Curious. I work in DCM at a top BB and get 400-500 emails a day. Internal stuff, client requests, investor questions, etc.

I was catching up with a buddy to works in LevFin at another bank and he said he only gets ~50.

What do you do / how many emails do you get?

Most founders I talk to send 50+ investor emails and get maybe 2-3 responses. Some send over 100.

Is this normal? What's your experience?

I'm trying to figure out if the problem is:

• Finding the right investors to email

• Writing emails that don't suck

• Following up without being annoying

• Something else entirely

If you've raised money (or tried to), what was your hit rate? And what actually worked to get investors to reply?

Not selling anything here - just genuinely curious about how broken this process is.

I’m just curious how many emails you get each day. I’m not talking about the random/garbage emails that you can just ignore/file away. I’m talking about emails that you actually need to respond to or take action on?

At my current company (I’ve only been here a few months), I get at least 70 emails a day that I have to respond to. Some days, it’s over 100! I’m so sick of it. At my last job, I responded to maybe 25-30 emails on a busy day. But nowhere near the amount I get here 🙄

I pay $400 / month for 10,000 emails, from 150 email inboxes.

This includes 5,000 contacts, with waterfall enrichment across I believe 9 data sources.

This is with one of the leaders in the cold email lead gen space. Pretty confident in deliverability and happy with results so far.

But looking for opinions, is this a good price? Are there other options?

Also I should note this saves a lot of time setting up inboxes and more, their CS team is great.

Thanks in advance

I keep hearing “build relationships early” and “warm intros matter,” but in practice that feels really tough if you don’t already have a network.

For those of you who’ve raised or at least started conversations with investors:

• How did you actually get in front of them? Cold emails? LinkedIn? Events?

• Were there any tools or platforms (Crunchbase, PitchBook, Apollo, etc.) that made outreach easier?

• Did you find any approaches that actually got replies instead of being ignored?

Would love to hear both what worked and what didn’t. Feels like this is a process people rarely talk about in detail, but every founder struggles with it.

Just started as a supply planner for fmcg manufacturer im on my 65th sent email with 3 hours left in a 10 hour shift that i get paid 7.5 hours for.

Asking this just for fun. Currently got 5 mins left on my 12 minute lunch break before I get back to to answering all my urgent emails that were due 20 mins before they sent the email.

Is it only me? I'm getting fairly often (every ~2 weeks) emails of people claiming to be "investors" or "M&A advisors" looking to invest or acquire my startup.

At the beginning I just disregarded them because they were sloppy, but lately they're looking A LOT more sophisticated. I played along with one of them that sent me a deck, we did a phone call, and they were asking me for $25K to "connect me to their investors" 🤡.

Anybody else experiencing this?

I have both kinds of experience. Like I sent 30 Looms and landed 3, and sent 100s of emails and landed zero. Well, I'm not a fan of cold outreach, so I don't do it. I get all my clients from pure ICP networking. Just wondering who mostly relies on cold outreach.

And what % of those do you typically end up replying to?

I was speaking to my non-corp friend who could not believe I receive between 50-80 emails each day on average.

For context I work a standard corporate role with a mix of internal and external emails direct to me.

Is this a normal amount or am I just delusional?

Curious for founders (or VCs) any anecdotes on avg hit rate for responses to cold emails regarding fundraising.

Backstory: I am responsible for three single-family home rentals in HCOL California markets. Mailing addresses for property taxes is a PO Box in another zip code.

Mailings: Each week I receive at least one mailer with my name and specific property address, asking me if I would like to sell. Each mailer always says - will buy cash, as-is, no-repairs needed, no commissions, no closing costs, please call or text us.

Direct calls: with Skip tracing it’s easy to get peoples phone numbers. I am receiving about three calls per week with the same script as above. Irritating to get so many of these calls. Obviously, I would never sell to these property sharks when the MLS will always yield multiple higher offers from traditional buyers.

Discussion: for those investors sending direct mail and calling property owners, is your effort and cost worthwhile in allowing you to purchase property below market in this manner?

I am not a consultant but found this subreddit after a search online so thought it would be a good place for this question.

1) How many emails do you get a day?

2) How do you manage them all?

I saw one guy said he was getting around 200-250 per day. That to me just seems entirely unmanageable. Seriously, how does anyone do an actual job when they are just getting bombarded by that number of emails. Even if many can be filtered out it's still an insane number. If you had a day or two off in the week you'd come in to 500 emails potentially.

For me:

1. I get around 30-40 per day, but only around 20 would be for me

2. Quite easy to manage that number. I have started to force myself to shut down Outlook around 11am - 3pm so I don't get caught in the trap of just replying to email after email and then just seeing more arrive.

One of my biggest bug bears is people sending needless emails. I tell some members of the team "don't send it, say it" - that refers to something like "Does anyone have any thoughts on what time we should do ABC?" which is something that you could easily just talk about for 3 minutes and resolve.

Hey everyone,

Just like the title says: I’m looking for reliable sources to find contact details for VCs and angel investors. I’m sure many startups out there, like ours, are in the same boat and could benefit from this information. I have gathered and started reaching our to few which I feel i should try more. Are there any platforms, databases, or resources that you’ve found particularly useful for accessing investor contact details?

I do a lot of cold calling for prospecting and then follow up with an email on a warm prospect. What number of emails can I get away with in a day without it becoming spam?

These are prospects that have said yes, send me information.

Thanks

Hey guys,

So I'm gonna be running a cold email campaign with around 10k contacts, + 3 follow-ups each.

My plan so far had been to use 4 emails to send 250 emails/account/day = 1000 emails a day, meaning I can finish up the campaign in just over a month's time.

I've been reading up a few posts here and you've all been suggesting to not exceed 30 emails/account/day. Is this figure without warmup?

If I can warm-up my email addresses to 250/day, can I go ahead with my plan? Or even after that, is there a hard rule that you shouldn't exceed x amount of emails per inbox even with warmup?

Ty

The biggest frustrating about investing in stocks honestly is the amount of trees used to send "voting" mail. I hold about 50 stocks and get about 10-20 letters per week. I just automatically throw them away now. My investment broker says theres nothing I can do to opt out... is this true? what a environmental gong show

I'm worried about pattern recognition.

I have 50 domains x 5 inboxes on each = 250 inboxes x 4 emails = 1000 a day. All for recruiting.

Is 9 sequences enough or too many? (I'm using Instantly).

On another note, I bought 250 more inboxes because I want to send 500 x 4 = 2000 a day.

Is 9 sequences enough for 500 inboxes enough or too many?

Might be a stupid question, but i am a buyer for a large chemical company. My position is considered entry level on our procurement side as i am only 11 months out of college (supply chain degree). On top of all the stress of the current supply chain climate, i have regularly been receiving 100+ emails a day. (I actually averaged it out over the past 5 weeks and it came to 108). A fair amount of them are internal as our department is pretty much the middle man for all other departments, and most of the time action is required.

Is this normal for buyers? The reason i ask is bc i’ve noticed more and more of my work day shifting to my inbox and away from my core job functions which just leads to longer hours and more work in general.

Update: Just wanted to say thank you to everyone for their insights and tips for managing an inbox. It is definitely a skill i will need to hone for my career. I was ooo yesterday so 160 unread emails here i come 😎