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Cold outreach fails almost exclusively because the market does not want what is being sold, not because of bad copy, wrong channels, or list quality, so fixing the offer must come before scaling volume.
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- You run or want to run cold outbound campaigns (email, SMS, LinkedIn, cold calling) for your own business or an agency and reply or booking rates have stalled.
- You're an agency owner trying to decide whether a struggling campaign needs better copy or a completely different offer.
- You're weighing which outbound channel fits your product and how much built-in trust each one carries.
- You're new to sales and keep being told the leads you're handed are 'bad leads.'
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After ten years running cold outreach and sending over 50 million emails, the core lesson is that campaigns fail because of demand, not delivery. A bad reply rate almost always means the market doesn't want the offer as it's currently framed, not that the list or copy is broken. The fix is offer market fit: talking to enough prospects to find the language that makes a service sound like something they already want, then pushing volume once that fit exists. Channel choice matters less than trust: cold SMS needs a fast pivot to a call, video outreach can build enough trust to close without one. Deals are lost in follow-up, not the first message, so every warm reply needs daily nurture until it converts or dies.
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00:00 – 00:25
01 · Cold Outreach Intro
Credibility hook: ten years running cold outreach, 50M+ emails sent, tens of thousands of booked calls, campaigns run for hundreds of clients across every channel.
00:25 – 02:23
02 · Why Most Cold Outreach Fails
The core diagnosis: campaigns fail because the market doesn't want the offer, not because of bad copy, list issues, or delivery problems. Uses a plumbing-receptionist example to show ICP-channel mismatch is a smaller issue than most assume.
02:23 – 05:14
03 · What Offer Market Fit Means
Defines offer market fit as expressing a service in language a cold stranger already wants. Walks through a restaurant-marketing-agency case: pivoting a generic 'more bums on seats' pitch into a specific 'weekday corporate events' offer that started converting.
05:14 – 06:55
04 · Volume Is King, But Only With the Right Offer
Argues volume should scale only after offer market fit exists. References a conversation with another agency owner: outbound is a game of maximum volume for minimum cost once the offer already works.
06:55 – 08:18
05 · Choosing the Right Outreach Channel
Claims every outreach channel can convert; the real variable is how much built-in trust it carries. Cold SMS gets replies but needs an immediate pivot to a call; video outreach can close deals with no call at all. Recommends picking one channel and getting good at it.
08:18 – 09:40
06 · Copy That Actually Gets Replies
Shares a free swipe file of cold email offers and argues the best copy is not a psychological trick, just a plainly stated, specific, believable offer.
09:40 – 10:40
07 · Lead Nurturing Is Where Most Deals Are Lost
Positive replies need daily follow-up until they convert or explicitly decline; most operators stop chasing a warm lead far too early and leave booked calls on the table.
10:40 – 11:48
08 · Make YouTube Content
Argues that publishing YouTube content rebuilds the trust that cold outbound spends, because seeing a real, imperfect person on camera makes a cold message feel less anonymous.
11:48 – 14:37
09 · There Are 2 Approaches to Cold Outreach
Splits operators into two types: people who get very good at selling one specific product across every channel and angle, versus people who get very good at outbound itself and then look for a partner or client whose offer already has market pull, often on a revenue-share basis.
14:37 – 16:20
10 · The Trust About Most Salespeople
Most salespeople have only ever closed inbound or referral leads, so they default to calling outbound leads 'bad leads.' Outbound selling starts from zero trust and is a fundamentally harder, learnable skill.
16:20 – 16:46
11 · Figure Out What Is Demanded
Reframes the starting question from 'what can I sell' to 'what do people already want to buy,' arguing that solving for existing demand is much easier than manufacturing it.
16:46 – 18:34
12 · You Are Operating in the Grey
Names the uncertainty every outbound operator lives with: platform terms of service, scraped data, and deliverability all sit in a legal and technical gray zone that can change overnight. The advice is to not overreact, stay connected to other operators, and keep a cash buffer.
18:34 – 19:49
13 · Being Able to Generate Business Cold Is Valuable
Closes on the reason to push through the difficulty: reliably generating business makes someone one of the most valuable people in any company, and the skill compounds once offer market fit clicks a few times. Points to the free offer swipe file and a longer video on video outreach.
