Andris Veliks - Hunter

101 of sending cold emails

Fri, 05 Sep 2025 13:46:00 +0000

Four tips before you send cold emails

Your Hunter account comes with a free cold email tool—Campaigns.

But before you send cold emails at scale, you have to get your inbox set up.

Here are four tips you must follow before any campaigns go out. These tips are true whether you use Hunter Campaigns, a different cold email tool, or even if you manually send your cold emails.

Tip 1: Get a separate domain for sending cold emails
Sending cold emails via your primary domain (i.e., your website address) is not advised. If your initial campaigns generate spam complaints, every email you send from that domain will risk landing in spam.

And if you want to use a freemail inbox (like john@gmail.com)... Don't. Using a custom domain will get you more replies.

Use a different domain—or several—that references your brand (e.g. tryacme.com, goacme.com, and emailacme.com). Make sure you redirect them to your main domain so recipients can look you up.

To buy your new domains, use a domain registrar like Namecheap or GoDaddy.

Tip 2: Choose a reputable Email Service Provider (ESP)

Set up new mailboxes on the sender domain, and gradually warm them up by sending a low volume of cold emails at first.

A best practice is to create 3-5 email addresses per new domain.

Choosing a reputable ESP means you're less likely to run into technical issues.

We recommend using Google Workspace or Microsoft 365.

Connect these to Hunter to automate sending your campaigns.

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Tip 3: Watch your sending volume

Every new email account needs to warm up before it reaches full sending capacity. If an ESP suddenly sees 100s of emails sent from one inbox, it'll harm your outreach.

Warm your inbox over 3-4 weeks before scaling. We recommend starting with 15 emails per mailbox by default, then raising the limit if you see good results. Of course, you can raise the limit at any time, but it may backfire if the domain and inbox aren't warm enough.

Control your daily sending volume

Tip 4: Get your email domains authenticated

Authenticating your email domains via SPF, DKIM, and DMARC is crucial. Gmail and Outlook require these authentication protocols for optimal deliverability.

See how to authenticate your emails

Follow these four tips and you'll increase the chances of your emails reaching the right person. If you need any help, let us know!

Gio Lepori
Head of Customer Success

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Our platform can help you find email addresses, send campaigns, and more

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 22:21:00 +0000

Thanks for joining Hunter, Andris!

Welcome! I'm Giovanni, Head of Customer Success here at Hunter.

Our platform can help you find email addresses, send campaigns, and more.

Over the coming days, we'll send you five onboarding emails to get you started efficiently.

For now, try the Email Finder and the Domain Search.

Email Finder takes a name and company name to return a verified email address.
Domain Search takes a company name to return multiple addresses for that company.

Find email addresses

Finding email addresses with Hunter costs credits. (For more on credits, click here.)

And if you want to learn what Hunter has to offer beyond email finding, read our Starter Guide and watch the video below.

Thanks for choosing Hunter!

Gio Lepori
Head of Customer Success

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Tips on writing emails with AI

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 07:44:00 +0000

Hunter's AI Writing Assistant is live and available on all paid Hunter plans.

If you're still on the fence when it comes to AI-created emails, here are some resources that may change your mind:

You sit down to write a cold email.

But wait—who exactly are you writing to? What matters to them right now? Why would they care?

If you've ever been there, feeling unclear on who you're writing to or why they'd reply - this guide, and Hunter's AI Writing Assistant, will change that.

Read the blog post

Cold emails don't get ignored because they're cold. According to 71% of decision makers, they're ignoring you because your email is irrelevant.

Relevance comes from targeting the right people with the right offer. This blog suggests a workflow to adapt your messaging when you have multiple contacts at a single company.

Read the blog post

If you're looking to scale email outreach in Q3, consider Hunter's Starter plan.

It eliminates the need for multiple tools by offering everything from sourcing data to reviewing positive replies.

With:

2,000 monthly credits,
Auto-verification,
Lead enrichment, and more,

The Starter plan has it all—not just to send email outreach at scale, but to make your emails truly relevant.

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