Lead generation is broken.

Too many companies:

- Try to generate leads themselves, but fail
- Hire a lead gen agency with bloated retainers who can’t deliver

Lead generation as a whole is always changing, so unless you’ve got a dedicated team
on it (that knows what they’re doing) — you can expect to overpay for underwhelming
results.

That said, in 2025 — you don’t need to try to generate leads yourself, or pay an
outsized retainers for subpar work.

With Leadbird, you:

- Don’t pay for overpriced retainers
- Only pay per meeting-ready-lead we deliver
- Get the expertise of career outbound salespeople

We achieve this for you through:

- Targeted lead list building
- Domain + inbox set-up and warm-up
- Proven cold email copywriting principles
- Done-for-you cold email campaign management

Book a free demo from the link in my bio to join over 115 active clients getting
high-quality, meeting-ready-leads every single month.

Talk soon,
Nick

Nick Abraham

Maybe I’m falling for ragebait, but cold email has let me:

(1) Drop out of college.

(2) Grow my own agency to multi 7-figures of revenue.

(3) Employ 30+ people around the world full-time.

(4) Buy my sister and Dad cars.

(5) Rent my dream apartment.

(6) Buy my first 5 properties.

(7) Work with 100s of businesses.

(8) Make lifelong friends.

(9) Give my future family a financial head start.

Just remember, for every one person that dunks on cold outbound, there's another person whose life was changed because of it.

I send 2M+ cold emails and 1M+ LinkedIn DMs per month for 1,000+ active clients across Leadbird and Cleverly

Gemini 3 cannot sell a $10k service package.
GPT 5.1 cannot sell a $10k service package.
Llama 4 cannot sell a $10k service package.
Opus 4.5 cannot sell a $10k service package.
DeepSeek-R1 cannot sell a $10k service package.

A great human seller can.

I posted the below tweet earlier this year. If I could edit it, I would say:

“If I had a son, I would preach that you can either be top 1% in whatever job you have or risk losing it to AI’.”

Because “AI is going to eliminate [insert role]” is surface level thinking, and too broad of a generalization.

It is, of course, going to eliminate roles, but not roles in their entirety. 

Instead, it will eliminate the bottom 99% of certain roles while accelerating the top 1% of others.

Sales is a great example.

AI can handle a lot of the outreach process, even including script writing. What it can’t do is work a deal the way a human would.

The same can be said for a lot of software dev work, in my opinion. Great engineers will never be out of work, but average/mediocre ones likely will.

In short: if you want to AI-proof yourself, become top 1% at what you do. Easier said than done, I know…but very much worth it.

I jokingly posted this and SO many people commented or messaged about Agency 3 and asked for an intro. This is a huge problem.

This post was a joke. No lead gen agency worth their salt would ever take a deal in which they generate leads for clients, and only get paid if/when the client closes them.

We can't control what the client does after we generate the lead.

- What if they simply don’t engage with them?
- What if the lead asks to follow up later, and they don’t?
- What if their sales team just can’t close for their product/service?
- What if their pricing is way off the market norm?
- What if their reviews online are terrible, and the prospects drop out pre-call?
- What if they have no social proof and can't build trust with prospects?

There is so much that is out of the lead generation agency's control. 

Moreover, the client will have no skin in the game and not value the opportunity if they have no risk associated 

The agency can do their job perfectly and even go above and beyond and still make zero dollars because of something on client’s side.

Just a word of warning!

Excited and grateful to share I’ve reached 20,000 followers here on LinkedIn!

Almost 3 years ago, with 3,000 followers, I started posting the most valuable content I could every day (sometimes 2x per day).

Since then, I’ve been able to:

- Meet lots of awesome people I now consider friends.
- Learn a ton about outbound, GTM, and marketing.
- Attract incredible clients we’re extremely grateful for

Whether you were one of the first 3,000 or a part of the next 17,000, I truly want to say thank you. None of it's possible without you.

To that point, I only ask of you is to comment what type of content you want to see more of moving forward!

Super excited to show off our new client portal that makes it far easier for clients to track replies!

