Cold Email Volume vs Personalization: What Works

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1. The filtering logic is the most transferable thing from this video. Start with a big list of people who have some warm signal, a LinkedIn follower, a content consumer, someone who attended a webinar, someone who downloaded a lead magnet. Filter that list by ICP criteria: job title level, team size, geography. Then filter again by engagement signals: who has three or more team members who've consumed your content, who opened your last three emails, who clicked something. Now you have a list that's 2,000 people instead of 224,000, but every person on it has demonstrated relevance. That's the list worth personalizing. “Using Clay to connect your CRM data to your outbound prospecting table is genuinely powerful.” The subject line format of using names directly is something worth testing regardless of whether you use Clay. If you know three people at a company who are relevant to the email, put their names in the subject. It's not manipulation. It's proof that you did your homework.

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