SlyLeadz

Sly Leadz - Your Partner in B2B Sales Growth

TIRED OF SLUGGISH SALES GROWTH?

At Sly Leadz, we help B2B businesses like yours THRIVE by crafting compelling outreach systems that LAND ideal clients and FILL your sales pipeline!

OUR MISSION:
We're on a mission to revolutionize B2B sales by providing a personalized, results-driven approach to outreach and lead generation.

Founder

Konecte

Sales Director

Keeper Security, Inc.

Account Executive - SMB

Business Development Representative

BlueGrace Logistics

Carrier Sales Representative

Founder @ Slyleadz | I help startups build cold outbound systems that generate qualified meetings | 💌 slyleadz.us

STRUGGLING TO FILL YOUR PIPELINE WITH QUALIFIED LEADS?

I've been there. After testing 1000+ outreach campaigns, I cracked the code.

Now, I help B2B companies build outbound systems that:
→ Generate 20-30 qualified meetings/month
→ Convert cold prospects into warm conversations
→ Scale predictably without the spam tactics

Our secret?
- Multi-channel outreach that actually works
- AI-powered personalization at scale
- Follow-up sequences with 40%+ response rates
- Data-driven targeting that finds your ideal customers

Recent wins:
→ Helped a SaaS startup book 100+ demos in 60 days
→ Built a 7-figure pipeline for a tech company in 90 days
→ Generated 500+ qualified leads for enterprise clients

Want to stop guessing and start closing?
Book a strategy call: calendly.com/slyleadz/slyleadz-15-minute-meeting-clone

Nick Palasz

Every tool here replaced a mistake

And that’s why this system’s simple

We didn’t set out to build a “tech stack”

We just fixed what kept breaking...until the noise stopped

Here’s what stayed 👇

Clay – Aggregates 50+ data sources to find the right leads
Icypeas – Verified contacts + LinkedIn enrichment that actually holds up
Prospeo.io – Multi-signal scoring so we talk to buyers, not browsers
Writesonic – AI copy that still sounds human
Aimfox – Personalization at scale (without losing relevance)
Smartlead – Keeps campaigns consistent and inbox-safe
Instantly.ai – A/B testing + analytics that guide
Saleshandy – Smarter follow-ups that feel natural
Inframail – Infrastructure that keeps deliverability rock solid
MailReach – Protects inbox placement and reputation
HubSpot – The single source of truth that ties it all together

P.S Which tool is your favourite?

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30 outbound experiments you can run in the next 30 days

Save this post; these are the tests most teams don’t run but should

Inside you’ll find →
– ICP & targeting audits
– Trigger-based prospecting
– Deliverability reset sprints
– Messaging clarity rewrites
– Personalization depth tests
– Cadence density + velocity checks
– Human-first follow-up systems
– Sequence drift & hygiene audits

Plus 20+ more experiments to help you tighten your system, sharpen your messaging, and build predictable pipeline in 2025 and 2026

Comment “OUTBOUND” and I’ll send the full resource

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Your reps aren't lazy, they're exhausted

I used to think my outbound team just wasn't hungry enough

Then I realized, they were spending more time managing tools than actually selling

→ CRM over here
→ Email platform over there
→ Spreadsheets for tracking
→ Another tab for deliverability checks

By the time they're ready to hit send, half their energy is already gone 🤷

Sounds familiar, right?

So I put together 5 reasons why outbound teams burn out and how Saleshandy can help them

Swipe the carousel to learn more about it 👇

Saleshandy

5 reasons your outbound team feels burnt out

Why do agencies with $50K MRR feel more chaotic than startups at $500K ARR?

It's simple… startups build infrastructure before they scale

Agencies duct-tape tools together while juggling clients 🤷

And then reality looks like this 

→ Switching between 5+ platforms per client 
→ Managing dozens of logins 
→ Hunting for reports across different dashboards 
→ Triple checking you're in the right inbox before hitting send

This is not growth, this is pure survival

You don’t need more tools, you need better ones

One platform to manage leads, send cold emails, warm up inboxes, track performance, and handle multiple clients

And I prefer Saleshandy for it

No tool-switching problem 

No per-seat pricing nightmares

Just centralized client management that actually scales because clients don't care how many tools you use

They care about results

Swipe the carousel to learn more about it 👇

If you're managing clients in 5 diff tools 

AI didn’t help. It hid the mess.