Before, we had clients logging into Smartlead to check email replies, then switching to a LinkedIn inbox manager for DM responses, then tracking cold calls elsewhere.

The entire lead gen operation was fragmented across three interfaces that didn't really interconnect.

Clients would miss responses because they forgot to check one of the platforms. They'd get confused about which channel was performing better. 

The biggest sign of this was support tickets kept coming in asking where to find specific replies.

So, we effectively rebuilt our client portal, using MasterInbox as the common thread. Now when clients log in, they see everything in one feed (emails, calls, DMs) that looks completely native to our platform.

Most importantly, clients have commented on how much easier this is for them.

Not to mention, it helps us, too. We've eliminated ~80% of the "where do I find my replies?" support requests. 

As for performance, clients are responding to leads faster because they're not losing track of conversations across multiple tools.

We're rolling this out to all clients because the upgrade is that significant.

Of the 1,000s of client campaigns we've run this year, the best-performer in recent memory was for a yoga studio.

I am big on local lead generation, and this is a perfect example of it. 

This yoga studio hired us to reach out to other businesses to try to get them to book group classes, retreats, off-sites, etc.

So, we scraped lead lists of local businesses and wrote a hyper-local cold email campaign to go with it.

And though you might expect the best performing campaign to be for an agency with a great offer or a hot new SaaS product, this blew others out of the water 

The point is that cold email for local businesses is wildly underrated. If you have or know of a local business interested in generating leads via cold email, feel free to reach out.

We’d love to replicate this.

If you’ve ever pulled leads from Apollo or anything else using “Industry” filters, read this post to make them way more accurate:

They have miscategorized companies in the industry that aren’t relevant to your ICP.

We've been using a new method to get our refined TAM into one list.

See, most lead lists give you name, email, company, LinkedIn URL, and a generic "industry" tag. The problem is that those industry classifications are wrong a lot of the time.

You end up messaging wrong accounts or missing perfect fits.

We found a way to fix this using data already in your lists.

Every company LinkedIn URL comes with an "About Us" section where they describe exactly what they do.

Process:

- Take 3-5 dream clients.
- Go to their LinkedIn About Us sections.
- Pull out every relevant keyword - product terms, customer segments, pain points, industry language. Build a keyword bank.

This takes 20 minutes.

Now layer this on top of broad industry tags. Instead of just "Healthcare," filter for Healthcare companies whose About Us mentions your specific keywords.

Gets you from the neighborhood into the right house.

This is basically advanced semantic filtering without expensive AI tools.

Use the company's own words to qualify them instead of relying on generic industry buckets.

My agency has 283 active clients. If we don't get to 1,000 by the end of 2026, I'll view the year as a failure. There are 3 things we need to do to get there:

LEVER 1 – Churn Reduction

We want to cut our churn in half.

Our sales team don't lie to prospects, but much of the churn does come from misaligned expectations around lead generation, so we are investing a lot in making that extremely clear up front.

LEVER 2 – More Time On Growth

This sounds obvious, but few people do it in practice. It's so easy to get caught up in day-to-day operations and not spend enough time on top of funnel activity.

There's so much more we could be doing (YouTube, ads, events, etc.) here.

LEVER 3 – Make Sure Our Team Levels Up

To serve 1,000 clients, we need to make sure our team is operating at all levels.

We had them at off-sites in Dubai and Cape Town in the past few months, and we'll do another one next year.

More tangibly, we are trying to get them more ingrained in lead gen overall.

We are asking them to go follow other leaders in the space and consume their content on a regular basis.

To me, this is an undeniable way to level up.

This comes off the heels of rebuilding our client portal and making it crystal clear and easy to operate. If you have any questions or want to see more on this, let me know.

Every time my family or friends came over and used my washroom, they'd come out laughing at me.

Not because of something in the washroom, but because of something they saw in my shower.

See, back then I used to write the most important goals in my life down and stick them on the wall in my shower.

This way, I would quite literally be forced to stare at them day in and day out.

I've always been of the belief that seeing these types of things written out on a repetitive basis just makes your brain tick different.

