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Xavier Coiffard @xaviercoiffard.com · 3h

💥 Cold email tips: Every email has three jobs: 1. Earn the open 2. Earn the read 3. Earn the reply Miss one, and the chain breaks.

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Xavier Coiffard @xaviercoiffard.com · 01/10/2026

💥 Cold email tips: Running 50 mailboxes? Google-only is fine. Running 500? Split the risk: • Google • Microsoft • Private SMTP Providers always flip. Never let one provider own your entire pipeline.

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Xavier Coiffard @xaviercoiffard.com · 30/09/2026

💥 Cold email tips: Kill the PDF. Kill the webinar invite. Instead: "Would it be okay if I spent an hour building this for you and sent it over?" Average reply rate: 3-5%. Reverse lead magnets work.

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Xavier Coiffard @xaviercoiffard.com · 29/09/2026

💥 Cold email tips: Stop emailing managers, coordinators, and specialists. Target CEOs, founders, CMOs, CFOs, owners. People who can say yes without a six-week approval chain. Reply rates double when you filter to decision-makers only.

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Xavier Coiffard @xaviercoiffard.com · 28/09/2026

💥 Cold email tips: Cold email lives on three pillars: • Deliverability • List quality • Copy Ignore even one = struggle to break 1% replies. Nail all three = 3%+ becomes normal. Audit all three before changing a single word.

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Xavier Coiffard @xaviercoiffard.com · 27/09/2026

💥 Cold email tips: Diagnose emails and domains before replacing. Test neutral copy vs campaign copy from the same inbox. Campaign fails only = rewrite. Both fail = replace infrastructure.

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Xavier Coiffard @xaviercoiffard.com · 26/09/2026

💥 Cold email tips: Authenticate every domain. SPF, DKIM, DMARC. Send yourself a test email and check the headers. No auth = straight to spam.

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Xavier Coiffard @xaviercoiffard.com · 25/09/2026

2+ years running the same cold email campaign for a large events company in France. Same audience. Same offer. New list every month. New copy. Still turning into dozens of meetings every time.

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Xavier Coiffard @xaviercoiffard.com · 25/09/2026

💥 Cold email tips: Limit domain volume: - Google: 15 emails × 3 inboxes = 45/day - Azure: 3 emails × 50 inboxes = 150/day More than that burns your domain fast.

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Xavier Coiffard @xaviercoiffard.com · 24/09/2026

💥 Cold email tips: Keep 2 infrastructure sets: - One sending - One warming When the first burns, swap instantly. No downtime.

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Xavier Coiffard @xaviercoiffard.com · 23/09/2026

💥 Cold email tips: Short, plain-text emails only. No images. No formatting. No links. No long signatures. Simple offer + soft CTA like "Interested?" That's it.

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Xavier Coiffard @xaviercoiffard.com · 23/09/2026

Someone sent me this from a London tube station I have never related to a wall more: "Close the gap between your targets and your pipeline" 😅

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Xavier Coiffard @xaviercoiffard.com · 22/09/2026

💥 Cold email tips: Disable open tracking. The data is unreliable. The pixel hurts deliverability. Track replies and bounces instead.

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Xavier Coiffard @xaviercoiffard.com · 22/09/2026

A few emails only ? What's your setup ?

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Xavier Coiffard @xaviercoiffard.com · 21/09/2026

💥 Cold email tips: Measure at 1,000+ emails minimum. Wait 48 hours. Below 1% reply + above 3% bounce = warning. Compare against your baseline.

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Xavier Coiffard @xaviercoiffard.com · 20/09/2026

💥 Cold email tips: Isolate domains into separate tenants. Low inbox count per tenant. One failure doesn't cascade.

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Xavier Coiffard @xaviercoiffard.com · 19/09/2026

💥 Cold email tips: Pull data from prospect websites: - Team names - blog topics - case study AI does this easily and your reply rate with explode

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Xavier Coiffard @xaviercoiffard.com · 18/09/2026

💥 Cold email tips: Before uploading to Smartlead, sort leads 5→1. Highest fit gets emails first. Better early engagement = better inbox placement later.