Every founder rushes to plug AI into their outbound

Now the inbox feels like a copy factory

-Same tone
-Same structure
-Same fake personalization

AI didn’t make you better

It just made the chaos look cleaner

Because when your inputs are weak, AI just scales the weakness

Outbound isn’t about prompts

It’s about the process and knowing who you’re talking to and why they should care

AI can’t fix that

It only hides it

If your outbound looks polished but performs the same, it’s not the tool

It’s the system behind it

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I stopped hating rejection when I saw the pattern

Every “No” used to sting

Now it’s just another metric to study

Because not all No’s mean the same thing

Here’s how 👇

“Not right now” → timing data
“Not relevant” → ICP feedback
“We already use X” → positioning clue

Every rejection leaves a breadcrumb

You just have to be smart enough to trace it back to the system

The more I studied the No’s, the faster I fixed what actually mattered 
-Offer
-Targeting
-And message

The Yes’s came later

They always do

👉 Swipe the carousel to see the full breakdown

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rejection that pays you back

This is me explaining to my family what I do for a living and somehow it gets more confusing the longer I talk.

It always starts simple:

“I help startups book more meetings.”

Then someone asks, “So… you just send emails?”

 And suddenly I’m 10 minutes deep explaining:

 – inbox warmups
 – deliverability
 – intent signals
 – ICP accuracy
 – and why one wrong domain setting can ruin your entire week

This is the point when my whole family just gives me that Thanksgiving look
 
The one where they’re not sure if I’m explaining my job or about to impersonate the turkey

But hey it pays the bills, fixes pipelines, and keeps founders from panicking every Monday morning 😂

Late on the post but Happy Thanksgiving everyone 🦃

Hope you all had an amazing one

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AI took the excuses personally

Now it’s just you, the system and accountability 😬

And honestly, we weren’t avoiding the work before

It just took forever to get stuff done

Research dragged
Personalization dragged even more
Writing one email felt like a whole shift

So yeah the “no time” excuse used to make sense

But then AI showed up and suddenly all the slow stuff wasn’t slow anymore

Which means if outbound still feels inconsistent…

It’s not because of AI, it's because of your system

Swipe through the carousel to see what actually changed and DM me "AI" if your outbound needs help

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the moment ai removed all excuses

Did your voice crack on your first call too?

Because mine definitely did 💀

And honestly, that’s the part nobody tells you

Cold calling doesn’t start with confidence

It starts with sweaty palms, shaky intros, and questioning every life choice you’ve ever made

But give it a few months?

You go from “Uh… is this a bad time?”
To “Hey John, quick one got a sec?”

The work stays the same

But you don’t

You get better at the awkward pauses, the messy intros, the fast pivots all the stuff that felt like chaos on day one

P.S. Comment your first cold call memory let’s laugh or cry together 😂

Warning⚠️  

This list may cause emotional damage

Because every seller pretends they’re built different until you realize we all operate the same way under pressure

The mid-call Google searches
The enthusiastic intro no one asked for
The 11-day “I’ll follow up tomorrow” delay
The CRM blame-game Olympics

We’ve all done it

We just don’t admit it publicly

Drop the number that hurt your soul the most 👇

Follow Nick Palasz for more honesty in a world of sales delusion

The breakthrough wasn’t a tool… it was cleaning up the mess

And that’s when everything started working again

We didn’t try to “build a stack”

We just fixed what kept breaking until the pipeline finally stopped fighting us

Here’s what stayed 👇

PhantomBuster- Scrapes real buyers not random titles
LeadMagic - Finds the hidden visitors already showing intent
Clay - Turns raw signals into clean, usable lead intelligence
Icypeas - Verified emails + enrichment that doesn’t fall apart
Prospeo.io - Find business email addresses for outreach.  
Aimfox- Personalization at scale that still feels human
Writesonic - Context-aware copy that doesn’t sound robotic
Smartlead -Safe sending + consistent outbound volume
Instantly.ai - Sales Engagement & Lead Intelligence  
Saleshandy - Follow-ups that land naturally
Inframail - Protects deliverability from collapsing
MailReach -Keeps inboxes warm, clean, and trusted

P.S. Which tool are you keeping in your stack this year?