And my shower notes were the perfect example.

Years ago, doing $1M of ARR was a complete pipe dream.

Today, doing $1M of ARR means something went horribly wrong.

I'm extremely proud of this and urge you to write down your goals in a place you'll be forced to read them daily (shower, desk, phone background, etc.)

One of the most common replies you'll get to cold emails at scale is "how much does it cost".

Generally, you'll either:

A) Give the price. Without further context or sales tactics, people automatically see this as a cost and have a hard time justifying the ROI. This usually makes it harder to get on a call.

B) Give a range. This is a bit better, but depending on budget, it still may be hard to paint ROI via email. You need to give a fairly broad range.

Now, very few businesses selling >$1000 packages are public about pricing.

I think that should change.

Your pricing should be publicly available somewhere, ideally on a dedicated page that does a lot of the selling for you.

This might look like:

1. Landing page with 8-minute VSL, full of social proof, with pricing in the middle.

2. Static pricing page, full of social proof + process walkthrough.

This changes your reply from:

"Sure, our pricing is XYZ"

to

"Sure, feel free to have a look here [link] for more information on that".

This way, instead of your prospect just seeing the amount of money you want them to pay you, they get a much fuller picture of the value you provide.

Job titles are lying to you about who actually does the work. 

If you're selling something without a clean buyer title, your targeting is probably broken.

Here's how we fixed ours:

Outbound breaks down when your product is ambiguous. 

Say you sell financial forecasting software. 

Who owns forecasting depends on the company (Finance, FP&A, Operations, Strategy, or even founders, etc.).

A "Finance Manager" could handle AR, AP, Treasury, or actually build forecasts. You can't tell from the title.

So we stopped guessing titles and started targeting the actual work.

Layer 1: Department filtering

Start with departments where your problem sits. For forecasting: Finance, FP&A, Operations, Strategy.

Layer 2: LinkedIn description keywords

Every user writes a description under their title:

- "Own the quarterly forecast"
- "Build headcount forecasts"
- "Drive variance analysis"
- "Maintain the revenue model"

These keywords self-identify who does the work.

Instead of targeting "Finance Manager" and hoping, target "Finance Manager who mentions 'forecast' and 'financial model' in their description."

The process:

1. Pick 1-2 relevant departments
2. Extract 8-20 keywords tied to your product
3. Filter people mentioning those keywords in descriptions
4. Hit people who self-identify as doing the work

Example query:

Department: Finance/FP&A/Operations

Description contains: "forecast" OR "financial model" OR "budget"

This surfaces only people who explicitly manage forecasts.

We've been running this across ambiguous products and have seen both higher reply rates and better conversations.

If I were in charge of business development at a local blue collar business like this and needed to win jobs with cold email, I would:

1. Scrape a list of local businesses with an office location.
2. Write the following email copy:

—

[name], just wanted to touch base. We're an HVAC company in the area at [address].

Curious - do you have a go-to person for any kind of AC/heating repairs?

—

You might get a couple of jobs from this, but that is not really the goal with this kind of work.

The "magic" is what happens after.

3. Enroll all positive replies into a weekly nurture sequence (case studies and value).

Do this locally for 90-120 days.

It's the most surefire way to make sure that when a business' AC/heating breaks, they think of you right away.

Scaled to thousands of businesses across a major metro area, you're looking at serious pipeline.

Plus, a VERY small portion (if any) of your competitors are doing this.

To that point, if your business or someone you know would benefit from a system like this, comment or DM me!

The perfect cold email has:

- Relevance = Reason for reaching out.
- Personalization = Part that only makes sense to them.
- Offer = Outcome you'll provide.
- Social proof = Proof you've done it.
- CTA = Low-risk ask that puts the ball in their court.

Not complicated!

We've had clients we book 100s of meetings for per month, and others who churned because "cold email doesn't work".

