SampleOutbound and sales tools, for Smartlead
Week 45, 2 to 8 November
The week’s top post, against its usualA startup GTM lead on X
Posts that took off
Each against its author’s usual.
- 36×their usual
A startup GTM leadon X3 Nov
“32× sign-up growth in one quarter. Nearly 15× monthly visits in two months. 100+ countries. One small team.”
What to take from it
Short, reusable principles drawn from testing many markets and channels make a growth result feel transferable, not lucky.
- 23×their usual
An email deliverability experton LinkedIn7 Nov
“Email deliverability alert: Starting last night (Friday 11/6) US time, Microsoft Outlook.com started rejecting mail lacking a DMARC record, even if the mail passes SPF and DKIM authentication checks.”
What to take from it
When a mailbox provider changes its rules, a clear alert that says what changed and how to fix it gets read.
- 21×their usual
A startup GTM leadon X3 Nov
“Teamily AI grew 32× in one quarter.”
What to take from it
Crediting a connected system rather than one magic channel is how this post framed its growth.
- 14×their usual
An AI sales builderon X4 Nov
“Want to build an entire AI sales team with 50 Claude Code skills?”
What to take from it
Laying out a sales system by its stages, here 10 departments and 50 skills, makes it easy to see what is inside.
- 9.5×their usual
A revenue leaders’ community founderon LinkedIn6 Nov
“I was at a dinner last week with about 20 CROs, CMOs, and VPs of Sales, RevOps, and Marketing collectively representing about $10B in ARR. Question: What is your #1 challenge in today’s environment?”
What to take from it
Revenue leaders name pipeline as their top problem; frame outbound messaging around pipeline created, not emails sent.
- 8×their usual
A cold email agency founderon X4 Nov
“We send 20M cold emails per year.”
- 8×their usual
An email deliverability experton LinkedIn2 Nov
“Yahoo Mail is popular and growing.”
- 6.4×their usual
A sales leaderon LinkedIn5 Nov
“Your average call duration tells you exactly what’s broken in your cold calls.”
What to take from it
One number mapped to a specific fix is simple to apply. Here, average call duration points to the opener, pitch or objection handling.
Against their usual
- A startup GTM leadX36×
- An email deliverability expertLinkedIn23×
- A startup GTM leadX21×
- An AI sales builderX14×
- A revenue leaders’ community founderLinkedIn9.5×
- A cold email agency founderX8×
- An email deliverability expertLinkedIn8×
- A sales leaderLinkedIn6.4×
Posts in your market, 2 to 8 November, each against its author’s usual.