Jason Park

I'm building cold email systems for free. Full build in 14 days: - inboxes + domains - email copy + follow-ups - reply templates - 10k lead list - lifetime Slack support you cover tech costs, i cover everything else. DM me "system" if you want one built.

the reason most cold email campaigns fail has nothing to do with the channel and everything to do with the offer. if you're sending to the right person and the reply rate is under 2%, the email isn't the problem. the value proposition isn't clear enough or compelling enough to pull someone out of their inbox. cold email is a distribution mechanism. it can only deliver your offer. it cannot make a weak offer strong. before you rebuild the sequence, audit the offer. most of the time that's where the answer is.

@Aidanb2b SOP

For every 800 connection requests I send: ​ 45% accept, 35% reply to my DM, and 10 book in for a sales call. ​ 95% of others on linkedIn; ​ - 800 requests - 15% accept - 10% reply - 0-1 calls ​ And that’s being GENEROUS. ​ But if that’s you, I’m not making fun of it. ​ You're not alone… ​ And it’s because most people STILL treat LinkedIn DMs like cold email blasts. ​ What I’ve learned after booking 5-10+ calls per week consistently: ​ What you miss out in volume on Linkedin… ​ You make up in SPECIFICITY. ​ That means making every single message count using: ​ - Their bio - Their posts - Their about section - Their location ​ Linkedin profiles have SO much detail that you can point out, get specfiic with, and then leverage for genuine connection. ​ The problem is... ​ Everyone downloads automation tools, imports lead lists, and sends generic scripts. But you only get 800 connection requests per month on LinkedIn. If you waste them on copy-paste messages, you're throwing away guaranteed conversations. ​ I've used this hyper specificity to book calls with 7-figure agency owners and SaaS founders who normally ignore their DMs. ​ The difference is 100% in the humanity. ​ Stop competing on volume. ​ Start competing on specificity. ​ PS ​ Want my FULL LinkedIn outbound appointment setting framework? ​ Inside: ​ 1. The 5-message framework we use for openers 2. Our full sales navigator system for clean lead lists 3. How to find prospects WITHOUT sales navigator 4. Our FULL DM psychology spreadsheet (important) 5. 30 REAL conversations that booked calls in the DMs (study what worked) 6. The exact google sheet we use to track metrics / KPIs ​ Comment "SOP" and I'll DM it to you. ​ Btw... ​ It's the EXACT SOP I train my setters on to book 3-5 sales calls/week in the LinkedIn DMs. (my setter literally booked 3 calls on my account yesterday alone w/ this. One with the HOG @ a multi-8 figure SaaS)

@robimargz Nothing but facts here

A pattern I keep seeing: Business operators look at inconsistent revenue & bad revenue as the same. But they're two completely different problems. Inconsistent revenue is an acquisition problem. The pipeline only moves when you push it. Some months you push, some months you don't. The numbers follow. Bad revenue is a filter problem. The clients are there, but you said yes to the wrong ones. Or you lowered your price to fit more clients in. I'm talking: - low margins - lower pricing - custom scope - not case study material - without referrals at the end On the surface, both show up as a bad month. BUT that's not really the case. Treating them the same is expensive because fixing one actively makes the other worse. If your revenue is inconsistent and you respond by tightening client standards, you just made your pipeline thinner. If your revenue is bad and you respond by lowering price or pushing harder on acquisition, you're filling capacity with more mediocre clients. Before you touch anything, you need to know exactly what problem you have.

lost a deal last year trying to save a prospect money. they wanted 30 domains and 90 inboxes. i walked them through why 17 domains and 51 inboxes would do the same job at lower cost. they went with someone who said yes to the 30. lesson took me a while to absorb: when someone comes in knowing what they want, your job is to deliver it, not redesign it. consultative selling works. uninvited redesigns feel like you're saying they don't know what they're doing. they'll find someone who agrees with them.

