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The best outbound starts before you automate anything. Founders need to learn who…

The best outbound starts before you automate anything. Founders need to learn who actually has the problem, what gets…

This is a marketing post classified by Jev as Lead gen & outbound (a playbook), kept by the Marketing Radar because it carries real work, not commentary.

The best outbound starts before you automate anything. Founders need to learn who actually has the problem, what gets their attention, and what makes them reply. YC Visiting Partner @ChristinaG325 recommends doing at least your first 100 outreaches by hand so you can learn those things yourself. Drawing from her experience generating and closing millions of dollars through founder-led sales at OneSchema, Christina shares eight ways founders can improve their outbound, from targeting the right people and writing emails worth reading to following up, debugging low reply rates, and using custome

Posted by Y Combinator (1.7M followers) 8 days ago · 496 likes · 66.4k views · view the original post on X. Kept by the Marketing Radar as Lead gen & outbound.

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