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Xavier Coiffard @xaviercoiffard.com · 17/09/2026

💥 Cold email tips: Stop asking for 30-minute calls from strangers. Better CTAs: - "Happy to send a one-pager if helpful" - "Does this resonate at all?" Low commitment = higher replies. One ask. No options.

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Xavier Coiffard @xaviercoiffard.com · 16/09/2026

💥 Cold email tips: Delete "My name is X and I work at Y." Nobody cares yet. Open with them instead: "Saw [Company] just expanded into EU." Goal: make them think "How did they know that?" Curiosity pulls them through.

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Xavier Coiffard @xaviercoiffard.com · 15/09/2026

💥 Cold email tips: 40% of replies come on email 2 or 3. Follow-up discipline moves reply rate more than send time or subject line tweaks. Don't quit after one email.

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Xavier Coiffard @xaviercoiffard.com · 14/09/2026

💥 Cold email tips: Follow-up timing: Email 1: Full pitch Email 2: +3 days, new angle Email 3: +7 days, "Still worth connecting?" Email 4: +12 days, breakup Spacing matters. Don't spam their inbox in 48 hours.

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Xavier Coiffard @xaviercoiffard.com · 13/09/2026

💥 Cold email tips: The breakup email gets the highest reply rate. "I'll stop reaching out, but if timing changes, here's how to find me." Don't skip email 4. It works.

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Xavier Coiffard @xaviercoiffard.com · 12/09/2026

💥 Cold email tips: List quality is the #1 variable for reply rate. Wrong ICP = no amount of copy optimization will save you. Nail the targeting first. Everything else is secondary.

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Xavier Coiffard @xaviercoiffard.com · 11/09/2026

💥 Cold email tips: Body = 2-3 sentences max. You get 5 seconds: - What you do (no jargon) - Why it matters to them specifically - One proof point If you can't explain why this person should care, don't send.

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Xavier Coiffard @xaviercoiffard.com · 10/09/2026

💥 Cold email tips: Your subject line has one job: not get deleted. What works: - Lowercase, looks personal - Under 6 words - Specific to their company What kills it: - Marketing language - Their first name - Punctuation spam

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Xavier Coiffard @xaviercoiffard.com · 09/09/2026

💥 Cold email tips: Generic openers = ignored. Specific openers = replies. "Companies like yours" vs "Saw you hired 3 AEs last month" Specificity proves you did homework. It signals relevance.

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Xavier Coiffard @xaviercoiffard.com · 08/09/2026

💥 Cold email tips: Trigger relevance beats perfect copy. Did something just happen in their world? - New hire - Funding round - Market expansion Right timing = right now matters more than right words.

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Xavier Coiffard @xaviercoiffard.com · 07/09/2026

💥Cold email tips: Send emails on Saturday and Sunday. Less inbox competition. Your message stands out. We've seen 2x replies on weekends.

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Xavier Coiffard @xaviercoiffard.com · 06/09/2026

💥 Cold email tips: Each inbox should send 15-30 emails max per day (with Gmail) High volume per inbox kills entire tenants. Slow prevents threshold burns.

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Xavier Coiffard @xaviercoiffard.com · 05/09/2026

💥 Cold email tips: Nobody want to read long emails, and it gives spam filters more ammunition Keep it short. 50 max for USA/UK/Canada 80-100 words max for Europe and other countries Less content = more replies and less spam

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Xavier Coiffard @xaviercoiffard.com · 04/09/2026

💥 Cold email tips: Catch-all emails need separate campaigns. They don't perform the same. They don't need the same monitoring. Stop treating them like they do.

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Xavier Coiffard @xaviercoiffard.com · 03/09/2026

💥 Cold email tips: The case studies in your emails should match your prospect's industry and pain. SaaS prospects -> SaaS growth. E-commerce prospects -> e-commerce results. Relevance converts.

