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Louis G. fair point. there are tons of iterations. It does feel very Jeremy Miner doesnt it? lol.

I dont think you need to "show me you know me" when the offer is free.99. If its cold though, you will need to get them to see the value fast. Too many guru's building Skool courses and communities that die in 3 months. Also, I'm new here and showed up after asking Gemini for startup communities, so good job on the AEO.

I agree. I use a far more robust prompt but the idea is the same. Additionally, cadence is key for me. "I hear you do [process] and have to [problem] How does that [implication] for your business." can be more engaging as, "ok, so... that's interesting... sorry, I just hear you do [process], right? and have to [problem]? (exhale.) damn... and if that continues, do you know what... what that [implication] for your business?

^ agree with Louis G. but I do wish I was knowledgeable enough to build automations within other processes within my work. I just dont know what I dont know.

Hi Jean T. and GTM folks. Trying not to be lengthy but I head up biz dev at a top of funnel lead gen and meeting setting company started 10 years ago. First, Everything said here is 100% correct. The best lead gen is still People as a service. The areas that AI has accelerated growth has been in generating the contacts for the leads within the ICP, so strong ICP is foundational. Narrow ICP isn't really necessary but specific, segmented verticals are needed so you can check the data on response rates and pivot or iterate on the poor performers. And that's it, Our copy is our own, our sequences and follow-ups. I guess I do use AI for meeting summaries but we find writing down my own notes and reading them back helps build rapport. I'm happy to have a no sales BS convo, if anyone wants to DM me on our process and success. Of course if you are interested in some help, I wont say no. 🙂 Keyoutreach.com Also, as P.S. The AI Slop has helped us stand out in inboxes, not get buried. We have grown more and gotten more meetings in 2025-2026 than any previous year.

My company does cold email. I believe it's still the best way to catch people in a room they still accept bing sold to. No one I know responds well to a cold LinkedIn. I'm trying to just do customer discovery for my own venture on LinkedIn and I get crickets.

Also, domain use is going to get you in spam regardless if you use lengthy emails, links, attachments in cold outreach and/or if you send more than 25 or so a day.

Very similar To some big names in the lead gen biz. Look at Instantly and SmartLead, Apollo, Winmo, Clay. All do some or all of this. There is always room in the market, just find the niche that needs the background check.

I'm not sure I understand the problem you are solving. Is it a lead gen like Apollo? How did it solve your bad domain rep? I would do more pointed customer discovery. Do you have sales navigator on LinkedIn? Hit up some people that would use this and see if they have the same problem