Outbound Before You Hire For It
You do not need a sales team to start booking calls. You need one clean list, a few warm inboxes and a sequence that does not embarrass you. That is a Tuesday afternoon, not a quarter.
Your First Campaign, This Afternoon
The parts that usually eat a founder's week are the parts Outfrank does without being asked.
Buy two domains
Not your main one. Outfrank registers lookalike sending domains, sets the DNS records and starts warming them the same hour.
Upload 500 people
Small and specific beats big and vague every time. Verification runs on import so you never pay for a bounce.
Write four emails
Start from a template that has actually worked, change the specifics, and let the subject line test pick the winner for you.
Small Lists Beat Big Blasts
Across our data, campaigns under a thousand contacts reply at roughly three times the rate of hundred-thousand-contact sends. Founders win by being specific, not loud.
Read The Benchmark
Founder Questions
The ones we get from people sending their first campaign.
Will this hurt my company domain?
Not if you never send cold mail from it, which we set up by default. Outbound runs on separate lookalike domains so your investor and customer mail is never at risk.
How many emails a day is safe?
Roughly 30 to 50 per mailbox once warmed. You do not have to remember that — the ceiling is enforced for you and rises as the domain proves itself.
Is cold email legal where I am?
In most B2B contexts yes, with conditions: a real identity, a genuine business reason and a working unsubscribe. Outfrank adds the headers; the targeting judgement stays yours.
What should I expect in month one?
Two to three weeks of warmup, then meaningful volume. Founders on 500-contact lists typically see their first replies within days of going live, not months.
Start Sending With Outfrank
Import a list, connect an inbox, and send your first campaign today. No credit card, no sales call.