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Xavier Coiffard @xaviercoiffard.com · 02/09/2026

💥Cold email tips: If you’re not regularly emailing your CRM contacts, to "reactivate" them you’re leaving money on the table. Big time.

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Xavier Coiffard @xaviercoiffard.com · 02/09/2026

Advanced recipes and workflows are coming soon per Smartlead's roadmap, expect a lot more automation here. Goal: make my agency fully AI-first. What would you automate first if Claude had full access to your stack?

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Xavier Coiffard @xaviercoiffard.com · 02/09/2026

Use case 3: Deliverability & spam diagnostics 🤖 Prompt: "Check all email accounts. Group by warmup reputation — Healthy, Warning, At Risk, Critical. Flag SMTP/IMAP failures. Prioritize fixes." Full audit with recommended actions in seconds.

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Xavier Coiffard @xaviercoiffard.com · 02/09/2026

Use case 2: Monthly performance reporting 🤖 Prompt: "Pull the last 30 days of campaign stats, flag reply rates below threshold, format it, and post to Slack." Claude does it. Clean report in Slack. Automatically.

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Xavier Coiffard @xaviercoiffard.com · 02/09/2026

Use case : Query lead & sender data 🤖 Prompt: "Show me every lead that replied positive in the last 7 days, grouped by campaign." Claude pulls it straight from Smartlead. No CSV exports, no dashboard digging.

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Xavier Coiffard @xaviercoiffard.com · 02/09/2026

How to set it up: ・Create a new API key (Settings → API Keys) ・Add it to Claude Desktop's config (don't works on web version for now) ・Enable MCP tools Then authenticate with /mcp. A few minutes, and Claude can see your campaign stats, deliverability, leads, and sender data live.

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Xavier Coiffard @xaviercoiffard.com · 02/09/2026

I connected the new @Smartlead_ai MCP to Claude last week. Here are the exact use cases I found, and the prompts that actually work 🧵

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Xavier Coiffard @xaviercoiffard.com · 01/09/2026

💥Cold email tips: Open your sequence with something specific to their company. - Recent hire - Funding round - Last trade show Proves you're not mass-blasting.

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Xavier Coiffard @xaviercoiffard.com · 31/08/2026

How to launch cold email in minutes, 0 warmup: 1. Order pre-warmed mailboxes on @Smartlead_ai 2. Delivered in 30-40 min, fully warmed 3. Load your copy + list 4. Hit start No 14-day wait. No domains. Prints meetings right away. What's blocking your outbound right now?

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Xavier Coiffard @xaviercoiffard.com · 31/08/2026

💥Cold email tips: Body under 60 words for US. 100 words max for EU. The template: → One sentence of why them → One sentence of why now → One ask That's it, don't overthink it

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Xavier Coiffard @xaviercoiffard.com · 30/08/2026

💥Cold email tips: Subject lines should sound like you're messaging a coworker. Not someone that sells something

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Xavier Coiffard @xaviercoiffard.com · 29/08/2026

💥Cold email tips: If you REALLY want personalisation, think: "why THIS person is being contacted" Talk about: → Their industry → Their ICP / case studies → Their hiring → Their market → Their pain Makes the email feel like it couldn't be sent to every random business on the internet.

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Xavier Coiffard @xaviercoiffard.com · 28/08/2026

💥Cold email tips: Test inbox placement for each domain separately with EmailGuard Averaged data hides problems. Domain-level accuracy matters.

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Xavier Coiffard @xaviercoiffard.com · 27/08/2026

💥Cold email tips: Your bounce rate spikes? Campaigns should auto-pause. Waiting for you to notice manually is too late. Automation protects your domains.

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Xavier Coiffard @xaviercoiffard.com · 26/08/2026

💥Cold email tips: Apollo exports company names as "ACME CORP LLC INC." Run them through Claude first. Clean formatting = better personalization. Small fix, big impact.

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Xavier Coiffard @xaviercoiffard.com · 25/08/2026

💥Cold email tips: Don't ask for meetings upfront. Offer to send something useful first. "Can I build XXX for you?" works better than "Got 15 minutes?"

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