Lines worth screenshotting.
- Cold outreach almost never fails because of bad copy or a broken list; it fails because the market does not want what is being offered.
- An audience knowing what you do is not the same as an audience wanting what you do; outreach only reveals which one is true.
- Offer market fit means describing a service in language a stranger already uses to want it, not language the seller prefers.
- Volume should only be scaled after offer market fit is proven; sending more of an offer that doesn't land just fails faster.
- Every outreach channel converts; the real variable is how much built-in trust the medium carries, from cold SMS (needs an immediate call) to video (can close with no call at all).
- The best cold copy doesn't rely on psychological tricks, it just states a specific, believable offer as plainly as possible.
- Most positive replies die from lack of follow-up, not lack of interest; following up daily for seven days recovers deals a single message would have lost.
- Publishing consistent video content rebuilds the trust that cold outbound spends, because seeing a real person on camera offsets the low trust of an unsolicited message.
- There are two ways to win at cold outreach: get extremely skilled at selling one specific product, or get extremely skilled at outbound itself and find offers that already have market pull.
- Salespeople who have only ever closed inbound or referral leads will call outbound leads 'bad leads' by default; the leads are fine, the salesperson has never had to sell from zero trust.
- The starting question for any offer should be 'what do people already want to buy,' not 'what can I sell,' because solving existing demand is far easier than manufacturing it.
- Cold outreach operates in a permanent legal and platform gray area; providers restrict it mainly to stop outright scammers, and legitimate operators get caught in the same net.
- Tooling and deliverability in outbound change constantly, including sudden spam-folder blocks with no warning, so a cash buffer and staying calm are part of the actual skill set.
- Being able to reliably generate business for someone makes you one of the most valuable people in that business, because demand generation is the hardest part to consistently reproduce.
Fix the offer before you fix anything else in outbound.
WHAT TO LEARN
A failing cold outreach campaign is almost always a demand problem, not a delivery problem, and the fix is finding language for the offer that a stranger already wants, then building volume and trust around it.
02Why Most Cold Outreach Fails
- Before touching copy or channel, rule out the real failure mode first: does this specific market actually want what's being offered, worded the way it's currently worded?
- A target audience being on the wrong channel is a smaller problem than most people assume; the bigger problem is almost always the offer itself.
03What Offer Market Fit Means
- Interview a handful of prospects and ask 'why do you want that' repeatedly until you find the framing that makes them say yes without hesitation.
- The same underlying service can fail or succeed purely based on which specific outcome it's positioned around; reposition before assuming the service itself doesn't sell.
04Volume Is King, But Only With the Right Offer
- Don't scale send volume to fix a weak offer; scaling amplifies whatever is already working or already broken.
- Once an offer is proven, the winning move is maximizing volume at the lowest cost per send, not out-clevering competitors with better copy.
05Choosing the Right Outreach Channel
- Match the trust level a channel provides to how much trust the offer needs; a channel that can't build enough trust on its own has to pivot to a call fast.
- Pick one outreach channel and get skilled at it before spreading across five; channel-hopping trades depth for false variety.
06Copy That Actually Gets Replies
- Clear, specific, plainly-stated offers outperform clever copywriting tricks; the goal is instant comprehension, not persuasion through wordplay.
- Steal proven offer structures from a swipe file and adapt them to a specific niche rather than writing from a blank page.
07Lead Nurturing Is Where Most Deals Are Lost
- Treat every positive reply as an open loop that needs daily follow-up for at least a week, not a one-and-done conversation.
- Most quiet leads aren't dead, they're just under-followed; persistence recovers meetings a single message would lose.
08Make YouTube Content
- Publishing consistent video content offsets the inherent low trust of cold outbound, because a stranger who has already watched you on camera arrives half-warmed.
- Trust-building content compounds slowly; it took years of inconsistent uploads before it started paying off.
09There Are 2 Approaches to Cold Outreach
- Decide early whether you're building expertise in one specific offer or in the outbound skill itself; both are viable but require different next moves.
- Skill-first operators can find or partner with businesses that already have market pull and scale outbound on a revenue-share basis instead of owning the product.