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Back at the starting line. Again.

Every salesperson knows this moment the quiet pause before another chase begins

Last month’s wins fade faster than they should

The deals closed, the high-fives, the end-of-month rush…

They all reset to zero overnight

And suddenly, it’s back to building

New leads. New follow-ups. New conversations

It’s equal parts thrilling and exhausting because starting from scratch never really gets easier

But maybe that’s what keeps it real

The clean slate forces a new version of yourself to show up 

One that’s hungrier, sharper, a little more grounded than before

So here’s to the rebuild 

The quiet part nobody celebrates

But the part that makes every win worth it

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Not every deal’s meant to close and it's okay

When I first got into outbound, I thought every ‘no’ was a reflection of me

Every Closed Lost felt like failure

I’d overthink the follow-ups, rewrite the emails, and convince myself I should’ve done more

But over time, I learned something that completely flipped my mindset 

A lost deal doesn’t mean you did something wrong

Sometimes it means timing’s off
Sometimes the fit isn’t right 
And sometimes it’s just not your deal to win 🤷

Those moments taught me more than any course or sales hack ever could

What worked? What didn’t?

Why did some people lean in while others ghosted?

That’s how growth happens, quietly, between all the no’s and not yets.

So if you’re just getting started, remember

You don’t need to close every deal

You just need to learn from the ones you lose

That’s how you stop taking rejection personally 

And start taking it professionally

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Outbound is entering its filter era

Where strategy starts to matter again

The problem isn’t that outbound stopped working 

It’s that everyone kept copying what they used to

Templates. Tools. Tricks.

All trying to sound “personal” and ending up sounding the same

Your prospects don’t need more messages

They need meaning

The teams that’ll win in 2026?

They’ll stop chasing open rates and start engineering systems that earn attention

One's built with data that flows, context that connects, and structure that actually scales

Outbound’s not a volume game anymore

It’s a systems game

This is outbound, evolved

See the cheatsheet to learn what’ll still work when everything else fails

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Your people notice the damage long before the numbers expose it

And once the numbers react, the damage has already spread

Because bad sales cultures don’t blow up your numbers first they blow up your team

And it starts quietly

Reps stop asking real questions
Managers start obsessing over quota
Buyers feel sold instead of helped
And suddenly every call feels like a pitch instead of a conversation

That’s when performance drops

Not because the reps don’t care but because the culture is working against them

I’ve watched teams with insane potential fall apart this way
Great product.
Great talent
But the environment kept breaking them long before the metrics showed anything was wrong

And here’s the part nobody likes admitting:

The fix isn’t a new script, a new cadence, or a new tool

It’s the environment
→ help the buyer
→ coach curiosity
→ reward doing it right not rushing the close

Because when a team actually believes in how they sell?

Everything else becomes easier

The results always follow

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Dhruv Patel

Saleshandy is a cold outreach platform that helps B2B businesses automate and scale their outbound sales efforts. 

» I am the person responsible for
- majority of marketing stuff
- people management
- developing and implementing systems & procedures throughout the organization
- operations

Co-Founder

Appitsimple Infotek Pvt. Ltd. [www.softwaresuggest.com]

- Lead Marketing strategist & enabler, strategic vision, and involved in growth of the marketing team from 1 to 6 
- Grew organic acquisition, leveraging website optimization, SEO, and PR 
- Setting up marketing infrastructure i.e Google analytics, Webmasters, SEO tools, Adwords, Social platforms & paid social media networks.
- Influenced product development within application to increase page on time, no of page view per session, reviews, goal conversions and increase in paid click through rates.
- Coordinated communication amongst team members
- Social Media Management – wrote blog posts & managed corporate Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter
- Email Marketing – created and sent industry updates, regulatory notifications, Promotional emails, guides to customers and prospects via MailChimp & Sendy.
- Played a role in team building, recruitment / hiring & data extracting.

