As a CEO of a small business, I am inundated with over a few dozen cold outreach attempts daily. This isn’t just my experience right?
My day often starts with a barrage of cold calls, many of which are from spammers. LinkedIn has become a hub for BDRs sending long-winded pitches, and my Gmail inboxes, both primary and office, are overflowing with sales-driven emails. It’s overwhelming and frankly, quite irritating.
I once experimented with gated com, which asked cold emailers to donate a few bucks to my chosen charity for a response. Sadly, very few took this step, showing a lack of seriousness. Downside of using app was that even my known contacts were getting these automated messages.
Now, I’m exploring several options to manage this situation better:
- Creating extensive filters in Gmail to automatically direct such emails to spam (especially using spam words like “book with me”, “just following up”, “wanted to reach out to you”, etc)
- Considering sanebox, which smartly categorizes emails and identifies cold outreach emails.
- Looking into marketplaces like fozzie io and leaderpro, where individuals would compensate for my time. I’m thinking of setting a rate, say $200 for a 30-minute slot, and directing all cold outreach to these platforms. So alteast these spammers pay for my time at the very least and i could then take them serious (b2b meetings are $1000 upwards, so why not i get my share lol)
- Still left with cold calls and linkedin though
Thoughts or strategies on managing this menace?
Ugh, it’s not just you. The thing that really pisses me off are the ones selling SEO services. If they had taken even 10 seconds on my website, they’d see that I do web design, development, and optimization. And I’m booked out through to spring…so nope…
Sometimes when I actually do have a minute and I talk to them, I let them know I’d NEVER hire a company for my marketing who markets themselves in such a shitty way.
But, without fail, 3-5 phone calls and at least 10 emails a day.
Yes! If you have to cold call people to try to get enough customers to keep your lights on, you’re no David Ogilvy.
Recruiters email me about available President positions. I’m like ok, so you did zero research before emailing the owner of a company.
I had them try and reach out to me hundreds of times for domains that are literally a landing page for my web hosting company as they were bought for speculative reasons or reputation management. I really don’t need mycompanynamesucks(.)com to have SEO.