10The Trust About Most Salespeople
- A salesperson who has only ever handled inbound or referral leads will call outbound leads 'bad leads' by default; that's a skill gap, not a lead-quality problem.
- Closing outbound is a fundamentally different, learnable skill from closing inbound, because the prospect starts with zero context and zero trust.
11Figure Out What Is Demanded
- Start every new offer with 'what do people already want to buy,' not 'what can I sell'; solving existing demand is dramatically easier than creating it.
12You Are Operating in the Grey
- Accept that cold outreach exists in a permanent legal and platform gray area; deliverability and account restrictions can change overnight with no warning.
- Keep a cash buffer and stay connected to other operators so a sudden platform change is a setback, not a crisis.
13Being Able to Generate Business Cold Is Valuable
- Reliable demand generation is one of the hardest, most valuable skills a business can have access to, which is exactly why it pays well once it's learned.
- Expect the first few reps at offer market fit to feel very hard; it gets meaningfully easier after a handful of repetitions.
Terms worth knowing.
- ICP (Ideal Customer Profile)
- The specific type of person or business a campaign targets, chosen because they're most likely to want the offer and be reachable on the outreach channel.
- Offer market fit
- The point where a product or service is described in language that matches what a cold prospect already wants, rather than language the seller prefers to use.
- Cold outreach / outbound
- Contacting people who have not previously engaged with a business, through email, SMS, LinkedIn, cold calling, or video, to generate leads without waiting for them to find the business first.
- Revenue share
- A pricing model where an outbound operator is paid a percentage of the deals their leads generate, instead of or in addition to a flat fee.
- Supply and demand (as used here)
- The idea that a business only makes money when it delivers something the market already wants; low sales usually mean a supply-side problem, not a message-delivery problem.
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“Most cold outreach fails for one reason... it's because the market doesn't wanna buy what you wanna sell.”
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“If I can make a thousand dollars by sending a thousand emails, I wanna send two hundred thousand emails a day. Volume is king, but only after you have the right offer.”
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“If you're sending 10,000 emails a day and you're getting two or three leads a day and then you don't follow up with them, you're an idiot. Follow up with them.”
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“Of course they don't know what you do. You haven't sold them yet.”
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“You are building a money printing machine, and everyone wants a money printing machine.”
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00:00So I have now been doing cold outreach for ten years. And in that time, we've seen over 50,000,000 emails.
00:08We have booked tens of thousands of calls, and we run campaigns for hundreds of clients across pretty much every single channel that you could think of. In this video, I'm gonna break down the most important things that I've learned which actually moves the needle so you can take ten years of cold email knowledge in one video.
00:25Let's get into it. So the first thing that I need you to digest and no one seems to want to but that's okay. I'll keep hammering it.
00:33Is that most cold outreach fails for one reason and you're typically not gonna like the answer and it's the obvious reason. People think that their cold outreach fails because the message hasn't been delivered or the words are wrong or there's an problem with the email list or something along these lines.
00:51Typically, it's because the market doesn't wanna buy what you wanna sell. So the market either wants what you're selling or it doesn't.
00:57An outreach just reveals that. And to paint a picture, lots of people come into Outreach because they've made no sales.
01:06And they think that they've made no sales because no one knows what they do. Now, that may be the case or it may be that people do know what you do and they don't care.
01:16So if you do outreach and still people don't care, then often you have to change what you're selling.
01:23Because a business operates off supply and demand. And if there's no demand for what you're trying to supply, you make no money.
01:31Okay? So that is the most common reason why cold outreach fails.
01:38Most people just blame their channel and switch to the next thing instead of fixing their offer. Your ICP has to actually be on the channel but beyond that the channel is really the problem. And what this means is like, yes, maybe you could go after plumbing receptionists through LinkedIn outreach but most plumbing receptionists will not be on LinkedIn.
01:56So you've got a better job doing info at emails or calling the number on their Google My Business because it's most likely gonna go to receptionist. Alright? So your ideal customer profile has to be on the channel, but beyond that, the channel is really the problem.
02:10So take this and swallow this and understand that when you're looking at a campaign and it's not performing, the first thing you should ask myself is like, do these people not actually care about what I'm reaching out to them about? Okay?