Marketing & Operations

Pathnex Technologies

Getting Things Done

Co-founder @ Saleshandy

Hey there,  

I'm a guy who wears many hats, and I like it that way! 

My marketing journey kicked off at a company where I managed a team of over 25 folks as the Marketing Lead and Operations Manager. 

But my itch for something more took me down the road of content and niche marketing. That's how I ended up co-creating Saleshandy, a place where I'm still enjoying the ride and helping the company grow.

I'm a marketing junkie and a business starter, and I get my kicks from companies that encourage teamwork and don't put up roadblocks to success. I live to meet and exceed what customers want. I keep a close eye on the results and always tinkering with my game plan based on what's needed. When things go south, I don't get bent out of shape; I see it as a chance to learn. I take a good, hard look at what went wrong, figure out why, and then cook up solutions based on the facts.

As a growth hacker and digital marketing buff, I thrive on the hustle and meet life with a never-say-die attitude. My constant grin shows my love for creating strong teams and my readiness to lend a hand at the drop of a hat.

So here I am, a Co-founder at Saleshandy, extending an invitation for you to join me on this wild ride as we take over the marketing world, one success story at a time. 

Let's get together and see how we can help each other grow. What do you say?

6 months ago, a SaaS company tried to sell me features.

But today, they sold me a problem I actually care about.

Email 1 said:
→ Pulse surveys
→ Real-time sentiment
→ Easy recognition
→ All product talk.
 
Nothing about me.

So of course, I didn’t buy.

I replied with one suggestion:

“Make your email about the outcome, not the feature.”

And today, I got another email from the same company.

Same company.

Same product.

But a completely different angle:

“Teams miss disengagement until it’s too late.”

That one line did what the features couldn’t.

It made me feel the problem.

The shift they made:
FROM: “Here’s what we do.”
TO: “Here’s what happens if you don’t act.”

That’s the real game in outbound.

✅ If you send cold emails, use this framework:
1️⃣ Start with a pain your prospect already feels.
 2️⃣ Connect your product to a clear outcome (save, prevent, improve).
 3️⃣ Make the prospect the hero—not your software.
 4️⃣ End with a small ask, not a big pitch.

Before you send, do a quick check:

Count the words “we” vs. “you.”

If “we” wins, your email loses.

Outbound isn’t about explaining your product.

It’s about diagnosing their problem.

If you get that right, you’ve already won half the game.

Co-founder @ Saleshandy | Automating cold emails to drive lead generation & sales

We started Saleshandy in 2015 with handful folks.

Here’s what a decade taught us:

10 Years → 10 Big Learnings

2015: Start even if you’re unsure.
2016: A little demand is enough to move.
2017: Go where things grow.
2018: Users show the real direction.
2019: Small steps compound.
2020: Fix what’s breaking.
2021: Focus speeds everything up.
2022: Big bets change your path.
2023: Growth exposes hidden gaps.
2024: Systems > features.
2025: Evolve fast or fall behind.

What should the 2026 upgrade be?

I got this cold email yesterday — and it irritated me before I even finished the first line.

 Why?

 Because it followed every “internet sales hack”… and ignored the only thing that actually matters: the prospect.

And here’s the funny part:

 Not only did I not reply,
 Not only did I not consider their service,
  I’m never buying from them.

That’s the part most people forget about cold outreach:

👉 Your prospect may not love you from the first email.

But if you’re wrong, arrogant, or assumptive…

They might hate you instantly.

Here’s where the email went completely off-track:

“You’ve been trying to fill that senior role for too long.”

 → Pretending to personalize
They don’t know that. 
They guessed (and guessed wrong)

 → Too many “we” statements.
 The email was a monologue about themselves.
 As a prospect, none of it connected to my reality.

→ A pushy CTA
 Requesting a 20-minute call with the co-founder in the very first email… with 

→ Zero trust built?
 Bad move.

→ Triggering: but in the wrong direction.
 Emails should evoke curiosity or relief. 
This one evoked annoyance.

→ Confidence:the kind no one asked for.
 There’s confidence that builds trust.
 And there’s confidence that feels like an attack.
 
This one was the second kind.

So…

How much confidence is too much?

Exactly this much.

A terrible personal life with a great professional life is not success at all.

