LinkedIn posts of Instantly.ai

We've crossed the 100-hour mark in direct AI consulting. And I found something I can't stop thinking about. Most businesses are building AI completely wrong. They see a problem. Build an automation. Move on. 6 months later? A dozen disconnected systems that…

Cold email isn’t dead. Bad cold email infrastructure is. I keep seeing people jump into outbound with great offers and solid case studies… and then wonder why replies don’t come. Let’s break down what actually matters when you’re planning to hit 10k…

I spent $500/mo on cold email infrastructure. Still landed in spam. Now I'm at 100% deliverability for $200/mo. Here's what changed everything: Most cold emailers stack: - Instantly - Apollo - 10 warmup tools - 20+ Google domains And still end up…

SmartLead and Instantly are putting lipstick on a pig. They are good at one thing, sequencing emails at scale. Everything else they have added like: - CRM tools - Lead databases - AI chatbots - Deliverability tests is pure GARBAGE. All of…

My student didn’t just hire an assistant. He built an entire AI Board of Directors. Most people use ChatGPT to write emails. Beau Barrett is using it to run his company. He just shared his "AI Expert Panel" with me—a system he…

Use this scorecard to spot inbox burn in 2 minutes. Most people know they’re burned after replies die. Too late. Here’s a simple scorecard I use across all client domains. Takes under 2 minutes. 1. DNS Check (0 or 1) Open SmartLead…

Sending the exact same email to 1,000 people guarantees one thing: The spam folder. Even if you change the first name, Google and Outlook see the pattern. They identify identical content hitting thousands of inboxes and label it as junk immediately. This…

Sending the exact same email to 1,000 people guarantees one thing: The spam folder. Even if you change the first name, Google and Outlook see the pattern. They identify identical content hitting thousands of inboxes and label it as junk immediately. This…

Smartlead vs Instantly. The Cold Email Debate Nobody Wants to Have (But Should). Everyone’s talking about which tool gets more replies... But that’s the wrong question. The real question is: Which platform protects your inbox reputation so you can scale without burning…

A GTM manager I spoke to recently said this after pulling performance reports from 3 tools - Smartlead, Instantly, and HeyReach. They had all the metrics: open rates, clicks, replies, bounce data… but still couldn’t tell why some campaigns performed better than…

I got this cold email last week. It wasn’t perfectly targeted— but it did catch my attention. Here’s why 👇 The sender didn’t try to oversell or pitch a 10x promise. They picked a real, timely pain everyone in cold outreach is feeling right now: Google’s…

Your cold emails aren’t failing…your mailboxes are. But the scary part? You probably don’t even know it. You can have perfect copy, perfect targeting, even the best offer in the world …and still land in spam 40% of the time. So how…