02:23The next thing I'll talk about is what offer market fit actually means. So inbound cares about what you do, outbound cares only about what you can do for them.
02:31Offer market fit is expressing what you do in a way that is appealing to someone who has never heard of you. Alright? And I'll run you through this example.
02:40So offer market fit is when you've got something that you wanna deliver, either a product or typically if you're doing Korea outbound, it's a service and you've got a market.
02:51And you know the services can make them money or save them time, but the way that you're expressing it is not appealing to them. So we used to do this when we ran our restaurant marketing agency and we'll get more bums on seats.
03:04More bums on seats would increase the amount of foot traffic, this sort of thing. That didn't have off a market fit. It didn't have my off market fit for a number of reasons.
03:13Most commonly is like other people had pitched that before and then they burned in the past. And so we had a few clients that asked us to do events.
03:23Can you get us more events? But I feel why do you want more events? Well, we want more events because our space is underutilized.
03:29Like, we still have to pay the rent, but, you know, people don't come in. Also, with events, pay, you know, upfront. They usually have a tab that they put in the bar.
03:37They usually spend money on alcohol, which has better margins than food, all these sorts of things.
03:43And then we're like, okay, cool. We can get your events. Started getting people events.
03:47What we found is we'd often get move events on a Friday or Saturday night. Oh, well, these aren't that great because we're already busy, like, we're not making any additional income. I was like, okay.
03:56Well, what what's how do you want the events to be in that? Well, we really want those weekday corporate events because, you know, it hits all the things above. You got people drinking on Tuesday afternoon at the pub or whatever, at the cocktail bar or the venue that you're promoting, and they don't care about the money.
04:11They're way easy to work with all these sorts of things. So through that learning, our offer became we can help you generate weekday corporate events.
04:19Alright? And to this day, we have a campaign running for a client for weekday corporate events and it's absolutely crushing.
04:26I think they got 81 leads in the last three weeks. Okay? So the offer still works because there's offer market fit.
04:33Now, they're just offering restaurant marketing, same with getting more bumps on seats, but it's slightly tailored to what the market actually wants to buy. Okay? So you are typically not the person you're trying to sell to.
04:45So you need to talk to lots of people, find the framing that lands, and then you can see it online and lots of people will say yes. So this process is done through talking to people and understanding why.
04:58Why do you want these sorts of leads? Oh, why do you want to get more corporates? Why do you want to get more of these ones?
05:05Why do you want more insurance claim jobs? Why do you want more of this? Okay.
05:08Okay. Okay. Because once you understand that, then you understand why it's valuable and then you can frame what you do appropriately.
05:14So volume is king and people that say volume isn't king, that's cool. But from our perspective, if I can make a thousand dollars by sending a thousand emails, I wanna send 200,000 emails a day.
05:28Alright? Like, volume is king, um, but only after you have the right offer.
05:35So volume is king but only after you have the right offer. You can't out copyright volume if something's working to send more of it.
05:41And what I mean by this is we this would have been a little while ago, maybe like eighteen months ago or a year ago.
05:49I had a meeting with Nick Abraham and we were talking about Cody Mellon running the agency and I think he probably had like 300 clients at the time and we had maybe like 40 clients at the time. And we were struggling or I was struggling and understanding if other agencies were getting better results than us, and I was talking to him.
06:10And he was like, there's no secret copywriting out there.
06:15There's not like people like, you get cold emails from other agencies. You know what they write. They're the same as probably what you write.
06:21And so he essentially said the game of outbound is to do as much volume for as little cost as possible. Because if you can send twice the volume for the same price, then you are going to win.
06:33Okay? And that's essentially where we came to with Code Outbound. The game is to get as much return for as little cost, and then you have a high return on investment.
06:43And, like, the offer is number one, and number two is getting the offer in front of as many people as possible. So that is how I frame the game, and I recommend that you approach it the same.
06:55Mhmm. Choosing the right channel and why it matters less than you think. All outreach methods work.
07:00This is just this is the truth. They all work.
07:03It's not like some work and some don't. Everyone has made money on channels. The variable is trust in the offer.
