Is it okay to use pre-warmed-up emails with different domains, and where should I mostly send my emails or do my outreach?
I keep seeing these videos where people send thousands of emails per day. They do so using a simple tool called Instantly or Smartlead. Essentially these are sending tools that allow you to very quickly procure a bunch of mailboxes and then distribute like a thousand emails across 20 mailboxes — so 50 a day. Super valuable. That's what they do. And then they'll usually send them to leads that they scrape off LinkedIn Sales Navigator. That is the number one source right now. You can scrape LinkedIn through like 20 different ways, which is why it's such a clusterfuck — there are so many platforms.
Yes, a LinkedIn connection is viable and very viable, but it needs to be heavily personalized. The highest‑ROI way to personalize these days is a Loom video, because video has far more bandwidth than plain text—a picture is worth about a 1,000 words, while a video at 24 fps is worth roughly 24,000 words per second (even more at 30 or 60 fps). If you’re good at what you do, there’s a multiplicative relationship between the medium’s bandwidth and the value you deliver, so using video greatly boosts your conversion rate. After you’ve spent five minutes making that Loom, you should send it through email, your LinkedIn profile (the easiest path for scrapers), and any other platforms you have—Twitter/X, Instagram, etc.—because each extra channel adds another chance of being seen, which raises the expected return on your time investment. As for Instantly, if you’re trying to send emails one‑by‑one with Make, you’ll realistically manage only about 10‑15 a day before you start getting blacklisted, so a dedicated cold‑email service like Instantly is worth using. They offer cheap plans (around $37/month) and let you avoid burning your main domain. While you could split several Gmail accounts and wrestle with Make authorizations, the simpler, more scalable recommendation is to use a cold‑email service to handle your campaigns.
Yes, a LinkedIn connection is viable and very viable, but it needs to be heavily personalized. The highest‑ROI way to personalize these days is a Loom video, because video has far more bandwidth than plain text—a picture is worth about a 1,000 words, while a video at 24 fps is worth roughly 24,000 words per second (even more at 30 or 60 fps). If you’re good at what you do, there’s a multiplicative relationship between the medium’s bandwidth and the value you deliver, so using video greatly boosts your conversion rate. After you’ve spent five minutes making that Loom, you should send it through email, your LinkedIn profile (the easiest path for scrapers), and any other platforms you have—Twitter/X, Instagram, etc.—because each extra channel adds another chance of being seen, which raises the expected return on your time investment. As for Instantly, if you’re trying to send emails one‑by‑one with Make, you’ll realistically manage only about 10‑15 a day before you start getting blacklisted, so a dedicated cold‑email service like Instantly is worth using. They offer cheap plans (around $37/month) and let you avoid burning your main domain. While you could split several Gmail accounts and wrestle with Make authorizations, the simpler, more scalable recommendation is to use a cold‑email service to handle your campaigns.
You can build a venture‑backed startup list in two ways. First, monitor press releases and announcements—many have RSS feeds. Use AI to filter for new funding announcements, extract the company name, then look up the LinkedIn URL and website to find employee emails or add them to a LinkedIn outreach sequence. Second, use a paid database like Crunchbase: for about $199 a month you can scrape up to 5,000 rows of funded companies, which gives you a ready‑made list of prospects with websites and LinkedIn profiles to pull contact data from.
Use a done-for-you mailbox provider; I recommend Zapmail (with affiliate code Nyx for 10% off). Get 9-12 mailboxes at about $3.50 each per month; with the discount that's roughly $33 total. Buy domains—one domain per three mailboxes—so about 3-4 domains at ~$10 each, adding ~$35. Set up Instantly: the $37 plan works if you're bottlenecked, bringing the total to about $105, leaving $15 for Make.com (or n8n) for personalization. You can also scrape leads for free using Apollo or Apify, then personalize them for a few dollars per thousand. Overall you can start with around $70.