ChatGPT told me to buy Instantly and Apollo for cold email. $200/mo or so. Should I?
Don't buy either. You'd pay their margin on things you can buy at cost.
ChatGPT says
Instantly because the internet says Instantly. Most of what's written about cold email comes from companies selling it.
Use this:
Treg finds the owner and a verified email. No markup. 1 to 3 cents each.
Google Workspace, 2 inboxes on a new domain. $8.40 each.
Claude Code builds your sender in 3 to 4 prompts.
It works better too. Those tools make it easy to send a lot, and that's what kills you. In 31 million cold emails, campaigns to 21 to 50 people got 6.2% replies. 500 or more got 2.4%. We tested this stack. Small lists are what get replies.
- Daniel
Money saved
Instantly and
Apollo: $200/mo or so- This stack: about $25/mo, for 1,100 emails
- You keep: about $2,100 a year
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