here's the cold email problem nobody talks about: most people are optimizing the wrong part of the system. they'll spend 4 hours A/B testing subject lines on a campaign that's landing in spam 34% of the time. they'll rewrite the opening line 17 times while their reply-to address is broken. they'll chase marginal copy improvements while their domain has no DMARC record and their list is 23% invalid addresses. this is like adjusting your rearview mirror while the engine is on fire. so here's a diagnostic framework i use before touching a single word of copy: stage 1: deliverability audit check where you're landing. not assumed, not guessed, actually checked. use a seed list tool and run a placement test. if you're not landing in primary for 85%+ of sends, nothing else matters until that number moves. common culprits: - DNS misconfigured (SPF failing, DKIM not aligned, DMARC missing) - domain too young or not warmed - sending volume too high for reputation level - bounce rate above 3-4% on recent sends stage 2: infrastructure audit are you sending from your main domain? stop that. are all your inboxes on the same domain? that's one reputation event away from a complete shutdown. are you hitting 30-40 sends per inbox per day maximum? if you're over that, you're spending reputation you haven't earned. stage 3: list quality audit what percentage of your list bounced last campaign? anything above 3-4% is a list hygiene problem that will compound with every send. role emails (info@, admin@, hello@) should be stripped before the list even enters your tool. they rarely convert and they hurt your placement. stage 4: technical sending audit is your tracking domain a subdomain or your root domain? is link tracking turned off for early campaigns? are you sending plain text or HTML? (plain text wins for cold outreach almost every time.) only after stages 1-4 come back clean do you start testing subject lines and copy. 90% of underperforming cold email campaigns have a deliverability or infrastructure problem masquerading as a copy problem. fix the foundation. then optimize. the best copy in the world can't save you from a spam folder.

the mistake founders make with AI tools is treating them like a google search. you put in a vague question, you get a generic answer, you think the tool isn't that useful. claude isn't a search engine. it's closer to a very fast collaborator who needs clear context to do good work. the founders getting the most out of it are the ones who write long, specific prompts. who give context, examples, constraints, and desired output format. garbarge in, garbage out is more true for AI than almost anything else.

if i wanted to run a clean cold outreach operation sending 1,000 emails per day, here's exactly how i'd build it: domains: 11 domains. not 10. you want one buffer in case a domain takes an unexpected hit mid-campaign. buy variations of your brand name. nothing that looks spammy. forward them all to your main site. inboxes: 3 per domain, so 33 inboxes total. each capped at 31 sends per day once warmed. that's 1,023 sends per day at full capacity. warmup: 3 weeks per inbox before touching cold prospects. stagger the starts so you're not waiting on all 33 simultaneously. start week one with the first batch, week two with the second, etc. DNS setup: SPF, DKIM, DMARC on every domain before warmup even starts. this is not optional. DMARC in monitoring mode is fine. no DMARC is not fine. copy: 3 different templates in rotation. not 3 subject line variants of the same email. genuinely different angles, different openers, different calls to action. rotate across inboxes so no single template is carrying the full load. list: verified only. run every batch through a verification tool before it touches your inboxes. unverified lists kill domains faster than anything else. monitoring: weekly placement test. any domain dropping below 87% primary placement rate gets paused and investigated before the next send. these are the bare minimum numbers. at 1,000/day with this setup, you're building an asset, not just running a campaign.

comparing your month three to someone else's year three is the most efficient way to quit early.

the deliverability consulting industry is built on complexity that mostly doesn't need to exist. you'll see "experts" talk about sender scores, domain authority, IP reputation curves, engagement weighting algorithms, header forensics. whole vocabulary designed to make you feel like you need them to decipher it. most of it is real. almost none of it is what's actually killing your deliverability. what's actually killing your deliverability: 1. missing or broken DNS records. SPF, DKIM, DMARC not set up correctly. this is 60-70% of deliverability problems and it takes 23 minutes to fix. 2. sending from warmed-up domains at volume you haven't earned yet. you don't get to send 500/day in week one. the inbox doesn't care about your timeline. 3. bad list hygiene. mailing to addresses that bounce, role emails (info@, support@), or contacts who haven't engaged in years. spam filters watch who ignores you just as closely as who clicks. 4. sending the same template at scale. pattern matching is real. if 40,000 emails went out last month with the same first sentence, filters noticed. you don't need a deliverability consultant. you need to do the boring basics correctly and stop trying to outsmart filters that are faster than you. fix your DNS. warm your domains. clean your lists. vary your copy. that handles 91% of it.

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i used claude to build an inbox health monitoring system last month. every morning at 7am it checks a list of sending domains, runs a placement test against a seed list, and sends me a slack message that looks like this: "7 domains healthy / 2 domains showing soft spam signals / 1 domain flagged for review" if i had to do this manually it would take 45 minutes every single morning. now it takes zero. the build took about 4 hours. most of that was me writing clear prompts and iterating on the output format. claude wrote the actual code in maybe 11 exchanges. here's what i've learned building tools this way: the quality of the output is directly proportional to the quality of the problem description. if you're vague about what you want, the code is vague too. treat it like briefing a very fast, very literal contractor. every detail you leave out is a detail claude invents. sometimes it invents it correctly. sometimes it doesn't. but even when it gets things wrong, the fix cycle is 10-15 minutes. not a week waiting for a dev ticket. non-technical founders who aren't building with claude right now are about 12-18 months behind the ones who are. and that gap is growing.