The difference in how they operate:

Ones booking 100s of meetings:

- Willingly give away free value
- Take suggestions on optimizing offer
- Understand it's a volume game
- Don't overanalyze campaigns
- Chase leads we send them religiously

Ones who are convinced cold email doesn't work:

- Refuse to give away free value because it'll bring "bad leads".
- Refuse to optimize their offer to make it cold-ready.
- Want to send to a "targeted" list of 76 accounts.
- Analyze campaigns in relation to "industry standards" they Googled
- Let leads sit dormant for days and weeks after we submit them

It isn't exactly rocket science. This isn't to say we're perfect at what we do with every campaign.

It is to say we operate based on the data we have, and our data shows that this works.

We're doing 60,000 cold calls per month for clients and ourselves right now. Our number 1 learning for what converts to appointments and what doesn't has nothing to do with cold calling tech or set up.

It strictly has to do with the caller's tone.

One of the big pitfalls of outsourced callers is that they come into the call with no tonality.

Typical "Hey, do you have 10 seconds to speak? I'd love to show you how we could..."

Callers will sound robotic because you are grading them on the amount of dials they do per day. So, they speed-run through the list 

The much better play to run is:

1. Ensure your caller has a curious, inquisitive tone.
2. Ensure they don't get into the routine of sounding like a robot.

It sounds like a simple fix, but it's really not.

This is the difference between booking appointments from cold calling and wasting a ton of money.

How it feels when you realize you can just send more cold emails to get more leads:

We’re sending 260k cold emails Thursday-Sunday this week.

So many sellers view holidays and weekends as time to pause campaigns. I just don't see the point in doing this…mainly for a few reasons:

1. Because so many sellers pause their campaigns, inboxes are way less crowded.

2. Often, you’re targeting someone senior with outbound. Senior people, even though less on weekends, are more likely to check email (even once per day) during the holidays.

3. Generally, people are in more relaxed, friendly moods on a Thanksgiving Friday than they are on a random November Tuesday morning. This bodes well for reply rate.

Disclaimer:

You can expect ~50% of your typical campaign performance in terms of positive reply rate during the holidays. Yes it's reduced, but it's not worth stopping sending altogether.

TLDR: Don’t pause campaigns this holiday!

If I had to increase positive reply to meeting booked rate for any B2B business, here are the exact steps I'd take:

(1) Set up an automation that enriches positive replies with all relevant info (LI URL if I don't already have it, phone number, etc)

(2) Send them a LinkedIn connection request post-positive reply.

(3) Cold call them after that as well.

(4) If the meeting still isn't booked, I'd bump the cold email reply, mentioning I called and left a voicemail. Then, I’d follow up one more time after that.

(5) If they STILL haven't booked, I'd set up a weekly nurture newsletter for all prospects that fit this mould. Each email would have a CTA to book a call.

The point is that you reach them on all platforms.

If you need to set this up:

- Find out what data you have available after each list scrape.

- Set up waterfall enrichment to find what you’re missing after a positive reply (phone number, LI profile, etc.)

- Outline a process for you/your sellers to walk through post-positive reply.

- Use your CRM or beehiiv to set up a weekly newsletter nurture sequence (52 emails comprised of social proof + value).

The more you reach them, the better chance you have. It's not that difficult, but a lot of companies struggle with this.

- client with $100,000 LTV

Client: We only got 3 leads this month.

Me: And?

Client: We are going to have to churn.

Me: Why?

Client: We're clearly not getting enough volume for this to work.

Me: Ok, let's run the numbers. Your average LTV is $100,000 right?

Client: Yes.

Me: Okay, so, if we charge you $300 per lead, we can generate 100 leads that you close 0% on, and you'd STILL be at breakeven with us.

Client: Yeah, but we don't close at 0%. We close at 10-15%.

Me: Exactly. Let's even cut that in half and take 5%. If you pay us $300 per lead and close at 5%, you'd pay $6000 in lead generation costs for $100K in rev.

Client: Oh.

Me: Do you see why you don't need a lot of leads for this to work?

Client: Yes.

We have 60,000 monthly cold calls worth of data to show that prospects absolutely still pick up the phone.

Yet, still, deniers will say that it’s not worth their time, or that nobody picks up the phone, or my favorite: “When you pull the list, you’ll end up with office numbers and not personal ones!”.

