5,000 leads for free for members

[Claim 5000 credits for verified emails or mobiles here]

Most reps have quietly accepted numbers that are bleeding their outbound dry. A 5% bounce rate. A 3% connect rate. Somewhere along the way you were told that's just how cold outreach goes.

It isn't, and it hasn't been for a while.

Here's what good actually looks like now, how to hit it on email and phone, and how members get 5,000 verified leads on us to go do it.

🎯 The numbers you've settled for

Email bounce rate

• ❌ What you accept: 5% or higher, because "that's normal for cold."
• ✅ What's real now: under 0.5%. Providers can verify data harder than ever, so a clean list barely bounces. Anything over 5% is a data problem, and it drags your whole domain's deliverability down with it.

Cold call connect rate

• ❌ What you accept: 2% to 6%, and you blame the market.
• ✅ What's real now: north of 12%, higher again on verified mobiles where the strong band runs 15% and up. Same dialler, same script, better numbers, for about a third of the price.

📧 How to actually get bounce under 0.5%

• Infrastructure: multiple mailboxes across multiple domains, so no single inbox carries all the volume and one flag can't sink you. Setup detail is in our deliverability guides.
• Data: verified before you send, every time. Bad data is the single biggest cause of bounces, and one bad send hurts every send after it.
• Copy: short. 50 to 100 words, one clear ask. Full breakdown in our cold email guides.

📞 How to actually get connect north of 12%

• Numbers: verified direct mobiles, not switchboards. This is the biggest lever on connect rate by a distance.
• Tone: slow down and lower your volume. That alone fixes most of what makes you easy to brush off.
• Opener: lead with why you're calling them specifically, not "hi, my name is." Our cold call guides have the openers that keep people on the line.

🎁 5,000 free leads for members

Prospeo is giving Sales at Startups members 5,000 credits, free. Your choice of:

• 5,000 verified emails, or
• 500 verified mobiles plus 500 verified emails

That's the verified data behind every number above, on us.

Email matthew@prospeo.io and mention Sales at Startups. That's it.

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Clean data is the cheapest fix in outbound. Claim the credits and watch your next campaign bounce under 1%.