Startup Outreach Challenges: Seeking Advice on Engagement Strategies
Hey - confession 🙏 - I’ve been building my own startup and, over the past year, I’ve worked hard to get good at Clay. I watched the tutorials, built hundreds of tables, set up Instantly with warmed domains & heayreach, ran campaigns at so many angles - and nothing broke past a 1% reply rate. ❓ A few questions have been nagging me, and I’d appreciate the group’s perspective:
How much can great outbound compensate for a weak proposition? I’m not assuming my product is flawed, but I also don’t want to mistake poor response rates for poor fit if outreach performance simply can’t overcome certain fundamentals.
What are the true high-leverage variables? Volume, message, domain health, list quality, timing — the stack is long. I’d be interested in how others rank them in practice.
For people running Claygencies: most public content is noise. Is there anyone here who actually sits down with founders and is willing to get paid only when reply rates cross a specific threshold? I have budget, but I’m still careful with spend. - DM me, don't post here
Grateful for any candid views.
