João Simões, still remembers the day he shut down his work laptop and decided he was done with a safe nine-to-five. “I’d been itching to build something of my own,” he said. Cold email fascinated him: the idea that a well-timed note from a brand-new domain could land in an executive’s inbox and spark millions in pipeline. So, late in 2021, he walked away from the salary, found his new agency Virtus Medium, and told himself, “Let’s see how far we can push outbound if we focus on quality over spray-and-pray.”
He did not have investors, a marketing budget, or an existing brand. He only had this belief: if your email reaches the right inbox with the right offer, you can start real business conversations without paid ads or social buzz. That belief turned into Virtus Medium’s mission: “Send clean, relevant emails that open doors for B2B companies.”
Their agency is currently serving clients in the United States and Europe—roughly 70 percent of the accounts target U.S. buyers, the rest target both U.S. and European leads. Cold email is the first channel they try because it is fast, cheap, and easy to measure—if messages land in the main inbox.
The Early Tool Choice—and the Friction That Followed
Like many new cold-email shops, João started with number of free platforms. While the tools were helpful, they were too basic to satiate his needs as a solo founder: connect an inbox, paste a list, write a short sequence, click send.
That worked for ten or twenty thousand emails a month, but as Virtus Medium added clients, João ran into three problems:
- Limited automation. They did not give him the API access he needed to pull stats into his own dashboards or to trigger tasks in other tools.
- Deliverability dips. Once send volume climbed, he saw more bounces and more messages stuck in spam.
- No clear “mission control.” Each client sat in a separate workspace. To check replies João had to click through dozens of browser tabs, which slowed him down and caused him to miss a few important leads.
The final straw came when a Fortune-500 prospect replied to a campaign, and the message got buried in spam for three days. By the time João found it, the busy executive had moved on. That lost deal convinced him he needed a platform built for serious deliverability.
Testing Smartlead—And Moving Every Client Over
João heard about Smartlead from other agency owners who said the tool offered deeper warm-up, easier domain rotation, and an active support community. He ran a small test with three domains and two campaigns. The open rates improved, bounce rates dropped, and replies flowed into a single inbox he could monitor without clicking through ten pages.
During the pilot, Smartlead’s onboarding chat walked João through SPF, DKIM, and DMARC checks he’d skimmed over before. That ten-minute audit bumped deliverability right away. The built-in warm-up also simulated realistic back-and-forth emails, which helped brand-new domains gain trust faster.
Five months after he started his agency, he moved every client to Smartlead. He has stayed for more than two years. João remembers thinking, “If the tool handles the boring stuff, I can finally focus on copy and strategy.”
The Numbers Smartlead Helps Produce
Virtus Medium tracks one core outcome: qualified sales meetings. An email counts as a win only when it becomes a calendar event for the client.
- From January through April of this year (four months) the agency generated 427 meetings across all accounts.
- Meetings included brands like EA Sports, Ubisoft, and The New York Times.
These numbers are not typical for every agency, but they definitely prove that cold email can still reach enterprise buyers when the sender controls deliverability.
João also points out that the 427 figure breaks down to roughly 26 meetings per week—enough to fill multiple SDR calendars without any paid traffic. His best-performing client averaged a 12 percent positive-reply rate on highly targeted VP-level lists, proof that volume plus tight targeting beats mass blasts.
How the Team Uses Smartlead Day to Day
Ask João why he’s still with Smartlead after two years, and he won’t rattle off a marketing brochure. But he definitely shared stories—little moments where the platform saved the day.
- Single dashboard check-in
Each morning, João opens Smartlead and looks at the domain health signals. If he sees a yellow or red status on an inbox, he pauses that account, reviews DNS settings, and reroutes sends to a fresher address until the issue is fixed.
- Automatic warm-up for new domains
They are onboarding new clients almost every week now. Smartlead warms up each sending address by sending slow, human-like exchanges with other inboxes. João no longer needs to babysit daily limits or write fake back-and-forth messages.