07:10More trust mean the offer doesn't have to be strong and vice versa. Um, video outreach sits at the top of the list because it builds trust faster than plain text. So what I'm saying is that the medium of outreach changes how the trust is built.
07:22So we've run a few cold SMS campaigns, and we get heaps of replies, but you have to quickly pivot into a call because you're not gonna be able to sell them over the cold SMS.
07:33You're just gonna say, can I give you a call? And then call them, and then you're gonna build trust on the call. At the other end of the spectrum, you've done video outreach for some clients where they close without a call because the video is compelling enough.
07:44Alright? So short text to video outreach, and then there's a spectrum in between. So when I consider choosing the right channel, I pretty much just say to start on a channel and get good at it.
07:56It doesn't I'm not super married to the channel. Like, we start on email and I'm just stuck to email. We've done a bit of, you know, cold WhatsApp and we've done some cold SMS.
08:06We've done some cold calling and we've done some cold DMs and we've some cold Facebook DMs and cold Instagram DMs. And we've done a bunch of different things and what we're most skilled at is email.
08:17So we're sticking to email. So copy that actually gets replies. So people have copy playbooks and that is great and feel free to steal other people's copy playbooks.
08:29Essentially, they're like a little combination of words with psychology behind them that work, but the best copy is just copy that clearly conveys a winning offer. So if I look here, and you can get this through clicking the link below, here's a 100 to hold it, a 100 cold email offers that work for b to b.
08:47So I got a commercial electrician with AI using the tools working in Phoenix this week. I want those details before I can send them to someone else. Right?
08:53Or I looked at your dumps to set up and you're paying for pickups you don't need, I can cut that bill about 30% recharging. So these are offers that work. So what I recommend you do is you take your offer and you put it into Claude with this and you say, hey, can you make me some offers?
09:11And then when you write copy, you just want to convey this as simply as possible. You're not trying to trick them into doing anything. You're trying to say, hey, this is exactly what we do.
09:22Is that of interest? And then they say, yes. And then it'll be easy.
09:25Because what you're gonna find is if you're trying to trick them, the sales call, you're just stitching up the salesperson. Because they're gonna, why I didn't think this was cool about that?
09:34And so copy that gets replies is one that clearly conveys a compelling offer.
09:40Lead nurturing is where most deals are lost, and I learned this again recently. Like, I've learned this many times. So when you get a positive reply, you follow-up with them until they convert into a meeting or a sale or they say they're not interested.
09:57That is the rules. Okay? So you can do that by just calling them.
10:02You can do that by messaging them. You can give that by getting their phone number and texting them. You can do that in a number of ways.
10:08The simplest way to do this is whatever sequence that you're using, you just change a tag to be follow-up, and you just set it up to follow-up with them every single day for seven days at least. Say, hey, you're interested?
10:21Let me know. Excellent. And you'll get people saying no, but you'll get more people say yes.
10:25And so you will just easily squeeze more juice. Right?
10:29Like, if you're getting send 10,000 emails a day and you're getting like two or three leads a day and then you don't follow-up with them, you're an idiot. Follow-up with them. Okay?
10:40Make YouTube content. Thank me later. Why?
10:44YouTube content builds trust. This video builds trust. I'm saying words and got mannerisms and seem human and make mistakes and do the same things that you do, and so you trust me more.
10:56And so when we do cold outreach on behalf of our agency, then people find this YouTube channel and watch them and be like, oh, well, this guy seems kind of legit and genuine. And that's the key thing here.
11:08The key thing here is that cold outbound is inherently low trust and YouTube content is inherently trust building. And so whatever decay of trust happens in the outbound, it can be built back through YouTube. So I recommend it.
11:22And so many people just say, but it's hard. And so, yeah, it is hard and that is the point. If it was easy, it wouldn't work because, yeah, you're just being a sea of noise.
11:32So make YouTube content. Thank me later. I saw that we've been on YouTube for ten years.
11:37We didn't make videos consistently for the first eight of those. Okay? So just make YouTube content.
11:43Thank me later. If you need a YouTube guy, our guy is great. You can flick me an email and I can put you in touch.
11:49There are two approaches for outreach. So this is more like holistic, but fundamentally, there are two types of people that are trying to do outreach.