(for the record: It is incredibly easy to pull personal mobile phone numbers from lead lists).

My point is that you absolutely shouldn’t listen to people who’ve never given a channel a fair shake about whether or not it works.

If you did:

1. You’d never send a DM because “inboxes are crowded”.
2. You’d never send a cold email because “it doesn’t work”.
3. You’d never make a cold call because “nobody picks up the phone”.

In reality, cold calling and quite literally all other channels “work” if executed correctly and for long enough.

Heading into 2026, outbound marketers will have to multi-thread more and more, meaning it’s likely going to be time to pick up the phone.

Just remember: It does work.

Certified Clay Expert & Agency owner | I'll help you build a scalable outbound engine that gets meetings booked on autopilot in the next 180 days | Visit Youtube: @growth-today to see how

Growth shouldn’t feel random.

Most of the B2B companies hit the same walls:
Inbound leads that don’t convert

Outbound that burns reps out without results

Partnerships that look good on paper but never drive pipeline

A CRM full of noise instead of reliable data


I’ve seen it across founders, sales leaders, and marketing teams. The problem isn’t effort, it’s the lack of a repeatable, scalable GTM system.
That’s what we build at Growth Today.

Instead of disconnected tools or random campaigns, we design and implement repeatable GTM engines across sales, marketing, and partnerships that…

✅ Enrich and qualify data
✅ Activate inbound leads into real opportunities
✅ Automate outbound prospecting
✅ Keep CRMs clean and reliable
✅ Orchestrate multi-channel campaigns
✅ Make BDR teams more effective or fully replace them
✅ Align marketing + partnerships with sales for compounding growth

Recent wins:

 → Built a clean, automated CRM that doubled conversion rates
 → Launched a content-driven demand gen engine that 3x’d inbound lead quality
 → Systematized partner outreach → pipeline from alliances grew 40% in 6 months

Growth doesn’t come from more outreach or more tools.
It comes from building the right system once and scaling it.
If you’re a B2B founder or revenue leader serious about building predictable pipeline, let’s connect.

Book your call: https://calendly.com/growth-today/intro-meeting

Brigitta Ruha

if my first startup didn’t fail… ⚡️

I’d never gone through lots of shit 😬 BUT:

looking back, it had to happen. It changed my whole path (in ways I could never imagine).

🎢 BECAUSE my first business failed, I:

– saw a massive gap in how to actually run GTM funnels (ads, outbound, content, cold calls)

– was SO done with the fast that how “Revenue Operations” was always about collecting, not using, data for growth

– built resilience, wall after wall

– realized what my real strengths are (wasn’t what I thought at first)

– started prioritizing mental and physical health first

– learned to trust my intuition waaay more (Clay was a 15-person team when I first talked to Varun, Bruno. Now look at it.)

– Now get to grow businesses with the best team around

– Build something sustainable, where the goal is to EMPOWER people, not just “solve problems”

– Watch my team and our clients actually connect

– Give my team a real sense of purpose-work with meaning, not just a job

– Live one of my best adventures yet 🥹

Or as Steve Jobs would say: we can only connect the dots backwards. ✨

Those “dots”-all the mess, the lessons, the pivots - are what make us stand out.

And I LOVE that we help people turn those dots into a real advantage at Growth Today

👉 turning dots into a competitive advantage and something meaningful.

... turning five years of building, running, and scaling GTM channels. Marketing, partnerships, sales. (AI is just the start.)

We build growth engines. We don’t do “lead gen.” (Hate that word, btw.)

I wanted to share this because LinkedIn is full of shiny wins and drama posts.

we ALL have tough days. we ALL fail.

sometimes hard, sometimes less.

but isn’t it about what we make out of those fails?

the “what ifs” will always be there....

hope that’s the sign someone needed today - you’re exactly where you need to be.
(even if it doesn’t feel like it yet)

🙋‍♂️ aaand if you wanna share your take on this would love to hear - maybe some more “fails” turned into lessons.