- Merge tags and quick personalization
Prospect lists come in with fields for industry, job title, and a recent trigger (for example, “Series A funding”). Campaign builders drop those fields into the copy so emails feel hand-typed even though most of the text is templated.
- Auto-stop on reply
Once a lead answers, Smartlead pulls them out of the sequence so they do not get another automated nudge. João or the client steps in to run the sales conversation.
- Reply view in one place
Every answer from every campaign funnels into a master inbox. That simple layout removed the tab-hopping that made João miss messages on his old tool.
They do this thing called a "reply-rush" twice a day—at 11 a.m. and 4 p.m.—where someone quickly scans the inbox and pushes any hot leads into the client’s CRM. João says this two-hour reply hustle isn't just for show, it has actually helped them lock in way more calls.
Favorite Features—In João’s Plain Words
- “Everything under one roof: I can see campaigns, leads, and domain status without leaving the platform.”
- “Founder is active: V, the Smartlead founder, posts updates about deliverability changes inside the Slack group within hours of new Gmail rules.”
- “Warm-up that I can forget about: The system ramps send volume on its own, which frees my time.”
- “Smart Delivery and Smart Servers: I’m still testing, but early results suggest they help brand-new domains inbox faster.”
- “One-click Export: With one click I can pull all “Interested” or “Book a Call” contacts for any date range—handy when a client’s sales team wants proof of pipeline before month-end.”
Areas That Still Need Work
João’s loyalty doesn’t stop him from critiquing his favorite platform. Here’s what he’s asked Smartlead to tighten up:
- Reply tracking bugs. Now and then, incoming messages show up late. When that happens, he has to send logs to support and wait for a fix.
- Too many new features too fast. He wants the core—sending and reply capture—to stay rock-solid before extra tools roll out.
- Global analytics wish. Right now, he is exporting metrics to Airtable with manual scripts. A rebuilt-report screen inside Smartlead would save hours.
- Integrations: João also hopes for tighter HubSpot and Pipedrive integrations. Automatic two-way sync would remove another layer of Zapier logic and lower their running costs.
Results for Clients—A Quick Look Without NDAs
Most Virtus Medium clients sign NDAs, so João could not share exact revenue numbers. He, however shared a few of these broad outcomes:
- 427 meetings were booked in four months across all accounts.
- Multiple clients won intro calls with large enterprises within their first sixty days of working with Virtus Medium.
- One agency client booked deals with three well-known gaming companies, which turned into ongoing retainers.
These results show that outreach can still beat paid ads when copy, targeting, and deliverability line up.
Lessons for Anyone Who Sends Cold Email Today
1. Deliverability is the gate
All the best copy in the world fails if Gmail does not trust the domain. That means:
- Verified SPF, DKIM, and DMARC.
- Slow warm-up.
- Consistent daily limits.
- Low spam-complaint rates (below 0.1 percent).
- Clean lists—no scraped addresses, no catch-all domains that bounce.
2. Volume without insight is a gamble
Most businesses send too few emails to see clear trends. João suggests two options:
- Join strong communities so you can compare your data to a larger sample.
- Hire a specialist agency if you cannot spend hours per week studying deliverability updates.
3. Speed to reply counts
A warm lead loses interest fast. Smartlead’s auto-stop and single-inbox tools shave hours off response time.
4. Stick with one channel until it works
Virtus Medium does not spread itself thin. They use cold email as the first touch, then add LinkedIn or phone follow-up only when the email side is stable.
João also reminds teams to test from the recipient’s perspective. He sends every new sequence to a seed list of personal inboxes (Gmail, Outlook, Apple Mail) to spot formatting glitches or trigger-word spam flags before real prospects see the copy.
Word from João to New Senders
“Cold email changes every month. Your messages will miss the inbox if you do not follow the updates. Use a tool that cares about deliverability first, track real outcomes like meetings, and keep learning from people who send more than you. That’s how we grew.”