"longer emails perform better because they show more value." no. longer emails perform better with warm prospects who already know you. with cold prospects, every extra sentence is another chance for them to stop reading. the goal of a cold email is not to explain everything. it's to earn a reply. you don't close on the email. you close on the call. the email just has to be interesting enough to get you the call. write less. every time.

"longer emails perform better because they show more value." no. longer emails perform better with warm prospects who already know you. with cold prospects, every extra sentence is another chance for them to stop reading. the goal of a cold email is not to explain everything. it's to earn a reply. you don't close on the email. you close on the call. the email just has to be interesting enough to get you the call. write less. every time.

there's a conversation i have with almost every new client that goes the same way. they come in wanting to send as much email as possible as fast as possible. "how quickly can we be at 2,000 sends a day?" i explain warmup. i explain domain architecture. i explain why their timeline is going to be 3-4 weeks before we're even touching cold prospects. and i can see them doing the math. they think slower start means slower results. it's the opposite. the clients who've ignored the warmup period and pushed volume early are the same clients calling me six weeks later because nothing's landing in primary. domains burned. sending reputation tanked. starting over from scratch. the clients who wait out the warmup, let the infrastructure stabilize, then ramp volume correctly, those are the ones hitting their first meetings in week five and still sending cleanly in month six. cold email infrastructure rewards patience in the first month and punishes impatience for the next six. there's no shortcut that doesn't cost you more time on the back end than you saved on the front end. the founders who understand this build compounding outreach systems. the ones who don't spend their whole journey restarting from zero. take the three weeks. build it right. then send at scale.

no inbox, no pipeline. no pipeline, no business. it really is that linear.

the follow-up sequence is where most cold email campaigns either win or die. most people get it completely wrong. common mistakes i see: 1. following up with "just checking in" or "circling back on my last email". this is not a follow-up. it's a reminder that you exist and have nothing new to say. 2. following up every day. you're not being persistent, you're being easy to block. 3. the same ask in every message. if they didn't want a call from email one, email three asking for the same call won't work. here's what actually moves the needle: each follow-up should do one of three things: add new information, reduce friction, or change the ask entirely. email 1: the pitch. clear value, clear ask. email 2 (day 3): add one piece of proof or context they didn't have before. email 3 (day 7): reduce the ask. instead of a 30-minute call, ask one question. email 4 (day 14): breakup email. "i'll stop following up after this". then actually stop. 4 emails. 14 days. that's the sequence. anything beyond that is chasing. chasing is not a strategy. it's a signal that you don't have enough leads in the pipeline. if you feel like you need to send a 7th follow-up to save a deal, the real problem is your lead volume. fix that first.

most founders i talk to aren't stuck because of the market. they're stuck because they have 4 different "top priorities" this week and zero of them are actually moving. the single most effective thing i've done this year: every monday, i pick one thing. one. if that one thing gets done, the week was a success regardless of everything else. it sounds too simple. it also works every single time. urgency without clarity is just panic with a to-do list.

personalization that takes 3 seconds to read isn't personalization. it's formatting. learn the difference.

the cold email software industry has a funny habit of selling you features that exist to paper over problems their platform creates. example: warmup tools built into sending platforms. if the platform's deliverability was solid out of the box, you wouldn't need a built-in warmup tool. the warmup tool exists because sending cold from a fresh inbox on a new domain will tank your placement, and they know it, so they sell you the fix alongside the problem. another one: "AI personalization" as a selling point. the platforms know that batch-and-blast copy doesn't convert. instead of telling you to write better, more targeted emails, they bolt an AI layer on top so they can charge more and you can feel like you solved the problem. you didn't. you added complexity to a broken process. the platforms that actually help you scale are the boring ones. solid SMTP routing. transparent bounce and spam rate reporting. clean domain and inbox management. no magic buttons. sexy features in cold email infra are almost always a signal that something foundational is broken and the platform is selling you a distraction. buy boring infrastructure. it's the only kind that works at volume.

the worst advice i ever followed was "don't niche down until you have to." i spent the first five months talking to everyone. e-commerce founders. SaaS CTOs. marketing agencies. local service businesses. anyone who'd take a call. closed a handful. burned through a lot of time. had no clear message. then i got specific. picked one type of client. learned exactly what they cared about. built the pitch entirely around their specific problem. first month after niching: more conversations than the previous three months combined. the mistake everyone makes when they hear "niche down" is thinking it means saying no to money. it doesn't. it means saying yes to a category loudly enough that the right people hear you. when you speak to everyone, you're invisible to everyone. when you speak to one kind of person, they think you built the business for them. that's not a positioning trick. that's just how human attention works. if your pipeline feels random right now, audit your messaging before you audit your channel. the channel is probably fine.