Some take years to figure this out.

Looks like you are “winning”:

 → Revenue growing
 → Team expanding
 → Users are happy

But you might not have taken a real vacation in 3 years.

Missed a loved one’s birthday.

Stopped working out. Gained 15 kg.

Result?

 In the grind of building a successful company, you’re becoming a person you didn’t plan to.

That will hit different.

Here’s what nobody tells you about building:

The business will always need more.

 → More features
 → More meetings
 → More growth
 → More problems to solve

There’s no finish line where it suddenly gets easier.

If you don’t draw boundaries, the business will consume everything (including your life).

Hard rules I don’t break:

 → No work after 7 p.m. (unless emergency)
 → One full day off per week (Sunday, phone off)
 → Go for a run two times a week, non-negotiable

Remember: The best version of your company needs the best version of you.

And the best version of you doesn’t come from 80-hour weeks and no life outside work.

Half of my college life, I was a lone wolf.

No friend group. No "squad." No late-night hangouts.

You've seen those Bollywood college movies, right?

Friends laughing between classes. Bunking lectures together. Living the "best years of your life."

I did none of that.

I went to college. I did my work. Went home.

Most people would say I missed out.

But i didn’t. 

Here's what being a lone wolf actually taught me:

1. Comfort with solitude = comfort with deep work

When you're not constantly surrounded by people, you learn to sit with your thoughts.

No distractions. No need to fill silence.

That skill? It's everything when you're building something hard.

Most founders can't sit alone with a problem for 4 hours. I can sit with it for 4 days if needed.

2. No peer pressure = no stupid decisions

→ When your friend group decides to bunk class, you bunk too. 
→ When they choose easy electives, you follow. 
→ When they waste time, you waste it with them.

Being alone meant every decision was mine.

3. Self-reliance isn't optional in startups

In college, I learned to solve my own problems. 

No group to lean on. No one to copy notes from.

When you're bootstrapping a startup, that's your daily reality.

No support system. No hand-holding.

I learnt to run on my own. 

The skills I built in those "lonely" years? 

They're the reason I can build, ship, and iterate without waiting for anyone's permission.

Business 101: Get an office near a good tea café. (Trust me, it works.)

Every founder thinks big decisions happen in perfectly air-conditioned boardrooms with 15-slide presentations.

Wrong.

They happen over a slow-boiled chai with just the right amount of sugar.

Ten years in, I can tell you where my best decisions were actually made:

At a café, over chai, near our office.

Not because we planned it that way, but because that’s where the ideas actually show up.

Here is why: 

→ Big decisions need space to breathe.
In a meeting, there’s pressure to conclude.
Over chai, you can sit with confusion. You can let an idea take its time.

→ The formality kills honesty.
Brutal truth: In meetings, not everyone says what they think.
Over chai? People speak their mind.
Because it’s not a meeting. It’s a conversation.

→ Decisions don’t have clean answers.
When it come to taking big decisions, you need to think of every possible contradictions, think through the uncertainty. 
That doesn’t happen in 60-minute meetings. 

I am not saying, don’t take meetings. 

I am saying: 

If a decision feels forced in a meeting: 
  ➡️ Get out.
  ➡️ Go to a café. Order a chai.
  ➡️ Start talking about it. 
  
You’ll thank me later. 


Made any big decisions over chai? Share in the comments, I’m reading all.

I used to think product-market fit was everything.

But building Saleshandy showed me that founder-product fit matters even more.

Back in 2024, working with Piyush, I had this realization:

Our product isn’t just something we built.
 
It’s an extension of who we are.

And honestly? I had no clue about this when we started.

We didn’t sit down and plan, “let’s infuse our personality into the company.”
It just… happened.

When you’re genuinely passionate about what you’re solving, your personality naturally leaks into everything:

→ How your team operates
→ How they interact with customers
→ The language in your product
→ The decisions you make when no one’s watching

Now, with 50+ people on the team, it’s obvious: our belief system has become the company’s belief system.

We’re calm, empathetic leaders. 
We’re competitive, but we care deeply about helping people.

And that’s exactly what Saleshandy feels like: friendly and approachable.

