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?
This is a great post. We had a biz for 11 years, and my husband was a sucker for walk ins. He got us roped into a credit card machine co that ripped us off, then we couldn’t get out of the contract until the f’er expired and we closed. 3 years later, I started a biz under the LLC. At least it’s mostly stupid robo calls. And as soon as I block the number, the same scammers call with a new number, or hacked one. Following, so I can save the info.