#114 · $350K/M AI Automation Expert Answers Questions For 80Mins
Yes, you can start with as few as one mailbox. On average you can send 20‑30 emails per mailbox per day, so 25 is a safe number. With five mailboxes that’s about 125 emails per day. If you run a two‑step sequence you’ll split that in half, roughly 62 emails per step each day.
It depends on the size of the customer, your offer, the niche, and how many emails you send per mailbox each day. Three inboxes is on the low end, likely allowing about 60 emails per day total—a volume you could manage manually if you worked full‑time. If you’re serious about cold email, you’d usually want more mailboxes; the cost difference between using a VA and paying for extra inboxes isn’t the same, so weigh your options.
Sending 10‑15 cold emails per day is fine; aim for 50‑100 total daily interactions, mixing in cold DMs, meeting people, building relationships, and engaging in communities like subreddits.
You cannot exceed about 30 emails per mailbox per day due to provider limits. To send 500 emails daily, divide 500 by 30, which gives roughly 16–17 mailboxes; you’re already using 18, so you can reach 540 emails per day. Therefore, the minimum per‑mailbox volume is 30 emails, and the overall capacity scales linearly with the number of mailboxes (mailboxes × 30). Your current results—236 emails sent, a ~2.6% reply rate (~six replies) and one meeting—are promising; scaling that volume will yield proportionally more replies and meetings.
Most people say 20 to 30 emails per inbox, and I’d agree with that if you follow my copy‑writing guidelines: keep the content plain text, sprinkle in a bit of spin tax occasionally, and make sure the copy is strong. When people try to send more than that and run into issues, it’s usually because their copy is weak, which triggers spam filters or results in a high bounce rate. So the limit isn’t a hard rule; it’s more about maintaining good copy quality and avoiding spam triggers.