Berman says cold email coaches still sell 2021 tactics
His post doubles as a pitch for his paid group, so treat the convergence claim as one operator's survey.
Alex Berman says every cold email operator he rates has landed in the same place recently, and it is not where the courses are. His list is three items. Custom SMTP for sending at what he calls super low volumes per inbox, heavy customization on the lead generation side, and advanced n8n automation to qualify leads before anyone gets contacted. The claimed economics are 5,000 leads a month for a few hundred dollars, still with results.
The other half of the post is the attack. Berman says operators who have been around a few years are still quoting the basics from his own book, the Cold Email Manifesto, and names the specifics. Thirty emails a day, spintax, AI written first lines. His verdict is that these are not even 2023 tactics, they are ripped from 2021 with no changes.
What he is actually selling
The post ends as a sales page for Galadon Gold, his paid group, with four coaching calls a week, a collection of nine or more courses, and an instruction to pull leads from ScraperCity. He takes a shot at competitors who charge a $10k fee paid upfront with no ability to cancel and what he calls a fake guarantee, and contrasts that with his own no contract setup. He also recounts a call with a new member who runs enterprise sales at an 80 person company and had tried two other groups first, one too motivational, one selling outdated scripts.
So the convergence claim is Berman's own read of the people he follows. It is not a dataset, nobody posted send volumes or reply rates alongside it, and the person making it benefits if you believe the alternative is stale. Read it as a survey of one.
The volume question underneath
The interesting part is that the low volume per inbox position keeps showing up from different directions. Instantly posted the same week that Gmail flags a domain when spam complaints exceed 0.3%, which it put at three complaints per 1,000 emails, and argued that a bad list plus a generic message only gets worse with scale.
That sits awkwardly next to the earlier argument where Berman and Nick Abraham both made the case for volume over restraint. The reconciliation, if there is one, is that Berman is describing volume per inbox rather than total sends, with qualification pushed upstream so fewer bad addresses ever get touched. He does not spell that out.
For people sending, nothing here is a tested result. It is a claim about what good operators do now, posted by someone selling access to them.
These aren't even 2023 tactics. These are legit ripped from 2021 with no changes.
Fix your targeting and copy before increasing volume.
Know what is landing before you burn another domain
One email a day. Under three minutes. What the operators found out yesterday.