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?

  • Ham-saus@alien.topB
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    10 months ago

    Can I ask, why do you even put your phone number on public social media profiles, etc?

    I’m not a CEO and even I don’t do that due to spam calls and I’m not a coveted spam target

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      10 months ago

      your numbers are everywhere in data enrichment companies! i can even get your familys phone numbers on this and try to ask them to connect to you.

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        10 months ago

        I didn’t ask about where all they’re available, I’m aware of that. I was asking that particular person why they would voluntarily share their number on socials as they implied they used to, and changed it to a Google voice number.

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      10 months ago

      I did not wish to make myself unreachable, just wanted to compartmentalize things so I can deal with them on my schedule. Similar to routing or label rules in an email inbox. I found it helps some with reducing distraction