James Shields
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- Shields, 78k sends in ten days returned 56 booked calls
One interested lead per 459 sends, and the post says nothing about who was emailed.
- Shields says a 21 word hiring email got 7.1% replies
The copy leans on a live job posting and a salary comparison, and Shields gives no volume or time period behind the number.
- Shields says the play is 6,000 sends a day and one basic line
A second version of the rebuild plan, stripped to volume, free scraping and picking up the phone.
- Abraham says three agency switches failed on the offer
James Shields says the same two questions come up on 90% of his sales calls, while Matt blames underpriced retainers instead.
- Shields posts a 60-day plan to rebuild to $20k a month
The arithmetic rests on a single ratio from his own sending, and the post ends with a link to book a call with him.
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- Shields posts 963,956 emails at 2.72% replies for his agency
One interested reply per 300 people contacted, run at about 4,500 emails a day across roughly 150 inboxes.
- Shields says a no-results-no-pay PS doubled booked calls
A seven-point list from 12M sends, with one claim tested and no sample sizes attached to any of them.
- Illingworth and Shields put replies upstream of copy
Two senders spent the week arguing that inbox placement is arithmetic, not writing.
- Sabo claims 220 booked calls in two weeks at $18 a meeting
The post names a spend and a call count, and nothing about list, volume or vertical.
- Shields caps inboxes at 20 sends, runs 120 for 2,400 a day
A client asked why he could not just send from his own Gmail, and Shields published the arithmetic.
- Shields says 4,800-restaurant email drew 61 replies
A one-sentence compliance question, sent to every restaurant within an hour's drive, as recounted by James Shields.
- Shields says 44,212 emails got a pest control firm 7 jobs
The funnel from 690 replies down to 7 closed jobs is the number most local-services case studies leave out.
- Shields says a 19-word cold email returned 9.1% replies
The hiring signal does the work, the sentence is just the delivery.
- Two Operators Post Full Campaign Numbers, Not Screenshots
One 70 day foodservice campaign and one single day database reactivation send, both with the denominators attached.
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