11:59There are people that are good at outreach and there are people that have a product that they need to sell and they're trying to sell that product.
12:07Okay? And so people who are trying to sell that product, e g, let's say, use work for JBL and for whatever reason, you need to figure out how to sell more JBL speakers through cold outbound.
12:21Alright? What I would do there is try lots of channels, and you try lots of approaches.
12:27Alright? And you'd probably say like, okay, cool. Can we message all the businesses and offer them a free JBL for summer in return for some user generated content?
12:39Or can we do sponsorships and try and do sponsorships for certain events and do call it out around to do sponsorships? Or could we whatever. You know, can we use them at wedding venues?
12:50Something like this. So you'd find lots and lots and lots of different approaches and these sorts of things and get really, really deep. Okay?
12:56Now on the other end of the spectrum, there are people that, say, like me, are very good at outbound. And so what I'm looking for is opportunities to make money with my skill set.
13:07And what that means is that I run outbound for offers that don't exist to see if there's offer market fit there. And then once I know like, uh, this is gonna be a winner, I then just keep my eye out for someone in the market that could potentially deliver on it and then say like, hey, I can generate you a 100 leads a day.
13:24Do you want them? I want, you know, 50% or whatever it is. So those are the two approaches, and pretty much everyone starts in this bucket because even if you're an agency, you're gonna sell with a few clients.
13:35And probably what they sell is hard to sell, and so you have to get really deep in the weeds. But over time, you're like, okay.
13:41Cool. I'm looking for x y z client.
13:45I'm looking for a business brokerage, and I'm looking for this client, and I wanna do rev share. Right? And these are these sorts of clients.
13:52And so those are the two approaches that people typically end up in or the two buckets. And so what I'm finding being more more in this camp is that we're kind of just looking for partners essentially.
14:04People that have an offer that works for outbound, and then we use our skill set to scale that really aggressively. And so like one that anyone watching this video, if you happen to know a debt collector that wants some leads, debt collection seems to be working off for outbound, at least for the free test that I've found.
14:24And so those are the two approaches. And if you are in the game, I do recommend you think about what the ideal offer and client would be, and then you go out and get that ideal offer or client.
14:37Okay? So another just truth is most salespeople have never closed outbound in their life, And that is fine. This is not like bashing on salespeople.
14:47It's just that most salespeople work for a business where they get like inbound leads or referral leads or and that's how they've made money. Okay? Because just like just to be very truthful, businesses that consistently make an okay amount of money get a decent amount of inbound leads because the product or service is in demand and they do a good job.
15:08And so the salesperson has never had to close outbound. And then when you're an agency and someone comes to you or, you know, you're you're doing it for your own company and you're trying to generate leads, your salesperson's gonna say, oh, the salesperson, but, like, these leads are crap.
15:24Like, they don't even know what we do. Of course, they don't know what you do. You haven't you haven't sold them yet.
15:31So most salespeople are typically it's gonna sound harsh, but I'm gonna say order takers where the person who they're dealing with knows what you do, has a problem that they know that you can solve, and you're figuring out price and building trust and making sure that you're the right people for the job.
15:49Whereas with outbound, these people have just received an email from you and now you're . And so what that means is that it's going to be very difficult for someone who has never closed cold to close cold.
16:02And it's going to take time and effort and they're going to have to want to learn and then you're gonna have to go down that path. So everyone, if you're giving leads to somebody who's never closed outbound is gonna say the lead's crap.
16:15I don't it doesn't matter who's generating the leads. Okay? That's just how it is until they learn.
16:20And that is fine. There's no one's fault. I haven't run any words here, but figure out what is demanded or what you can fulfill on.
16:26And what I mean by this is the starting point is what do people want to buy, not what can I sell? Okay?
16:35Figure out what people want to buy and then solve supply side instead of figuring what you can sell and solve demand side. Solving supply side is so much easier because people are going to pay you money. Right here.
16:47And this is a big one that no one talks about in the space, but this is the fundamental bedrock of the space. You're operating in the gray. Like, you are breaching terms of service somewhere for some companies, no doubt, no matter what outbound you do.