🙋‍♀️ and if you're looking for a place (not just a job) where you can own real things and work with purpose, shoot us an email. We’re hiring CSMs, SDRs/AEs, BizOps.

Repost if you think somebody should hear this 🥺

React if you can resonate ❤️

#personaldevelopment
#mentalhealth

Co-Founder @Growth Today | We Build Repeatable GTM Engines Across Sales, Marketing & Partnerships 🚀

The #1 reason top reps close more deals?

They know when to stop.

Not stop caring.

Not stop trying.

Just… stop grinding themselves into dust 😅

Here’s what I’ve noticed:

Average reps stay in hustle mode 24/7.

Top reps go hard when it matters —

and then they actually unplug.

Because in sales, your energy is your edge.

You can’t run sharp discovery calls when you’re running on fumes.

Top reps protect their energy the same way they protect their quota.

They show up fully - then they close the laptop, touch some grass, and recharge so they can do it again tomorrow.

Hustle matters.

But knowing when to stop?

That’s a real competitive advantage.

That instant close they're celebrating?

It took them 2 months of mess to get there

You see the LinkedIn post: "Just closed our biggest deal! 🎉"

One great call and boom… done.

But this is what you don't see:

→ 14 cold emails that got ignored

→ 4 data enrichment loops to find the right contact

→ 3 messaging angles that completely flopped

→ 1 operator juggling 7 different tools

→ 2 months of consistent follow-ups before they finally replied

It's messy, manual, and honestly? not glamorous at all

And all the complexity only works when you master the basics

The tools help you scale, but the foundation gets you close.

The best outbound isn't the most automated, it is most human.

You don’t need more AI tools, you need the ones that help you fill the pipeline

These 6 made it to my ‘never launch without’ list 👇

Icypeas 
Find accurate emails fast, no more guessing games

Clay 
Hyper-targeted enrichment + AI-crafted outreach

BounceBan (Verify risky emails without sending messages)
Scale without hitting spam hell

EmailGuard
Warm up your inbox before launch

Ghost
Writes better, faster, smarter, and built for outbound

Attio
Because data > gut feelings

Instantly.ai
Where follow-ups stop slipping through the cracks

Each one saves me hours every week and together

If you’ve got an AI tool that helps you sell smarter not louder… drop it below 👇

If your sales content isn't working on LinkedIn, it's probably not your fault.

Most of us create content the way we are taught:

- Share insights
- post case studies
- Talk about the product

Sounds right, doesn’t it?

Except... prospects aren't engaging. and the pipeline isn't moving.

The thing is that… instead of posting more, we need to post in a smarter way

Different content types drive different outcomes: →

- Some build awareness but won't book meetings) 
- Some spark conversations (hello, pipeline 👋
- Some establish credibility

So, what do we do now?

Stop creating content that looks good and start creating content that starts conversations

Your prospects are on LinkedIn, they're scrolling, learning, and looking for solutions

The question is… are you showing up in a way that makes them want to talk to you?

Hope it helps 💪

12 months, 1 system and a Human-first GTM.

Want to build a human-first GTM system in 2026?

Here's your 12-month roadmap

Most GTM systems fail because they're built for metrics, not humans. This one's different.

We designed this as a step-by-step plan to help you build a system that actually works for your team and your buyers.

✅ Q1: Audit, define, design

✅ Q2: Launch experiments, automate smart, test your co-pilot 

✅ Q3: Make it sustainable, refine what works, align your team 

✅ Q4: Codify learnings, scale intelligently, review & evolve

A simple and clear plan you can actually follow.

Save it, or share it with your team. ♻️

And if you try even one month of this, let me know how it goes. I'm here for the messy progress stories. 😅

this is why I never complain about Google and Microsoft ⚡️

I want to understand it, here’s how.

What is detected as spam is constantly evolving.

After all the research and constant analysis (with some of our clients sending 738,000 emails/mo (LOVE IT)), I realized it always comes down to one thing:

having a clear strategy (whether you’re using email for marketing or sales use cases) + email infrastructure health.

