48 qualified opportunities for a newsletter platform, 25% closed
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At a glance
Client: an email marketing company that makes it easy to launch and grow a newsletter
Channel: cold email, 4 campaigns
Time: 4 months
Result: 58,200 decision makers contacted, 48 qualified opportunities, 25% close rate
The challenge
There was no outbound motion to build on. The team needed to learn which buyers would engage, which problem they'd respond to, and whether a cold conversation could become a qualified opportunity.
What we built
How the system ran: 3 verticals, 45,000 reached, competitor switch, 48 qualified opportunities
Three verticals, three campaigns: creators, speakers and advisors; B2B companies in e-learning and SaaS; newsletter coaches and community operators. Each had its own pains, vocabulary and buying triggers.
Let the volume teach us. 45,000 contacts showed exactly who was ready to buy: people already using a competitor's tool.
A competitor-switch campaign built only for those buyers.
How it ran
Fewer emails, more opportunities: 15,000, 17,000, 13,000, 13,200 contacts per month
The campaign numbers
Campaign card: three verticals, 45,000 contacted, 14 qualified opportunities
Campaign card: competitor switch, 1,170 contacted, 6.15% reply rate, 34 qualified opportunities
The competitor-switch campaign produced 34 of the 48 opportunities from just 1,170 contacts. It only existed because the first 45,000 contacts showed where the demand was.
Summary cards built from live campaign data. Deal counts and revenue on the cards are client-reported where published; otherwise the card estimates them at 1 in 3 positive replies.
The result
The numbers: 58,200 contacted, 48 opportunities, 25% close rate, $384K projected value
58,200 unique decision makers contacted across 4 campaigns
48 qualified opportunities: each one replied, confirmed need and authority, and attended a qualifying call
$260K in tracked pipeline by month four
25% close rate, as reported by the client: 12 deals. Projected lifetime value $384K (48 x 25% x $32K).
The strongest result came when we stopped speaking to everyone the same way and focused on a decision buyers were already trying to make.
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Four cold email campaigns for a newsletter platform: 58,200 contacted, 48 qualified opportunities, 34 of them from a competitor-switch campaign built on what the first three taught us.