17:03And there's gonna be a spectrum of gray, like, cold SMS is down this end of the spectrum and cold emails really on this end of the spectrum where cold emails being around for, I don't know, I made a little video on this, but like thirty, forty years.
17:20Okay? And it's still operating in the gray.
17:25Google and Microsoft don't want to the users to have a bad experience, and so they are going to, you know, put things in place.
17:34They're not necessarily trying to stop you. They're trying to stop people literally scamming people, but you are kind of falling in that category. The data that you're getting, how are you scraping that data?
17:45Is it a completely clean way of getting the data or is it in the gray? And so what this means is that there is uncertainty in the space.
17:53And by uncertainty, I mean that tools come and go very quickly, things change all the time, you can wake up on all your emails are gonna span. This is part of the space. It's part of the frustration of the space.
18:04And I probably just think it's part of business because this is the only sorts of businesses that I've run is, like, the SMA space where, you know, you'd get your ad account blocked for no apparent reason or, like, cold outbound space where things happen all the time.
18:20So just be prepared. And in all honesty, the best way to be prepared is don't overreact, talk to good people in the space, and have some money in the back.
18:32Okay? So this is just part of the game.
18:35And finally, I'll leave on a positive note, and this is that being able to generate business code is extremely valuable. It's extremely valuable.
18:45You are , and everyone wants a money printing machine. So what that means is that if you can generate business for people, you are one of the most vital, if not the most vital cog in that business.
19:00And that means that you can make a lot of money, and that is really good. And so it's a very, very valuable skill to have and to learn. It also means that it is hard.
19:09Okay? And especially when you are new to the space, it's gonna seem very, very, very hard.
19:17And that's okay. You just have to keep going. It's very, very hard very hard because making a money printing machine is quite hard.
19:24But once you've done it a few times and you understand a few more nuances of the space or the product or offer market fit, it'll become quite easy. Okay?
19:33So hopefully, you got some value out of this video.
19:38If you want those a 100 free offers, there should be a link down below. I have got an eight hour video on screen now diving to how we do video outreach. I'll see you there.
19:48Peace.
The Hook
The bait, then the rug-pull.
Ten years, 50 million emails sent, and one blunt diagnosis: almost every failed cold outreach campaign is being blamed on the wrong thing. Before touching channels or copy, the video insists on fixing the one variable that actually decides whether outbound works at all.
Named ideas worth stealing.
02:23concept
Offer Market Fit
Expressing what a service does in language that's already appealing to someone who has never heard of you, found by asking prospects why they want a given outcome until the framing lands.
Steal forany outbound offer, cold email subject lines, landing page headlines
06:55list
The Outreach Trust Spectrum
- Cold SMS — low trust, needs an immediate call
- Cold email — mid trust
- Cold calling — mid-high trust
- Video outreach — high trust, can close without a call
Every channel can convert; what changes is how much trust the medium itself carries before the prospect has met you.
Steal fordeciding which channel to launch a new outbound offer on
11:48model
The Two Approaches to Cold Outreach
- Product-first: get extremely skilled at selling one specific offer across many channels and angles
- Skill-first: get extremely skilled at outbound itself, then find or partner with an offer that already has market pull, often on revenue share
A map of the two career paths inside outbound: mastering one product, or mastering the discipline and renting it out to whichever offer is working.
Steal fordeciding whether to specialize in a product or in the outbound skill itself
09:40list
The 7-Day Follow-Up Rule
- Tag every positive reply as follow-up
- Message daily for at least 7 days
- Stop only on explicit conversion or explicit no
A minimum-viable nurture sequence for recovering replies that would otherwise go cold after the first message.
Steal forany cold email or DM sequence with a manual follow-up step
How they asked for the click.
VERBAL ASK
19:26link
“If you want those a hundred free offers, there should be a link down below. I've got an eight-hour video on screen now diving into how we do video outreach.”
Soft close: points to the free swipe-file lead magnet in the description and cross-promotes a longer video-outreach breakdown, no hard sales pitch.
MENTIONED ON CAMERA
FROM THE DESCRIPTION
PRIMARY CTAWhere the creator wants you to go next.
AFFILIATECommission earned if you click.
OTHER LINKSAlso linked in the description.
Visual structure at a glance.
