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Joe Wheatley

After 2.5 years, I've closed the agency down.

In August 2023 I was completely new to business. Came from the defence industry. Didn't know what SaaS was, didn't even know the difference between marketing and sales.

Knew how to make websites and write, so started freelancing - blog posts and websites for marketing agencies.

Then started landing my own clients. Re-invested everything back into the business - courses, paid ads, tools.

A few courses said "pick a niche", so after some research and zero prior experience, niched down to SaaS.

Started posting about SaaS design on LinkedIn (around November 2024). One month later, landed my first major SaaS gig. Built a website for Summize.

A few more websites, then pivoted to content for SaaS companies. Started a podcast around this time. 

FYI, podcasts are one of the biggest growth hacks - you learn from people you wouldn't otherwise get in a room, they get free marketing.

Summer 2025, flew to San Francisco and filmed videos for a few names you'd recognize.

Came back, jumped on some disco calls. The demand was for outbound not content. Followed the demand. Learned outbound, picked up some new clients. Someone even offered equity for Demand House.

As of today: 30+ B2B companies, multi 10k+ projects, 27 five-star reviews. Not every project was a success - but when we failed, we reflected and learned from our mistakes.

At the beginning of Feb 2026, started thinking longer term. Two things kept coming to mind:

1. GTM agencies are fighting over lower market and small budgets - a race to the bottom with automation and AI.

2. The market rewards those with a top 1% skill, not a jack of all trades.

That pointed to one thing: build a career in tech sales, selling to mid-market and enterprise. Big budgets, opportunity, high-touch, human-led. Skill still matters.

Started applying for roles. Found Vertice - 13x growth in 2 years (one of the fastest growing tech companies in Europe).

Went to their office for the final interview and the floorplate was pure hustle energy. Perfect

Starting on monday as a BDR. Team look great. Very excited. All-in.

Reflections:

99% of this 2.5 year journey was raw action in the face of intense confusion & ambiguity

But push through and on the other side is clarity. Then you must repeat.

That's growth.

Everyone has been through this process, but most stop. The process defeats them. You see it all over their faces. This is what you must avoid.

Instead, you must learn to love the journey. The good, the bad. Every single part of it. Amor Fati

Like Yin and Yang, there is no light without dark.

Everything is connected.

So if you take away one thing away from this post it’s this:

- The journey is the point.
- There is no finish line.
- NEVER stop chasing growth.

GTM @ Vertice | Intelligent Procurement Platform | #1 fastest growing scale-up in UK (Sifted) | #2 in Sunday Times 100 Tech

Master these 5 areas of deliverability so you avoid the spam folder and book more qualified meetings

1️⃣ Infrastructure & Settings
→ Purchase domains with reputable providers like Porkbun
→ Use .com domains
→ Age domains for 30 days before sending
→ Buy backup domains for rotation
→ Use 2 inboxes per domain
→ For inboxes, use trusted re-sellers like Zapmail.ai
→ Diversity your sending infra (mix of Google, Outlook and 3rd party)
→ Ensure proper authentication and DNS (SPF, DKIM, DMARC, URL re-directs)
→ Warm-up inboxes (start at 5 per day, increase by 1 per day up to 15-20)
→ Set warm-up reply rate to 70%
→ When warm-up is complete, send maximum of 25 emails per day per inbox
→ Ensure warm-up stays on at 10-15, 70% reply rate
→ When starting cold email campaigns, begin with 5 emails per day in week 1
→ Then gradually increase to 25 emails per day by the end of week 2
→ Match ESPs for better deliverability (outlook to outlook, Google to Google)
→ Keep bounce rates < 2% and spam complaints < 0.1%
→ Check domains aren't blacklisted using MXtoolbox

2️⃣ Lead Lists
→ Ensure company is within your TAM or ICP
→ Ensure contact is a buyer persona
→ Use enrichment waterfalls like BetterContact to maximize both quality and quantity of contact data
→ Ensure proper enrichment, scoring, tiering, filtering and lead routing using Freckle.io or Clay

3️⃣ Offer
→ Must be compelling
→ And relevant

4️⃣ Sequence
→ Good sequence length e.g. for Tier 3 email-only outreach, max 3 emails
→ Optimize time between steps (depends on ICP and tier)

5️⃣ Copy
→ Write in plain-text (no links, no HTML)
→ Add unsubscribe option
→ Remove any spam trigger words (use spam checkers like Mail Meteor)
→ Use Spintax, messaging frameworks and AI-generated copy
→ Ask questions and personalize
→ A/B test
→ Follow copywriting best practices

Anything to add? Drop below

Every cold email campaign needs one thing before you send a single message:

Inboxes that actually land in the inbox.

That’s what we do at Inboxlogy.

We help agencies, founders, and B2B sales teams launch and scale cold email infrastructure — without getting banned, blocked, or flagged.

No more: 

❌ Wasting time setting up Google or Microsoft accounts manually
❌ Dealing with phone verifications, warmups, or tech issues
❌ Emails going straight to spam

We provide: 

✅ Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 inboxes
✅ Fully authenticated (SPF, DKIM, DMARC set up)
✅ Warmed-up & ready-to-send
✅ Yours to own — forever
✅ Works with any tool (Instantly, Smartlead, etc.)

We’ve helped 230+ companies scale from 10 to 1,000+ inboxes — clean, fast, and without getting banned.

You plug into your outreach system. We handle the backend.

Let’s make sure your cold emails actually land.

DM me or visit www.inboxlogy.com to get started.

Sarfaraz Maniyar

Are you also making this cold email mistake? 😬

I was talking to a friend last week ..... they had been rewriting subject lines, tweaking copy, and still getting no replies. 