He adds that patience matters: the first domain he ever warmed with Smartlead sat at 20 emails per day for a week before ramping. Many founders rush to 500 a day and then wonder why they’re in spam. “Let the domain earn its trust badges,” João says.
Final Summary—Why Smartlead Stayed at the Center
João left corporate life to build an agency on cold outreach. Two years, dozens of clients, and hundreds of high-value meetings later, he still considers Smartlead to be the backbone of his growth. Before settling in for Smartlead, João tried about half a dozen outreach tools. Each one fell short once he needed scale and inbox reliability. Smartlead gave him:
- A clear dashboard for dozens of accounts.
- Built-in warm-up.
- Domain rotation and volume control.
- Fast help from a founder who follows deliverability news.
- Stable enough sends to book more than four hundred meetings in four months.
Virtus Medium is planning to double its client base this year, and João’s betting on Smartlead to pull it off. If your team depends on outbound and you are tired of messages dying in spam, João’s journey should make it obvious: keep your tools simple and your focus on real prospects, not on fixing broken platforms!
Your next wave of wins doesn’t need complicated tools. If you’re ready to stop battling your email tool and start growing, we’ve got your back. Start your Smartlead journey today and make every email count.
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Game changing tool for my agency, helping us generate 6-figures+ for our lead generation clients! Client Access and white-labeling have been a game-changer, saving us countless hours. With Smartlead, I'm happy with everything, but then I check their Slack community, and there's a new feature that just dropped!
Associate Manager - Marketing
I use Smartlead for cold outreach, and it really simplifies things for me. I love how it handles the email warming up automatically and delivers emails without harming my domains. It's easy to use, and anyone can start with it, which is great. I also appreciate the option to set specific intervals between each email sent, as it just works right.
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Frequently asked questions
What is Smartlead's cold email outreach software?
Smartlead's cold email outreach tool helps businesses scale their outreach efforts seamlessly. With unlimited mailboxes, fully automated email warmup functionality, a multi-channel infrastructure, and a user-friendly unibox, it empowers users to manage their entire revenue cycle in one place. Whether you're looking to streamline cold email campaigns with automated email warmups, personalization fields, automated mailbox rotation, easy integrations, and spintax, improve productivity, or enhance scalability with subsequences based on lead’s intentions, automated replies, and full white-label experience, our cold email tool implifies it in a single solution.
How does Smartlead's unlimited mailboxes feature benefit me?
Our "unlimited mailboxes" feature allows you to expand your email communications without restrictions imposed by a mailbox limit. This means you won't be constrained by artificial caps on the number of mailboxes you can connect and use. This feature makes Smartlead the best cold email software and empowers you to reach a wider audience, engage with more potential customers, and manage diverse email campaigns effectively.
What do you mean by "unibox to handle your entire revenue cycle"?
The "unibox" is one of the unique features of Smartlead cold email outreach tool, and it's a game-changer when it comes to managing your revenue cycle. The master inbox or the unibox consolidates all your outreach channels, responses, sales follow-ups, and conversions into one centralized, user-friendly mailbox.
With the "unibox," you gain the ability to:
1. Focus on closing deals: You can now say goodbye to the hassle of logging into multiple mailboxes to search for replies. The "unibox" streamlines your sales communication, allowing you to focus on what matters most—closing deals.
2. Centralized lead management: All your leads are managed from one central location, simplifying lead tracking and response management. This ensures you take advantage of every opportunity and efficiently engage with your prospects.
3. Maintain context: The "unibox" provides a 360-degree view of all your customer messages, allowing you to maintain context and deliver more personalized and effective responses.
Can Smartlead help improve my email deliverability rates?
Yes, our cold emailing software is designed to significantly improve your email deliverability rates. It enhances email deliverability through AI-powered email warmups across providers, unique IP rotating for each campaign, and dynamic ESP matching.