When customers feel like they’re talking to a friend not a vendor trying to extract money—they:

✅ Come back
✅ Refer others
✅ Give you the benefit of the doubt

Goodwill compounds.

You can’t fake this.

You can’t engineer authenticity with better messaging or slicker branding.

So the real question isn’t just:
 "Does my product fit the market?"

It’s:
 "Am I building something that’s truly an extension of me?"

Because if you’re not, you’re just competing on features.

 And that’s a race to the bottom.

What’s one way your personality shows up in what you’re building?

We just changed something small in Saleshandy's email editor. 

Most cold email tools make you write like a coder, not a salesperson. 

You type {{FirstName}} and hope you got it right. 

You add {spin} tags and hope they work. 

One small mistake, and your email breaks — but you won't know until it's sent. 

So we tried something different. 

We turned those messy tags into simple, colorful buttons. 

You click and pick. 

The editor checks it right away. 

No mistakes. No broken emails. 

It’s early, but people like it. Things are faster and smoother. 

The questions about broken tabs is reduced. 

But it made me think about something bigger: 

Should email tools feel more like Google Docs... or like a complicated dashboard? 

Most people sending emails aren't coders. 

They're salespeople, founders and marketers. 

They don't like the technical stuff — they just want to write emails that work. 

So here's my question: 

If you're writing emails every day, what matters more — having every feature possible, or having a tool that stays out of your way? 

Comment "Power" or "Simple" and tell me why. 

I'm reading all of them.

I’ve started judging people by ONE thing:


How they act when they’re confused.

Because everyone gets confused.

It’s normal. It happens daily.

But what people do next tells you everything.

Here’s what I’ve seen:

1) The Asker
Says, “Hey, I didn’t understand that.”
Gets clarity in minutes.

2) The Googler
Quietly searches, watches, reads.
Figures it out on their own.

3) The Pretender
Nods like they get it…
but you can see the panic behind the smile.

4) The Blamer
“The instructions weren’t clear.”
“Someone should’ve told me.”
Nothing is ever their fault.

Same confusion.

Very different futures.

If you want to grow faster:
• Ask when you don’t get it.
• Learn whatever you can yourself.
• Don’t fake it.
• Don’t blame.


The people who grow are the ones okay with saying,

“I don’t understand this yet — but I want to.”

I don’t read emails. I scan my inbox. And trust me your prospects do the same.

I have seen people jump to guess why a campaign underperformed. 

→ Open rates dip? “Must be the subject line.”
→ Replies drop? “The offer isn’t strong enough.”
→ No meetings? “The copy failed.”

But the real cause was almost never what they blamed.

Because when you look closely at how people actually behave in an inbox, the pattern is predictable and brutally simple.

Most teams keep rewriting emails, testing variations, tweaking copy… trying to fix what prospects barely pay attention to.

What I’ve seen consistently is this:

Emails don’t fail because the content is bad.

They fail because the inbox experience is weak.

It’s not about writing better.

It’s about showing up in a way that earns attention before the email is even opened.

So, remember: It’s not the email. It’s how you appear in the inbox.

Most outbound emails fail for one reason:

We write them the way we think… not the way prospects read.

Your prospect is busy. Distracted. Trying to protect their time.

So when your message sounds heavy, unclear, or sales-driven, they skip it instantly.

The good news?

Replies go up the moment you switch from “selling” to “helping.”

That’s what this framework is built around.

Three simple approaches that make outreach feel natural.

1. Empathy
2. Educate
3. Engage

When you mix these three, your email stops feeling like “another sales message.”

It becomes a conversation starter.

And in outbound, conversations are the real win.

So, the best way to stand out in outbound? simply be a human.

Which of these 3 approaches do you personally use the most? And why?

Cold emails don't sugar coat & that's what i like the most about it.

Cold email tells you the truth faster than anything else.

When I was getting started, I tried everything to avoid the uncomfortable stuff.

→ Ads gave me hope.
→ SEO gave me patience.
→ Product gave me ideas.

But none of them told me what I actually needed to know.

Cold email did.

