Key Highlights

• $30 million in pipeline for a client
• 7.59% overall reply rate
• 58.82% positive reply rate
• 448 contacts reached, resulting in 20 leads and 8 meetings booked.

Company Overview

Alchemail is a cold email outreach agency, founded by Arthur Grishkevich, who has been in the cold outbound game since 2016. 

With a decade of experience in tech sales and cold outbound strategies, Arthur and his team at Alchemail have been helping businesses scale their cold email outreach efforts to generate high-quality leads and meetings. Alchemail offers two core services:

Done for You Cold Email Outreach

Alchemail owns and manages the entire infrastructure and outreach process for clients, allowing them to focus on other crucial business aspects. 

Done for You Cold Email Outreach with Client-Controlled Infrastructure

Alchemail manages the outreach process while clients retain control of their infrastructure, workspaces, and accounts.

Arthur and his team help businesses and startups run highly targeted cold email campaigns that drive real results. Their work with Smartlead has been pivotal in achieving their most significant successes, especially in improving deliverability, campaign performance, and scaling outreach without the typical barriers.

The Challenges

Before discovering Smartlead, Alchemail faced a variety of issues that hindered their cold emailing efforts:

Deliverability Challenges

Like many cold emailers, Alchemail struggled getting their emails into the right inboxes, facing spam filters and inbox placement issues.

Difficulty in Data Sourcing

Sourcing and scraping high-quality, relevant leads was a major obstacle. Many of their target clients were unavailable in standard lead databases like Apollo, forcing them to develop their own scraping mechanisms and contact discovery methods.

Inefficient Infrastructure Management

Managing multiple email accounts and ensuring clean sending practices was time-consuming and prone to issues without the right tools and automation.

These challenges led them to search for a more effective, streamlined solution to enhance their cold email outreach efforts. And this is how they came across Smartlead.

The Smartlead Solution

Smartlead provided Alchemail with the exact tools needed to overcome their cold email challenges. Here’s how Smartlead helped:

Warmup & Deliverability

One of the biggest hurdles Alchemail faced was email deliverability. With Smartlead’s warm-up feature, they could ensure their inboxes maintained a healthy reputation and reached the inbox instead of the spam folder. 

This feature played a crucial role in the performance of Alchemail’s campaigns.

API Access

Alchemail’s ability to integrate Smartlead’s API seamlessly with their existing tools allowed for much-needed automation, including lead enrichment and efficient management of responses. 

This integration helped reduce the manual effort required to run campaigns and allowed their team to focus on higher-value tasks.

Liquid Syntax & Spintax

These features allowed Alchemail to personalize its emails at scale while maintaining high deliverability. 

By dynamically generating content for their emails, they could send personalized messages at scale, which played a key role in increasing response rates.

SmartServers

Smartlead’s SmartServers feature enabled Alchemail to manage its cold email infrastructure better, ensuring optimal sending practices, high deliverability, and improved campaign performance.

Community Engagement

The Smartlead community was a game-changer for Alchemail, offering invaluable insights into industry best practices. 

Results Achieved

With Smartlead’s help, Alchemail achieved outstanding results that significantly boosted their business:

$30M in Pipeline

One of their clients generated $30 million in pipeline value, thanks to a well-executed cold email campaign powered by Smartlead alone. 

This was an unprecedented result for Alchemail and further solidified their belief in Smartlead’s capabilities.

Impressive Campaign Metrics

One of the most successful campaigns Alchemail ran achieved the following results:

• 7.59% overall reply rate
• 58.82% positive reply rate
• 448 contacts reached, resulting in 20 leads and 8 meetings booked. This campaign was focused on reaching out to VC firms for fundraising, and Arthur used a simple but effective cold email strategy.

“I’ve gotten so used to getting great results with Smartlead that I’ve taken it for granted, then this campaign comes along and blows my mind because this is not something we usually do. So, I had to share this win with the community.” – Arthur Grishkevich, Founder of Alchemail.

Campaign Breakdown

Infrastructure

Alchemail used their own setup with purchased Google accounts, ensuring clean sending and high deliverability.

Targeting

Alchemail scraped and segmented VC firms in the US, Europe, and the UK, ensuring they reached out to the right prospects at the right investment stage.

Messaging

The email copy was short and personalized without being overly complex. The subject lines were clear, and the message was crisp, focusing on value and directness.

Spintax and Variability

Arthur used spintax to generate multiple email versions (50-100), which helped maintain deliverability and prevent being flagged as spam.

Proven Success with Smartlead’s Features

These results were made possible by combining Smartlead’s advanced features like the API, liquid syntax, and email warmup, which helped Alchemail get their emails in the right inbox and optimize response rates.

Key Takeaways

Arthur Grishkevich and the Alchemail team have seen incredible success with Smartlead. They highlight several key strategies that contributed to their success:

Infrastructure Is Key

Using high-quality infrastructure, such as purchased Google accounts, played a significant role in achieving high deliverability rates. Alchemail emphasizes the importance of having a clean, optimized email infrastructure for successful cold email outreach.

Targeting Matters

Proper lead segmentation and targeted outreach were pivotal. Alchemail’s focus on scraping and segmenting leads based on criteria like investment stage, funding amount, and industry fit ensured they reached the right prospects.

Simple, Short, and Direct Messaging

Crafting concise and clear email copy and spintax for personalization was key to maximizing response rates. Alchemail’s approach proves that you don’t need complicated messaging to get great results.

Leverage Smartlead’s Features

The API, liquid syntax, warmup, and SmartServers were integral to Alchemail’s success. Smartlead’s features allowed Alchemail to scale its outreach efficiently and achieve remarkable results.

Community and Support

The Smartlead community was essential in staying up-to-date with the latest industry trends and receiving real-time support, which made all the difference in optimizing their cold email outreach efforts.

Final Thoughts

With Smartlead, Alchemail was able to scale its cold email outreach, improve deliverability, and achieve unprecedented campaign results. 

Smartlead’s advanced features and seamless integrations made it the perfect solution for their needs, enabling them to generate millions in pipeline value for their clients and continually improve their campaigns.

Arthur is one of the many such users who were able to add millions to the pipeline for their clients. All this started with a simple Smartlead trial, which you could also try. 

Check out our 14-day free trial and see the results.