Without regularly running tests against spam (on copy, domain, the inbox itself, and comparing against the reply rates), we’re just sending emails that might or might not connect with our goals.... or in the inbox 🙃

Therefore, we always start with... Which audience you’re going to reach out to first? Have you done this before? 👀

It’s simple but so powerful.

here’s what to include:

→ Match the inbox type. Analyze if your prospects use Google, Microsoft, or something custom. Send from what matches.

→ Audience: cold vs. warm? Different rules, different plays.

→ Sequencing Maybe you need 4 touchpoints. Maybe 17. Match to the buyer, not a random best practice.

→ Nail your offer + USP. Give something they want to grab. 

• Agency? Share your best ad swipe file. 
• SaaS? Drop a pre-built automation flow. 
• AI? Offer a free workshop or a ready-to-go agent.

What doesn't build trust? 

- Asking them to visit a landing page with no real/unclear value. 
- Workflow builders for execs (they’ll never use it, the manager will do)

aaand the cooooolest thing is, we use an AI agent for coming up with these at Growth Today (Seriously, I don’t even have to think of the different offers)✨

Any other Google/Microsoft/spam love-hate relationship stories or experiences?

P.S. Google and Microsoft shut down old domains and inboxes, too. If your response rate dropped these past weeks, and your partner didn't tell you this, talk to us. We can save you:)

Find it useful? 
Repost 🔄 
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Want more tips on outbound? Hit the 🔔 on my profile

I've saved 60 conversation starters that actually get replies.

Because "just following up" doesn't count 👀

Here's the thing:

Your outbound fails because most messages sound like... every other message.

→ ‘Just circling back on this...’
→ 'Wanted to bump this up in your inbox...

These don't start conversations, they ask for favors

And honestly… most of us have done this

That's why I put this together 👇

60 Conversation Starters for Outbound

A collection of real lines you can use for…

✅ Re-engaging cold threads without being desperate

✅ Warming up lukewarm leads

✅ Starting fresh conversations that don't feel pitchy

✅ Following up in ways people appreciate

✅ Nudging decisions respectfully

✅ Reaching execs without wasting their time

Each starter includes:

→ Why it works
→ When to use it
→ The psychology behind it

Want access to the full resource?

Comment 'CONVO' and I'll send it over.

(Make sure we are connected 😀)

P.S. Follow Brigitta Ruha for more actionable outbound knowledge

If your pipeline strategy fits into a tweet…

it’s probably not a strategy 😅

I get why we chase quick fixes.

One magic channel, or one AI tool that’ll hack your market without having to put in the work.

Sounds good, doesn’t work.

Here’s the part people usually skip:

The real pipeline gets built in the boring middle

the messy work between “send more emails” and “add another tool.”

Nobody glamorizes that part, but it’s exactly where everything changes.

So I put together a quick cheatsheet to show the real difference between:

What people think pipeline building is

vs.

What it actually looks like when it works

Is it more effort than a tweet-sized hack?

Yeah.

Does it actually build a predictable pipeline?

Also yeah.

If you’re tired of advice that sounds smart but doesn’t move the needle,

save this, it’ll make next quarter a lot easier 😉

Your team doesn't resist experimentation

They resist your approach to it.

Here's what I used to do,

Drop a "let's test this!" with zero context, expect everyone to just... get excited? 

Then they used to drag their feet

The problem wasn't my team… It was me thinking experimentation is just mechanical.

Experimentation needs structure and clarity. Otherwise, It just feels like more work piled on top of everything else

So here's how we do it now

Step 1: Create Safety Before Speed

If people fear failure, they'll never test. Make it clear.

Step 2: Start with Micro-Experiments

Don't drop a new GTM framework overnight. Pick one workflow, one segment, one channel.

Step 3: Show the Data, Not the Drama

Teams trust numbers more than slogans. Visualize impact and let results do the talking

Step 4: Close the Loop, Together

Review tests as a team. What did we learn? What do we keep? What do we kill?

This way experiments do not feel like solo projects

So if your team groans when you pitch a test... ask yourself… 

Am I making this easy enough to say yes to?

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