The moment you start sending 50 cold emails a week, you learn things no dashboard will show you:

→ You’ll know instantly if your offer is weak
→ You’ll know if your ICP is wrong
→ You’ll know if your value prop is confusing
→ You’ll know if anyone even cares enough to reply


And trust me, as a founder, these are the answers you can’t afford to delay.

Cold email forces you to face the reality you’ve been avoiding:

 If someone opened but didn’t reply — your message was boring.
 If someone replied with confusion — your offer wasn’t clear.
 If someone replied angrily — your targeting was off.
 If someone booked a call — your direction was right.

No investor, no advisor, no book gave me that level of clarity.

Cold email didn’t give me the answers I wanted.

It gave me the answers I needed. And that’s why it worked.

If you’re a founder and you’re not sending at least 50 cold emails a week, you’re building in the dark.

Your market is talking every single day. The question is, are you listening?

Everything felt urgent last quarter.

→ Every Slack message. 
→ Every feature request. 
→ Every bug report.

We were constantly firefighting. 
Constantly context-switching. 
Constantly burned out.

But when everything is urgent, nothing actually is.

The problem wasn’t the work. 

 It was how we labeled it.

We were confusing urgency with importance.

 If an “urgent” request can wait 24 hours, it’s important — not urgent.

Now, we classify everything into 4 buckets:

→ Urgent & Important — Do it now.
→ Important, Not Urgent — Schedule it.
→ Urgent, Not Important — Delegate it.
→ Neither — Delete it.

The result?

 We’re finally working intentionally, not reactively.

 The pace is calmer. The output is better.

 And ironically — we’re getting more done by treating fewer things as “urgent.”

A small flower I noticed on my way reminded me of my journey: How growth happens in imperfect conditions.

I still remember: Ten years ago, Piyush and I entered a market.
 
Everyone around us said the same thing in different ways:

 “Highly competitive.”
 “Not trendy.”

Every friend told me, “Find a better niche.”

And almost everyone I spoke to had no clue about outbound.

But I believed something different: 

You don’t need perfect conditions to grow.

You grow where you are.

After all these years building Saleshandy, here’s what I’ve learned:

When things don’t feel perfect: 

 • Focus on what you can do right now.
 • Treat limits as chances to get creative, not reasons to quit.
 • Track progress each week, not just results, but your actions.

So when someone says,

 “That market’s dead.”
 “That idea’s overdone.”
 “That space is too hard.”

Believe me, that’s exactly where your wins are waiting.

I work in a space where user education can’t be avoided. 

But here is the catch: Teaching alone isn’t enough.

Most SaaS products assume users will follow best practices if you give them:

• Documentation
 • Checklists
 • Recommended routines

Reality is different. 

Users only follow best practices if the product makes it Inevitable .

We saw this clearly with deliverability. 

Founders often say, “Our deliverability suddenly crashed.” 

It doesn’t crash — it declines slowly:

• A few replies drop
 • Inbox placement shifts
 • Opens fall
 • Eventually, everything collapses

It’s predictable, if you notice early. Most teams don’t.

The real gap? 

People weren’t failing at outreach. They were failing to spot problems early.

Saleshandy's Inbox Radar solves this. 

Not with more education. Not with dashboards. Not with more tasks.

It shifts responsibility from the user to the product. 

Quiet, recurring inbox checks catch trends before they become failures:

• Domain health drifting
 • Warmup issues
 • Misconfigured inboxes
 • Early placement decline

This isn’t new. But it’s the kind of product behavior more tools should have.

Every SaaS founder eventually realizes: If outcomes depend on users, the product doesn’t own the outcome.

Real leverage comes when:

• The product sees problems before the user
 • The product corrects or alerts early
 • Users don’t need to stay hyper-vigilant

For our users, this shifted the mindset: From reacting to damage to anticipating it.

Great products don’t just educate. 

➡️ They take responsibility. 
➡️ They reduce vigilance. 
➡️ They protect outcomes.

Inbox Radar is one example, quietly doing what users shouldn’t have to remember.

Everyone said building apps after college was a mistake. It was the best mistake I ever made.

Right after college, I went straight to help Piyush with his business.
 → No office.
 → No structure.
 → No fancy title.

Just two people and a long list of ideas.

