Campaign metrics and reporting
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- Lucero says 100k emails closed four deals in 60 days
Eleven campaigns into one B2B services market, with phone follow-up doing part of the work between reply and meeting.
- 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.
- Illingworth, half of 10M emails came from dead inboxes
One agency's biggest account sent 76% of its email from inboxes that are gone, and human replies fell to 0.03 per 100.
- On Eden, dials booked more meetings than 41,150 emails
The channel comparison buried in Christian's 12 system list is the one number worth checking against your own account.
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- Abraham says cut sequences in half above 10,000 sends
He argues 95% of replies land on the first email, so the follow-up budget is better spent on volume.
- Abraham posts a five step build for 30 second replies
The setup routes SmartLead and HeyReach replies into one inbox and hands a Claude built knowledge base to an agent with Calendly access.
- 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.
- Taylor tells Haren 10,000 sends a day just burns leads
A two post exchange on whether volume covers for a bad offer, with no numbers on either side.
- Illingworth says a reply rate drop rarely needs new domains
His checklist reads drift at domain level, tests with a bland email, then rebuilds accounts in a new Google admin panel to pick up a different IP.
- Abraham, reply rates peak now, crater after Thanksgiving
One sender's read on seasonality across his own book of business, not an industry dataset.
- Sondors says day 3 LinkedIn requests hit 43.6% accepted
The Salesforge founder posted volumes, timing and reply rates for a three-touch email and LinkedIn sequence, plus a number that has fallen since November.
- Illingworth posts the six sending rules behind his agency
Twenty sends per inbox, three inboxes per domain, 14 days of warmup and a 70% health score before anything goes out.
- Christian reframes his finance campaign as market coverage
Same campaign, same numbers, different scoreboard, and the argument now rests on how much of the market heard from you this quarter.
- Abraham says calling replies in 30 minutes books half of them
A five-step routine that starts with a phone call inside half an hour, and an agency claim with no send volume behind it.
- 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.
- Feldman, 91,194 emails for Safe Haven Defense, 74 opportunities
Five verticals tested, four cut, and the schools segment carried almost the whole result.
- Illingworth says 3 in 4 first replies land in hour one
He argues a silent inbox at hour 24 points at the list, not the subject line.
- Sabo says 86K emails returned 101 leads in two hours
The post names no list, no vertical and no offer, and the only question it drew was about sending tools.
- Feldman's rebuilt dental campaign hits 0.733% qualified interest
Over half the replies on the original run were out-of-office autoresponders, and rescoring flipped which angle won.
- 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.
- Christian says a SaaS client booked 30 demos in a week
First ever outbound motion, no links in the emails, and a branded search lift the client did not plan for.
- Lucero says segmented lists replied 11x better
Three campaigns for one customer split on list composition, with the broad list needing roughly eleven times the volume per positive reply.
- Lucero says first client month booked 119 meetings
The number covers two channels, so it is not a cold email reply benchmark.
- 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.
- Abraham says tiny split tests tell you nothing
Five variables the Leadbird founder says stopped mattering at 2M sends a month, and the one that is hardest to copy at small volume.
- Abraham says 90% of cold email split tests are noise
Ten positions from a high-volume sender, none of them with a reply rate attached.
- 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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