Hours spent. 
Zero results.

I asked: 
“How old are your inboxes? 
Did you warm them up?”

Silence.

Turns out, all their emails were going straight to spam before anyone even saw them. 

New inbox, no warmup, no authentication - leads going cold before the copy even mattered.

Here’s the easy fix: pre-warmed inboxes.

We use Google & Microsoft inboxes at $4 (domain included) ready to land, safe to scale.

Want your campaigns to actually get replies?

Which one are you sending from right now - frozen or warmed up?

Sarfaraz  Maniyar

Co-Founder @ Inboxlogy | We Set Up Ready-to-Send Cold Email Inboxes (Google & Microsoft) So You Don’t Land in Spam

Cold email doesn’t “stop working.”

You just burned your inbox.

Most teams do this:

Launch a new campaign
Send 300+ emails from a brand-new inbox
Wait for results

Then panic when open rates crash.

Day 1 → Spam
Day 3 → Lower opens
Day 5 → Random bounces
Day 7 → Reputation damage

And suddenly it’s:

“Let’s rewrite the copy.”

But the copy wasn’t the issue.

You tried scaling without trust.

Cold email is infrastructure first. Messaging second.

If you’re starting fresh campaigns, at least start safe.

Pre-warmed Google & Microsoft inboxes at $4 (domain included).

Because you don’t scale from zero trust. You build it.

90% of cold email campaigns fail… before anyone even opens your email.

Why? 
Because teams skip the basics.

Here’s what every new campaign actually needs:

✅ Inbox age & warm-up
✅ Domain authentication (SPF, DKIM, DMARC)
✅ Sending limits & patterns
✅ Lead quality check
✅ Copy alignment

Miss one of these, and your “perfect email” ends up in spam.

Cold email isn’t about writing better copy.
It’s about making sure your emails actually land.

💌 Want to skip the guesswork? 

Start with pre-warmed Google & Microsoft inboxes at $4 (domain included).

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Before you send 500 emails today, read this.

I know the pressure.
Pipeline is low. Targets are high.

So the instinct is simple: 
Increase volume.

But here’s what usually happens when you scale too fast:

Day 1 → Everything looks fine.
Day 3 → Open rates dip.
Day 5 → Random bounces show up.
Day 7 → Replies slow down.
Week 2 → Domain reputation damaged.

And now you’re not scaling.
You’re recovering.

Spam filters don’t reward aggression.
They reward consistency and trust.

New inbox + sudden spike in volume = red flag.

If you’re serious about scaling outbound, fix the foundation first.

Warm the inbox.
Authenticate the domain.
Increase volume gradually.

Or start safer with pre-warmed Google & Microsoft inboxes at $4 (domain included).

P.S - Are you scaling… or slowly burning your domain without realizing it?

Nobody calculates this cold email math.

They only calculate software costs.

“Mailbox is free.”
“Domain is cheap.”
“Let’s just start sending.”

Cool.

Now let’s do the real math.

Free inbox
→ No warmup
→ Spam placement
→ Domain burned in 2–3 weeks
→ Buy new domain
→ Set up again
→ Warm up again
→ Campaign paused
→ Leads go cold
→ Opportunities lost

But hey… you saved $4, right?

What most outbound teams don’t realize:

The cost of burning a domain isn’t the domain price.
It’s the lost pipeline while you restart everything.

Time = lost conversations.
Lost conversations = lost revenue.

Cold email isn’t expensive.

Restarting it every month is.

If you’re launching campaigns, at least start with trust.

Pre-warmed Google & Microsoft inboxes at $4 (domain included).

Small cost.
Huge difference.

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Ever noticed what most teams do when replies drop?

They send more emails.

More volume.
More sequences.
More tools.

But here’s what actually happens behind the scenes:

Low replies → you increase volume → spam filters notice → deliverability drops → replies drop even more.

And just like that, you enter the outbound death cycle.

The real fix usually isn’t sending more.

It’s fixing the foundation first -  inbox trust, reputation, and infrastructure.

That’s why many teams now start with pre-warmed Google & Microsoft inboxes at $4 (domain included) instead of burning fresh ones.

Small change. Huge difference.

Are you scaling volume… or scaling trust?

Here’s what nobody tells you about scaling cold email safely. 🚨

Most teams focus on copy and subject lines… while their inboxes are burning behind the scenes.

New inboxes, no authentication, and sudden volume spikes = lost leads before anyone even reads your email.

Swipe the carousel to see 3 things you must fix before scaling outbound.

Want to scale safely?
Start with pre-warmed Google & Microsoft inboxes at $4 (domain included).

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3 Things You MUST Fix Before Scaling Outbound

Most domains don’t crash overnight.

They decline quietly.

Open rates dip.
Replies slow down.
You send more to compensate.

And that’s when the real damage begins.

The scary part?
Most teams don’t realize their domain is in trouble until campaigns completely stall.

Deliverability issues don’t scream.
They whisper.

If your outbound feels harder than it should, don’t rewrite the copy.
Check your reputation first.

Which of these signs have you noticed recently?

4 Silent Signs Your Domain Is in Trouble

Quick question.

When you launch a new campaign…
are you sending from inboxes that have zero history?

Because here’s what most people won’t say:

Spam filters don’t care how good your copy is.
They care who’s sending it.

I’ve seen teams push 300–500 emails/day from brand-new inboxes and then blame:

• The offer
• The leads
• The copywriter

But the issue was reputation. Not messaging.

Cold email isn’t just about what you write.
It’s about where you’re sending from.

Vote in the poll - I’m genuinely curious how you’re starting your campaigns 👇

And if you’re still using fresh inboxes… that might be the bottleneck.

Be honest - how do you start new campaigns?

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