We built so many apps:

→ Some did okay
 → Some failed
 → Some miserably failed
 

But here’s the part I’m grateful for:

Every failure taught us how to think.
Every bad idea taught us how to pick good ones.
Every mistake made us faster, sharper, and a little less stupid.

People think success comes from one big win.

 But in reality?

It comes from hundreds of small, messy experiments.

Those early days taught me things no job could ever teach:

→ How to ship fast, even when you doubt yourself
 → How to learn without anyone explaining
 → How to build something from zero
 → How to stay calm when everything breaks
 → How to keep going when nothing works

Most people choose “safe”.
 
I chose “try”.

And that made all the difference in my life.

Looking back, those random apps weren’t random at all.

They were the training ground.

Without them, I wouldn’t be here.
 
Without those failures, I wouldn’t be a co-founder today.

Sometimes the path that looks the most messy…

 Is the one that secretly prepares you for everything ahead.

What’s one “bottom-less decision” you made that actually changed your life?

Drop it in the comments, i love it to read it all.

In the series of “bad cold emails,” here’s another one I got 👇.

Yes, it was simple.
Yes, it was polite.
But totally empty.

From the subject line alone, I already knew it wouldn’t bring any value.

Still, I opened it… and I was totally right.

Here’s what went wrong:

➡️ No understanding of my team — we don’t even have a Founder’s Office team at Saleshandy.
➡️ No icebreaker, just “I’m the CEO, we helped 500 businesses” — exaggerated claim, started a year ago.
➡️ CTA: “Let’s set up a call” in the very first email.

Here’s the thing:

Sometimes, not personalizing is better than pretending to personalize.

If your email doesn’t make me feel like you actually know me, it’s dead before I hit reply.

What’s worse: fake personalization or generic templates?

Tell me your thoughts in the comments.

Bitter truth: your prospect is not thinking about you. 

You're not on the top of their minds at all.

They are:

→ Busy with Q4 goals
→ Hiring new AE 
→ Frustrated with cold pitch

If you want them to choose you, they have to eliminate everything else first. 

And trust me… they’re not doing it for you.

Every step of your outbound has to be about making that choice easy for them. 

Every email, call, or touchpoint should remove friction, build trust, and make the “other options” irrelevant.

You don’t compete on luck. You compete on:

→ Showing you understand their world better than anyone else
→ Proving you’ve solved problems like theirs before
→ Making them feel that choosing you is the easiest and only option

So next time you feel the urge to just “try” and hope for a response, pause.

Focus on making it easy for the prospect to choose you.

Because the choice is not about you. 

It’s about how well you understand their needs.

The best routine isn’t the one you post online; it’s the one you keep.

A friend of mine was very inspired by a 5 AM morning routine video… and he started it.

Meditation. Journaling. Workout. Cold shower. Green smoothie.

Thumbs up for the effort…

But it only lasted 12 days.

Then back to the usual routine:

Wake up. Coffee. Start working.

I asked him,

"What’s wrong now? What felt good then?"

His answer?

"Nothing much, Dhruv. It just felt… nice."

Don’t build a routine for the sake of an Insta story or a few snaps.

Your routine should serve your energy, not your digital presence.

You don’t have to buy everything the internet sells. 

Follow what suits you.

→ I don’t meditate in the morning. I think better at night with music on.
→ I don’t journal daily. I process by talking things through.
→ I don’t work out in the evening. I prefer to play with my kid.

The best routine is the one you’ll actually stick to.

Not the one that looks good on screen.

I’m the opposite of what people expect from a founder.

Unlike most, I stay grounded: but it has nothing to do with humility or being “nice.”

 For me, it’s about staying real.

Even after years of building Saleshandy, I still:
→ Read support tickets myself
→ Listen to lost sales calls
→ Scroll through the harshest reviews

Not because I have to.

Because I want to.

The higher you climb, the easier it is to lose touch.
 → Your calendar fills with strategy meetings.
 → Your team filters the information for you.
 → Your users become just numbers.
 → Your competitors fade into charts and reports.

Being grounded keeps me honest.
 
It reminds me why I started.

It keeps me connected to real problems, real people, and real risks.

Staying grounded isn’t optional 
 
It’s the only way to make sure you’re building the right things.

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