Real-time AI learning refines strategies based on performance, optimizing deliverability without manual adjustments. Smartlead's advanced features and strategies are designed to improve email deliverability rates, making it a robust choice for enhancing cold email campaign success.
Can I integrate Smartlead with other tools I'm using?
Certainly, Smartlead cold email tool is designed for seamless integration with a wide range of tools and platforms. Smartlead offers integration with HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, Clay, Listkit, and more. You can leverage webhooks and APIs to integrate the tools you use. Try Now!
What is Smartlead, and how can it enhance my cold email campaigns?
Smartlead is a robust cold emailing software designed to transform cold emails into reliable revenue streams. Trusted by over 31,000 businesses, Smartlead excels in email deliverability, lead generation, cold email automation, and sales outreach. A unified master inbox streamlines communication management, while built-in email verification reduces bounce rates.Additionally, Smartlead offers essential tools such as CNAME, SPF Checker, DMARC Checker, Email Verifier, Blacklist Check Tool, and Email Bounce Rate Calculator for optimizing email performance.
How does Smartlead, as a cold emailing tool, automate the cold email process?
Smartlead’s robust cold email API and automation infrastructure streamline outbound communication by transforming the campaign creation and management processes. It seamlessly integrates data across software systems using APIs and webhooks, adjusts settings, and leverages AI for personalised content.
The cold emailing tool categorises lead intent, offers comprehensive email management with automated notifications, and integrates smoothly with CRMs like Zapier, Make, N8N, HubSpot, Salesforce, and Pipedrive. Smartlead supports scalable outreach by rapidly adding mailboxes and drip-feeding leads into active campaigns Sign Up Now!
How does Smartlead ensure my emails don't land in the spam folder?
Smartlead, the best cold email marketing tool, ensures your emails reach the intended recipients' primary inbox rather than the spam folder.
Here's how it works:
1. Our "unlimited warmups" feature is designed to build and maintain a healthy sending reputation for your cold email outreach. Instead of sending a large volume of emails all at once, which can trigger spam filters, we gradually ramp up your sending volume. This gradual approach, combined with positive email interactions, helps boost your email deliverability rates.
2. We deploy high-deliverability IP servers specific to each campaign.
3. The ‘Warmup’ feature replicates humanized email sending patterns, spintax, and smart replies.
4. By establishing a positive sender reputation and gradually increasing the number of sent emails, Smartlead minimizes the risk of your emails being flagged as spam. This way, you can be confident that your messages will consistently land in the primary inbox, increasing the likelihood of engagement and successful communication with your recipients.
What features does Smartlead offer for cold email personalisation?
Smartlead enhances cold email personalisation through advanced AI-driven capabilities and strategic integrations. Partnered with Clay, The cold remaining software facilitates efficient lead list building, enrichment from over 50 data providers, and real-time scraping for precise targeting. Hyper-personalised cold emails crafted in Clay seamlessly integrate with Smartlead campaigns.
Moreover, Smartlead employs humanised, natural email interactions and smart replies to boost engagement and response rates. Additionally, the SmartAI Bot creates persona-specific, high-converting sales copy. Also you can create persona-specific, high-converting sales copy using SmartAI Bot. You can train the AI bot to achieve 100% categorisation accuracy, optimising engagement and conversion rates.
Is Smartlead suitable for both small businesses and large enterprises?
Smartlead accommodates both small businesses and large enterprises with flexible pricing and comprehensive features. The Basic Plan at $39/month suits small businesses and solopreneurs, offering 2000 active leads and 6000 monthly emails, alongside essential tools like unlimited email warm-up and detailed analytics.
Marketers and growing businesses benefit from the Pro Plan ($94/month), with 30000 active leads and 150000 monthly emails, plus a custom CRM and active support. Lead generation agencies and large enterprises can opt for the Custom Plan ($174/month), providing up to 12 million active lead credits and 60 million emails, with advanced CRM integration and customisation options.