Is it just me? I mean sure, it says how to do spf, dkim, dmarc, so it's not unidentified. But as a future recipient I think I'd be filing these into spam, come what may.
> "There are few growth levers that could allow a single person to grow a startup from $0 to $1M ARR in a matter of months. [...] Cold outbound is one such lever."
ugh... attempt to rebrand spam as cold outbound...
of course it can grow your ARR by $1M. or $1B with this one simple trick...
note that these schemes often seem to work incredibly well in the anecdotes of the people making money selling you these schemes [1].
in actuality it's just a spam service that will, at best, annoy and aggravate your future potential customers, but mostly just end up in the spam folder. making the internet an even worse place than it already is to the benefit of no-one. well maybe za-zu.com.
[1] https://www.za-zu.com/ "Built by the makers of Clay and Aurora. 10x leads, replies, and revenue like an army of the world's best sales reps—without actually needing an army."
The section on tone is good, IMO.
Also, this type of messaging applies to more than just spam. Even recruiters or startup founders trying to reach candidates could learn from this on how to write effective cold emails so candidates open and engage.
If I want these mails, I subscribe. This article is about cold mails. I don't think it's cold mail, if I subscribe is it?
The advice is good, but I'm not sensing a strong rebuttal here.