writing better copy. Very few fix the list. In our next Office Hours session, Hamied Elias Kermani & Brian Hadi (Co-Founders, AI Ark) break down the hidden list-building strategies behind 1000+ positive replies - using AI Ark and Smartlead. 📅 Thursday, 4 June ⏰ 11 AM EDT | 8:30 PM IST | 4 PM BST ✅ How AI bees build high-performing outbound lists ✅ Why 30% of your outreach may hit people who changed jobs ✅ The catch-all email problem and how to target them safely ✅ Why bounced emails are often misunderstood ✅ Better approaches to enrichment and verification ✅ Practical workflows using AI Ark + Smartlead ✅ Free Claude Skill giveaway connected to AI Ark’s database Save your spot now 👉 https://lnkd.in/gv9v3jgH

So I've got a few since yesterday about "SMTP" warmups on Smartlead I'll remove the suspense for everyone. We're the `only` platform in the world that keeps it performance-based AND completely transparent. Yes, we have 100s of pools, and you will know at all times which pool you are in and the gateway to the next pool. Transparently, not hidden anywhere. No you don't get there by "buying" your way in with us, it's programmatic. If your accounts do well, you have well-set-up mailboxes, don't have disconnects, they go up the pool later, in a proprietary manner. To oversimplify a rather complex system setup. You can read up all about how we do it in the first commment. Now back to winning and not whining. 😉

🏆 Smartlead Hall of Fame Spotlight: Xavier COIFFARD This month, we're spotlighting someone who doesn't just run outbound campaigns - He engineers the systems behind them. Meet Xavier Coiffard, Founder & CEO of LeadLead BangBang, helping companies build outbound engines that are designed to scale. Xavier focuses on what most teams overlook: ICP targeting, data quality, infrastructure, and outreach built for real buyers - turning outbound from a guessing game into a repeatable growth system. And the results speak for themselves: ✅ 36% reply rate on a 457-lead campaign ✅ 53% positive reply rate (87 interested prospects) ✅ €300K in signed contracts generated for a client in 12 months ✅ 212 qualified meetings delivered over 14 months ✅ 40% lead-to-meeting conversion on a targeted outbound campaign ✅ Multi-language campaigns running across European markets But just as important as the outcomes is Xavier's approach. He believes great outbound starts with the fundamentals - clear ICPs, clean data, reliable infrastructure, and systems built to scale. 🔥 PS: Stay tuned - Xavier's AMA is dropping soon inside the Slack community!

We’ve completely rebuilt your support experience from the ground up. Finding a fix shouldn't mean leaving your dashboard to hunt through help docs. When you hit a roadblock, you need answers right then and there. With SmartAssistant, support is now built directly into every page of Smartlead. It looks at your real account data, spots the issue, and gives you the exact fix. Instant support, right where you work ✨

Stop missing out on these Smartlead settings. Most people only use the basics, but tweaking a few key features can completely change your campaign results. We see people missing out on these 5 things all the time: 1️⃣ Sending way too much: Email providers see BOTH your campaign and warmup emails. If you send 20 of each, they see 40 total. Keep the combined total under 30 per mailbox to stay safe. 2️⃣ Low warmup replies: Do not leave this at the 30% default. Bump it to 40–60%. High reply rates tell spam filters you are trustworthy and build your sender reputation much faster. 3️⃣ No email diversity: If you only use SMTP, you are locked out of the cleanest warmup pools. You need a healthy mix of Gmail, Outlook, and SMTP to qualify. 4️⃣ Repeating subject lines: Never send the exact same line hundreds of times. Use spin tags so the system automatically rotates your words to avoid looking like a robot. 5️⃣ The "Enhanced" toggle: This feature specifically matches Gmail to Gmail, and Outlook to Outlook. If you only use SMTP, pushing this button does absolutely nothing. So next time you set up your campaigns, take 5 minutes to audit these settings before you hit send. Ps: Would love to know which of these you got wrong?

We sent 10,000 cold emails to a 100% cold audience. That generated 465 positive replies. No inbound leads. No referrals. No previous contacts. Just completely cold prospects contacted for the first time. Most people think cold email is dead, or that you need to blast thousands of emails a day to make it work. That's not what happened here. So Gabriel just recorded a video where I open up the actual Smartlead dashboard and walk through the real numbers, plus the exact setup behind them. We cover: → The 4 things every winning cold campaign nails (ICP, offer, list, and sequence) → Why we never ask for a meeting in the first email (and the softer offer we use instead) → The location-based targeting angle that made these emails feel personal to every prospect → The 3-email sequence we ran, and why the angle changes on the third email Watch the full video here https://lnkd.in/gHp6Q8Kp

"I didn't know SmartProspect was already in my plan." We get this message a lot. If you're on a Smartlead Unlimited Smart or Prime plan, you're sitting on a massive B2B database that you don't need to pay extra for. SmartProspect lives directly inside your platform: ✅ Search 300M+ verified leads instantly ✅ Hyper-target by title, industry, headcount, and location ✅ Real-time verification means zero stale data hits your sends ✅ No CSV exports- push contacts straight to your active campaigns 👉 Don't pay for leads you already have - start here https://lnkd.in/gHpczwWG

How many tools do you use to set up a cold email campaign? If your answer is four or more, you're working way too hard. The typical outbound stack looks like this: Lead finder ➔ Verifier ➔ Warmer ➔ Sender. Between those four tools? Endless CSV exports, tedious column mapping, and about 95 minutes of manual setup you didn’t plan for. That’s not a workflow - it’s a setup tax. But with SmartProspect built directly into Smartlead, we removed the friction entirely: ✅ Search 300M+ verified B2B leads ✅ Verify contacts instantly in real time ✅ Push directly to your active campaigns All this without ever leaving the dashboard 👉 Try SmartProspect today

How do you make 50 clients all feel like they are your only client 👀 Scaling an agency usually breaks the customer experience, but Abdul Mukati shared a wild hack at #SmartEscape for anticipating churn before it starts Hit play to hear his exact strategy 👇

We sat down with a customer recently to review their setup before their first campaign. The copy was solid. The offer was clear. But the campaign was set up to underperform. Here's what we fixed in one call: 1️⃣ Turned off open/click tracking 2️⃣ Increased send delays to 15-20 mins 3️⃣ Cut follow-ups to 2-3 days 4️⃣ Swapped HTML unsubscribes for a P.S. line 5️⃣ Capped sequences at 3 steps So if your foundation is broken, your copy doesn't matter. Fix the setup first.